Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 2024 was a pivotal year for international humanitarian law. On the one hand, the International Court of Justice and the […]
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Karzai Defeats Obama 2-1
Afghanistan is already beginning to defeat Barack Obama. He came into office last year clearly hoping to find a way to move Hamid Karzai, the […]
Police: Shahzad has no Links to Taliban; Clinton Remarks Produce Firestorm in Pakistan
Pakistani authorities doing the hard police work in Karachi of attempting to trace the network of friends and contacts of attempted Times Square bomber Faisal […]
Follow IC at Twitter, Facebook
Facebook keeps promising to lift the 5000-friend limit, but has not done it. So my account over there is more or less full. Just to […]
Iraq Death Toll from Attacks rises to 119, Biggest since Start of Year
AP is reporting that the wave of bombings and attacks throughout Iraq on Monday is now estimated to have killed 119 persons. Although some analysts […]
Guerrilla War Continues: 31 Killed in Iraq Attacks; Allawi, Maliki to Meet
A series of coordinated attacks on checkpoints and a Shiite mosque on Monday in Iraq demonstrated that the guerrilla opposition to the US-imposed new order […]
Salisbury: Times Square Rorschach Test
Stephan Salisbury of the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of Mohamed’s Ghosts writes in a guest essay for Informed Comment: In the smoke roiling up from […]
Afghanistan: 57 Insurgent Attacks a Day; Taliban Vow Major Campaign; Karzai to Visit Washington
The guerrilla forces in Afghanistan had launched new attacks on NATO and Afghanistan National Army targets in the past few days, after weeks in which […]
Feds still Granting Environmental Waivers to Big Oil in Gulf after Spill
McClatchy gets the story: Since the BP oil leak began on April 20, the Federal government has granted 22 waivers to oil companies allowing them […]
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Niass & Shahzad
I received some snarky message after the Shahzad attempted bombing in Times Square, asking if I were still standing behind the idea of Islam as […]