17:30 CNN.com is reporting oil wells are burning on the Iraq\/Kuwait border.<\/p>\n
I’m listening to the BBC Radio 4 6 o’clock news over the net, but the feed<\/a> keeps dropping. Their servers must be melting<\/em> right now.<\/p>\n 17:37 BBC<\/a> reporting troops have started to move over the border into Iraq.<\/p>\n 18:00 Yahoo Groups<\/a> has a new group, gulfwar-2<\/a>, to collate war news. Too early to say how good the quality of the information is, as it only started three hours ago.The osint<\/a> (open source intelligence) group also has some good real-time information. In my experience this group is quite reliable.<\/p>\n Gulfwar-2 had a pointer to a blogger<\/a> in Baghdad. Last post was 4:28 today. Hope he’s okay.<\/p>\n 18:25 CNN reporting<\/a> explosions heared around Baghdad. BBC news video feed<\/a> seems to be better than Radio 4. Bigger bandwidth allocation, I suppose.<\/p>\n Going to eat now.<\/p>\n 21:05 gulfwar-2<\/a> seems to have settled for a good ol’ flame war. Useful info coming out of osint<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n 21:33 Reuters is reporting<\/a> that ricin has been detected in the Gare de Lyon station, Paris.<\/p>\n BBC reporters have a very good weblog here<\/a>. Last post was 20 minutes ago.<\/p>\n 22:47 The San Jose Mercury News has a good war blog<\/a>. Iranian perspective at IRNA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n 23:05 Just watched Tony Blair’s address to the country<\/a>. A good, sincere performance – but, on the basis of what he said, I still don’t understand why Iraq<\/em>? His central justification was that rogue states will sell WMDs to terrorists who will use them on us. If so, why Iraq? Why not an obvious supporter of terrorism like Iran or Syria, or even Libya? The pieces still don’t connect-up.<\/p>\n Enough! I’m away to my bed. Its a cold, still night here. I wonder what its like out there in the desert?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 17:30 CNN.com is reporting oil wells are burning on the Iraq\/Kuwait border. I’m listening to the BBC Radio 4 6 o’clock news over the net, but the feed keeps dropping. Their servers must be melting right now. 17:37 BBC reporting troops have started to move over the border into Iraq. 18:00 Yahoo Groups has a new group, gulfwar-2, to collate … Continue reading “War: Day One”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}