Comical Allawi, the man without a military, is threatening "military action" against the people of Fallujah:13 October 2004 -- Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is threatening military action against the main insurgent stronghold of Al-Fallujah if residents...
US ‘Disappears’ detainees to Jordan
For those who may have been wondering where the US disappears their super-secret captives, Haaretz is claiming to know:Most of the Al-Qaida detainees who were arrested in Afghanistan in the course of the war or its aftermath were transfered to the American base in...
Good news-Europe is safer!
Europe need no longer cringe in fear of being 45 minutes from a WMD strike from Iraq! Whew!
Titan Corp. employee beheaded
Titan Corp. contractors beheaded BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) An Islamic Web site on Monday showed the beheading of two hostages one a Turkish contractor and the other an Iraqi Kurdish translator wearing a badge of the Titan security company. A statement said the two were...
Is the Mahdi Army disarming?
I think I'll predict that the "weapons handover" currently being touted as part of a "peace deal" between the Mahdi Army of Muqtada al Sadr and the Occupation and it's Puppets is well on it's way to fizzling out. First of all, the deal was that the Mahdi army turn in...
Another day in bizarro-world
Talkleft points out this excellent SKBubba rant. Here's his conclusion:But only in America can a harmless homemaker/cooking show host be cooling her jets in Federal prison for fibbing about a crime she did not commit and was never charged with while the President of...
Afghanistan goes to the polls
If anyone can figure out what's going on in Afghanistan's elections, let me know. From what I can piece together, all the candidates withdrew, claiming fraud, except Karzai. The US bombed some "suspected Taliban militants" killing 25 people in southern Afghanistan,...
UK hostage Bigley reportedly beheaded
Various sources are reporting that British hostage Ken Bigley has been beheaded in Iraq.FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - British hostage Ken Bigley was beheaded near Baghdad on Thursday afternoon, insurgent sources in the rebel-held town of Falluja said on Friday. Abu Dhabi...
Egyptian explosions – many fatalities
A explosion has ripped through a Hilton hotel in Egypt's resort of Taba. A blast ripped through the Hilton hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Taba on Thursday evening, with medical sources saying at least 100 people had been killed or wounded. The blast, the reasons...
Iraqi guerillas infiltrate the “Green Zone”
The US fortress inside Baghdad, where the American embassy sits behind razorwire and concrete blast barricades and where the "Interim government" of Iraq installed by the US is stored, is being penetrated more and more frequently by the Iraqi resistance. In a report...
