Were the Shiites Cheated? And What does Allawi Want? Al-Hayat has a long interview with an “informed Iraqi source” who is close to US officials […]

Show Trials and Phony Confessions Target Syria AP reports on a televised confession of someone who said he was a Syrian agent in Iraq in […]

Association of Muslim Scholars Denies Negotiations with US Gilbert Achcar kindly supplied the following translation: The following interesting excerpt from today’s (Feb 23) Al-Hayat (my […]

Iraq-Blogging Nick Turse at tomdispatch.com skewers Donald Rumsfeld’s various rhetorical strategies of evasion whenever he has been asked hard questions about Abu Ghraib, the situation […]

Germans Trust Putin More than Bush Frank Domoney kindly sends his translation of a Die Welt article that reports that over-all, the German public trusts […]

Koufax Awards The Koufax Awards have been announced. Many, many thanks to readers who voted mine the best “Expert Blog” and made my piece, “If […]

Free Mojtaba and Arash If Blogdex is any indication the campaign to free Mojtaba and Arash is going well. The Iranian government is not immune […]

Jaafari slams Hilary Stephen Farrell reports for the London Times that a minor tiff occurred last week between Senator Hilary Clinton and prime ministerial candidate […]

Chalabi is Prevailed upon to Withdraw It turns out that the other members of the United Iraqi Alliance prevailed on Ahmad Chalabi to drop his […]