The End of War? A highly informed reader with practical Iraq experience wrote me the following, reponding to my statement on New Year’s day, “Now […]

Happy New Year May 2005 bring us all more peace, good will, prosperity, and spiritual fulfilment than did 2004. Maybe it will be the year […]

Split among Shiites on Elections 9 Iraqis Killed in Bombings, Shootings A suicide bomber killed 7 persons at Siniyah near Baiji, five of them national […]

Bush Responds to Criticism on Tsunami The Bush administration scrambled to repair the diplomatic damage done by the relative insouciance with which it had confronted […]

Tsunami toll rises above 125,000 On very early Friday morning, Reuters was reporting that the death toll in Sunday’s tsunami had now climbed to 125,000. […]

Death and Death Threats in Iraq Some 15 Iraqis were killed in various violent incidents on Thursday, and two Lebanese businessmen were kidnapped. Dawn reports: […]

Pipes Favors Concentration Camps That the Revisionist-Zionist extremist Daniel Pipes has fond visions of rounding up Muslim Americans and putting them in concentration camps isn’t […]

Platform of the United Iraqi Alliance The Iraqi newspaper “al-Adalah” published on Dec. 23 the platform of the United Iraqi Alliance, the mainly Shiite coalition […]

Christian-Muslim Violence in Egypt In upper Egypt, a Muslim young man is dead after clashes between Muslims and Christians in a village in Minya province. […]