George B. Lambrakis was a State Department Foreign Service officer from 1957 to 1985, after two years with USIS in Vietnam and Laos. He served […]
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Three Us Soldiers Wounded In Habaniyah
Three US Soldiers Wounded in Habaniyah Saturday AP reports . . . U.S. soldiers were wounded after opening fire on a truck packed with explosives […]
7 British Soldiers Wounded In Battle
7 British Soldiers wounded in Battle with Badr, Demonstrators in Amarah Ash-Sharq al-Awsat: The police chief in the province of Maysan announced yesterday that two […]
Shuttle Diplomacy In Najaf Efforts
Shuttle Diplomacy in Najaf Efforts continued Saturday to iron out differences on the Interim Governing Council about two provisions of the Basic Law, says ash-Sharq […]
All Dressed Up With No Place To Go
All Dressed up with No Place to Go: Setback for Basic Law az-Zaman: On Friday, five Shiite members of the Interim Governing Council suddenly pulled […]
Zarqawi Dossier I Have Begun Putting
Zarqawi Dossier I have begun putting together a dossier on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (a.k.a. Ahmad Fadil Nazzal Al-Khalayleh). It will include US government documents in […]
Sistani Fatwa No Entering Iraq
Sistani Fatwa: No Entering Iraq Illegally Informed that thousands of Iranian pilgrims came into Iraq every day, by-passing the official checkpoints, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sitani […]
Major Censorship Action Alert For
Major Censorship Action Alert for Middle East Studies Some of you know that some unsavory political forces have convinced the House of Representatives to create […]
Us Soldier Wounded 9 Iraqis Killed Afp
US Soldier Wounded, 9 Iraqis Killed AFP reports that a US soldier was injured and nine Iraqis were killed Thursday in separate attacks throughout the […]
Knight Ridder Questions Saddam Al Qaeda
Knight-Ridder Questions Saddam-al-Qaeda Links Warren Strobel et al. of Knight Ridder have looked at the case for Saddam-al-Qaeda links and found them lacking. 1. Although […]