Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that hundreds of members of the Mahdi Army of Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr are rejecting his call for a long-term ceasefire with US troops and their transformation into a service organization. The militants say they cannot conceive of their mission in life as anything other than violently opposing the presence of US […]
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Palin Laughs at Cancer-Surviving Senator being called a "Cancer"; Green: Palin ‘Not Qualified to be Governor’
She could have insisted these male shock jocks be civil or defended another woman politician, Lyda Green, from being dismissed with an expletive. GOP VP pick Sarah Palin laughs at cancer surviving senator being called a “bitch” The Republican head of the Alaskan Senate, Green reacted this way to John McCain picking Palin as his […]
OSC: Qabbanji and Saghir: Kirkuk Crisis Endangers Shiite-Kurdish Alliance
The USG Open Source Center translates Iraqi sermons from Friday Roundup of Iraqi Friday Sermons 29 AugIraq — OSC SummarySaturday, August 30, 2008 Document Type: OSC Summary … On the “crisis of Kirkuk and Khanaqin,” [Sheikh Sadr al-Din] Al-Qabbanji says: “There is a crisis in Iraq now called the Kirkuk crisis. There are Arabs, Kurds, […]