Breathtaking! Philadelphia is the most beautiful city I've ever seen in my life.
Photo by G. Widman for GPTMC (http://twitpic.com/9lpls)7.07.2009
Philadelphia's Parkway at dusk on Saturday, July 4th
Photo by G. Widman for GPTMC (http://twitpic.com/9lpls)
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looks more like the Bellagio hotel in Vegas to me...
:-)
i saw this the other day on your twitter site.
sweeeet
Phili is nice. But "most" beautiful? Gotta disagree with you on that. ;-)
Cheers
"But "most" beautiful?"
He hasn't been to Montana yet - give him some time! ;)
I'm sure he meant to say most beautiful----after Baghdad. :)
i've been following you on twitter, thanks for the links. also re the wall commercial, did you see the response video made in bil'in? i'm afraid in real life the idf responded a little differently than in the video.
i read this morning about the TV crew in iraq that was attacked.
ciao
hi bassam. terrible news about iraq today.
when i saw that comment in your tweet about a new saddam in kurdistan the name goran rang a bell for me and i wondered if it was affiliated w/the same goran mentioned here from june 08. if so it is not so 'new'.
And the source said that a group of people connected with Goran admitted having carried out the assassinations of Sheikh Faidi al-Faidi, a prominent Imam in the Buldiyat district of Mosul, and of the general secretary of the banned Baath party in Mosul, Najam al-Iraqi, and of the former director of that party, Nazar Yunis, in addition to a number of specialist doctors and university professors. The total operations of which Goran is accused, represented by his management of this network of assassinations done under his direct orders, comes to 900 assassination operations, in addition to his secret support for gangs within the city that have the aim of forcing citizens turn over security to the Peshmerga, in order to make the city more linked to the Kurdistan region.
Prime Minister Maliki had originally planned to make Goran one of his advisers in the Iraqi government, but Iraqi intelligence under Abdullah al-Shahwani informed him, just before he went to Mosul, of reports that Goran was involved in assassinations, and as a result Maliki eliminated the Mosuli authority [meaning either Goran, or Goran and others] from his operation planning group. Sources in the leadership of the Mosul operation said Maliki was "not ready for the size of the surprise that was waiting for him in Mosul," adding that he later expressed regret that Mosul had been left under the control of Peshmerga for five years.
hmmm
sorry to see you aren't blogging much but i hope you are having a good summer.
Annie, Mosul was in the battle space of the 2nd IAD. It was about 55% Kurdish about 3 years ago, but is now probably pretty representative. The commanding general of 2nd Iraqi Army Division was pretty nonsectarian.
Unfortunately, close to half of 2nd and 3rd IADs from Ninevah were sent south to help in Baghdad, Salahadin and Diyala during the surge. The KRG helped backfill during this time. Now that the rest of Iraq is safe, PM Maliki can send IA diverse nonsectarian IA units to Ninevah.
Hi Treasure,
You know, I mentioned before, it is prophesied that someday, both Baghdad and Tehran will be much more beautiful than anything we see now. It is only a question of time.
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