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2004-02-26

CPA Briefing 2-25-2004

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-02-26 2:58:41 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "some crates with some Soviet Cyrillic writing on the side,"

how i wonder, does Soviet Cyrillic writint differ from post soviet Russian Cyrillic writing? Have they restored any of the letters they abolished in 1918?

Posted by liberalhawk 2004-2-26 3:23:22 PM|| 2004-2-26 3:23:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "A patrol detained 90 personnel who tried to illegally cross the Iran-Iraq border northeast of Al Kut and confiscated 8 minibuses, five AK-47s and two other small-arms weapons. All of the persons and the minibuses were turned over to the Iraqi border police."

This sounds really big too me.

Posted by liberalhawk 2004-2-26 3:24:38 PM|| 2004-2-26 3:24:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "What we would tell the children of Iraq is that the noise they hear is the sound of freedom"

Kinda like down south, when your nose catches the waft of a paper mill, they say "thats the smell of money?" :)

Posted by liberalhawk 2004-2-26 3:25:57 PM|| 2004-2-26 3:25:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 a satellite phone, one FM transceiver and one global positioning system

Sat phone -- ID numbers and the phone numbers it's been calling; or that have called it.

GPS receiver -- TRACKBACK!!! Unless you disable it, most commercial systems keep a track of where you've recently been. Depending on the manufacturer, they may have a couple day's worth of someone's movements.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-2-26 4:00:16 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-2-26 4:00:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Have they restored any of the letters they abolished in 1918?
Yes the $ is back in vogue.

Seriously, did the Red's just modernize their alphabit or were there anti-state letters? I've always been suspicous of v.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-26 4:50:50 PM|| 2004-2-26 4:50:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 from a PBS website: "In Russia, Cyrillic was first written in the early Middle Ages in clear-cut, legible ustav (large letters). Later a succession of cursive forms developed. In the early eighteenth century, under Peter the Great, the forms of letters were simplified and regularized, with some appropriate only to Greek being removed. Further unnecessary letters were expunged in 1918, leaving the alphabet as it is todayâstill in use in many Slavic Orthodox countries. "

Posted by liberalhawk 2004-2-26 5:07:09 PM|| 2004-2-26 5:07:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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