* "Iraq threatened military retaliation against Iran yesterday, accusing its former foe of backing terrorists who have begun to focus their campaign of violence on the interim government itself." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/21/wirq21.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/21/ixworld.html

* "Spain is investigating why it took police three months to find a stolen car used by the Madrid bombers even though it was abandoned close to a van they used" http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25177011.htm desperate times, desperate measures. read xymph's latest take: http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2004/07/freshly-squeezed-spanish-evidence.html xymph still thinks that the bombings were a domestic issue. my concerns about an ozelection attack are largely based on mar11 being an international conspiracy. if xymphora is
right about spain, then id be a lot lot less concerned about the ozelection. as u know, im usually happy to defer to xymph, but im not yet convinced. one thing is for sure, alq didnt do it - which means that someone else did it and the whole thing has been a coverup since day one - which is orders of magnitude worse than what they accuse alq of doing.

* heres the boston 'free speech' cage http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040721/480/bx11407212244

* i wonder if oz will make plans to cancel the election.

* i bet obl doesnt care much whether 43 or 44 is president. my guess is his beef isnt really that personal - ergo its not obvious what the objective of an election attack might be.

who's your daddy?