Postings Postings may sometimes be irregular this week, since I’m at a conference.

Thousands of Fallujans Demonstrate Ash-Sharq al-Awsat Thousands of Fallujans demonstrated on Saturday in front of the main entrance to the largely abandoned city. They demanded […]

Guerrillas kill 32 Car Bomb Kills 19, Wounds 6 AFP reports that guerillas killed 32 persons in Iraq on Saturday. The most spectacular act of […]

The End of War? A highly informed reader with practical Iraq experience wrote me the following, reponding to my statement on New Year’s day, “Now […]

Happy New Year May 2005 bring us all more peace, good will, prosperity, and spiritual fulfilment than did 2004. Maybe it will be the year […]

Split among Shiites on Elections 9 Iraqis Killed in Bombings, Shootings A suicide bomber killed 7 persons at Siniyah near Baiji, five of them national […]

Bush Responds to Criticism on Tsunami The Bush administration scrambled to repair the diplomatic damage done by the relative insouciance with which it had confronted […]

Tsunami toll rises above 125,000 On very early Friday morning, Reuters was reporting that the death toll in Sunday’s tsunami had now climbed to 125,000. […]

Death and Death Threats in Iraq Some 15 Iraqis were killed in various violent incidents on Thursday, and two Lebanese businessmen were kidnapped. Dawn reports: […]