bits of interest

  • NATO to study boosting role in Afghanistan: More American power
  • Two Hispanic Marines given US citizenship posthumously: Mercenary ‘barbarian legions’ awarded honorary American citizenship. This is looking more and more like the Roman Empire.
  • Indian techies face global backlash as jobs disappear
  • China’s software market grows nearly 20 percent in 2002: report
  • First signs of anti-government spring offensive in southeast Afghanistan
  • “You just fucking killed a family because you didn’t fire a warning shot soon enough!”
  • We don’t understand Iraqis, admits US officer
  • US reveals new shoot to kill rule: “All Iraqis are to be treated as hostile until proven otherwise,” said Capt Dennis Carletta, a combat lawyer with the Judge Advocate Generals Corps, the US army’s legal branch.
  • BoJ doubles size of yen intervention in March: “Given the fact they’ve spent nearly $10bn with very little impact, they’ll certainly be disappointed,” said Derek Halpenny, currency economist at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. “The question is, however, how much lower would the dollar be [against the yen] if that money had not been spent?”
  • Indonesian Govt May Begin Using Euro And Dump Dollar
  • Al-Jazeera’s Basra Hotel HQ Bombed by the US
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