American Troops Terrorize Omar!

Over at Iraq The Model Omar tells of the terrifying ordeal of having American troops search his house.

Ah, you got wireless! I should bring my laptop too next time I come here, one of the soldiers joked.

The man helping Petraeus re-write the book

on counter-insurgency grew up reading Lawrence of Arabia.

When he was just 12, his father — a philosophy professor — gave him a copy of Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which he has carried ever since. “It’s fairly battered now!” he laughs. “I do believe we can learn a great deal from him.”

The fine line between clever and stupid

has been crossed in Burlington.

The mock terror attack involved two irate men armed with handguns who invaded the high school through the front door. They pretended to shoot several students in the hallway and then barricaded themselves in the media center with 10 student hostages.

Two Burlington Township police detectives portrayed the gunmen. Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the “New Crusaders” who don’t believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.

Yeah. That’s the most likely source of a school attack by terrorists.

Jonestown Reminder

Mark your TV guide or set your Tivo: That Jonestown documentary airs on PBS April 9th.

Update:

If you’re setting your Tivo, it’ll be under American Experience.