From the category archives:

Terrorism

al-Zarqawi killed?

November 20, 2005

The Jerusalem Post is reporting that al-Zarqawi is dead: At least one Arab television media outlet reported that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed in Iraq on Sunday afternoon when eight terrorists blew themselves up in the in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The unconfirmed report claimed that [...]

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Lex: Eyes Wide Open

November 19, 2005

Want to get a glimpse as to what Iraq might look like should we leave? Check out Lex’s latest: You think winning is hard? You should see what losing looks like. Don’t pretend we couldn’t see it coming. Don’t pretend you didn’t have your part in it, one way or the other. Eyes wide open.

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MG Webster speaks his mind

November 16, 2005

In today’s Washington Post, Major General William Webmaster had a few words to say about setting a date to leave Iraq: A top American commander in Iraq on Wednesday denounced calls by some U.S. senators and others for a deadline on withdrawal from Iraq, calling that “a recipe for disaster” for the 2 -year-old war. [...]

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2000

October 27, 2005

There’s something deep in me that wanted to write about the 2,000th death of an American servicemember in Operation Iraqi Freedom, but the words simply weren’t coming. Then tonight, I read Lex’s post “On Tragedy and Round Numbers”. And he said all that I was thinking and then some. I don’t want to lose this [...]

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Minneapolis & St. Paul PD Strike Team in New Orleans

September 17, 2005

What does it mean to be your brother’s keeper? If you’re a law enforcement officer in Minnesota, it means getting a company like Target to donate supplies and resources – and shuttling down an entire strike team of officers to New Orleans to help out: We are rolling, all 70 or so vehicles. We are [...]

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Lileks: 9/11

September 12, 2005

As usual, Lileks says it far better than I ever can: I have less to say on the fourth anniversary, because I’m not sure what needs to be said. You get it or you don’t, and if the passage of time has made the lessons indistinct, a picture of that September morning will look as [...]

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Only Four Years

September 11, 2005

Over at his new digs, Lex has a post up about the 4th Anniversary of 9/11: It’s hard to believe it’s only been four years. Four years ago we stared at the television screens in shock and anger, teary-eyed, uncomprehending, lacking the vocabulary. We watched the endless loops of those buildings coming down, the Pentagon [...]

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Use of Force

July 27, 2005

There’s been alot of yelling and screaming in the media about the Metropolitan Police in the UK shooting and killing a man recently because they believed that he may be a suicide bomber. And while I regret that they were wrong, they did exactly the right thing. Smash and others have posted of this as [...]

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