LIME Archives: July 2006
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19 July 2006
Israeli kids sending “good will” messages to Lebanon
Israeli kids have discovered a new way to communicate with their pen-pals in Lebanon. Now that the countries diplomatic relationships are on the edge and the postal system isn’t working on 100% efficiency, the kids have started to sign the the one things that cross the border regardless of anything – the artillery shells. The [...]
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18 July 2006
The finger of Hizbollah reaches far
Kathryn Cramer pondered how far into Israel can Hizbollah reach and based on the yesterday’s rocket strike to Afula and with a help from Google maps she exptrapolated a map where one can see how far they actually can reach.
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17 July 2006
Hamfisted
So, the crisis in Lebanon appears to be steadily spinning out of control, fueled by attacks on civilians and moronic statements from both sides. According to Juan Cole over at Informed Comment, Isreal has now killed 140 civilian Lebanese, and a lesser number of military personnel (Juan Cole puts the number at 17). Isn’t this [...]
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14 July 2006
Who’s the target? And who’s doing the targeting?
In the recent couple of days, the situation in Lebanon has heated up considerably (as anybody who glances the papers occasionally would know). Hizbullah launched it’s biggest operation for years, kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing others (I’ve not seen an exact number for the casualties). Of course, Israel went absolutely ape, their army chief [...]
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14 July 2006
Western scientists help China stem information flow
This is a disturbing news story. Apparently, UK computer scientists (of Cambridge University) have not only found a way through the Chinese state firewall, but also found a way of launching denial-of-service attacks on Chinese government IPs (sic!). Now that might seem quite uninteresting (though probably galling for the Chinese), but have a look at [...]
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14 July 2006
Known as madrassas…
I keep hearing this phrase: “known as madrassas”. For instance: “Intelligence officers believe terrorists trained in schools known as madrassas.” The Scotsman “Islamic schools known as madrassas should be a key target in the war on terrorism.” Businessweek “The Muslim religious schools, known as madrassas, are blamed for spreading intolerance and hatred against the West.” [...]
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13 July 2006
Cork, wake up from your dormancy!
On my (day)trip to Dublin I saw many people raising the issue of US transporting troops and prisoners via Shannon airport. Some of the, I can’t call them demonstrators but perhaps issue raisers, had recruited people from around the world to bring out their point of view against a tyrannic abuse of power that US. [...]