Knight Ridder reports:Sadoun Dulame read the results of his latest poll again and again. He added up percentages, highlighted sections and scribbled notes in the margins. No matter how he crunched the numbers, however, he found himself in the uncomfortable position...
Iraqi captors tougher: ex-hostage From correspondents in Macon, Mississippi May 10, 2004 THOMAS Hamill, who has returned to the US after escaping his abductors in Iraq, said his captors treated him more harshly after they saw pictures of US soldiers abusing Iraqi...
Seymour Hersh's new article in the New Yorker, Chain of Command, has been posted. An excerpt: One of the new photographs shows a young soldier, wearing a dark jacket over his uniform and smiling into the camera, in the corridor of the jail. In the background are two...
"If I could not be effective, I'd resign in a minute. I would not resign simply because people try to make a political issue of it."...Donald RumsfeldIn a war that could go on for decades, you cannot simply detain people indefinitely on the sole authority of the...
In this commentary, Jonathan Tasini notes strong antiwar sentiment appearing in an unlikely place: I experienced a Walter Cronkite moment last week that signaled to me that something is in the air about what people feel about the Iraq war. No, it didn't come from Ted...
Hidden under an obscure photo on Yahoo! News, one finds this interesting fact: An anonymous note slipped under a superior's door by a part-time soldier from Pennsylvania triggered the Iraq prison abuse scandal now engulfing the US military and administration.Any...
The folks down in Lynndie England's hometown are doing their best to defend her actions at the Abu Ghraib Prison. England is the woman shown in the CBS and Washington Post photos with the cigarette, giving the "thumbs-up" as she points to the genitals of a hooded...
A very good essay if you can stand to read it. Plan on being angry if you do. Excerpt: “Stop with the hindsight”, says one writer. “Be patient,” says another. Oh, no, let’s not stop with the hindsight. Not when so many remain so profoundly, dangerously,...
Riverbend, the Iraqi girl blogger, pretty much seems to sum up the feelings of most Iraqis at the moment about the occupation in this last paragraph of her blog entry posted for May 7th. ...I sometimes get emails asking me to propose solutions or make suggestions....
What happened to Sistani's "red line?"4/16/2004 - Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani the leading Shi'ite Muslim cleric in Iraq , has told the United States not to enter the holy city of Najaf in pursuit of Moqtada al-Sadr.Reports today place the American troops inside Najaf and...
