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Pilgrimage Massacre Kills 138, Wounds 100s Major Mosul Jailbreak 9 US GIs were announced killed on Tuesday, 6 in a roadside bombing in Salahuddin Province north of Baghdad, and 3 more in Diyala to the northeast of the capital. Sunni Arab guerrillas on Tuesday targeted Shiite pilgrims on their way to the holy city of […]

Coalition Raids Police Intelligence Center; Al-Maliki Protests Raid as Illegal; 4.5 Million Malnourished Iraqi Kids British soldiers accompanied by Iraqi forces raided a National Intelligence Center in the southern city of Basra. They said they discovered evidence of torture and accused the police running it of being terrorists involved in setting roadside bombs targetting British […]

Allawi Maneuverings Continue; Al-Maliki to Shuffle Cabinet, Cut out Sadrists; Huge Bomb at Ramadi Kills 12, Wounds 22 Al-Hayat reports that Iyad Allawi, a secular ex-Baathist Shiite who leads the Iraqi National List (25 seats in parliament), visited Kurdistan on Saturday. He is attempting to convince the Kurdistan Alliance to join his new coalition in […]

Boles Guest Editorial: the Qaedization of Iraq Dr. David Boles writes: I am becoming alarmed that no one is highlighting what appears to be a new and quite bald propaganda push to “Al-Qaida”-ize Iraq. Within the last week we have seen the following claims: WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice […]

Bryer on Source of Mines Used in Iraq Philip Bryer writes:

Army Secretary Forced to Resign; Police Hostages Executed over Rape Charges Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey was forced to resign Friday over the scandal of substandard conditions at a wing of Walter Reed Hospital. Note that all the time Donald Rumsfeld was in office, and despite horrible errors, no one ever had to resign, […]

Violence in Iraqi Provinces Allawi withdrawal, Coup Rumors Sunni Arab guerrillas killed a Marine in al-Anbar Province on Thursday. Guerrillas in Falluja blew up a police wedding, killing 7 and wounding 10. Guerrillas in East Baghdad set off a bomb, targetting a minibus full of government employees, killing one person and wounding 4. Guerrillas in […]

US Military Exaggerated Deaths from Shiite Militias; EFPs used by Sunnis in Sunni Areas; No significant Drop in Casualties with Security Plan Sunni Arab guerrillas account for 90 percent of deadly attacks on US troops in Iraq, concludes Drew Brown of the McClatchy wire service. He shows, as well, that explosively formed projectiles were used […]