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April 13th, 2009 5:18 am
Circular running torpedo
British blogger Guido Fawkes has broken the story of an attempt by British Labor operatives to smear political rivals and their wives by circulating ’salacious’ emails on their private lives. It has already led to the dismissal of one of Gordon’s Brown’s men and is now being called the moment the British blogosphere came of age.
April 13th, 2009 3:05 am
How should the crew have responded?
Many experts agree. That what happened on the Maersk Alabama should never happen again.
April 12th, 2009 11:35 pm
Icepick vs AK-47
The AP describes your average Bangladeshi-American seaman from Connecticut, who happened to be sailing on the Maersk Alabama, who’s now thinking of quitting as a result of a certain unpleasantness off Somalia.
April 12th, 2009 7:27 pm
Heading it off at the pass
David Kilcullen, interviewed for the Sydney Morning Herald, says Pakistan could collapse before the end of the year and that the coalition is in race against time.
April 12th, 2009 2:34 pm
Then there was one pirate
There are emerging new details on the rescue of Captain Phillips . According to the Washington Post, the Captain was freed after Navy SEALs shot down three pirates on the lifeboat, which was being towed by the destroyer Bainbridge. The fourth pirate was aboard the destroyer negotiating.
April 12th, 2009 11:03 am
Freed
The BBC says that Captain Phillips has been “released”, but the first details suggest he was rescued in an operation. One pirate is reported to be in custody. But the apparent end of the Maersk Alabama incident leaves unresolved the larger question of what to do with the Somali piracy problem and whether the pirates will be tried under the new rules the administration has decreed for ‘detainees’.
April 12th, 2009 1:02 am
The negotiations for Captain Phillips
The NYT describes the state of play.
April 11th, 2009 8:11 pm
In Afghanistan
Scott Kesterton sends this message:
April 11th, 2009 4:13 pm
Wider still yet wider
Robert Kaplan describes the logic for negotiating with the Taliban in order to “make progress and find an exit strategy” in Afghanistan. But halfway through the article the reader will come to the realization that Kaplan isn’t talking about the War in Afghanistan at all, but about something much larger: Pakistan, India, Pashtunistan, the Great Game. The discussion is about the Taliban only in the sense that when you talk about a dog, it necessarily includes the tail. Kaplan places the origins of the Taliban in Islamabad — and the region.
April 11th, 2009 12:28 pm
Thinking it over?
Australian officials have apparently failed to get any details on the Obama “plan” on Afghanistan. Xinhua reports:
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