US Embassy Document A kind reader typed up and corrected some typos in the US Embassy document [pdf] published by the Washington Post on Sunday. […]

Bush’s Abuse of History Snow’s Battle of Bilge The president of the United States is in some ways the nation’s leading public historian. More people […]

25 Dead in Violence US Tightens Checkpoints at Ramadi Al-Hayat says that civil war violence [Ar.] killed 25 in Iraq on Sunday. Iraqi police found […]

Iraqi Military Experts Discuss Iraqi Army, Intelligence From the USG Open Source Center, a translation of a transcript of a disccussion in Arabic by Iraqi […]

Iraq Press Highlights for 18 June Translated by the USG Open Source Center– my selection of a few telling items: Highlights: Iraqi Press 18 Jun […]

40 Killed, 90 Wounded in String of Bombings Al-Hakim Pushes for US-Iran Talks Bombings and other civil war violence took the lives of some 43 […]

15 Dead in Shiite Mosque Bombing Diwaniyah Street Fighting This wire service says that some 40 died in guerrilla violence in Iraq these past few […]

Zarqawi sought US-Iran War Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was hoping to provoke a US-Iran war as a way of bogging the Americans down further and defeating […]

Over 2500 US Troops Dead in Iraq 18,490 Wounded Time to Leave? AFP reports that the Iraqi Civil War claimed at least 27 lives on […]