Regarding Typepad, I haven’t had any problems with it, both on this PC and on my PowerBook. Dunno if this info will help y’all having problems with it, though.

Roger, Typekey is getting really bad. Maybe you could give Charles Johnson a quick yell for help?

(Sorry about the confusion of al-Hayat with al-Awsat.)

More likely, Mossad. After all, sometimes you get lucky and happen to have an agent in the right place. Sometimes hard work pays off.

I wonder if the US was consulted/involved.

In any case, if Bush wins, I don’t think Assad will be in power long, although there is a waiting list…. Iran’s Ayatollahs, Dear Leader, the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia.

Looking at the photos of the aftermath, seeing how controlled the explosion was, it is indeed a work of art.

Everyone seems to be looking in Israel’s direction, but after the message Putin put out it seems his people could be included in the asking.

Damascus was indeed visited by a talented hand.

I would not be surprised that such videos are best sellers through the Islamic underground, and I would bet that the distributor of the Protocols book is active in both lucrative areas.

I know, there is all that blather about ‘the right to know’, etc., but given the history associated with the Protocols, there is no justification for selling it through Walmart – unless Walmart wants to make a package deal -a DVD of beheadings shrink wrapped with a copy of that dear old anti semitic classic.

*Very* interesting article in Maariv (read the whole thing!) about an al-Awsat article on an alleged Grand Plan by Mubarak and Egypt. In a nutshell, Mubarak is supposed to be leaning on Hamas for a deal with Israel to be announced shortly before the US election — scoring points for Bush with a quid pro quo of US backing for Mubarak’s son as his successor.

One of the pressure points on Hamas was supposedly Egypt’s passing crucial bits of intelligence to Israel…