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The documents I referred to in the last post are both available under Downloads.

The much trailed ISG report is out and it says, as expected and widely pre-announced, that they have found no weapons of mass destruction. All the government excuses predicted in the Ranter of 25/09/03 have so far appeared. Sure, the ISG apparently believe that Saddam Hussein had an “intent at some point in the future”…

Due to the continuing problems with my Blogstreet RSS feed, I’ve decided to scrap it. We now have our own feed powered by RSSify – the link is the XML button down on the sidebar just above the Blogging Brits links.

Seattle Times report Hopes of the much-talked of “revolution in military affairs” that Donald Rumsfeld likes so much rest in part on the volley of new weapons projects that his team are spending reams of money on. One that’s about to be tested is the Stryker family of wheeled armoured vehicles, and the new army…

Article Very good article by one of my fellow bloggers. On the same theme, let’s not forget the Simon Jones memorial campaign..link..

If you think back a while, the Ranter covered a story concerning a Boeing 727 tanker which had gone missing from Angola, resulting in a terrorism scare. I was rather sceptical, and when a bulletin board story came up suggesting that it had been located in Beirut after being repossessed I got quite smug, publicly!…

washingtonpost.com: “With no chemical or biological weapons yet found in Iraq, the U.S. official in charge of the search for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction is pursuing the possibility that the Iraqi leader was bluffing, pretending he had distributed them to his most loyal commanders to deter the United States from invading. Such a…

Link: “But on July 22, Newsday reported: ‘Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information. ‘I didn’t dig it out, it was given to me,’ he said. ‘They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.’ ” It’s uncannily similar…

Blair defiant ahead of Iraq debate Well, they’ve warmed up with a bashing for the government on foundation hospitals this morning…although, mind you, Blair took the super-democratic option and conceded, avoiding TV pix of furious delegates waving their party cards on a card vote.

And blogging whilst they’re at it Appledore Shipbuilders in North Devon is under threat of closure. Receivers were appointed today. For the last few days, the work force has been occupying the yard in a so-called work-in. These are the lot who were demonstrating at the Labour conference yesterday. (Given that the MOD was apparently…