When are the Americans going to stop acting on their bad intelligence? Just as their garbage intelligence led them to bomb a wedding party in their last foray against imaginary "foreign fighters", so have they now killed over 20 Iraqis by dropping huge bombs on a...
Via Media Matters (via pontificator at Kos and Brad DeLong) From the June 17 broadcast of The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly: O'REILLY: Because look ... when 2 percent of the population feels that you're doing them a favor, just forget it, you're not going to win....
Josh Marshall is on vacation for a few days, but he leaves us with this tantalizing claim:I’m going to be taking a breather from TPM for a few days. I’ll be away tucked away on some island somewhere far, far away. If something truly earth-shattering happens I may pop...
US appointed Iraqi "Foreign Minister" Falah Hassan al-Naqib says he will impose "martial law" in response to ongoing violence, particularly the horrific series of car bombings, 20 in the past month alone, if he feels it necessary. The question would be, what sort of...
Paul Johnson beheaded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Warning: Graphic
Michael Froomkin parses the OLC's Aug. 1, 2002 Torture Memo ("the Bybee Memo".) This is a very helpful post to read especially if you're becoming confused by the sheer number of various torture memo leaks bombarding us daily. After explaining what the OLC is ( Justice...
In light of the information breaking in the White House's torture scandal, along with the legal complications of their thousands of detainees in Iraq as well as the fact that the Iraqi insurgents are clearly winning, I'm wondering who the Republicans are going to run...
Video Shows Murder And Slaughter Of American Robert Jacob, In Riyadh Click link above for video link on Information Clearinghouse. Chanting glorifying Jihad, or holy war, is heard in the background on the tape as two men are seen chasing a Western-dressed man who...
Remember when Al-Douri was the focus of a manhunt in Iraq because the US was convinced that he was a leader of the insurgency? Here's a Sydney Morning Herald article from December, 2003:With the capture of Saddam Hussein, US forces are focusing more attention on Izzat...
A photo of U.S. engineer Paul M. Johnson is posted on a Web site yesterday along with a claim by Al Qaeda to have kidnapped him. Saudis described as Al Qaeda militants have kidnapped one American and claim to have killed another in the same operation. In a statement...
