I just came across this statistic, reported by the Guardian, source - US military - The army reported 2,781 deserters in 2003 and 1,470 in the first five months of this year, according to Lieutenant Colonel John Jessup, who collects army desertion data for the...
Turkey moved against the Kurdish separatist rebels in Northern Iraq today, killing eleven PKK rebels. Two Turks were killed in the action. Turkey has long threatened to take out the PKK themselves, after it became clear that American promises to "deal with" the rebels...
Reuters:- The FBI believes Israel has a spy at the very highest level of the Pentagon who may have sought to influence U.S. policy on Iran and Iraq, CBS News reported on Friday. The Israeli embassy immediately denied the report. "The FBI has a full-fledged espionage...
This is a mini blog tour because I had a crazy day! How about that Iraqi soccer team? How bad IS the missile defense system the Bushies are insisting on deploying pre-election? Noah Schachtman at Defense Tech posts that the former Pentagon testing chief Phillip Coyle...
OK, too much is happening, so I'm doing an Iraqi mayhem post. Moqtada al Sadr's militants have torched the headquarters of Iraq's South Oil Company on Thursday and set the company's warehouses and offices on fire. Rebels mortared the American "embassy" in Baghdad,...
Iraqi Olympic soccer player, Ahmed Manajid, angered by George Bush using the team in a (fatuous - read the article to see how stupid it is) campaign commercial said: "How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women?" Manajid told me. "He has...
Blustery threats are issuing from the Puppets who claim "Iraqi forces" are going to storm the Imam Ali shrine "within hours" and teach the Mahdi Army and Moqtada al Sadr a lesson. To prevent an imminent attack on his forces, who are holed up in the revered Imam Ali...
Whatever you think of Moqtada al Sadr, you have to admire the deft manueuvering that keeps everyone off-balance with the wrong foot forward. While practically all the news reports on this development claim some variation on the Mahdi Army surrenders/Sadr Agrees to...
A crowd of unarmed volunteer human shields made up of Shi'ite Muslim followers of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al Sadr, chant anti-government slogans in the courtyard of Imam Ali's shrine in Najaf August 16, 2004. With his militants and human shields holed up inside...
FIVE people were killed when US forces carried out multiple bombing raids in the flashpoint Iraqi city of Fallujah, a doctor said today. "Five people were killed and six wounded," said the medic from Fallujah general hospital. "The Americans fired seven missiles."So...
