Juan Cole mentions the killing of Steven Vincent, an American journalist who had been blogging and reporting from Basra. Basra. Cole remarks, "I would not have expected him to be killed in Basra, which is generally safer than Baghdad." I would have expected the...
This guy is a big pro-war blogger and a vocal advocate of "spreading democracy and freedom" to Iraq. Search me : I say it's a good thing that New York police will start random bag searches on the subways. Oh, I know it will be inconvenient when I'm late for a meeting...
Suburban Guerilla catches an interesting angle in a Guardian article:Leaking the identity of an undercover agent is a serious crime under US law, but prosecutors would have to prove that the leaker was aware of the agent’s covert status. However, the investigation,...
Daniel McAdams on what Congress did while you weren't paying attention yesterday. But what use is the application of the Lenin and Trotsky perfected techniques of the coup d'etat without the stabilization shock troops on the ground to consolidate the gains? Lebanon's...
Here are a couple of must read posts by Billmon on the Bush speech in front of a captive military audience last night:Last night, by contrast, seemed about as enjoyable as a root canal for all parties concerned. When the only way you can get a hand from a handpicked...
According to Arianna Huffington, this story is a load of BS. The anticlimactic ending seems to be that Cheney left the hospital under his own power after an angina attack, though it's amusing to note that the White House appears to consider this episode is worth...
The US military is admitting to "casualties" after a car bomb attack on a Marine convoy in the "safest city in Iraq." Xinhua is claiming to have spoken to an eyewitness:An overnight roadside bomb blast struck a US military patrol in Iraq's western city of Fallujah,...
As AntiWar.com's Justin Raimondo asked, "A nation at war with itself -- who will win that one?"A U-S Army staff sergeant has been charged with killing his two commanders last week at a base outside Baghdad. The military says it's believed to be the first case of an...
Does this mean American private contractors have joined the Iraqi insurgents, or what?Sixteen private American security guards are under investigation for shooting at U.S. Marines and Iraqi civilians during a three-hour spree west of Baghdad, the military said...
FT has come up with some military recruitment numbers that are more specific than ones I've seen before:By the end of April the army had attracted only 35,926 soldiers towards its goal of 80,000 for the year ending in October. Figures for reserves were even worse:...
