Constitution-Drafting Subcommittee Excludes Sunnis Chalabi to be Pardoned Hamza Hendawi reports that the new government will attempt to use high Sunni officials such as Defense […]

Al-Qaeda on Trial in Yemen Planned Attacks on Americans Reuters reports on the ongoing trial of 8 alleged al-Qaeda members in Yemen. In a dramatic […]

US Releases Enemy Casualty Estimate of 100 The US military is conducting a major operation around Ubaidi, near Qaim on the border with Syria. The […]

Bomb found at Sistani’s Home Shiite Tensions Rise over Killings AP writes, At least four car bombs exploded in Baghdad on Monday, Iraqi police and […]

Al-Qaeda in Kuwait A Kuwaiti court sentenced 25 radical Muslim fundamentalists for plotting to go to Iraq to fight US troops, or to fund the […]

The Price of Failure in Iraq Bob Dreyfuss writes in Rolling Stone: If it comes to civil war, the disintegration of Iraq will be extremely […]

8 US Servicemen Killed Over Weekend The NYT reports that guerrillas killed 8 US servicemen in separate incidents over the weekend. On Sunday, bombings in […]

Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven I saw Kingdom of Heaven Sunday. The film has many virtues, with its attention to costume and scene. I could […]

Mistaken Identity? Christina Lamb and Mohammad Shehzad in Islamabad suggest in the London Times that Abu al-Faraj al-Libi, arrested recently in Pakistan, is being confused […]