Arthur Silber has a petition appeal from Barbara Boxer. As Arthur says:Just do it. It would be awfully nice finally to have someone in this administration held accountable for something, for God’s sake. And perhaps if Boxer has several hundred thousand signatures on...
I guess we're about to find out just how infiltrated the Iraqi police and military are:The run-up to Sunday's vote is pressing every available American service member into action in most of Iraq - assisting an Iraqi-ordered nationwide ban on traffic from Saturday to...
American Roy Hallums pleads for his life on a video released today.In the video, hostage Roy Hallums spoke slowly, rubbing his hands as he sat with the barrel of the rifle inches from his head. He said he had been arrested by a "resistance group" because...
Bill at thoughts on the eve of the apocalypse has a chock-full-of-information MegaPost where I found out that Riverbend's posts will be made into a book:In her riveting weblog, a remarkable young Iraqi woman gives a human face to war and occupation. In August 2003,...
Moqtada Al-Sadr, no slouch at political maneuvering, appears to have preserved several options for his response to the looming elections. Anthony Shadid, in the Washington Post, on the Sadrists' stance toward the Ayatollah Sistani:Sadr's men have stopped short of...
The warblog-O-sphere echo chamber is busy linking to itself in a self-referential circle-post over Jackie Spinner's Washington Post account of a pro-American Iraqi, humiliated by American troops in a home raid: On the night of Jan. 5, Imaad and his mother, Um...
Remember the scary Chinese terrorists that were going to blow up Boston?The FBI said a Chinese woman wanted in connection with an alleged terrorist plot against Boston has been in a U.S. Customs detention facility since November and doesn't appear to have terrorist...
Here's an interesting survey by the APME on the use of graphic photos, courtesy of Ryan at Dead Parrots Society. Here's Ryan's accompanying article: Readers, journalists struggle with same issues in publishing graphic photos. Another APME survey to talk about, about...
Zeyad at Healing Iraq has an interesting post on the elections. I'm not sure how right he is in his assessment, but then it's probably impossible for anyone to gather much information with the chaotic conditions prevalent right now in Iraq. Some interesting...
Iraqi election restrictions:Driving on the streets will be restricted, Al-Nakib said, to elections supervisors and other officials.And, Walking in and around the polling places will be restricted, Al-Nakib said.Does anyone see a problem here, or am I missing something?
