10,000 Shiites Protest in Nasiriyah, seek Resignation of Provincial Council Az-Zaman newspaper reports that Muqtada al-Sadr’s organization staged a demonstration of 10,000 in the southern […]

Pachachi Envisages Triumvirate as Iraqi Executive AFP/al-Zaman report that Adnan Pachachi, the octogenarian interim president of the Iraqi Governing Council, envisages that the new transitional […]

Hutton Inquiry Whitewashes Blair Government’s Exaggerations Seumas Milne of the Guardian argues that the report by Lord Hutton on the David Kelly affair is biased […]

Bomb at Baghdad Hotel kills 3; In other attacks, 6 US Troops Killed, 2 CNN Employees, 4 Iraqi Policemen; 6 US troops Wounded There was […]

Informed Comment up for Koufax Award 2003 Koufax Award Finalists Best Expert Blog has been announced, with this column as a finalist. Thanks so much […]

Humanitarian Grounds for Iraq War? Re: Human Rights Watch Executive Director Ken Roth, “War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention“, 26 January 2004, Keynote essay […]

Sachedina Interview by Cobban: Sistani is Trying to Bring in the UN Helena Cobban’s interview with Shiite thinker Abdulaziz Sachedina of the University of Virginia […]

Bush: Saddam posed grave threat to US Bush maintains that despite the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Saddam Hussein posed “a […]

Breaking News: Kerry Wins New Hampshire Caught Kerry’s victory speech on CNN. With 73% of precincts reporting, he still has 38% of the vote, a […]