Head-Meld-Update
 
The Russians might be sending troops to Iraq.  The report going around is that in exchange for oil concessions and help in getting Russia into the World Trade Organisation.  The report says that it may be as many as 40,000.  Money not only talks, it mobilises armies!  It circular irony of the few al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq, who cut their teeth fighting the Russians in Afghanistan in the 80s then alongside the US – will now once more be facing the Russians – different decade, different land – but to them, I guess, its all for the same cause.
 
On a totally unrelated topic – there is a cool picture of Roni Size at Ashton Court here:  
http://www.photex.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Image012.jpg