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    ...a sect of people who consider themselves above the average bloke. From the Franco-Prussian war forward the German General Staff,…
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    • The assumption that our media has not long ago capitulated to the incentives and aspirations of their corporate decision makers…
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    • About Hezbollah. Israel claims, probably correctly, that Iran is providing resources to Hezbollah in Lebanon via Syria.
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    • The targets weren't particularly deep inside Syrian air space; at least the recent ones. Syrian air defence remains an open…
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    • More like 8 December 1941.
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    • In the absence of the Great Satan a different alignment emerges: Syrian combatants increasingly understand the war in sectarian terms:…
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    • Not sure I'm getting your point.
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    • [The media's] only framework is the worldview of it's own class of political careerists and the ownership class who dictates…
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    • Are leaks. They're not accidents. And while leaks are not always true, and often misleading, they are not as untrustworthy…
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    • I was referring to this trio: (CNN) -- Several Yemeni men belonging to al Qaeda took part in the terrorist…
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    • You cited did mention them: Another militia group, Ansar al-Sharia, suspected of a deadly attack on the US consulate in…
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    • With both the recent CNN report of three Yemenis and the previous FBI images of "persons of interest" from the…
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    • A hypothetical. If the circumstantial evidence of prior drone attacks on Derna was confirmed it would be interesting.
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    • Still my favourite scenario so far.
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    • They apparently disbanded in the aftermath but somebody tried to kill their leadership in April this year, in Derna, as…
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    • But it explains the delay between first and second attacks that there would be a distant source of reinforcements motivated…
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    • Not the Abu Slim Brigade, necessarily, but Ansar al-Sharia of Derna (ASD). Arguably exactly the kind of target the CIA…
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    • But my hypothesis is that the initial attack itself had a few dedicated ringleaders but was otherwise just a semi-formal…
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    • Above: US drones are not only hovering all the time over eastern Libya, they also bombed a training camp run…
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    • The attack on the Annex was opportunistic; the damage to the SMC was payback but when the Annex was revealed…
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