Or/and post a picture, update, correction or observation.
This week the Navy and Air Force each announce decreases of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Army and Marine Corps each announce increases. The net collective result is 318 fewer reservists than last week.
The total number of personnel currently on active duty in support of the partial mobilization for the Army National Guard and Army Reserve is 24,913; Naval Reserve, 5,118; Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, 16,159; Marine Corps Reserve, 3,858; and the Coast Guard Reserve, 707. This brings the total reserve and National Guard on active duty to 50,755 including both units and individual augmentees.
Wonder when they will get down to inspecting the most probable places like Saddam's "palaces" with their thousand of acres of structures and guarded areas.
Also, inside and under the huge mosques, hospitals and schools. Also, caves and crannies in remote areas where satellite photos have for months, even years, been monitoring and photographing unusual traffic tracks, surreptious construction or other suspicious activity.
I've never yet seen a photo of the inspectors being anywhere but in the places even an idiot like Sadaam wouldn't hide anything.
Maybe the most promising places are not even on the list. Or if they are, they're so far down on the list we'll all be with the 72 virgins before they ever get to them.
Hopefully, a lot more is going on behind the scenes in these inspections we don't know about. The President and his team like to hold the cards close to their vests and then drop the informational daisy-cutter on the nattering skeptics and peaceniks when the crucial time comes.
Leni
"Former President Carter receives the prestigious 'Benedict Arnold Prize for Coddling Anti-American Islamist Tyrants'"
For freedom!
| Protesters, some dressed as suicide bombers, gather near the US Embassy in Manila to mark the UN Declaration of International Human Rights Day on Tuesday. The protesters assailed the US and Philippine governments of allegedly perpetrating human rights violations in its war against terror. -- AP |
Thanks for doing this every day Diogenesis. I really enjoy this thread.
Do you think Clinton is jealous at not having a carrier named after him?
How about the 'USS YELLOW STREAK'
DefenseLINK.mil: "Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz , Frontiers of Freedom, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, Thursday, October 24, 2002." (SPEECH Question & Answer Session SNIPPET: "DepSec Wolfowitz: I think what it points out, and I think it should be a reminder to people on every side -- I was about to say both sides of this debate, but I find it a multi-sided debate. Whatever position one holds, one I think should recognize the potential for things to develop in ways that we don't anticipate, and the fact that if you stop and think about it, that concern that I mentioned which is a real one -- As I said, we demonstrated it in 1947 and we aren't the only ones who have thought about it, is something that requires thinking about missile defense in yet another difficult way. One could build the best possible defenses against intercontinental ballistic missiles and miss that possibility. I think as long as there are countries out there -- and there are -- who are as clearly determined as they are and they evidence it among other things, I mentioned the amount of resources they devote to being able to attack us. We need to be thinking ahead of them. We need to be thinking out of the box. We need to remember that there was a time when we said, I believe it was March of 1962, that it was inconceivable the Soviet Union would put missiles in Cuba. I believe in the 1980s when Saudi Arabia acquired long-range ballistic missiles from the Peoples Republic of China it took us completely by surprise. We think a relatively harmless surprise, but nonetheless a surprise.")
stepping back in time...NYI.edu - GLOBAL BEAT: "U.S.-CHINA TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: ANNOTATED TIMELINE 1980- JANUARY 1998" by Bates Gill (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "1988 March - Reports reveal that China has transferred approximately 36 CSS-2 intermediate-range ballistic missiles to Saudi Arabia. This is first transfer of missiles of this range and capability within the developing world; the missiles were originally part of China's strategic arsenal, but Saudi and Chinese officials assure that the missiles will not be nuclear-armed. July - In Beijing, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz expresses his concern over Chinese missile and weapons exports to Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.") (June 22, 1998)
FOX NEWS.com: "U.S. EXPLOSIVES TEAM SEARCHES SHIP CARRYING DOZEN NORTH KOREAN MISSILES" (ARTICLE NOTE: "WASHINGTON - A U.S. bomb squad searched a ship Tuesday that was intercepted in the Arabian Sea carrying a dozen Scud-type missiles from North Korea, defense officials confirmed to Fox News. U.S. officials said the missiles were at least initially headed for Yemen.") (121002)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "NORTH KOREA, PAKISTAN, CHINA" -Commentary by Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett III (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Beginning Dec. 9, the Communist Chinese general who threatened to incinerate Los Angeles with nuclear weapons will visit Washington D.C. Gen. Xiong Guangkai, the People's Republic of China's deputy chief of staff for intelligence...") (120802)
NewsMax.com: "RED GENERAL AND THE FIRST LADY Chinese General Should Visit Hillary, Not Pentagon" by Charles R. Smith (120902)
An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding a trip AL GORE took to China as related in a December 2, 2002 SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST ARTICLE (120602)
STRATEGY PAGE.com: "STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Chinese ICBM Reaches California" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Their nuclear submarines are a good example of this. The Dongfeng-31 carries several warheads and can reach the West coast of the United States.) (December 2, 2002)
NewsMax.com - HOT TOPICS: "CHINA/TAIWAN"
FOX NEWS.com (AP): "LOS ALAMOS LAB WORKERS FIRED AFTER INTERNAL REPORTS ARE MADE PUBLIC" (112702)
THE TIMES HERALD.com: "6 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED IN ALGONAC PARK" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ALGONAC -- Uncovered in the darkness by a motion sensor porch light, seven Chinese nationals smuggled across the St. Clair River were arrested Thursday morning near the state park, U.S. Border Patrol officials said. The illegal immigrants told officials they paid between $60,000 and $65,000 each to smugglers who sneaked them via boat from Canada in the middle of the night.")(112302)
DAILY STAR.com.lb - Lebanese News: "CHINESE OIL DIPLOMACY FOCUSES ON MIDDLE EAST" (112702)
NewsMax.com: "PLA NAVY OBTAINS NEW-GENERATION SUBMARINES" by Dr. Alexandr Nemets (112102)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "CHINA MISSILE HAS TWICE THE RANGE U.S. ANTICIPATED" by Bill Gertz (112002)
INSIGHT On The News online: "CHINA EYES U.S. PORTS" by J. Michael Waller (111802)
BERNAMA.COM - MALAYSIA NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY: "ISLAM IS DEEP-ROOTED IN CHINA" by Mohd Shukri Ishak (ARTICLE NOTE: There are 22 million Muslim people and 30,000 mosques in China.) (111502)
CHARISMA NEWS.com: PERSECUTION WATCH: "CHINA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In the weeks leading to the party congress, which began last Friday, the government has banned books, blocked Internet sites and clamped down on other activists. China allows only government-monitored churches, and has harassed and imprisoned Christians who worship outside the official system.") (111102)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "CONGRESSIONAL WATCHDOG TO PROBE CHINESE SEC RELATIONS" by Bill Gertz (111202)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "SEC AIDE QUITS AFTER LEAK TO CHINESE" by Bill Gertz (ARTICLE NOTE: The former Securities and Exchange Commission aide is identified as Mylene Chan, a Chinese national.) (111102)
THE TIMES OF INDIA (AFP): "CHINA TO UNVEIL TOP SECRET WARPLANE" (ARTICLE NOTE: The warplane is an F-10 aka J-10 aka Jian-10 Fighter.) (110502)
FREEREPUBLIC.com - Discussion Threads - Search Term: "PANAMA CANAL"
CONSERVATIVE USA.com: PANAMA CANAL
PANAMA CANAL.com: THE PANAMA CANAL - MIRAFLORES WEB CAM"
CNN.com: "NUCLEAR WEAPONS: WHO HAS WHAT"
DefenseLINK.mil (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): "AFGHANS LEAD U.S. SOLDIERS TO ROCKETS AT FIREBASE" (120902)
ABSOLUTE NEWS (BP): "LEBANESE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY UNITES IN AFTERMATH OF SHOOTING" (120902)
NY POST.com: "LOCAL BUSINESSMAN DENIES TERROR TIES" by Katie Cornell Smith (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspect is identified as Mohamed Ali Alriany, a man born in Yemen.) (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "But while Mollo admits that his client shipped millions of dollars in customers' money to Yemen through his unlicensed money-transfer business, he noted that the feds have failed to charge Alriany, a U.S. citizen for 23 years, with terror crimes.") (120902)
~MORE LINKS OF INTEREST~
Kenyan police are looking for a man they believe bought the car used in last month's suicide bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel near Mombasa. Tuesday, police released photographs of the Kenyan suspect, 23-year-old Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who police say is a resident of Mombasa. Police allege the suspect bought the sport utility vehicle from a car dealer who is now in custody for questioning.
Yugoslavia´s Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic (L) and his Croatian counterpart Tonino Picula (2ndL) talk after signing an agreement in Prevlaka, Croatia, 10 December 2002. More than a decade after their fierce war, Croatia and Yugoslavia signed an agreement solving a dispute over Prevlaka, a strategic tiny peninsula separating their countries on the Adriatic coast, seen in background.
BBC News One of some 3,000 frenzied youths, responding to a call to arms by the Ivory Coast government to quash a nearly three-month long uprising which has split the country into two, salutes as they gather 10 December 2002 before the defence ministry in Abidjan.
Indonesian military army chief General Endriartono Sutarto (L) shakes hand with an unidentified civilian in Lhokseumawe, in the restive province of Aceh, 10 December 2002. Indonesian troops and police joined hundreds of Acehnese in a tearful thanksgiving for peace on Tuesday after the govenment and separatist rebels signed an agreement to end the 26-year conflict.
