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Remember, remember 11 September; Murderous monsters in flight; Reject their dark game; And let Liberty's flame; Burn prouder and ever more bright
- Geoffrey Barto

"Bjørn Stærks hyklerske dobbeltmoral er til å spy av. Under det syltynne fernisset av redelighet sitter han klar med en vulkan av diagnoser han kan klistre på annerledes tenkende mennesker når han etter beste evne har spilt sine kort. Jeg tror han har forregnet seg. Det blir ikke noe hyggelig under sharia selv om han har slikket de nye herskernes støvlesnuter."
- Anonymous

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Posts, April 2003:

Intermission: Sorry for the unannounced silence. A sudden urge to shut up came over me, and I didn't resist it. The events two weeks ago made me realize that a lot of what I've been writing about in this blog has [...]

Yes, but--: I've had many opportunities to laugh today, watching the news from Iraq. Laugh with joy at the sight of ordinary Iraqis insulting their former oppressors and looting their houses, (I think any liberated people should have the right to loot [...]

Scenes of liberation: Today's Holmgang on TV2 discussed the scenes of joy that are finally emerging from Baghdad and Iraq, asking if the Americans had perhaps done a good job after all. (To this 90% of the viewers replied yes, though Holmgang phone [...]

Duranty award nominee: Cato Vogt-Kielland in Dagbladet deserves some kind of award for this article, headlined "Unable to bomb Saddam into silence", (no link, my emphasis): It was another PR coup by Iraqi TV, after the Americans over the last week again and [...]

Sharia Paradise: As they will very soon in the rest of Iraq, stories are beginning to emerge about the conditions peopled lived under in the Ansar al-Islam controlled areas. Apparently, Mullah Krekar gave the orders when a boy was tortured in the [...]

Ebb of the peace movement?: There was an interesting debate on TV2's Holmgang yesterday, and it could be a part of a shift in public opinion on Iraq. To be against a potential war is not the same as being against an on-going war, and [...]

Revolution called off, nobody came: I've moved the April's Fool / Beam Day version of this blog here. I'm getting to like my alter ego - he's not evil, just .. misguided - but it's back in the closet for the dictator wannabe. Incidentally, I [...]

Things to come: I'm back. I apologize for being away for so long, but the last year has been a difficult one for me. As you may remember, I set out blogging, a countdown to the revolution as I put it, last April, [...]

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2003-04-14

Russia shared vital intelligence data with Iraq.

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2003-04-13

Finnish human shield sad and angry with celebrating Iraqis. "I was very surprised by the reaction because even in private conversations [Iraqis] were saying that Saddam is good."

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2003-04-12

Suicide vests found in Baghdad school.

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Iraqi antiquities museum looted and destroyed.

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Anti-war movement replaces outdated, catchy "no blood for oil" with updated, tired slogan "occupation isn't liberation".

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Qsi explains Chile's widely used inflation-protected currency, a product of its fear of hyper-inflation.

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60 000 Norwegians took part in the globalwide anti-war demo in Oslo on February 15. Today's "globalwide anti-war demo" attracted only a few thousand hard-core wacky leftists.

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Radio Free Iraq to open Baghdad bureau. "No matter how difficult it will be to rebuild Iraq, nothing can be really worse than the regime of Saddam Hussein."

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More on Krekar's Talibanesque paradise and its al-Qaeda connections. "Why did they do this to us? We lost two years of our lives for nothing."

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Terrorist manual found in Ansar al-Islam camp ruins; refers to gas experiments on humans.

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The US Department of Defense sums up the war on terrorism so far.

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2003-04-10

Poll of journalists reveal strong left sympathies. (Whole population in parenthesis.) Socialist Left 36% (21.5%)
Labor 33% (21.5%)
Conservatives 12% (15%)
Liberals 7% (3%)
Progress Party 3% (22.5%) (!)
Christian People's Party 3% (8.5%)
Centre Party 2% (5%)

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2003-04-09

Michael Totten has a good collection of photos from the liberation of Baghdad.

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US-backed militia terrorises town of Najaf. "We are with the Americans, you can do nothing to us."

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The good thing about liberating a dictatorship like Iraq, (besides the obvious), is that there should be at least one statue or poster of Saddam for everyone to tear down and throw stuff at, spit on or stomp on.

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Arab media reactions to the fall of Baghdad: Realism, rage, denial and bitterness.

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Clubbeaux's blog has been swarmed by Norwegian anti-Americans, and takes revenge with this nasty, unfair, but not alltogether untruthful history of Norway. "The only time Norway's had any experience of a competent military was when the Nazis brought one over on April 9, 1940."

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2003-04-06

Guardian: The apparent collapse of the Republican Guard has been matched by the collapse of Iraqi belief in Saddam's survival. (Via Dean).

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PeakTalk: Hong Kong's going downhill, and it's not China's fault.

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2003-04-05

US forces move into Baghdad. Destruction of invading forces by flying pigs and pink elephants imminent, warns Iraqi information minister.

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Traces of ricin and botulinum found in former Ansar camp.

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Powell concerned over Krekar's release.

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2003-04-03

Jesus K. Rist - Thousands of Iraqis killed by two daisy cutters.

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Glenn Reynolds dares Osama and Saddam to prove they're alive. "No matter what it says on Glenn Reynolds.com, I'm still alive."

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T. Schwarz: The arrogant attitude of overeducated neocons give simplistic books like Michael Moore's the grain of truth needed to be sold.

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John Hawkins: The conservative thinking behind the war on terrorism.

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75 to 150 al Qaeda members killed or captured in recent fighting with Ansar al-Islam.

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Matt Welch: PATRIOT II continues where PATRIOT I left off, eroding the bill of rights.

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Al-Jazeera kicked out of Baghdad for interviewing without a minder?

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End of the Baath Party 15 km away and closing.

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Norwegian Minister of Defense Kristin Krohn Devold: Norway opposes war, but hopes the Americans win.

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2003-04-02

Villagers in ex-Ansar territory: "They were very angry people, and now we thank God that they are gone."

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Islamic radicals with al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Islam ties arrested in Italy.

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Evidence of bio- and chem-weapons production in captured Ansar al-Islam camp. Documents and equipment "indicate a presence of chemical or biological weapons."

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Mullah Krekar released from custody - suicide threat referred to military tactics, not terrorism.

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2003-04-01

Multi-national media corporation admits the obvious: U.S. war plan has failed.

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Hyenas, mercenaries massacre women and children.

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Plague vs cholera! Readers debate.

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'Shock and Awe' strategy takes on grim new reality, amongst echoes of Stalingrad.

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Imperialist forces turn scared at gates of ancient Baghdad.

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Arabs sneer at "Iraqi Freedom" label. "A better name is the 'War of Lies'."

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Korean army fully prepared for defensive war against US imperialists.

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