5 US Troops Die Sistani Blesses Jaafari Ibrahim Jaafari, the candidate for prime minister of the religious Shiite coalition, met Friday with Grand Ayatollah Sistani,who […]

30 Dead in Iraq Violence AP reports that the one-day total for war-related violence in Iraq, including the police station bombing in Tikrit reported here […]

Koufax Complete List I’ve gotten around to stealing code for the complete list of Koufax Award Winners at Wampum. Best Blog (Non-Sponsored): Daily Kos Best […]

Bomb Blasts in Tikrit, Haglaniyah, Mosul Produce Dozens of Casualties AP reports on violence in Iraq Tuesday: ‘ A car bomb exploded near police headquarters […]

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 […]