According to this article in Salon, here’s what the “peace deal” in Najaf looks like: On Friday morning, the number of armed men on the streets of Najaf did not seem to have diminished, and in places it seemed to have increased. And as of late Friday afternoon, Mahdi army volunteers were still streaming into [...]
What’s this game the UN’s Brahimi is playing with the Iraqi Puppet Council? Apparently the Council has “nominated” one of their own, Iyad Allawi, for PM and now reports are coming out that Brahimi “respects” their choice. Reuters has gone out and interviewed some random Iraqis who scoff at the Puppet Council and Allawi. “What [...]
This is a weird story. First, in an article by the Canadian Press mostly about the IGC Puppets “nominating” Iyad Allawi for Prime Minister of Iraq (who asked them what they thought, anyway?) we have a couple of grafs thrown in, separated by other reports on various events in Iraq: Meanwhile, U.S. soldiers escorting a [...]
Oh, so this is why the US has been stuffing everyone they can lay hands on in Iraq into prison. They really do want to teach the Iraqis how to be free, just like in America. Link swiped from Libertarian Jackass.
zeyad at Healing Iraq has a bitter comment about the American version of justice in Iraq. If you’ve never heard zeyad’s story about the death of his cousin at the hands of American soldiers, it is here. Instamonger calls this “misconduct,” but because zeyad is generally pro-invasion he generously allows that perhaps a reprimand is [...]
The only new idea in Duhbya’s latest speech is being rejected by the Iraqi Puppet Council as a “waste of resources.” “We must not be sentimental,” Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer told reporters. “As the Governing Council, we do not agree with demolishing it and the matter will be left for the transitional government,” which is [...]
