Israeli agents in Kurdistan I first saw this report on a rather unreliable Bulgarian site, but Ha'aretz is now running it, so I'll just post it as an FYI:WASHINGTON - Israel operates hundreds of agents in the Kurdish areas in northern Iraq, according to a report...
When are the Americans going to stop acting on their bad intelligence? Just as their garbage intelligence led them to bomb a wedding party in their last foray against imaginary "foreign fighters", so have they now killed over 20 Iraqis by dropping huge bombs on a...
Dahr Jamail's excellent reports from Iraq have graced Antiwar.com over the past few months. They come to us courtesy of The New Standard. Dahr's editor, Brian Dominick, is announcing a new feature: "Ask Dahr." He is asking readers to send email to Dahr, who will do...
In an immediate response to 9/11, Robert Fisk noted "the utter, indescribable evil of what has happened in the United States," but he also warned that "[T]his is not really the war of democracy versus terror that the world will be asked to believe in the coming days....
Via Media Matters (via pontificator at Kos and Brad DeLong) From the June 17 broadcast of The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly: O'REILLY: Because look ... when 2 percent of the population feels that you're doing them a favor, just forget it, you're not going to win....
Josh Marshall is on vacation for a few days, but he leaves us with this tantalizing claim:I’m going to be taking a breather from TPM for a few days. I’ll be away tucked away on some island somewhere far, far away. If something truly earth-shattering happens I may pop...
US appointed Iraqi "Foreign Minister" Falah Hassan al-Naqib says he will impose "martial law" in response to ongoing violence, particularly the horrific series of car bombings, 20 in the past month alone, if he feels it necessary. The question would be, what sort of...
Paul Johnson beheaded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Warning: Graphic
Dec. 2001:Although Bush administration officials have openly discussed the possibility that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein may be the next target in the war on terrorism, Putin said he has seen no evidence that Iraq finances terrorists.Seven months ago:"We are do not...
Vlad Putin announced today that Russian intelligence told Bush before the war that Iraq was going to attack the U.S. Why hasn't Dubya shared this with us before? It sure would have bolstered his thin case for invading and saved him a lot of trouble in the time since....
