Archives for April 2007

Increase in Iraq Deaths Despite Surge 6 US GIs killed over weekend McCain Continues Magical Mystery Tour For all those journalists and politicians who keep insisting that there are new “glimmers” of “hope” in Iraq because of the new security plan started 6 weeks ago, here is a sobering statistic from the Iraqi government. (I’m […]

Justice Minister Resigns over Political Deadlock; Talabani: Success in Talks with Sunni Guerrillas Iraqi Justice Minister Hashem al-Shibli, has resigned. A Sunni, he represented the Iraqi National List of Iyad Allawi. The BBC suggests that one of his motives was the contradiction between his constitutional duty to oversee the upcoming referendum in Kirkuk Province concerning […]