You’d think that handwriting was easier to identify than typewriting. But when the latest Government memorandum on the war was leaked, it came hand-written, copied from a computerised original to make the leak harder to trace.<\/p>\n\n
Evidence that this was wise came when the US Army put up its PDF <\/span>report<\/a> into the shooting of an Italian secret service agent at a road block. Chunks of this were blacked out for public consumption. La Repubblica<\/em> discovered that if you select a chunk with these blacked-out portions in, then copy and paste it into something else, the hidden bits appear. And so we learn that<\/p>\n\n From 1 November 2004 to 12 March 2005 there were a total of 3306 attacks in the Baghdad area. Of these, 2400 were directed against Coalition Forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n No wonder the US army removed1<\/a><\/sup> the PDF <\/span>pronto. 2,400<\/strong> attacks on the American army in Baghdad alone in four months! We must send Mark Steyn to investigate and explain how the rest of the country is peaceful.<\/p>\n\n 1<\/sup> The link above is a copy preserved by the Italian paper.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You’d think that handwriting was easier to identify than typewriting. But when the latest Government memorandum on the war was leaked, it came hand-written, copied from a computerised original to make the leak harder to trace. Evidence that this was … Continue reading