Fallujah Mosque shooting revelation

I really can't think of anything to say about this that I haven't said before.    The only thing I can point out is that apparently four unarmed, wounded people were executed rather than the one we saw on the tape. The U.S. military has cleared a Marine who...

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The Real Marla Ruzicka

Here's an antidote to the putrid stench emanating from Horowitzian insanity, for everyone who followed Matt's link.... Chris Albritton: "Getty photographer Chris Hondros, Marla Ruzicka and me in Baghdad last summer." Thanks, Chris. 

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Chalabi stuck with Curveball

Ahmad Chalabi, the newly ordained Minister of Iraqi Oil, takes time out of his busy pandering and grifting schedule to whine about an article written in last August's Columbia Journalism Review.  Apparently being associated with "Curveball" is too much,...

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Napalm, Death Squads and Life-saving Carrots

I haven't done this in some time, so here's a mini-blog tour: An interesting post on the use of napalm in Iraq by lenin. Added bonus: proof once again that Ann Clwyd is a pathetic tool of the state. Special Police Commandos militia=Death Squads? swopa thinks so....

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Read the unredacted Sgrena shooting report

This time it's the US military wielding the black marker in the Sgrena shooting report. Fortunately for fans of complete, unredacted reports, it's far less effective to black out text distributed on a PDF file than it is to black out faces of honor guard soldiers....

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Petty Pentagon vandalism an “outrage”

From the Washington Post:From a row of silhouetted hearses on a rain-drenched tarmac to a convoy of olive-green trucks each bearing a casket, hundreds of images of flag-draped coffins of American service members killed at war were released by the Pentagon this week in...

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Iraqi Parliament approves partial cabinet

Reports say that Iraq's Parliament has approved 27 actual ministers of less contentious ministries and approved "acting" ministers to the important and highly controversial ones. Oddly, (or not?) over a third of Iraqi MPs were not present for the vote according to the...

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Terror by blog

Wow. BBC reporter and weblogger Stuart Hughes is being blackmailed and threatened by a Romanian hacker who has hijacked his blog. Apparently, the guy took over Stuart's blog and demanded that he post about the Romanian journalists held hostage in Iraq. Daster again! I...

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Iraqi Parliament: Green Zone must be liberated

Give 'em a little sovereignty and they get all uppity:“I saw the whole thing and adding insult to injury was when Iraqi soldiers drew their rifles at brother Fatah as he was being mistreated by the Americans,” said Ali Yushaa an independent Shiite MP. Deputies took...

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