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 […]
Glasgow Attacked British Police Have
Glasgow attacked British police have arrested more suspects in the car-bombing of the Glasgow airport. Recent reports I hear at CNN suggest to me that suicide was more central to this Glasgow operation than usual in such attacks. The perpetrators are said to have doused themselves with gasoline. This was not in fact like Iraq, […]
Maliki Condemns Us Raid On Sadr City 77
Maliki Condemns US Raid on Sadr City 77% of Americans Say Iraq War going Badly 77% of Americans say that the Iraq War is going badly, and 66% say we should get the troops out, in a recent CBS news poll. It shows a dramatic 7% rise since last April in the proportion who want […]
Iran Welcomes President Talebani
Talabani and Ahmadinejad Buddy Around This video of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani visiting Tehran last week and hanging around gleefully with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad raises many questions: Didn’t Bush say to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, “We’re proud to call you, friend, Mr. President, and proud to have you as an ally in the war […]
Glasgow Airport Incident Apparent Car
Glasgow Airport Incident Apparent car bombing attack at Glasgow Airport. The two drivers appear to have been arrested. The eyewitness description suggests rank amateurs with no training. They didn’t actually get close enough to do much damage, and their behavior suggests that something went very wrong– what with one of them on fire and trying […]
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