Extent of Saddam’s Atrocities? John Laughland questions UK PM Tony Blair’s assertion that Saddam put 300,000 Iraqis into mass graves. The figure 290,000 victims of […]

Two US Soldiers Killed On late Thursday, guerrillas fired a rocket propelled grenade at military vehicles near Kirkuk, killing a soldier from the 173rd Airborne […]

Sadrist Militia interferes with Burial Rites for Aqila al-Hashimi Aqila al-Hashimi, a Shiite member of the Interim Governing Council, was buried in Najaf on Friday […]

Judicial Board Constituted CPA head Paul Bremer signed an order creating an independent judicial council to oversee the Iraqi legal system. It will be supervised […]

Guerrillas wound 8 US Soldiers; Kill 8 Iraqis Guerrillas wounded 8 US soldiers on Thursday, leaving one in critical and two in serious condition. Two […]

Bombing Foiled in Najaf The shrine police in Najaf accosted two suspicious men carrying bags in that city in the middle of the night of […]

Aqila al-Hashimi Dies Interim Governing Council member Aqila al-Hashimi, a long-time official in the Iraqi foreign ministry, died of her wounds on Thursday. She had […]

Talabani’s Mosul HQ Attacked; Al-Qaeda Connection Gunmen sprayed machine gun fire at the party offices in Mosul of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan headed by […]

Edward Said Dies I am at a conference and cannot make a long entry today, but wanted to express my condolences to the family and […]