Bremer Will seek Compromise with Sistani The Arabic press on Tuesday morning mostly reported that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani had been rebuffed by the Interim […]

International Law still Allows the US to hand Saddam over to Iraqis for trial Ma`d Fayyad of ash-Sharq al-Awsat filed a story on Tuesday in […]

Sistani Insists on General Elections After weeks of silence and rumors that he might back down on his demand that free and fair elections be […]

Mahmud Osman: We don’t want to Kurdify Kirkuk Kurdish politician and IGC member Mahmud Osman gave a long interview to the London daily ash-Sharq al-Awsat […]

Questions about Clark’s “Consistency” on Iraq and al-Qaeda Edward Wyatt of the New York Times paints Gen. Wesley Clark as “inconsistent” for saying in October, […]

What does it mean that Saddam is a P.O.W.? IGC Annoyed Just when you think you’ve got Rumsfeld figured out, he throws a spit ball […]

Bremer Opposes Kurdish Canton; Talabani insists on it In an interview with the London daily al-Hayat, US civil administrator of Iraq Paul Bremer has come […]

Situation in Basra David Patel kindly writes from Basra with more information about the situation there, some of it contradicting the report in ash-Sharq al-Awsat […]

Higher 2-day Casualty Totals I had written on Friday, “(More troops have been killed on a single day in the past, but 44 killed-and-wounded must […]