Thursday, September 22, 2005

An Explosive Story. The Battle of Basra, where British troops "rescued" two out-of-uniform British soldiers who'd gotten into a contretemps with Iraqi police, gets more fascinating by the moment. A news item put out by China's Xinhua News Agency's contains the following fascinating paragraph: "'Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two British soldiers,' an Interior Ministry... [Antiwar.com Blog] I used to think that the Iraqis who claimed that a terrorist bombing was actually done by the US were just believing paranoid rumors. Now it's starting to look like they were right after all. 10:20:09 PM    comment () At Least They Didn't Shoot Him.... This unsettling account by a London blogger explains how he was stopped by police on the Underground for, apparently, having a backpack and wearing a coat they regarded as too bulky. They looked through his things, apologized for the inconvenience... and then arrested him. He was then held for about eight hours while they carted off all the computer equipment from his apartment. [Hit and Run] 1:18:39 PM    comment ()

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