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So something happened with the Patriots spying on somebody else, which they’re getting fined for, and now we have:

Times Online – Fernando Alonso implicated in spy scandal

Fernando Alonso, the reigning world champion, has been fully implicated in the FIA’s findings behind the unprecedented sanctions handed out to McLaren over the Ferrari spy scandal.

McLaren were stripped of all their constructors’ points for this season and handed a record £50 million fine and although neither Alonso or Lewis Hamilton, his McLaren team-mate who leads the world drivers’ championship, were punished at the hearing of the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC), it appears that the Spaniard was in unauthorised possession of confidential technical information belonging to Ferrari.

In their 15-page judgment released today, the FIA have published details of emails exchanged between Alonso and test driver Pedro de la Rosa regarding the Ferrari secrets, which were initially received by McLaren’s chief designer, Mike Coughlan, who has been suspended, from the former Ferrari chief mechanic, Nigel Stepney.

I hear the MoveOn.org ad backfired (though it’s kind of hard to tell, being blissfully disconnected from the television broadcast media), and now we have:

Times Online – Iraqis vow to avenge America’s murdered ally

Sunni Muslims in Iraq’s Anbar province vowed angrily to avenge the death of a tribal leader who led an American-sponsored uprising against al-Qaeda, as they carried his remains to a cemetery in Ramadi today.

Sheikh Abdul Sittar Bezea al-Rishawi, who helped the US military drive the terror group from large swathes of western Iraq, was killed along with three bodyguards yesterday afternoon when his armoured vehicle was torn apart in a bomb attack.

Sheikh Sittar, also known as Abu Risha, met President Bush on a visit to Anbar two weeks ago and had been praised by General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, for having helped transform one of Iraq’s most dangerous provinces into one of its safest.

Thousands of people joined the sheikh’s funeral procession as the 36-year-old’s body was carried the 10 km (six miles) from his home to a Ramadi cemetery for burial beside his father and brother, both victims of Iraq’s sectarian conflict. Two other brothers have been kidnapped and disappeared in the past three years.

“Revenge, revenge on al-Qaeda,” shouted the crowd of mourners, an AFP correspondent reported. “There is no God but Allah and al-Qaeda is his enemy.”

So: since things always happen in threes, I’m going to assume that the third one is going to combine both those and be a doozy: namely that the spies (the CIA) will try to pull something again (another leak, maybe), and that it’ll backfire, and they’ll get fined, and the American media will rise up and march on the terrorists, demanding revenge.

It’ll happen, I swear.