Mike Rimbaud's new album is coming out in April

Update on The Brave Little Tailor

The sinister story of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi who killed 7 CIA agents in Afghanistan may become the updated Arab version of Grimm Brothers' Brave Little Taylor tale. It also makes Ignatius/Scott's film Body of Lies look like an childish fantasy of omnipotence, meant to distract attention from the fact that both Jordanian secret service and the US/NATO intelligence apparatus in Afghanistan lack any solid sources. According to the latest US army report, US Army intelligence chiefs in Afghanistan find foreign newspaper articles about the country more useful than the information collected by their own soldiers in the field. According to Maj Gen Michael Flynn and two other intelligence advisers, the huge intelligence apparatus in Afghanistan is "only marginally relevant" to NATO's overall war plan because nearly all of its effort is spent finding Taliban fighters to kill rather than trying to understand the needs and grievances of ordinary Afghan civilians. No Shock and Awe will ever win counter-insurgency, not in Palestine, not in Afghanistan or eslewhere.

Adoration (as seen in KunstMeran)

1 January 2010, at around 6 PM, Monmartre

This man had been following me all day long. When I tried to photograph him, he covered his face.