Via Mark Elf at jews sans frontieres: Perdition II - this time it's personal"ALAN RICKMAN is about to become the latest Hollywood star to light the blue touchpaper on the powderkeg that is Arab-Israeli politics." Or should that say "the latest ex. -Hollywood star"...
It will be interesting to see how Tony squirms out of this one: Diplomats and peers have joined scientists and churchmen to urge Prime Minister Tony Blair to publish a death toll in the U.S.-led war in Iraq. In an unusual open letter to the premier made available to...
FBI agents witnessed "highly aggressive" interrogations and mistreatment of terror suspects at the US prison camp in Cuba starting in 2002 - more than a year before the prison abuse scandal broke in Iraq - according to a letter a senior US Justice Department official...
"Gliding" toward elections in Iraq:In the second major assault on Baghdad's police force in two days, two car bombs -including at least one detonated by a suicide attacker -exploded next to an Iraqi police station just outside Baghdad's Green Zone on Saturday, killing...
Who do these guys think they're kidding?However, Qassim Dawoud, Iraq's national security adviser, said insurgent attacks were down since the invasion of Fallujah. He provided no details but said Iraq didn't need U.S.-led coalition forces' help to safeguard the...
OK, now this is a shocker. Who would've imagined:Iraqi rebels are creeping back into areas cleared by US marines in Fallujah, where the military continues daily to secure homes and try to seize weapons caches before they can be used to again attack US and Iraqi...
What Jim says about Radley Balko's TCS piece on libertarians and foreign policy. Jim: Radley Balko's TCS article this weekend leaves a smoking crater where claims of "libertarian unseriousness" on foreign policy have been.Radley Balko, "That Republicans don't take...
"The level of criminal operations has receded and is continuing to drop following the operation in Fallujah," Comical Allawi said on the state-owned Iraqiya television, in response to questions from viewers. "The cleansing in Fallujah of terrorist elements is...
Check out Flit on Yushchenko's skin problem. He quotes a dermatologist:"Viktor Yushchenko probably has one of two possible medical conditions that would account for his rapid facial changes. The diseases are scleromyxedema or cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. He needs a skin...
