The Wall Street Journal has just uploaded the 2003 torture memo. Beware, it's a PDF file. April 2003 Defense Department memo Link via Phil Carter. UPDATE: The WSJ posting of the DoD memo has of course been censored. A poster at Billmon's Whiskey bar has counted up the...

So many incidents have happened in Iraq in the past day that I thought I'd do a summary. Fallujah rebels killed 12 and wounded 10 Fallujah Brigade soliers in a mortar attack today. The Fallujah Brigade is encamped outside Fallujah, which is ruled by the rebels. Middle...

According to The Angry Arab, Al-Hayat is reporting that some former Iraqi Governing Council members are leaving Iraq, running for their lives, while Chalabi tries to strike a last-ditch pose as a Shi`ite: "He sounded like Muqtada As-Sadr today trying to engage in...

Vinnell employee shot in Riyadh Gunmen shot 44-year-old Robert Jacob 9 times in the head outside his home in Riyadh's eastern Al-Khaleej district. Saudi police will undoubtedly add the shooter to their list of "wanted militants" in their "intense" manhunt that has so...

Chris Albritton has written a compelling account of his first three weeks back in Iraq, and the disturbing differences in the atmosphere of the place and the attitudes of the Iraqis he has encountered. Also striking is his experience with some American soldiers who...

Stuart Hughes has the news about the Saudi shooting of his two colleagues in Riyadh. Stuart is presently in London in the BBC newsroom. Here's Frank Gardner's last report from Saudi Arabia before being gunned down on a Riyadh street. Simon Cumbers was killed and Frank...

Patrick Cockburn, in an article titled "The Baghdad Bombings - The Pattern of Attacks is Changing" mentions near the end that "On Saturday gunmen attacked civilian security in two four-wheel-drive vehicles and killed four--two Americans and two Poles--on the airport...

Chris at Explananda catches a blatant example of hypocrisy on the part of (surprise!) the Bush Administration. Apparently they're going to use the upcoming G-8 summit to issue a "sweeping declaration favoring democratic changes in the Middle East. Indeed, they said...

New Puppet Prime Minister Allawi has announced that nine Iraqi militias have agreed to disband and that the ones not agreeing are "outlawed." This agreement allegedly includes the Kurdish pershmerga of the KDP and the PUK, which seems odd. Consider the stand-off that...

Remind Us: Why Did the U.S. Government Invade and Destabilize Iraq? Thanks to Strike the Root for the link