Muqtada: The Only Real Solution is Immediate US Withdrawal John Daniszewski of the LA Times has an interview with Muqtada al-Sadr about the new plans […]

Why Breaking up Iraq is a Very, Very Bad Idea Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council for Foreign Affairs and a former NYT […]

How We Denied Democracy to the Middle East Robert Fisk’s essay, “How we denied democracy to the ME,” coming in response to Bush’s new policy […]

Nightline on Iraq 11-24 Those of you in North America who can stay up late may want to watch Nightline tonight. It is on the […]

Shaping the Iraqi Electorate The election now envisaged by the Americans in Iraq this spring will not be a democratic, one person one vote, affair. […]

Iraqizing Security Al-Hayat reports that the US is pressuring the Interim Governing Council to speed up the transfer of responsibility for security to the Iraqi […]

US arrests Newspaper Editor The US forces in Mosul have arrested Dhunun Yunis, the editor in chief of a local weekly newspaper, on charges of […]

3 Turks, 307 other Foreign Fighters in Custody The Kurdish militias say they have arrested three Turks, with Turkish passports and cellphones, whom they believe […]

Civilian Flights in and out of Baghdad Airport Halted As a result of the missile attack on the DHL plane this weekend, Coalition authorities have […]