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To: Poohbah
That's what gets me. Normally, STRATFOR is the authoritative one, and DEBKA is the fruitcake brigade--now it's just the opposite.

There is a pattern to it.

Debka is actually very competent when they are dealing with Israel and surrounding countries.--the region where they have both the experience and the contacts for getting the background information. When they try to go beyond the immediate region, it becomes pure guesswork and leads to articles like the one about 15k of chinese soldiers supporting Taliban. Debka, with their two journalists as the entire staff, simply does not have resources to be a ``global'' intelligence center and is perhaps wrong to try.

Stratfor, OTOH, claims to have such resources, and this, imho, makes it unforgivable to release such crap as the today's article. While we can easily the errors in an article about the region everyone is following today, what about Stratfor's work on the regions where we do not have handy information available?

50 posted on 01/08/2002 4:44:23 PM PST by mvonfr
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To: mvonfr
Did Stratfor post this as a joke? This is as embarrassing as the Paula Zahn promo was for CNN. I've never seen them look so stupid before.
51 posted on 01/08/2002 5:32:04 PM PST by spycatcher
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