Some interesting information is coming out on the Palestinian elections in the wake of Marwan Barghouti withdrawing his bid for the PA presidency. Andrew Schamess has this intriguing bit:On Thursday, Barghouti made a suprise announcement that he would run an...
A report delivered by the Defense Science Board, an advisory committee to the US Defense Department, to the Office of the Secretary of Defense around the end of September has gotten very little media attention, maybe because, as Tom Shanker of the NYT writes,A harshly...
MOSUL, IRAQ: An Iraqi man stands next to three unidentified bodies with a yellow note placed in the mouth of one of the bodies accusing them of being Kurdish peshmerga fighters, in Mosul, 370 kms north of Baghdad, 21 November 2004. (UJAHED MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images)...
Zarqawi aide arrested in Mosul! Really! Just because Iraqi Minister of State Qassim Dawoud was full of merde when he announced the capture of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, doesn't mean he's always wrong. Right?Iraqi security adviser Kassim Daoud told a news conference Iraqi...
Here are some interesting factoids gleaned from Iraq Pipeline Watch, a website run by the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security which bills itself as "the world's only non-profit public educational organization focusing on energy security." In 2003, starting...
The Israeli government appears so eager to facilitate the Palestinians' election of a replacement for Arafat that they're going to allow international election observers into Occupied Palestine. The IDF, however, will not withdraw, so I suppose the observers will be...
For anyone interested in the lawsuit threatened by MEMRI against Professor Juan Cole (Repressive MEMRI on AWC frontpage), there's both a well-written comprehensive defense and a set of links to other blogs supporting Cole at Abu Aardvark's place. In short, if you do...
Kevin Sites speaks out: Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1 To Devil Dogs of the 3.1: Since the shooting in the Mosque, I've been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well. As...
"We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency. We've taken away this safe haven," Lt. Gen. John Sattler told reporters at the Pentagon in a video teleconference from Fallujah. GUNMEN ambushed a convoy of Iraqi National Guards in...
Because I judge Phil Carter to regularly be both objective and honest, I was somewhat shocked to read in Slate, his accounting of the Fallujah mosque shooting incident. In order to demonstrate where Phil goes wrong, I'm going to use Helena Cobbam's examination of the...
