October 1, 2003

If you think back a while, the Ranter covered a story concerning a Boeing 727 tanker which had gone missing from Angola, resulting in a terrorism scare. I was rather sceptical, and when a bulletin board story came up suggesting that it had been located in Beirut after being repossessed I got quite smug, publicly!…

washingtonpost.com: “With no chemical or biological weapons yet found in Iraq, the U.S. official in charge of the search for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction is pursuing the possibility that the Iraqi leader was bluffing, pretending he had distributed them to his most loyal commanders to deter the United States from invading. Such a…

Link: “But on July 22, Newsday reported: ‘Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information. ‘I didn’t dig it out, it was given to me,’ he said. ‘They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.’ ” It’s uncannily similar…

Blair defiant ahead of Iraq debate Well, they’ve warmed up with a bashing for the government on foundation hospitals this morning…although, mind you, Blair took the super-democratic option and conceded, avoiding TV pix of furious delegates waving their party cards on a card vote.