Gone Fishin’ Just a warning to regular readers that for personal reasons I may find it difficult to post regularly the week of Jan. 19-25. […]

US and UN: Caught between Shiites and Sunnis Two parallel reports from Baghdad, one from Alissa Rubin of the LA Times and one from Hamza […]

Bomb Blast Rocks Shrine City of Karbala; 13 Injured AFP is reporting that guerrillas left a bomb in a package in the center of the […]

23 Killed (2 Americans), 130 Injured (including 6 Americans) in Baghdad Car Bombing AFP has raised the casualty count to as many as 23-25 killed […]

Benny Morris on the Arabs There is an interesting discussion going on over at H-Mideast-Politics about a recent interview given by Israeli “New Historian” Benny […]

Whistle-Blower on US Dirty Tricks at UN to be Tried in UK The Guardian reports that Britain’s Katherine Gunn may face two years in prison […]

3 US Soldiers Killed North of Baghdad Guerillas in the cane fields north of Baghdad detonated an enormous bomb on Saturday as a US military […]

Latest Tomgram on Chalmers and the US Military Tom Engelhardt’s Tomdispatch.com at the Nation Institute is always entertaining and insightful. For anyone interested in the […]

Cobban on CPA Laws and Transition to new Iraqi Government Veteran journalist and blogger Helena Cobban wrote in with further remarks on the issue of […]