Was ‘Baghdad Bob’ Right After All?
His crazy predictions were ridiculed in 2003, but they don’t sound quite so crazy now.
Posts tagged: Saddam Hussein
President Bush: My Truck For Your Missing Limbs
Former President George W. Bush’s truck was sold at a charity auction this week for $300,000. Hey! That would buy about 30 prosthetic limbs for the (American) survivors of the war he started!
Madeleine Albright on Diplomacy, Women, and All Those Pins
Madeleine Albright spoke at the TED conference in December. Here’s an excerpt of her chat with Pat Mitchell of the Paley Center for Media.
Saddam Hussein: How Social Networking Nabbed Him
If you’re a Saddam Hussein aficionado with a half-hour to kill, Slate has just published a fascinating five-part series titled “Searching for Saddam: How the U.S. military used social networking to capture the Iraqi dictator.”It’s not about Facebook and Twitter, but about how the Army used similar theories of social networking to work their way through Saddam’s tribal contacts and figure out his whereabouts.Here’s the series.