Whoa, on Drudge right now:
Russia tied to Iraq´s missing arms; Pentagon: Weaponry relocated before war:
GERTZ // THURSDAY // WASH TIMES: Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned. John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, “almost certainly” removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.
While I'm on the subject, check out this from DJ Drummond at PoliPundit for some common sense.
Update: Here's the source article. Update: wow, the Washington Times server is slammed.
I have some third-party software in PHP that's running pretty slowly. I want to see a log of all the database queries it's running so that I can see what's going on. Clearly I can't go through the source and add debug messages for every SQL statement[1], so is there any way I can log all of its queries "from the outside"?
Footnotes:
[1]: though now that I think about it, it wouldn't be infeasible to replace every mysql_query with my own debugging wrapper
I just noticed a really neat feature in PHP's MySQL support, new as of version 4.3.0 of PHP. Turning the 'mysql.trace_mode' flag on will make PHP print "warnings for table/index scans, non free result sets, and SQL-Errors". For those of us too lazy to run all of our queries through EXPLAIN mode, this gives you an easy way to run through your site and see if you've got any bad MySQL mojo going on.
The terrorists in Iraq are telling us what we all should have already realized, that the violence in Iraq is aimed right here at home.
The Washington Times: Terrorists hope to defeat Bush through Iraq violence:
BAGHDAD — Leaders and supporters of the anti-U.S. insurgency say their attacks in recent weeks have a clear objective: The greater the violence, the greater the chances that President Bush will be defeated on Tuesday and the Americans will go home.
Resistance leader Abu Jalal boasted that the mounting violence had already hurt Mr. Bush's chances.
"American elections and Iraq are linked tightly together," he told a Fallujah-based Iraqi reporter. "We've got to work to change the election, and we've done so. With our strikes, we've dragged Bush into the mud."
This is fascinating though:
Mowafaq Al-Tai, a London-educated architect and intellectual, said different types of resistance fighters have different views of the U.S. election.
The most pro-Kerry, he said, are the former Saddam Hussein loyalists — Ba'ath Party members and others who think Washington might scale back its ambitions for Iraq if Mr. Kerry wins, allowing them to re-enter civic life.
The most pro-Bush, he said, are the foreign extremists. "They prefer Bush, because he's a provocative figure, and the more they can push people to the extreme, the better for their case."
Still others don't care:
But even within the resistance, not all agree that removing Mr. Bush from office would make a difference.
"The nation of infidels is one, and Bush and Kerry are two faces of the same coin," said Abu Obeida, nom de guerre of a leader of Fallujah's al-Noor Jihadi regiment. "What is taken by force will be returned only by force, and we don't care what the results of the elections are."
Very interesting article all around. Read the whole thing.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
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