“Timers from washing machines and dryers, like these for sale at a parts store in Baghdad’s Rasheed Street district, are used by insurgents to detonate improvised explosive devices.” Noah Shachtman, How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social — Not Electronic: “(…) The Defense Department wasn’t blind to the power [...]
Entries Tagged as 'iraq'
Wired: How Technology Almost Lost the War
December 3rd, 2007
Tags: afghanistan · iraq · networks · usa · war
Shifting Targets
October 1st, 2007
Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker: Shifting Targets “The shift in targeting reflects three developments. First, the President and his senior advisers have concluded that their campaign to convince the American public that Iran poses an imminent nuclear threat has failed (unlike a similar campaign before the Iraq war), and that as a result there [...]
Tags: iran · iraq · seymour hersh · usa
AMEX Defense Index
September 27th, 2007
FP Passport: “It’s often said that financial markets hold no values. They strive only for maximum efficiency—making the most money with the least exposure to risk. If this is true, the war in Iraq is far from over.” AMEX Defense Index
Tags: amex defense index · iraq · stock market · usa
Dollar Auction
September 15th, 2007
Wikipedia: “The setup involves an auctioneer who volunteers to auction off a dollar bill with the following rule: the dollar goes to the highest bidder, who pays the amount he bids. The second-highest bidder also must pay the highest amount that he bid, but gets nothing in return.” Naar aanleiding van Lessons on the surge [...]
Tags: dollar auction · economics · game · iraq · usa
Alive Day
September 14th, 2007
Sgt. US Marine Corps Eddie Ryan, 22 – Alive Day 13 April 2005. Documentaire Alive Day van James Gandolfini (Sopranos) is tot 16 september 2007 op HBO.com te zien. (via) “In a war that has left more than 25,000 wounded, ALIVE DAY MEMORIES: HOME FROM IRAQ looks at a new generation of veterans. Executive Producer [...]
Tags: de horror · hbo · iraq · james gandolfini · usa · video
Jeremy Scahill – Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
August 1st, 2007
There are 48,000 ‘security contractors’ in Iraq, working for private companies growing rich on the back of US policy. But can it be a good thing to have so many mercenaries operating without any democratic control? An extract from Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, by Jeremy Scahill.
Tags: afghanistan · blackwater · iraq · politics · usa · war
Study: Iraqis May Experience Sadness When Friends, Relatives Die
July 26th, 2007
A field study released Monday by the University of North Carolina School of Public Health suggests that Iraqi citizens experience sadness and a sense of loss when relatives, spouses, and even friends perish, emotions that have until recently been identified almost exclusively with Westerners. The Onion: Study: Iraqis May Experience Sadness When Friends, Relatives Die
Call that humiliation?
March 31st, 2007
Terry Jones: “No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch.”
Tags: humor · iran · iraq · terry jones · uk · usa · war on terror