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...northern city of Kirkuk last week, which may be a sign that the long-feared battle between Kurds and Arabs for control of that oil-rich region is about to begin. That makes it doubly unlikely that the Kurdish brigades will deploy to Baghdad. Furthermore, whack-a-mole happens: there are indications the Shi'ite militias are going to ground or leaving Baghdad to fight elsewhere, perhaps in places like Kirkuk, which means, Senator Reed says, "we'll be doing their job for them, fighting the Sunnis in Baghdad...
...late Sir Roger Hollis, onetime head of Britain's counterintelligence service, M15, really a Soviet mole? Did the supersecret agency plot against the government of Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson? These are some of the juicier questions reportedly raised in Spycatcher, a memoir by Peter Wright, who worked as an agent for M15 from 1955 to 1976. The book, which has not been released in Britain, has raised a furor because London has blocked publication of excerpts by invoking national security considerations...
...populist demagoguery. Last summer's bloody melee in Lebanon, fought against a Hizballah trained and equipped by Tehran, may have been the first Israeli-Iranian war. The Taliban, supposedly crushed in 2001, is doing very nicely in Afghanistan. The war against terror resembles a game of whack-a-mole: beat down one head, and see three more creatures pop out of the other holes...
...Tuesday, President Kaczynski will travel to Riga to meet with George W. Bush and other leaders to discuss missions in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Memo to POTUS: he is the one with the mole on his cheek. Or is that Jaroslaw...
...appearance, the brothers are in fact very difficult to tell apart, although Lech, the President, has a small mole on his left cheek and another on the right side of his nose. They both stand about 5'4". Lech is married with a daughter while Jaroslaw is a bachelor who lives with his mother and a cat. Now 57, they came to prominence as 13-year-old child stars in the 1962 Polish film The Two Who Stole the Moon, in which they played mischievous but endearing blond brothers. Later, in the 1980s, they joined the Solidarity movement that would...