Benign Autocracy in Iraq is a Recipe for Disaster My entry in an email discussion of the proposal made by Ray Takeyh and Nikolas Gvosdev […]

US Soldier, Khalidiya Police Chief Killed Guerillas Monday killed a 1st Armored Division soldier in central Baghdad with rpg fire as he was patrolling. In […]

High Baathist official Held in Najaf Bombing Kareem Ghatheeth, a Baath Party “Security Director,” was captured recently in Najaf by Badr Corps militiament in a […]

New Private Television Company in Iraq It was announced Monday that IBC, a privately owned corporation in Iraqi hands, would launch the first privately owned […]

Turkmen Choose Leader Sami Shabak, a prominent member of the governing council of the Iraq Turkmen Front, angrily resigned Monday, accusing the party of being […]

Ayatollah Hussein al-Sadr Steven R. Weisman reports of the US Secretary of State in Baghdad, Colin Powell: “On Sunday evening he dined with the senior […]

US Troops: One Killed, Three Wounded Guerrillas killed one US paratrooper and wounded three others on Sunday near Falluja with a roadside bomb that blew […]

5 Members of Interim Governing Council Press for Power Ahmad Chalabi, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, and three other members of the American-appointed Interim Governing Council are […]

Constitutional Preparatory Report at end of September Fuad Masum, head of the Preparatory Committee for the Iraqi Constitution, announced Sunday that his committee’s report would […]