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 […]

Iraqi Women Broadcasters versus the Ayatollahs Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported on Dec. 3 that officials of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq […]

Police Station attack in Ramadi wounds 6; US vehicle blown up in Baghdad Guerrillas attacked a police station in the western (Sunni Arab) town of […]

Census Plan bypasses IGC The Iraqi Census Bureau made up a plan that would have allowed a census to be completed by September 1, but […]

Revived al-Jihad al-Islami in Egypt Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports that Egypt has arrested 27 members of a new splinter group from al-Jihad al-Islami, the militant Islamist […]

Israeli Intelligence Failures Contributed to Iraq War Fever Respected Israeli security thinker Shlomo Brom argues in the current Strategic Assessment that Mossad fell down on […]

Larry Kaplow of the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that clerical followers of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani are beginning to threaten direct political action if his […]

US Soldier Killed in Samarra Guerrillas used a roadside bomb to attack a 4th Infantry Division convoy in Samarra’, killing one US soldier on Monday.