Juan Cole asks, Did the Bush Administration Burn a Key al-Qaeda Double Agent? It appears that they did: ""Simon Cameron-Moore and Peter Graff of Reuters reveal the explosive information that the Bush administration blew the cover Monday of double agent Muhammad Naeem...
InstaHack posts pictures of a smoldering cathedral and desecrated Jewish graves in New Zealand and insinuates Helen Clark instigated the vandalism:Did Helen Clark establish the climate that makes this sort of thing more likely? And this story suggests that Helen...
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani is headed for London via Beirut. The Al-Khoei foundation, a Shiite institution based in London with which Sistani has close links, said that the cleric was expected to arrive at London's main Heathrow airport at 2:00 pm. "I've heard three...
On weekdays (at about 10am EST), the Department of Defense releases a pdf file with updated casualty information from Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the url changes on a daily basis, so linking to it is difficult. No longer. Check out "Daily DoD Casualty...
"With this legislation America's military will know that their country stands behind them as they fight for our freedom and as they spread the peace," Bush said.UPDATE:From Pro-War.com, another brain cramper: "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our...
"We will wage jihad and war against the foreign troops, not against police and Iraqi forces," said Sheikh Saad al-Basri, al-Sadr's representative in the largely Shi'ite city. [Basrah] "However, if Iraqi personnel fight on the side of the occupiers, we will strike them...
IRAQI LEADERS SNUBBED IN MEMPHIS First, they meet this nutcase:The Iraqi civic and community leaders are in the midst of a three-week American tour, sponsored by the State Department to learn more about the process of government. The trip also includes stops in...
The Angry Arab links to this NYTimes story on the hysterical and mendacious Annie Jacobsen. For a breakdown post on the story with links to credulous warbloggers as well as the original Jacobsen panic-fest, go here. From the NYTimes' Joe Sharkey:Did, as a passenger...
Dr. Massouda Jalal's quest to be Afghanistan's president sounds even more improbable than Sean Connery's in The Man Who Would Be King (a great movie). But her ideas are admirable, and she is an actual Afghani, not one remodeled in America. Imagine that: an Afghani who...
Last time we had a pledge drive at Antiwar.com, I somehow missed calling on my readers to contribute - but I think many did so nonetheless. This time, I'll make it official: help Antiwar.com stay afloat, and you can count on more Balkan Express coming your way. So for...
