al-Da`wa Party will act as Intermediary for Muqtada The Shiite al-Da`wa Party announced that it would attempt to negotiate a truce between radical young Shiite […]

Hilla Demonstrations Point to problems of Legitimacy Mariam Fam of AP notes that there has been a popular movement of protest against the American-appointed mayor […]

Gas and Electricity Shortages Return Glen Carey of USA Today reports that gasoline/ petrol and electricity shortages have returned to Baghdad, raising anxieties among Iraqis […]

Controversies about New Security Agency in Iraq In the 1980s, Saddam employed tens of thousands of persons in the Ministry of the Interior (analogous to […]

Stages of American Iraq, and Parallels I was on an Iraq panel at MIT on Friday with Ivo Daalder,, co-author of the just-published America Unbound: […]

IGC Considers New Elections and Democratic Trade Unions According to ash-Sharq al-Awsat, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim has revealed that the Interim Governing Council has still not […]

Bomb blast in Baghdad kills 1 US soldier, 4 Iraqis, wounds 16 Guerrillas set off a bomb in Baghdad as a US military convoy was […]

Muqtada threatens General Strike In his Friday sermon, young Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened to announce general strike if the US military did not release […]

Guerrillas fire Artillery Shells at Spanish in Diwaniyah The Spanish Plus Ultra squad has come under fire numerous times during the past week from guerrillas […]