One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't fit in...

In the swirling malstrom that is the Iraqi occupation, pro-Western groups (with maybe a few thousand adherents) have had a hard way to go of it.

But why torture and kill a Union leader , particularly when the Puppet Master Negroponte has set Allawi's puppet government to do what Saddam's regime did: ban Unions .

This smells like redRumsfeld's Special Ops in a Black Spot directed action to me.

And to follow up a post of a few days back: microwave weapons are now being used on Iraqi rioters.

Do they use the popcorn setting, I wonder?

And regarding such Patriot activity quietly sanctioned here in the USA: it seems to have been going on for quite some time now among scientists not towing the Bu$hCo War line.

And I thought I had it bad just losing my NIH funding. Another reason to use my pseudononymous email address...

Thanks to jb and Central Scruitinizer and cheney_usa on the incomparable Eschaton boards for the links. A note to those who want to regularly see what's going on in the wider world: there's no place better than the food fight at Atrios's place.