Cole on Lehrer 1/16 Some readers have kindly asked me to let them know about these things in advance. I’ll be on Jim Lehrer’s show […]

US HQ in Kirkuk comes under Fire; Civilians killed by bomb near Tikrit al-Hayat: Guerrillas launched an RPG attack in Karbala, with no casualties reported. […]

30,000 Shiites march in Basra demanding Free and Fair Elections British troops estimated that 30,000 Shiites demonstrated in Basra on Thursday, with massive crowds beginning […]

One US Soldier Wounded, Several KBR Employees Killed, Samarra Guerrillas killed AP reported a flurry of attacks on US forces on late Tuesday into Wednesday, […]

Dean Calls Clark a “Republican.” As Wesley Clark increases his poll numbers despite not running in Iowa, Howard Dean has attacked his credentials as a […]

Kennedy’s attack on Bush Senator Ted Kennedy’s speech attacking Bush was a good summation of the liberal Democratic case against the administration. One allegation caught […]

Wave of Demonstrations against Abrogation of Civil Personal Status Law az-Zaman reports a “storm” of street protests again on Thursday against the Interim Governing Council’s […]

Sistani Plays the Tribal Card; Demonstration in Basra According to al-Hayat newspaper, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani held a meeting in Najaf at which he encouraged […]

Kidnappers have Private Prisons Patrick Cockburn reports from Iraq that the wave of kidnappings that began last summer has not subsided. Rather, it has become […]