Iraq Petroleum Production Jumps Iraq is back to producing 1.5 million barrels a day, up from the 800,000 typical of August. With its present equipment, […]

Najaf Police Chief Dismissed for Corruption Haydar Mahdi Matar al-Miyali, the Governor of Najaf, announced Sunday that the city’s police chief, Husayn Yasin al-Juburi, had […]

Four US Soldiers Wounded Guerrillas fired a rocket propelled grenade at US troops in Mosul on Saturday, wounding three of them. Also, guerrillas near Falluja […]

The Case of the Missing Weapons of Mass Destruction Josh Marshall has an excellent piece today, Sunday, on how the British and US governments are […]

Baathist Resistance Fighters Highly Organized in Iraq The Baathist cells hitting American troops in and around Baquba are tightly knit, organized and take direction from […]

“Massacre” Condemned by Sunni Clerics in Falluja Angry crowds chanted anti-American slogans in the western city of Falluja (pop. 256,000) as the security police killed […]

al-Qaeda and Pakistani Intelligence It has long been clear that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (military intelligence) helped create the Taliban and almost certainly was involved in […]

Bush May be making Hurricanes Worse For all those on the U.S. East Coast inconvenienced or endangered by the hurricane season, you should be aware […]

Israeli Expulsion of Arafat would Violate Fourth Geneva Convention Someone asked me my stance on the Israeli War Cabinet’s decision to expel Palestinian leader Yasser […]