| John Batchelor Show

Boston Revisited

Hour 2, Block A: . Michael Graham, American talk radio host, writer, & conservative political commentator; in re: the day after the day after the Tsarnaev hunt. Police had air, land, sea huts; Watertown has large houses and lawns – why couldn’t they find him? They locked down the T – there'...
April 30, 2013 0

Jihadist Ratline to Iran

Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: Taliban promise suicide assaults, 'insider attacks' in this year's spring offensive The "Khalid bin Waleed spring operation" will include the use "special military tactics," "...
April 29, 2013 0

Mideast States in Collapse around Israel

Hour 3, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Egyot is vital – largest Arab country; Ikhwan victory as very important, However, people are beginning to starve – decades'-long subsidies being removed, Egyptian pound down hugely. No gas (petrol). Sinai: clash between Bedouin...
April 26, 2013 0

Mad Max in the 21st Century

Hour 1, Block B: Andrew Leigh, Australian parliamentarian, in re: Australian politics and parliamentary system; avian flu; Great ironies of Australia-- more urbanized than US but, "We have this really strong bush ethos."CBC News -- H7N9 transmitted from chickens at poultry markets in China to...
April 25, 2013 0

China Troubles: Economy Slows, Bird Flu Spreads

Hour 1, Block A: Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, in re: fresh threat from the PLA over joint exercises, US-Japan: "These exercises constitute a strategic threat to the PLA" – at a moment when the PLA has physically...
April 24, 2013 0

Terror Comes to Canada

Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: Chiheb Esseghaier's Facebook page featured the black banner of al Qaeda until this morning; Bill Roggio has a screenshot of it. 'A senior police official said two suspects involved in a plot to blow up a train received "support...
April 23, 2013 0

Has Al Qaeda Been Defeated?

Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: Vilayat Daghestan [roughly, Province of Daghestan; local agency of Islamic Caucus Emirate] , N Caucasus – "Our fight is with Russia, not the US"; Tamerlan posted one of their vids. ...
April 22, 2013 0

Chechen Jihad Meets American Republic

Hour 1, Block A: Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ethnically Chechnyan, born in Kyrgyzstan. Chechnya: 1.5 million people, tribal, Muslim, in north Caucasus. Declared independence from the just-dead Soviet Union; after two Chechen wars with Moscow, which refused to...
April 19, 2013 0

Boston: The Manhunt Is On

Hour 1, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Hard to get a real feeling for this sort of event [terrorist attack] unless you see it. Once in Jerusalem, after a horrible explosion, a young colonel insisted I go see what happened; it was appalling: a bus exploded into pieces...
April 18, 2013 0

Chinese Threat?

Hour 2, Block A: Scott Harold, Associate Political Scientist at RAND Corporation, in re: China's defense white paper. Last one was 2007; come out every eight or nine years, review of the PLA. They do give a certain amt of detail, although 25 pages isn’t that much. Discrepancy between 2.3mil...
April 17, 2013 0