The P-3s are advertised as sub hunters but anybody who remembers the one that was downed flying along China’s border a few months before 9/11 may remember that it was packed with computers for listening to digital and analog communications.
Course it’s a bit hard to imagine Hugo’s regime being particularly sophisticated enough to warrant P-3 snooping. Which makes our denial more than plausible for once. I do wish Chavez & Co. didn’t have F-16s, but that’s neither here nor there now. Worse is Hugo’s new ties with Iran.
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Posted in Obamalot, South of the Border, The War, Troops
Tagged communications snooping, F-16s, Hugo Chavez, Iran, P-3 Orion, Venezuela
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January 2, 2010 in Library, Scribbles, The War
Tagged Kurt Westergaard, Muhammed cartoons, PantyBomber
Freelance war correspondent Michael Yon doesn’t explain the use of this teepee in Afghanistan except to say that it’s a memorial to an American unit’s war dead. MY’s apparently in need of money to continue. He’s still worth it. I’m still sending him some. You should too. (Uh, actually he does explain the teepee. The unit is the 2nd ID, the "Indian Head" division.)
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Posted in Afghanistan, Obituaries, The War, Troops
Tagged Afghanistan, Michael Yon
Wonder why the, ahem, security bureaucracy failed to stop the PantyBomber from boarding the jet? Despite his own father’s advance warning?
Other than for the usual reasons of its own ineptitude. Well, No Good Boyo has the explanation. Imagine you are an FBI agent on the receiving end of this: "Hello, I am a senior Nigerian banker. I have important information for you…"
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, The War
Tagged Nigerian banking scam, Nigerian scam, No Good Boyo, PantyBomber, Simply Jews, Snoopy the Goon
Nobody with any knowledge of Texas politics is taking Democrat Farouk Shami’s run for governor seriously. For one thing his incumbent opponent, Republican Rick Perry, is too popular. For another, well, when was the last time Texas had an Arab-American Muslim governor? Exactly never.
On the other hand, Shami has ten million dollars of his own money to invest in his campaign. Consequently he’s getting a lot of media, free and otherwise. They all quote him saying he’s from Palestine, wherever that is. It’s not the Texas Palestine. Apparently he’s from the West Bank, though no one is sure because he doesn’t call it that.
He tells the American Task Force for Palestine, which seems to think he’s a Muslim though some Texans think he’s a Quaker, that he’s for peace and love and equality in the Middle East. Debbie Schlussel thinks he’s a clandestine Jihadi in an anti-Semitic package. She cites as partial evidence this column he wrote two years ago for the Houston Chronicle in which he implies that the nasty Israelis are forcing the poor Palestinians to ration water "while Jewish settlers cultivate lush lawns and fill their swimming pools." That’s libel enough for me to be glad that Shami’s chance of election is exactly nil.
UPDATE: The daily’s Ken Herman did a job on Shami: "The downtrodden minority/victim role is particularly unattractive on a guy who lives in a 24,585-square-foot-home like Shami does."
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Texana, The War
Tagged Debbie Schlussel, Farouk Shami, Houston Chronicle, Israel, Jewish settlers, Jihad & Hair Products, Palestine, Texas, Texas governor, West Bank
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