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Heavy Fighting In Sadr City Fallujah
Heavy Fighting in Sadr City, Fallujah US Military Deaths Pass 1000 Jeff Gray of The Toronto Globe and Mail reports The U.S. military death toll […]
Cheney Halliburton And Iraq Purloined
Cheney, Halliburton and Iraq: The Purloined Letter Why was Dick Cheney so eager to invade Iraq? Why did he repeatedly link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda […]
Sistani Holds Political Meetings In
Sistani Holds Political Meetings in Najaf Guerrilla War Continues in Mosul, Baghdad, Kirkuk Hundreds of residents of Najaf mounted a demonstration on Monday, for the […]
Aipac Spy Case Involves Intelligence
AIPAC Spy Case involves Intelligence on Iranian WMD James Gordon Meek reports that both FBI investigations of leaks from the Pentagon concern in part secret […]
Bombing Near Fallujah Clashes In Najaf
Bombing Near Fallujah, Clashes in Najaf The Iraqi Guerrilla War of 2003-2004 continued apace on Sunday and Monday. Guerrillas detonated an enormous car bomb near […]
Fighting In Tal Afar Latifiyah 1100 Us
Fighting in Tal Afar, Latifiyah1100 US Troops Wounded in August Heavy fighting raged in the northern city of Tal Afar, which lies west of Mosul, […]
National Council Elects 4 Vice
National Council Elects 4 Vice-Chairmen AP reports, ‘ In Baghdad, mortar rounds landed near a convention center where members of Iraq’s 100-member transitional assembly, known […]
Iraqi Government Extends Ban On Al
Iraqi Government Extends Ban on al-Jazeerah The caretaker Allawi government extended its ban on al-Jazeerah on Saturday. Al-Jazeerah itself reported that the government charged it […]
Najaf Aftermath As Viewed By Iraqis
Najaf: The Aftermath as Viewed by Iraqis Abbas Kadhim evaluates “Sistan’s triumph” at al-Ahram Weekly. He writes: The real winner at the end of the […]