The arch-conservative paper at Newsmax.com is offering the "55 Most Wanted Iraqis" cards for "free", if you order a 4-month starter subscription to Newsmax for four months ($15 and then automatically renews at $35/year). But they don't seem to have a "just sell me the damn cards without the subscription" price. ;)

Update: The Newsmax site (http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/4/16/183900)says:
These playing cards are the same ones the U.S. government is using to produce for our servicemen and women in Iraq. We even offer the cards made by the same manufacturer the Pentagon uses.

These cards depict 55 "Most Wanted" Iraqi war criminals, beginning with ace of spades Saddam Hussein.

However, see the Stars and Stripes article from today:
That’s not possible, Brooks said, because DIA gave the cards to CENTCOM, not the embassy, and has never had the cards printed by a commercial contractor.

Bah.

NewsMaxStore.com: Deck of Death

] What happened to the majority of journalists living the
] Marine life is that we experienced it from the inside. I
] can honestly say that seven weeks as an embed has changed
] me forever. And I have often found many similarities
] between Marines and Arabs.

ArabNews: An Account of Marines' Incredible Gestures

] UMM QASR, Iraq -- Ahmed Ali believes Saddam Hussein can
] never die. All his life, the 23-year-old laborer has
] heard about the dictator's powerful stone.
]
] Saddam, the story goes, had the stone made shortly
] after he came to power 24 years ago. Its powers were
] first tested inside a chicken. One of his soldiers pulled
] out a gun and shot at point-blank range. The chicken's
] feathers fell off, but it lived.
]
] So the dictator implanted the stone in his upper arm.
]
] As the curtain falls on Saddam's reign, many ordinary
] Iraqis are reluctant to believe that their much-feared
] dictator has lost power, much less that he is actually
] dead. Stories abound of Saddam's mystical powers that
] have helped him elude assassination attempts and missile
] strikes.
]
] "The stone makes him bulletproof," Ali, a slim man
] with a Saddam-style moustache, said in a serious voice.

Talk about urban legends . . .

Myths About Saddam Fuel the Fears of Iraqis

] U.S. commandos in Baghdad have captured Abul Abbas, the
] leader of the violent Palestinian group that killed an
] American on the hijacked cruise liner Achille Lauro in
] 1985

"...terrorists, and those who harbor them." HOOAH!

Yahoo! News - Achille Lauro Mastermind Abbas Caught

] CI Centre Professor H. Keith Melton is a renowned
] military historian, author and expert on clandestine
] devices and equipment. He is recognized internationally
] as an authority on espionage paraphernalia and has
] assembled an unparalleled collection of spy devices,
] books, and papers of famous spies--a portion of which is
] currently on temporary display in the Cold War Exhibit
] within the headquarters of the CIA. Melton also serves as
] an advisor to US intelligence agencies on historical
] espionage equipment.

Someone gave me a copy of "The Ultimate Spy" for Christmas, and I've been impressed by the quality of the book. The author, Keith Melton, is one of the guys out there who *really* does his research. This book has a ton of pictures and info tidbits, and as I flipped through it I learned a great deal about the history of spy equipment and techniques over the years.

This website is also a great resource... Click on the "links" section and there are dozens of interesting links to various intelligence-related sites around the web.

Author of 'The Ultimate Spy': H. Keith Melton

] This ad is most definitely a nod to the filmmakers Peter
] Fischli and David Weiss. Their 1987 film, "The Way Things
] Go" is a 30-minute-long showing of a contraption they
] built out of household items.

WOW.

Honda's New Accord

] Meeting Facilities
]
] * Over 9,000 square feet of meeting and banquet space (column-free)
] * Capacity to accommodate 10 to 350 guests
] * Approximately 3,000 square feet of ballroom space

In the Salon article (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/04/15/acidus/index_np.html),
they were reporting several hundred attendees at the "Cease & Desist" lecture?

Interz0ne question: Radisson Hotel Atlanta Northlake Meeting Capacity

Learn English the fast and fun way with Flash.

LOL! I love the "dog" "cat" "lion" "eat" sequence, and then it just gets better from there. ;) Good satire of an English lesson, plus people who watch it may even learn some profanity along the way!

Home English Home

] Brig. Gen. Benjamin Freakley described the vehicles as
] dual-use -- biological and chemical -- mobile labs. The
] troops also found about 1,000 pounds of documentation.
] The mobile labs were found buried close to an artillery
] ammunition plant.

Sounds a lot like what Powell was talking about at the U.N. If nothing else, these labs should definitely have been documented in the Iraqi declaration last December.

CNN.com - Eleven Mobile Chemical Labs Found Buried in Iraq

] Late last month, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported that
] Russian intelligence agents had been sent to Baghdad to
] gather archives of the Iraqi secret service in case
] Hussein's regime fell.
]
] The San Francisco Chronicle reported that documents found
] in the secret police office show that at least five Iraqi
] agents graduated Sept. 15, 2002, from a two-week course
] in surveillance and eavesdropping techniques at the
] Special Training Center in Moscow.
]
] Graduation certificates from the center bear the
] double-eagle symbol of the Russian Federation, but the
] newspaper said it was not clear if the training center
] was a government agency

If it's verified that the Russian government was training Iraqi intelligence agents, this could well be a "smoking gun" of Russia violating U.N. sanctions. Not that that would be particularly surprising . . .

Moscow Times: Documents Show Ties to Iraqi Secret Service