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Originally Posted by problemeliminator
It is pretty amazing, that.
Is Craig Murray someone I should be aware of?
He's the ex-British ambassador to Uzbekistan and got sacked basically for speaking the truth about the place (i.e. that it's a monstrous dictatorship and that MI6 was accepting intelligence obtained via torture). I believe he was a contemporaneous critic of the Iraq WMD intelligence. Since then he's been a political activist for various causes.
He's not a crank or anything and generally supports good causes, but there's a whiff of bull**** about him. He appears to have a tendency to self importance. This sentence from his
piece on Obama and Russia is an example of the FryNarrowedEyes.jpg I sometimes get when reading his stuff:
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Of course Russian hackers exist. They attack this blog pretty well continually – as do hackers from the USA and many other countries.
1) Why the **** would hackers attack his blog?
2) Does his blog have a full-time security staff, logging intrusion attempts and identifying their country of origin?