Thursday, March 4, 2004

Obsession with Saddam stymied anti-terror plan NBC News reports that before the war in Iraq, the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out the operation of Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq -- but decided against it. Three different times, the Pentagon drafted plans to strike Zarqawi and his network, but the White House was set on its path to wage war against Saddam Hussein and refused. [Salon] In other words, Dumbya's obsession with Saddam possibly lead directly to the 9/11 attacks. He might have prevented them, if he wasn't too busy redirecting the priorities of the government to his family and friends' benefit. 9:00:09 AM

The passion of Howard Stern The shock jock says radio colossus Clear Channel fired him because he criticized George Bush -- and he's sure as hell not going to go quietly. [Salon] 8:57:12 AM

Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO Eric S. Raymond's Open Source site has a new Halloween memo. The Halloween X memo, which ESR says he received by email from an anonymous whistleblower inside SCO, appears to confirm Microsoft's alleged funding of SCO's anti-Linux initiative. And the actual dollar amounts are much larger than previously rumored! [Slashdot] 8:54:00 AM

Email leak suggests SCO got up to $100m from Microsoft VC and IP deals cited as the route [The Register] 8:47:55 AM

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