Yorkshire Ranter has a terrific run down of a story detailing parts of how the UAE’s arms black market developed, centering on one certain Tomislav Damjanovic (and Viktor Bout associate). Unsurprisingly, their activities spill over to Iraq.
As You-Know-Who would say, read the whole thing.
Dr Leo Strauss: The Rosen angle, he of Fox News, and the investigation of his alleged State Department contacts...
anxiousmodernman: I will hear Bob Woodward out, but the crime of Benghazi would be a crime of mismanagement. Not... anxiousmodernman: lol what? Dr Leo Strauss: It’s a great question – does he remember? Probably because it was not authentically him,... anxiousmodernman: I’m not a poli sci or PR strategist expert by any means, but here’s how I would win on...
Aldershot: http://si.wsj.net/public/resou rces/images/WO-AN661_RUSKER_G_ 20130507194232.jpg
Can't help but feel Nemstov delivered a eulogy for the Opposition today. #russia If I've said once, I've said it a thousand times: Ariel Cohen belongs at Heritage. In all ways. At DSOB 106 for Boris Nemstov. Haven't seen him since Nizhni Novgorod Mayor and IFC small scale privatization (Saratov too). 
@DrLeoStrauss They'll put him up in Philby's suite. Hook him up with a new acrobat girlfriend/ @DrLeoStrauss They'll put him up in Philby's suit. 
Why make an uproar over the WaPo re-publishing Sarah Palin’s Facebook climate change conspiracy ramble? For example, the Nation’s Washington Editor, the-no-longer-padawan-but-not-quite-full-Jedi, Chris Hayes declares publishing it ‘unthinkable’. Some predictably contrarian ‘liberals’ even argue for it. They all got played by the WaPo like a cheap piano. Who are these naifs? Palin and the WaPo [...]
The question came about 5 minutes into utterly trivial ‘Salt.’ Americans grovel before a larval Counter-Intelligence State (a term the deservedly respected, former DIA veteran John Dziak so aptly used for the Soviet Union). America’s tolerance for militarization and threat-addiction is so high now it shrugs off formerly toxic-level dosages without notice. So why can’t [...]
DoD propaganda against the Budget Control Act’s sequester is remarkably shameless even for them. First, the ‘draconian’ cuts are anything but. They return DoD to Bush’s 2007 defense budget. DoD will get funded at the same level as at the height of a two-failed war bubble adjusted for inflation. Second, Obama (Romney?) ‘war’ outlays are [...]
Well, the book is about Civil War espionage. But it would be funny if we read it and said, ‘Man, that’s a lot like LeCarre!’
I haven’t read The Killer Angels. Cold Mountain won the National Book Award a few years ago, but I never read it. Have you?
LeCarre? It’s hard to see him in a civil war context – That seemed a bit out of place. The Killer Angels was a very good book. If he can approach that – well that would be a tall order.
Translation: TC=The Colonel, TC=Magnum PI’s friend. My bad.
But what I wanted to call attention to was the line that compared his writing to LeCarre’s.
Meant – about Lang’s book. Magnum crack?
Aldershot – what do you mean?
I’m a wild and crazy guy!
Hey, you wait till I get back onto Yemen and Somalia. Irbis Air Co, Riyan Mukalla, you know what I mean?
Dig the second to last line on TC’s pre-publication page:
http://www.rosemontbooks.com/
(and I dare anyone to make a Magnum crack)
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow’d sea,
Breasting the lofty surge…
Henry V prologue, Act 3
Benchpresser was on Frontline tonight speaking about the ‘Iranian Threat,’ but it was hard to remember anything he said. He spoke, he spoke, and spoke – but his words wilted.
Did Viktor Bout go to Hillsdale?
“The charge of anti-Semitism has been leveled at Woody Allen so many times as to sound unoriginal. Without rehearsing all the evidence and counter-arguments ….”
~Benjamin Plotinsky
Commentary Oct, 2007