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Blackwater: When Things Go Wrong (continued) (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)

emmineb — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:57:53 GMT

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Iraq War Coalition Fatalities Flashed [Mesopotamia Macromedia]

emmineb — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:09:11 GMT

Iraq War Coalition Fatalities is a chart of the US and coalition military fatalities that have occurred in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space. It is an ongoing project that is updated regularly, and will continue to go on as long as the war does. The animation runs at ten frames per second -one frame for each day- and a black dot indicates the geographic location that a coalition military fatality occurred. Each dot starts as a white flash and a larger red dot which fades to black over the span of 30 frames/day, and then slowly fades to grey over the span of the entire war. Accompanying the visual representation is a soft 'tic' sound for each fatality, the volume of which increases relative to the number of fatalities that

Obsidian Wings: Wiki THIS

emmineb — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:57:13 GMT

Glenn Reynolds laments that he's been wiki'ed with a truly bizarre Wikipedia entry on Instapundit. "WIKIPEDIA, and its trustworthiness, has become a topic of considerable discussion," he writes. Indeed, it should be -- this whole Wiki-thang has been a bit Arthur 2 (i.e., "on the rocks") for a while. Eugene Volokh and Orin Kerr have been quite right in their criticisms (even though it seems that Volokh's Wikipedia entry is at least tentatively grounded in fact.) Moreover, adding to the confusion and potential for bias is the fact that you're able to write your own entry. The entry on LGF, for instance, was written by LGF's own Charles Johnson. [see Seigenthaler]

TomDispatch - Mark Danner, How a War of Unbound Fantasies Happened

emmineb — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:31:29 GMT

In the ruined city of Fallujah, its pale tan buildings pulverized by Marine artillery in the two great assaults of this long war (the aborted attack of March 2004 and then the bloody, triumphant al-Fajr (The Dawn) campaign of the following November), behind the lines of giant sandbags and concrete T-walls and barbed wire that surrounded the tiny beleaguered American outpost there, I sat in my body armor and Kevlar helmet and thought of George F. Kennan. Not the grand old man of American diplomacy, the ninety-eight-year-old Father of Containment who, listening to the war drums beat from a Washington nursing home in the fall of 2002, had uttered the prophetic words above. I was thinking of an earlier Kennan, the brilliant and ambitious young diplomat who duri

VANITY FAIR : The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed (Craig Unger)

emmineb — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:47:21 GMT

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BBC NEWS: Middle East | Iraqis use internet to survive war

emmineb — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:29:23 GMT

Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war. Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad. As the communal bloodshed has worsened, some Iraqis have set up advice websites to help others avoid the death squads. One tip - on the Iraq League site, one of the best known - is for people to draw up maps of their local area using Google Earth's detailed imagery of Baghdad so they can work out escape routes and routes to block. It's another example of the central role technology plays in the conflict - with the widespread use of mobile phones, satellite television as well as the internet - by all sides and for many purposes.

Damn Interesting: Project Babylon: Gerald Bull's Downfall

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:00:27 GMT

"Bull nearly single-handedly resurrected the science of supergun artillery"

The day I almost led the Iraqi army - Salon

emmineb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:38:10 GMT

Right after the fall of Baghdad, hundreds of desperate disbanded troops asked me -- a middle-aged journalist -- to give them jobs. That's when I knew everything was going terribly wrong. When people ask me what went so wrong in Iraq, as they frequently do after learning that I reported from there early in the war, I offer a glib reply: "Let me tell you about the day I almost led the Iraqi army." Then I commence my very strange story, one that never fails to amuse, bewilder and ultimately dishearten anyone who has ever wondered why combat that was supposed to end on May 1, 2003 -- you know, "Mission Accomplis

Ties to GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

emmineb — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:10:32 GMT

Adapted from "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," by Rajiv Chandrasekaran After the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in April 2003, the opportunity to participate in the U.S.-led effort to reconstruct Iraq attracted all manner of Americans - restless professionals, Arabic-speaking academics, development specialists and war-zone adventurers. But before they could go to Baghdad, they had to [...] To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political [...] What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration. [...] Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade .

BBC NEWS: UK | Lawrence of Arabia's Mid-East map on show

emmineb — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:52:15 GMT

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