Frontline ran a very detailed story of how secretary of defense Rumsfeld and his jack-booted Gestapo lackey General Geoffrey Miller "Gitmoized" the interrogations of detainees in Iraq. Their website has great backround, such as "Examining the Paper Trail", video of...
Who won the elections in Afghanistan last month? A) Jeffersonian democrats B) Drug Smugglers C) Warlords D) B and C Answer
In a post called "Collateral Damage," Roger L. Simon writes "When you read reports like this, you gasp, even though you know they may be exaggerated or even pure propaganda. But then when you read this, your mind focuses again on the greater reality." Yes, the fact...
Iraqi election officials said today that they were investigating what they described as "unusually high" vote totals in 12 Shiite and Kurdish provinces, where as many 99 percent of the voters were reported to have cast ballots in favor of Iraq's new constitution,...
There must be some reason why Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald's office made this announcement now. That sound you don't hear is Washington, D.C. holding its collective breath ....
As you may already know, Saddam Hussein is being tried for the 1982 massacre of 143 people in Shi'ite Dujail after a failed assassination attempt -- not for much larger crimes committed during the Iran-Iraq war (including against Kurdish civilians at Halabja) or...
The consensus today seems to be that, "In the crucial central provinces with mixed ethnic and religious populations, enough Shiites and Kurds voted to stymie the Sunni bid to reject the constitution." According to the AP report, The Sunni ''no'' campaign appeared to...
UPDATE: AP REPORTING: The names of each province is followed by its capital in parentheses. No information was available from Baghdad province; the southern province of Babil; the northern Kurdish provinces of Dahuk, Suleimaniyah and Irbil; and the central province of...
Finally - the New York Times on the New York Times and Judy. Including such gems as, Ms. Miller's article on the hunt for missing weapons was published on July 20, 2003. It acknowledged that the hunt could turn out to be fruitless but focused largely on the obstacles...
UPDATE: Michael Georgy of Reuters interviews Sunnis in Iraq and says, Sunni stronghold says firm 'No' to charter ****************** Some results starting to trickle in. These are from Aljazeera: At the Sajdat voting centre in Najaf province, the director said that of...
