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Haven't done on of these in a while. Thanks to my dude Patrick for calling me out on it! First off, Prison Break!

"Hundreds of Taliban fighters have swarmed into a strategically important district just outside Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan, apparently in a push for control just days after 400 Taliban members escaped in a spectacular breakout from the Kandahar prison, officials said." [Click here for more from the NYT]

McCain Rips Supreme Court Decision on Guantanamo - calls it, it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”

New US report says al-Qaida gaining strength. [AP article via amNewYork.com]

U.S. has Nelson Mandela on its terrorist list. [USA Today]

WTF?! They still can't even handle their core foreign policy focus competently. Most.incompetent.adm

First, let's go back:

And now look at that seminal turning point in the Iraq war in retrospect 5 years later.

Detail here via The New York Times.

Good grief! I thought this was supposed to be the 'successful' war!

Related:

A list of previous attempts on Afghan President Hamid Karzai's life.

From a USA Today article by Jim Michaels:

"The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday a week after the publication of a magazine article that described him as being at odds with the Bush administration's stance toward Iran.

In a profile in Esquire magazine, author Thomas P.M. Barnett described Adm. William Fallon as "brazenly" challenging the Bush administration and pushing back against a president "who trash-talks his way to World War III" with Iran.

From an article by Warren P. Strobel:
"An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network."

Not sure if anyone (other than Dick Cheney and a few other right-wing crackpots) is still disputing this point but it's always good to reinforce it.

Moqtada al-Sadr: the man responsible for the surge 'succeeding'?

I'm watching CNN and just heard that f*ckery floated without challenge while they were talking about John McCain a few moments ago. Agree?

Related:

From a Baltimore Sun article by David Wood:

"The Bush administration has ordered a significant number of troops to stay behind in Iraq as small military withdrawals continue this spring and summer, according to a senior Pentagon officer.

Also from the LA Times:

"Three neighborhood security guards were killed and two injured early Friday when U.S. attack helicopters fired at their checkpoint south of Baghdad, Iraqi police said.

It was the latest in a series of complaints about errant strikes, which have stoked tensions between the citizen security groups in central and northern Iraq and their American backers."

From the NY Times:

"A suicide bomber blew himself up in a large crowd gathered at a dogfighting festival just outside this city in southern Afghanistan, killing some 80 people including a local police chief, Abdul Hakim Jan, a number of his guards and scores of villagers attending the event and wounding nearly 100 more in the country’s worst single bombing since 2001."

But not Michael Vick?? I keed, I keed.