California and Florida: Polls and Demographics work against Bush Has W. morphed from Neo to Smith? Ron Fournier of the Associated Press has a fascinating […]

Riot at Imam Ali Shrine; Clashes in Sadr City al-Hayat and ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Sadr City: A Sadrist spokesman said late Friday that one Mahdi Army […]

Samarra’i calls for Military Resistance Sunni preacher Shaikh Ahmad al-Samarra’i accused Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of being an American agent in his sermon on Friday. […]

Iraqis working for the US Live in Fear AFP continues its excellent tradition of covering Iraq from the ground up(in this case the eastern city […]

Did Prohibiting Local Elections Derail Iraq? Professor Roger Myerson of the University of Chicago earlier authored a prescient paper, ,”How to Build Democracy in Iraq.” […]

Mahdi Army Takes Police Station in Najaf Fighting continued in Najaf on Thursday, though US troops stayed out of it and let the Najaf police […]

Chirac Politely takes on Bush AFP reports that on a number of occasions French president Jacques Chirac exhibited independence from the Bush agenda. He wore […]

Violence in Iraq Insurgents killed 12 Iraqi soldiers of the Fallujah Brigade in Fallujah on Wednesday. This is the first time that insurgents targeted the […]

Kurdish Anger Rising Update: Although the New York Times alleged Thursday morning that Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had tried to defuse the crisis with the […]