"...Hold still for the camera, Mehdi..."
From Tyler's Iraq SLO-expat S-ISP CTO blog (<http://www.livejournal.com/users/giantlaser/>):
<http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2004/8/8-6-13.htm> Al Sadr got himself a laminator. His goons, er, freedom fighters, have ID's now. Skip the arabic, notice the guy on the left in the first pic. BWAHAHAHAHA! Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
-- On 10 Aug 2004 at 17:49, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
<http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2004/8/8-6-13.htm>
Al Sadr got himself a laminator. His goons, er, freedom fighters, have ID's now.
Skip the arabic, notice the guy on the left in the first pic.
Presumably the IDs do not display true names, but Sadr presumably has a database linking true names to ID tags. Of course, should that database fall into US hands, his entire organization is screwed. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG coAqlKplZQKw8k99OLGi4iC3tOe5nfoJXWb5ZXw1 4QGY4ri/TnUJjaPX8H30E7LUk0rLUXRrhVVIcT1D+
At 7:49 PM -0700 8/10/04, James A. Donald wrote:
Presumably the IDs do not display true names
I would bet you're stretching the bounds of presumption, myself. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Several times a week, to enter a TV studio say, or to board a plane, I have to produce a tiny picture of my face." -- Christopher Hitchens
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