Jinn of Current Events

Today the Dalai Lama commemorated at Dharamsala, India, the 44th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising against Chinese occupation and tyranny.

Free Tibet! 

Walter Kolbow, junior minister in the German Defense Ministry, denied accusing Bush of being a dictator. Instead, he claims what he really said on Sunday is that The Americans look more and more like dictators with their unilateral decisions. No matter which variant he uttered, does Herr Kolbow believe that one is more acceptable than the other? 

This is treason. Times Online: The British and US ambassadors plan to demand that Hans Blix reveals more details of a huge undeclared Iraqi unmanned aircraft, the discovery of which he failed to mention in his oral report to Security Council foreign ministers on Friday. Its existence was only disclosed in a declassified 173-page document circulated by the inspectors at the end of the meeting — an apparent attempt by Dr Blix to hide the revelation to avoid triggering a war.

Update: another Blix omission. FOX News: International weapons inspectors have stumbled upon a new kind of bomb in Iraq that could be used to strew smaller bombs filled with chemical or biological agents over populated areas but Blix chose not to mention this in his presentation. 

These murderers are the current Iranian rulers, trying to build nuclear bombs. These are the people who are (still) calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie. Shall we allow them to exert their brand of "diplomacy" and "literary criticism" with nuclear weapons — or shall there be "regime change" in Iran soon too? NYT: An Argentine judge has ordered arrest warrants for four Iranian government officials who he says helped organize and carry out the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that left 85 people dead. But the judge balked at a recommendation by prosecutors that more than a dozen more senior Iranian officials, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's spiritual leader, also be indicted.

Ceterum censeo, delenda est Mecca. 

The evidence is accumulating: Blix has been manipulating his reports and presentations in order to hide discoveries of banned weapons in Iraq. In other words, Blix is cooperating with the antiwar axis, doing his best to undermine the US and UK. His technique is to lie by omission, leak report drafts that sound uncompromising, leave time so Iraq will take some (meaningless) appeasing action, then praise Iraqi progress in a positive presentation that doesn't mention further violations of Iraqi obligations. Such violations are not highlighted but drowned in a growing list of "concerns" and "questions." The charade must end.

NYT: United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq recently discovered a new variety of rocket seemingly configured to strew bomblets filled with chemical or biological agents over large areas, United States officials say. ... An American official who described the weapon said it was discovered in the last few months, since the United Nations inspectors returned to Iraq in November. At first, he said, Iraq told the inspectors that it was designed as a conventional cluster bomb, which would scatter explosive submunitions over its target, and not as a chemical weapon. A few days later, he said, the Iraqis conceded that some might have been configured as chemical weapons.