Massive Street Battle in Pakistan’s Capital Army versus Muslim Militants Dawn reports on the fierce fighting in the streets of Islamabad between radical fundamentalists and the army loyal to secular general Pervez Musharraf, which left 21 dead (including one soldier) and 150 injured. The government’s Interior Minister had recently warned of the spread of Taliban-type […]
Al Maliki Plans Overhaul Of His
Al-Maliki plans Overhaul of his Government 18 Dead in Bombing of Shiite Market Aljazeera Arabic is showing clips of a speech by PM Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq in which he is promising a radical set of changes in his government, so as to make it less ‘sectarian.’ Al-Sharq al-Awsat writing in Arabic says that the […]
Libby Was Small Fish Bush Really
Libby was the Small Fish Bush really Commuted the Sentences of Rove and Cheney George H. W. Bush called those who leak the names of CIA operatives “the most insidious of traitors.” In his son’s administration, CIA covert operative Valerie Plame’s name was leaked to the press to punish her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, […]
6 Us Soldiers Were Announced Killed On
US Air Raid on Diwaniya Allegedly Kills 10 Civilians 6 US Troops Killed Iran Denies US Charges of Covert Ops in Iraq 6 US soldiers were announced killed on Monday in Iraq. They were all killed in Sunni Arab areas. Militiamen in the southern Shiite city of Diwaniya, probably tied to the Mahdi Army, launched […]
Jordanian Iraqi Physicians Behind Uk
Jordanian & Iraqi Physicians behind UK Bombing A cell made up of 7 medical personnel from Jordan and Iraq appears to have been behind the attempted bombing at Picadilly Circus on Friday and the actual car bombing at the Glasgow airport this weekend. One is a neurologist, Muhammad Asha, from Jordan. Another is an Iraqi […]
Afghan Civilian Deaths_02
Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, called Sunday for a formal investigation into reports that a US/NATO air strike on Taliban positions in a village last Friday killed 45 civilians. Karzai and NATO have decried the Taliban tactic of hiding among civilian villagers, but the mounting death toll this year of Afghan civilians being killed in NATO […]
Al Maliki Calls For Provincial
Al-Maliki Calls for Provincial Elections MP Janabi defects to Guerrillas Sadrists Reject new Parliamentary bloc Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is calling for provincial elections to be held in Iraq by the fall of 2007. This step would be significant because Sunni Arabs boycotted the last round of provincial elections, in late January, 2005. As a […]
Ic Global Affairs Some Of Us Are
IC Global Affairs Some of us are launching a group blog, Informed Comment: Global Affairs. Iran expert Farideh Farhi weighs in today on the gasoline station protests in Iran and their real meaning. Many thanks to her for an incisive posting! The problem with keeping up a successful blog is that one has to do […]
Giuliani Laughs At Habeas Corpus Habeas
Giuliani Laughs at Habeas Corpus Habeas Corpus is the right of a prisoner to petition a court to release him on grounds of wrongful imprisonment. It is a constitutional right. The Bush administration has attempted to abolish it with regard to certain classes of prisoner. In the Republican presidential debate in May, Ron Paul argued […]
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