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[Ross once worked as an analyst at the CIA. --Declan] --- Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 23:55:54 -0700 To: declan@well.com From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <amicus@well.com> Subject: Country X: What's in a letter, anyway? The WashingtonPost.com's "dot.mil" columnist, William Arkin, has an article up re "Country X," the notional target of Pentagon wargame exercises... Arkin makes a case that it's Iraq. But the WashPost's accompanying graphic is a silhouette of... Iran: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49207-2002Aug6.html I sent e-mail this morning to Arkin, the site editor, and their world person... they have yet to amend or disappear the erroneous map. Or maybe it's part of a plan, either to see how many Americans could actually recognize Iran on the map, or to warm us up to the idea of attacking them too... :-P Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------