There are approximately 3 million Kurds living in Iraq. 1.7 million of them have signed a petition requesting independence, which was handed to the UN Wednesday, December 22. A Referendum Movement in Kurdistan spokesman says a delegation from their organisation has...
Yesterday the Israelis adopted measures to "facilitate" the Palestinian elections. One might wonder how arresting Mustafa Barghouti fits the Israeli definition of election facilitation. Maybe they mean that they're facilitating the election of a specific candidate? At...
BBC reports: BBC News spoke to Dr Saleh Hussein Isawi, the acting director of the Falluja general hospital, who accompanied some of the refugees into the city.I was there, inside the city - about 60% to 70% of the homes and buildings are completely crushed and...
Ansar Al-Sunna has posted a video of the attack on the US base FOB Marez in Mosul. Astonishingly, they filmed the actual explosion, then drove around the base in order to get a good shot of the gaping hole in the tent. They introduce the tape with a segment in which...
Wow, they're really trying to get rid of Rumsfeld: Rumsfeld in Mosul to Spread Christmas Cheer
Ansar al-Sunna taunts the US:"First they said it was a mortar or rockets, then they said it was a suicide operation with local materials, and so on," the statement on Ansar al-Sunna's website said. "Are they really this stupid, that they still don't know how they've...
More information is surfacing about the Mosul suicide bomber:"I am concerned about ... copycat attacks," said Brigadier General Carter Ham, the U.S. commander in Mosul where the bomber killed 18 Americans and three Iraqi National Guards on Tuesday in a pre-Christmas...
If it is true, as now seems likely, that a suicide bomber is behind the carnage at the US base in Mosul yesterday, the fact that the troops were eating in a tent rather than a hardened facility may have actually saved lives, since the force of the explosion escaped...
An interesting comment from Abbas Kadhim:As I recall it from my days in Mosul, Al-Ghizlani is one of the largest military facilities in Iraq. It has all kinds of places to have a dining room. Why would anyone have a tent for such gatherings?
Multiple casualties being reported. Atrios posts that CNN says 22 killed. Developing. UPDATE: Reuters: The Pentagon says 22 people have killed in a blast at a U.S. military base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, CNN has reported. UPDATE: (Reuters) - At least 22...
