As'ad AbuKhalil, The Angry Arab:The most respected Arab columnist, my friend Joseph Samahah, has an article on Bush's reelection. It is titled: "To the Bomb Shelters; it is Bush!"

Here's an interesting post from James Landrith. Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation is calling for the de-neoconification of American foreign policy in the name of traditional conservatism.

US soldiers describe the looting of Al Qaqaa, which they were powerless to stop:In the weeks after the fall of Baghdad, Iraqi looters loaded powerful explosives into pickup trucks and drove the material away from the Al Qaqaa ammunition site, according to a group of...

Three Scottish Black Watch soldiers and a translator have been killed by a suicide bomber at a checkpoint while 8 others were wounded in the subsequent mortar attack. "Soldiers manning a vehicle checkpoint were targeted by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device...

THREE mutilated bodies have been found under a suspension bridge in central Baghdad, an Iraqi interior ministry spokesman said yesterday. The river patrol police found the unidentified corpses on Tuesday beneath a bridge that leads across the Tigris river into the...

Sovereign Iraq's appointed, parliament-less "Prime Minister" says a military assault on Fallujah is still really, really close, closer than it was yesterday - imminent, even. Although the US persists in putting forth the farcical line that the great and powerful...

Warblogs, neocon outlets like NRO and Republican chatsites are going hysterical over a new and tailored for Republican warfloggers interpretation from MEMRI of Osama bin Laden's words from the most recent video. Rodger Payne does a quick lateral to Abu Aardvark, who...

I have refrained from writing about the stunning conclusions in the Lancet study which claims 100,000 excess deaths since the US/UK invasion of Iraq. Although extensively peer reviewed and done with accepted methodology for war conditions (I'd link to Spencer...

A headless body believed to be that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda has been found in Baghdad today. The body was found just off Haifa street wrapped in an American flag.

I have no idea what this is all about, but this is the first time I've ever heard of "Iraqi forces" responding to a US convoy bombing. Witnesses told Associated Press Television News that an American convoy was attacked early Saturday near the town of Haswa, about 25...