Operation "Lightning" has supposedly been launched and the first casualties have been a 3 Iraqi guards killed by an insurgent car bomb at the Iraqi Ministry of Oil on Palestine Street in Baghdad and a British soldier killed by a roadside bomb in the Sadrist stronghold...
John Cole is going on my blogroll for this series of posts. John Cole Rick Moran John Cole It's a treat to read such a well argued conservative criticism of the idiotic arguments by Malkin, Hewitt and Barber. I can't remember how I came across this, so if it was your...
Forced shaving of prisoners and tattooing. Where have we seen this before?
Only follow this link if you're one of the reality-based community. Otherwise, you'd best keep your illusions intact by sticking to the pure, unfiltered Chrenkoff version: Good electricity news from Iraq Via Jim Henley
Under the absurdly self-evident headline, "Many Iraqis See Sectarian Roots in New Killings" (duh) the NY Times, after relating how Hassan al-Nuaimi, an Iraqi Sunni cleric, was found dumped in an empty lot with a hole drilled in his head and both eyes gouged out,...
The Australian Daily Telegraph reports: Mock executions – in which a prisoner is made to believe his death is imminent – are expressly prohibited by the US army's interrogation policy. The details were described in documents sought by the American Civil Liberties...
If you ever wanted to hear a bunch of US Senators get told off, here's your chance.George Galloway: Your case for war was a pack of lies.MP3 courtesy of Crooks and Liars (they have a Realplayer video version if you prefer)Are the documents implicating Galloway...
The Telegraph is reporting that the RAF Hercules which crashed January 30, 2005 - the day of the Iraqi elections - was downed by an AA weapon.An interim Ministry of Defence report has ruled out almost everything apart from enemy fire and it was suggested that a...
All right, what's the deal with this weird rally? Glenn Reynolds is flogging it, so there's a clue. The other vector appears to be Horowitz. Hussein Ibish, pointing out the absurd list of "sponsors" (Like Free Republic's RighTalk, a dress shop in Arizona and a couple...
Martial at De Spectaculis looks skeptically at the idea that the Newsweek article about Koran-flushing is the cause of the riots in Afghanistan, pointing out that similar stories have been in circulation since 2003.
