The same day Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry argued for the need to import prescription drugs, the acting FDA commissioner (appointed by the Bush administration, who is against importation) vaguely warned that imported prescription drugs are a terror...
I'll update this post throughout the day. The US is bombing Al Sadr's house and has sealed off the southern entrance to the Imam Ali shrine and blocked all roads leading to the shrine. US tanks occupy downtown Najaf. The deputy governor in Najaf has resigned in...
In a NY Times article titled "U.S. Forces, Close to Attack in Najaf, Suddenly Pull Back", we are told:The delay came after a day of intense preparation for the attack, with a convoy of tanks and armored vehicles leaving its base. Officers declined to discuss why they...
Al Jazeera reports that some Iraqi southern governorates will break away from the central government in Baghdad. Apparently this is why the southern Iraqi oil fields are no longer pumping oil to the southern terminal.Ali Hamud al-Musawi, head of the Misan governorate...
Apparently, the US is going to go Fallujah on Najaf. U.S. forces urge civilians to leave NajafNAJAF, Iraq American forces urged civilians to evacuate the combat zone in Najaf on Tuesday, the sixth day of clashes with Shiite militias that have restricted output from...
"Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. It's...you're...you're a...you've been given sovereignty...... (mp3)Listen to journalists break out in laughter as Bush tries to explain what "sovereignty" is. (Links via Daily Kos and Majority...
Juan Cole, discussing the arrest warrant out for Ahmed Chalabi asks, "He was charged with counterfeiting old Iraqi dinars (why not counterfeit new dinars if you were going to counterfeit?) and money-laundering." Chalabi counterfeited Iraqi dinars and exchanged them...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) _ A judge says Iraq has issued an arrest warrant for Ahmad Chalabi (AHK'-mahd SHAH'-lah-bee), a former governing council member, on money laundering charges.And Iraq's chief investigating judge says a warrant has been issued for Salem Chalabi...
Insurgents show off a part taken from a U.S. Army OH-58 helicopter that made an emergency landing north of Baghdad on Sunday. By Mohammed Uraibi, AP AP reports:A U.S. Army OH-58 helicopter made an emergency landing in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, the military said....
Zbigniew Brzezinski points to two Bush administration "blunders" which have "precipitate[d] the increasingly intense hatred for the US, not only in the Middle East but in the Islamic world at large." In both instances, it "adopted a stance that was not only unilateral...
