In an effort to bring y'all some of the more interesting pieces out there without drowning out the rest of our posts, We've started putting each day's interesting links in one post of short listings. If you think your blog has a worthy post in this area, feel free to let us know and we'll come take a look.
One year ago today... R.I.P., Daniel Pearl. (UPDATE: Instapundit has some words from Daniel's Dad.)
Rick Heller (of Smart Genes) thinks most of the war plans are wrong: Saddam will strike first.
Good thing the U.S. has finally deployed sophisticated detection equipment that will alert its troops if chemical weapons are used against them. What is it? You have to read this to believe it.
Two major plane crashes in the Islamic world have left over 300 Iranian Revolutionary Guards (near Iraq's border... hmmm) and several Pakistani military bigwigs dead. Greatest Jeneration has the scoop.
I'm always a bit leery of DEBKA reports, but it looks like the story about the Palestinians building explosives-filled model planes bought with EU aid money is true. The Palestinian intifada, folks: al-Qaeda's little copycats. Or is it the other way around?
"They are feeling: The world opinion is with us. We can resist further pressure. We have time. We can play with the U.S. and U.K.," a U.N. official said. "This is very dangerous." A U.N. Inspector gives the "peace" movement a big thank-you. (Hat Tip: Donald Sensing)
Robert Mugabe, currently carrying out a policy of genocide by starvation, has arrived in France. There are no protesters bothering him. Which tells you all you need to know.
Cato the Youngest covers the growing problems with Turkish cooperation, part of which seems to be predicated on swallowing the Kurds (and oilfields) in northern Iraq. Note to Cato: to punish the Turks, badly, all we'd have to do is push matters to a head within the IMF. They're playing a weak hand, which is why the USA is standing firm.
For full coverage of the problem with Turkey, this page is very good.
Rantburg also has some information, straight from the Turks' mouth.
From a Kurd: "Now, this UN business is really depressing me. Why can't they do the right thing? Many nations contributed to building this monstrous regime. Why not help to undo the damage inflicted on us? ...Please send help." It gets better from there.
It's not about Iraq, says Fareed Zakaria. It never has been. Steven Den Beste comments, and adds an analysis of the current dynamics within the EU.
Remember the item in yesterday's "Winds of War" about the 3rd Armored Cavalry at Fort Carson receiving its deployment orders? As fate would have it, there's a blogger on the scene. Read Andrew Olmstead's report.
Mader Blog links to the report on Saddam's "WMD ships" (Donald Sensing has another link). I say leave them alone. Even if you captured them, the Left would just claim that we'd seized all of Saddam's weapons and the threat was over. Let 'em sail, and keep track of them... when Saddam is gone, they'll surrender without creating major risks.
Have the Saudis stopped beating their wives yet? Guess not. (Hat Tip: Right Wing News)
Quietly, and with little fanfare, the Pentagon and the CIA have been building up a sizeable presence in Djibouti, near Ethopia and Somalia. About 2,000 troops are busy, busy, busy.
Newsrack is having an interesting discussion with German blogger Jens Scholz over the occupation of the Rhineland and its relationship to present situations.
How crazy are the North Koreans? Moscow-based newspaper The Exile knows.
Generally, we always end on a humourous note. Not content with starting "Axis of Weasels," Scott Ott goes one better on France's President, uh... just read it.
That was funny. But so is this. Seliot has a plan to ... uh ... undermine the march to war. Uma Thurman is involved.
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