US soldiers describe the looting of Al Qaqaa, which they were powerless to stop:In the weeks after the fall of Baghdad, Iraqi looters loaded powerful explosives into pickup trucks and drove the material away from the Al Qaqaa ammunition site, according to a group of...
Three Scottish Black Watch soldiers and a translator have been killed by a suicide bomber at a checkpoint while 8 others were wounded in the subsequent mortar attack. "Soldiers manning a vehicle checkpoint were targeted by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device...
In response to Brad Biggers' letter, Sandra writes:In fact, the Al-Jazeera transcript of the entire (18 minute) speech is incorrect and wrongly omits the word "not" from the following sentence: "This is due to many factors, chief amongst them that we have (not) found...
find a kernel of corn every now and again. William F. Buckley on our War President:What exactly will President Bush do about the Iraqi mess? He has said over and over that a president must be prepared to make decisions, however difficult, and stick to them. But surely...
THREE mutilated bodies have been found under a suspension bridge in central Baghdad, an Iraqi interior ministry spokesman said yesterday. The river patrol police found the unidentified corpses on Tuesday beneath a bridge that leads across the Tigris river into the...
Brad Biggers writes:I wanted to point out the tremendous discrepancy between CNN's "transcript of [bin Laden's] remarks" and al-Jazeera's "full English transcript" of bin Laden's videotaped speech released last week, as reported on those networks' Web sites. The...
Today is that most holy day in the American statist pantheon, when millions of believers gather at makeshift temples and wait in lines to worship the State. (What, you didn't know I hated Democracy? After this? Come on!) Even though this election is being pitched as...
Sovereign Iraq's appointed, parliament-less "Prime Minister" says a military assault on Fallujah is still really, really close, closer than it was yesterday - imminent, even. Although the US persists in putting forth the farcical line that the great and powerful...
Warblogs, neocon outlets like NRO and Republican chatsites are going hysterical over a new and tailored for Republican warfloggers interpretation from MEMRI of Osama bin Laden's words from the most recent video. Rodger Payne does a quick lateral to Abu Aardvark, who...
