3 Month Record For US Troops Killed Da’wa Terror Figure Member of Parliament More US troops were killed in the past 3 months in Iraq than in any comparable period since the war began. The kidnapping by guerrillas in Iraqi army uniforms of the second secretary of the Iranian embassy in Baghdad has raised tensions […]
Republican Senators Block Debate On
Republican Senators Block Debate on Iraq al-Hakim in Tehran seeks Regional Cooperation The Republican Party blocked a debate in the Senate over Iraq War policy. The Republicans not so long ago were trying to get rid of the consensus rules, filibuster and other techniques the minority has at its disposal. They are singing a different […]
Is Tokyo Going Wobbly On Iraq Shengetsu
Is Tokyo Going Wobbly on Iraq? The Shengetsu Newsletter follows: ‘ Newsletter No. 508 News-Analysis February 6, 2007 IS TOKYO “GOING WOBBLY” ON IRAQ? Just two weeks after Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma described the US invasion of Iraq “based on an assumption that weapons of mass destruction existed” in Iraq a mistake, comes a new […]
1000 Killed In Iraq In Past Week
1,000 Killed in Iraq in Past Week;Parliamentarians call for Expulsion of Arabs, Iranians The Reuters headline says it all: ‘Iraq: Children living without limbs lack support.’. Al-Hayat [Life] reports in Arabic that a tit for tat debate broke out in the Iraqi parliament on Sunday. Shiite delegates from the United Iraqi Alliance demanded the expulsion […]
Shamss Parody Of Bush Video Clip As
Shams’s Parody of Bush: Video Clip as Resistance When I hear Bush and Cheney keep talking about “getting the job done” in Iraq, the thing that most amazes me is that they don’t know they are laughingstocks in the region. It isn’t just that they are widely hated, or distrusted, or viewed as failures. It […]
Sunni Arab Guerrillas Massacre 155
Sunni Arab Guerrillas Massacre 155 Shiites, Wound 305 Sunni Guerrillas Kill 4 US GIs A Majority of Americans Wants Troops out within Year The US military announced on Saturday the killing of 4 more US GIs. A fifth died of a heart attack. Sunni Arab guerrillas drove a truck packed with a ton of explosives […]
Realists In Us Tone Down Iran
Realists in US Tone Down Iran Accusations; Baquba Dean Executed in Public Two US GIs were announced killed in al-Anbar Province on Friday. Police found 23 bodies in Baghdad. Iraqi authorities made several arrests, in the small southeastern Shiite city of Kut, of members of a messianic cult that attacked the holy city of Najaf […]
Internet Wars In Middle East And Iraq
Internet Wars in the Middle East and Iraq The London Pan-Arab daily, Al-Sharq al-Awsat [“The Middle East”] reports in Arabic that sectarian guerrilla groups and militias in Iraq have enlisted hackers to take their struggle into the internet. These jihadi hackers attempt to break into the sites of their rivals and deface them or steal […]
National Security Estimate Key
National Security Estimate Key findings of the Iraq National Security Estimate have been posted (pdf) at the Director of National Intelligence web site. Josh Marshall and colleagues have links to early comment and reaction. Important points from TPM commenters: *It is a civil war but in some ways it is worse than just civil war, […]
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