OK, too much is happening, so I'm doing an Iraqi mayhem post. Moqtada al Sadr's militants have torched the headquarters of Iraq's South Oil Company on Thursday and set the company's warehouses and offices on fire. Rebels mortared the American "embassy" in Baghdad,...
Iraqi Olympic soccer player, Ahmed Manajid, angered by George Bush using the team in a (fatuous - read the article to see how stupid it is) campaign commercial said: "How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women?" Manajid told me. "He has...
Blustery threats are issuing from the Puppets who claim "Iraqi forces" are going to storm the Imam Ali shrine "within hours" and teach the Mahdi Army and Moqtada al Sadr a lesson. To prevent an imminent attack on his forces, who are holed up in the revered Imam Ali...
Reagan-era hawk Edward Luttwak calls for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in today's NYT. Sort of.[F]ew Americans are prepared to simply abandon Iraq. For one, they are rightly concerned that to do so would be a mortal blow to America's global credibility and encourage...
Whatever you think of Moqtada al Sadr, you have to admire the deft manueuvering that keeps everyone off-balance with the wrong foot forward. While practically all the news reports on this development claim some variation on the Mahdi Army surrenders/Sadr Agrees to...
War photographers have added much immediate, undeniable information to our understanding of the way wars are promulgated. Carl Mydans was one such dedicated soul. He died Monday. His are some of the most famous WWII photos, including McArthur in ’45, and many, many...
Virtually all long-time Libertarians in the Bay Area knew Mike -- I knew him for, good lord, almost 20 years, starting with working on the Russell Means' libertarian presidential campaign, of all things. What I loved about Mike was how endlessly enthusiastic he was:...
A crowd of unarmed volunteer human shields made up of Shi'ite Muslim followers of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al Sadr, chant anti-government slogans in the courtyard of Imam Ali's shrine in Najaf August 16, 2004. With his militants and human shields holed up inside...
My best friend for the past 26 years died this evening. He was 54 and finally gave up his long battle with leukemia. I saw him yesterday and he was in so much pain. I am glad that pain is gone, but very sad that Mike is gone.Some of you knew Mike. Without Mike, there...
FIVE people were killed when US forces carried out multiple bombing raids in the flashpoint Iraqi city of Fallujah, a doctor said today. "Five people were killed and six wounded," said the medic from Fallujah general hospital. "The Americans fired seven missiles."So...
