Middle East

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 […]

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 […]

Mika: Iraq is More Important Bravo Mika Brzezinski, the anchor who refused to read a story about the release from jail of socialite Paris Hilton as the lede on her MSNBC news program. Click in the middle of the video to play.

Sunni Bloc Pulls out of Government US Raids Sadr City, Kills 26 Talabani Slams Arab Neighbors Early Saturday morning, US forces raided into Shiite Sadr City, presumably challenging Mahdi Army commanders. They killed 26 in the course of the action. The Mahdi Army is loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who calls for a quick […]

Hacking Muqtada The USG Open Source Center reports on the hacking of the Sadr Movement’s website and its hijacking for anti-Shiite polemics. Cyberwar as part of the Iraq War is nothing new, as I noted in this column last February. The sectarian civil war in Iraq is being fought at every level, from poisoned watermelons […]

20 Decapitated Bodies Found; Turks Brand US Biggest Threat; Muqtada calls for a million Man march on Samarra AP says at least 60 persons died in political violence in Iraq on Thursday. It is being reported that twenty decapitated bodies were found in Salman Pak south of Baghdad, in another macabre instance of sectarian death […]

Death surge: Iraq Coalition Forces Completing their deadliest Quarter: Guest Editorial William Blanchard writes: In early April, 2006, the New York Times ran a front page article in the Sunday paper trumpeting declining casualty rates among the coalition troops in Iraq. March, 2006 had been an unusually quiet month, and the Times published a chart […]

Open Letter to the President February 19, 1998 Dear Mr. President, Many of us were involved in organizing the Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf in 1990 to support President Bush’s policy of expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. Seven years later, Saddam Hussein is still in power in Baghdad. And despite his defeat […]

Baya` Bombing kills 2 Dozen 3 British troops killed at Basra Congressional Study slams Iraqi security agencies A massive bomb in the Shiite Baya’ district of Baghdad killed 25, wounded 40, and destroyed 40 cars on Thursday morning. In the southern port of Basra, guerrillas used a roadside bomb to kill 3 British soldiers and […]