Eggs over-easy w/ a side of death

At least 120 people are dead after an Iranian military plane carrying mostly journalists crashed into a ten story apartment building in Tehran.

The pilot radioed for an emergency landing shortly after take-off at which point it crashed. All 96 on the plane were killed and there may be many more fatalities on the ground.

NPR is reporting from an Iranian source that SANCTIONS against Iran are to blame for the inability of the government to update parts on their antiquated stock of C-130 planes from before the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

No report yet on the “technical problems” resulting in the plane crashing into a residential building.

In Iraq, at least 30 Iraqi police are dead and scores are injured after two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in an Iraqi police academy classroom this morning.

Condoleezza Rice admitted today in Germany that Washington “may make some mistakes” in the war on terror. She did not mention, however, whether or not the administration will acknowledge, admit to, or make not of said “mistakes.”

Leaflets over Ramadi


Washington Post 1 Dec:

“For more than four hours, the insurgents were in a show of strength reminiscent of the power displays of the Saddam regime.”

— Reported today via Mohammad Hamed, deputy governor for administrative affairs of Anbar province, of which Ramadi is the capital, 40 miles east of Fallujah.

al-Qaeda in Iraq reportedly dropped leaflets throughout the Ramadi today in advance of a meeting between U.S. military officials and anti-occupation tribal leaders.

“The Americans found it sufficient to keep their planes flying overhead, whose roars we heard very clearly,” said Hamed according to the Post.

Stay tuned… as The Plan continues….

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Apparently to scare the shit out of everybody, but with little supporting evidence, other than that this information was obtained in a “secret poll” conducted for the British Ministry of Defense, the Sunday Telegraph released this data:

The survey was conducted by an Iraqi university research team that, for security reasons, was not told the data it compiled would be used by coalition forces. It reveals:

  • Forty-five per cent of Iraqis believe attacks against British and American troops are justified – rising to 65 per cent in the British-controlled Maysan province;
  • 82 per cent are “strongly opposed” to the presence of coalition troops;
  • less than one per cent of the population believes coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in security;
  • 67 per cent of Iraqis feel less secure because of the occupation;
  • 43 per cent of Iraqis believe conditions for peace and stability have worsened;
  • 72 per cent do not have confidence in the multi-national forces.

Bush: “Like the Ideology of Communism…”

… Islamic radicalism is doomed to fail.”

“The outcome is not in doubt.”

applause. (today at the Reagan Library)

Bonus: Love letters from Harriet.
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Discuss.