The previous entry should have been titled 'Martian drift'. Forgive the lapsus, with the flow of the news...
I intended to avoid yet another 'war post', but I'll be at work when this afternoon's demo starts in Paris and may again not get there until it's nearly over. A further note makes me feel better, if not anybody else.
From all over the world, AFP's major news 'hubs' have unleashed on the clients a barrage of stories and fact-sheets as a "just in case".
All part of the service, though linking here to those scores of articles certainly isn't. Some clients will doubtless put a few on the Net: that's their choice and job. I read enough of them almost to wish I hadn't.
As ever, some of the most chilling were brief clinical descriptions of the firepower ranged around Iraq. One of the "toys for the boys" is the BLU-118/B - Thermobaric Warhead. This costly little jewel was tested in Afghanistan.
"The United States didn't need to use the thermobaric bomb," Robert Hewson of 'Jane's Air Launched Weapons' has argued, according to an article in the 'Weekly Standard'. "The overriding reason for using it was to see how it worked."
AFP's package included a spectrum of articles about the possible impact of a war. Some are grim reading too. For its part, the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq has made available what it described as a "strictly confidential" UN document (from December) on "Likely Humanitarian Scenarios".
The Global Policy Forum amasses and links to documentation enough still to be reading, saving a radical shift in the seemingly inexorable course of events, long after the strikes begin.
Today's the time to link to Christopher Allbritton, former AP and New York Daily News reporter, and his plan: Back to Iraq 2.0.
9:29:15 AM link 
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