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Friday, July 30, 2004

Nice catch

Per the capture of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in Pakistan, here's a recent article from The New Republic detailing the pressure the Bush administration has been putting on Musharraf and Co. to come up with a big-name collar in late July - during the Dem Convention. Ghailani was captured on Sunday, but his detention was announced yesterday afternoon. I haven't read the TNR piece myself just yet, but I will say that one needn't be a conspiracy theorist to find these machinations plausible and even unsurprising. (TNR link respectfully nabbed from Talking Points Memo.)


2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The black tea pirates got the attention of Peter Jennings for about 5 seconds. He said they were anarchists on bicycles burning effigies of Bush and Kerry, as well as the american flag. Ya can't buy press like that.
I like the word machinations.
-S

10:06 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/opinion/30krugman.html?hp

11:26 AM  

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