“The level of criminal operations has receded and is continuing to drop following the operation in Fallujah,” Comical Allawi said on the state-owned Iraqiya television, in response to questions from viewers.
“The cleansing in Fallujah of terrorist elements is continuing and we are preparing for the residents to return to their city,” he added.
Comical Allawi [...]
Check out Flit on Yushchenko’s skin problem. He quotes a dermatologist:
“Viktor Yushchenko probably has one of two possible medical conditions that would account for his rapid facial changes. The diseases are scleromyxedema or cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. He needs a skin biopsy. I cannot conceive how poisoning could cause these changes.”
–Howard Bargman, MD, associate professor [...]
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The 9/11 Commission Report, issued in July, recommends that the U.S. “should offer an example of moral leadership in the world, committed to treat people humanely, abide by the rule of law…” It notes that “it is a simple fact that American policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and American actions [...]
Some interesting information is coming out on the Palestinian elections in the wake of Marwan Barghouti withdrawing his bid for the PA presidency. Andrew Schamess has this intriguing bit:
On Thursday, Barghouti made a suprise announcement that he would run an independent campaign for President. This threw everybody into a tizzy until he called it [...]
Forget Iraq (for a moment, anyway) – what is going on in Ukraine?
Following the narrow victory (well, 3%, just like in the US election) of Viktor Yanukovich over challenger Viktor Yushchenko, the Yushchenko-ites have adorned themselves with bright orange garments and taken to mass street protests, challenging the legitimacy of the election and demanding a [...]
A report delivered by the Defense Science Board, an advisory committee to the US Defense Department, to the Office of the Secretary of Defense around the end of September has gotten very little media attention, maybe because, as Tom Shanker of the NYT writes,
A harshly critical report by a Pentagon advisory panel says [...]
MOSUL, IRAQ: An Iraqi man stands next to three unidentified bodies with a yellow note placed in the mouth of one of the bodies accusing them of being Kurdish peshmerga fighters, in Mosul, 370 kms north of Baghdad, 21 November 2004. (UJAHED MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images)
Well, the sun’s been down for 3 hours in Baghdad now, so [...]
Zarqawi aide arrested in Mosul! Really! Just because Iraqi Minister of State Qassim Dawoud was full of merde when he announced the capture of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, doesn’t mean he’s always wrong. Right?
Iraqi security adviser Kassim Daoud told a news conference Iraqi national guard soldiers had found a chemical laboratory in the [...]
David Frum complains about CAIR’s attempted suppression of his free speech. Maybe Frum would like to team up with Juan Cole to protest such tactics. Drop him a line and let’s see: dfrum@aei.org
Frum also writes the following:
Speaking of free societies: The faking of the election in Ukraine should remind Europeans that they face more serious [...]
Here are some interesting factoids gleaned from Iraq Pipeline Watch, a website run by the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security which bills itself as “the world’s only non-profit public educational organization focusing on energy security.”
In 2003, starting June 12, there were 37 attacks on Iraqi pipelines, oil installations, and oil personnel.
In 2004, [...]
The Israeli government appears so eager to facilitate the Palestinians’ election of a replacement for Arafat that they’re going to allow international election observers into Occupied Palestine. The IDF, however, will not withdraw, so I suppose the observers will be required to sign the Israeli “We have the right to kill you” visa.
Steve [...]
For anyone interested in the lawsuit threatened by MEMRI against Professor Juan Cole (Repressive MEMRI on AWC frontpage), there’s both a well-written comprehensive defense and a set of links to other blogs supporting Cole at Abu Aardvark’s place.
In short, if you do decide to take Professor Cole to court over the allegation that you [...]
