We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:19:33 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place... ********************************** Some good news about terrorism and the internet--'hiding in plain sight' may not be all it is cracked up be. I wonder what Bruce Schneier thinks about this? h/t to Haft of the Spear And Alan thought blogging was dead? Silly Canandian, Trix are for kids! --ry ********************************* Blogging may be dead, but something's happening... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:22:43 -0600 Alan - a person who dies at 103, like my Grandmother, could be termed to have "died a slow death..." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64343 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64343 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:44:44 -0600 Hey - who is trying to smoke me out. I've contended blogging is dead since it was born. And real men don't fisk. But I don't know what John means about the slow death this morning. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64311 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64311 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:55:25 -0600 You know what is really sad about the lack of reporting and this BS about pulling out of Iraq due to the "civil war", when I read about his death, it was the first time I heard the story about why the Sheiks of anbar rose up against AQ. They kidnapped the children of these men, cut their heads off and returned them in a cooler. It reminds that the first place I heard that AQ was killing men, women AND children in Fallujah before the '04 attack was on the blog of a Marine Captain (who was promoted to Major while in Iraq) who is now a colonel and has been in Iraq three times. He wrote about how the beheaded bodies of these people, showing signs of torture, were dumped outside of Fallujah and in the River. At that time, no media was reporting this fact. The only thing had shown was the murder of the contractors and their dead bodies hanging from the bridge. There were no stories of the dead and tortured Iraqis at the hands of terrorist scum. Reporters weren't there? Or, they refused to take the military reports and face value? Or, they were protecting somebody from the ugliness of war? No pictures, but also, not even a story. And this led, of course, to people all over the world believing that the US attacked the city and killed civilians for no reason other than "road bombs" and "dead contractors". These are the things that make you wonder whether the media is stupid, obtuse or down right evil propagandist for the enemy. I recently had a discussion with my brother about whether Iraqis really support Americans against other Iraqis because, as he put it, if a foreign occupying force was in the US, would I support them against American citizens. I replied, if that foreign force was in defense of my freedom and Americans were routinely, randomly murdering men, women and children in heinous ways, in order to enforce some fascistic ideology on other Americans, yes, I would support that foreign force. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64293 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64293 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:24:10 -0600 Cassandra has a typically beautiful post about him. Kat, you said "May they remember him and honor his sacrifice." They are. He's Sunni (of course), but the Shiite-led Iraqi government is already commissioning a memorial for him. That line about "the blood of patriots and tyrants" comes to mind... Perhaps he will be part of what will nourish the seedling of Iraqi freedom and democracy.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64292 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64292 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:06:10 -0600 We could do these things with enough time as individuals with some very basic video editing equipment. We can download videos from you tube and other websites to edit. In fact, I was just playing with a video that I had downloaded from youtube. Maybe intersperse an AQ sniper video with the images of an insurgent being sniped out. Put naked women in the background. Maybe overlap some music like "kumbaya". Let's see what we can do. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64290 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64290 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:56:38 -0600 RE: Terrorist websites and training videos Wouldn't it be cool if we had teams of hackers who would alter their training videos and documents, making very subtle and innocuous modifications that resulted in such things as: * premature bomb explosions * enhanced surveillance capabilities * subliminal messages that undermined their hatred of the West / America / Israel, and which caused them to either pursue peace or commit suicide, quietly, in their caves or mosques Surely we have the technology and the expertise, don't we? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64287 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_14_sep.html#comment-64287 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:52:12 -0600