Sunnis will boycott drafting of constitution: The Muslim Scholars Association, the most influential Sunni religious group in Iraq, refused Wednesday to participate in drafting the country's permanent constitution, a prior task for the National Assembly (NA) elected...
There's nothing amusing about this news itself: Rebels kill 12 Iraqi soldiers Iraq oil pipeline suffers new sabotage Three killed in Iraq insurgent attacks But what is interesting is that the reporters seem at a loss, after months of leading every story about violence...
In a commentary for Wall Street Journal yesterday (February 1, 2005; Page A12), pretentiously titled “Set Kosovo Free,” none other than the real Butcher of Belgrade, ex-General Wesley Clark, stumped for the latest outrage by his employer, the International Crisis...
Before I have my hands crushed by the keyboard KGB, allow me to congratulate the Iraqi Communist Party and its fellow travelers in the West. Christopher Hitchens, one of those Marxist dinosaurs who really should be sent to Cuba while there's still time to observe him...
From MG at Norwegianity: Stick your purple finger up in the air, wave it around like you just don’t care, Chalabi’s back in, that’s in the bag, That’s how you do the neocon ragCatchy, isn't it? And, so very timely, too.
Bruce R who runs, as Henley says, "...your go-to site for questions about SAM strike authenticity," on Sunday's RAF Herc crash:I can see only two realistic possibilities for why this plane crashed: mechanical failure unrelated to terrorists (something big, too, like a...
Tom Knapp quotes Tim Cavanaugh:The real surprise is how even the war skeptics seem to have no counternarrative to put up against the story of a Miracle In Mosul. We don't need a counternarrative. We've been right all along. We just get caught flat-footed everytime the...
An Islamic Web site shows a picture of what appears to be an American soldier in desert fatigues, with his hands tied and a gun pointed at his head. A statement on the site threatens to behead the soldier in 72 hours unless Americans release Iraqi prisoners. The...
UPI reports:Military experts have said the plane was too high -- at 15,000 feet -- to be reached by [an anti-tank missile], the Sun newspaper reported Tuesday. A senior ministry source told the paper: "It is clear the C-130 exploded in midair and shattered into...
It turns out that people think conflicts of interest don't much matter. "If you disclose a conflict of interest, people in general don't know how to use that information," George Loewenstein, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon, says. "And, to the extent that...
