Iraqi Election Results: Shiites Near Majority in Parliament Shiite clerical leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim narrowly avoided being assassinated as the election results were announced in […]

Iraq Minorities Among most Threatened Al-Hakim Warns on Sunni Arab Violence Iraqi minorities are among the more endangered in the world, according to Minority Rights […]

50 Dead in Wave of Violence Petroleum Industry, Electricity Generation Paralyzed The Washington Post reports that guerrillas killed 50 Iraqis on Wednesday. In Salahuddin, they […]

Guerrillas Kill 18 Sunnis offered only 6 Cabinet Posts The newly elected Iraqi government is planning to offer Iraqi Sunni Arabs only 6 cabinet posts. […]

Taliban Kamikazes Kill 26 A motorscooter suicide bomber in Spin Baldak and a car bomber in Qandahar killed 26 persons and wounded dozens in twin […]

Cheney will Ask Mubarak for Egyptian Troops for Iraq: al-Zaman Will Cairo counter Tehran? Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney will meet Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak […]

Only 1% of Dec. 15 Votes Thrown Out by Commission Iraq Results Unchanged by Investigation The rash of helicopter downings, with another Apache shot out […]

10 Things Martin Luther King Would have Done about Iraq Every year we honor Martin, and we hear again his stirring speech, “I have a […]

5,000 Protest in Karachi “That was worse than a crime; it was a mistake.” –Talleyrand on Napoleon’s execution of the Duc D’Enghien Dawn reports that […]