"Documents coming to light in Baghdad directly incriminate Syria as a full partner in the financing, development and concealment of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. A source familiar with the new data reveals that Syria was not only a full partner but active in every stage of these programs to the point that they deserve to be called Iraqi-Syrian, not just Iraqi, undertakings" "...military sources reveal that, from Monday night, April 14, groups of Iraqi military and scientific leaders have been transferred from Syria to France."

It's a strange, strange world. So France is hosting the Saddam gang? Syria, may well be the real problem, as it will have no one to ship these WMD to if it is attacked, therefore, as there are possibly more Israeli haters in Syria than Iraq, they may well use them against US forces, if they attack, certainly against Israel, just over the border from them.

Hmmmm. I really didn't think that there could possibly be an attack on Syria, and I know I need to read DEKAfile with my pinch of salt handy, but, I dunno, it seems plausible enough.

I don't believe that there is a 'great' army in Syria, as there was once, at least a very large army, in Iraq. But, certainly special forces would be on the prowl, along with their Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Look out Assad, Bush ain't one to fuck about.

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""These organizations are just risk averse," says Joshua Micah Marshall, whose 2-year-old blog TalkingPointsMemo.com is a daily stop for more than 20,000 political junkies. "What good does it do them to have someone they are identified with saying things that they can't control, that by the nature of the medium are going to be provocative?""

I'd have thought that they would have started to understand it by now. The journo refs and praises the BBC Iraqi blog, which is dull as dishwater, I also skip the Guardian's weblog, which is also sterile. The Kevin Sites blog showed promise before it was shut down, but I wouldn't say it was a compelling site, just that there wasn't much out there.

The best Iraqi war blog? It would have to be Where's Rael? still I visit hoping that he's OK. Of course the Agonist was useful though very US biased, and the hiccup over pointing to stratfor was a storm in a tea cup, blogs or war showed promise too but became limited and mechanical with not much in the way of commentary, or thought.

Yahoo's directory lists loads of 'war web logs' as they call warblogs.

I've always liked DEBKAfile, though not a blog, more a news site, but I hang on their every word (with my pinch of salt ";->").

Anyway I digress, why haven't media companies got the handle on blogs? Because they aren't real people! They're androids, scared of their lawyers, and shareholders.

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