Chalabi & Co. Off Pentagon Payroll

Well, well, well. Finally Chalabi's umbilical cord to the Pentagon is cut. Richard Oppel writes in the New York Times: The United States government has decided to halt monthly $335,000 payments to the Iraqi National Congress, the group headed by Ahmad Chalabi, an...

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WMD Thrill for WarBots

"WMDs at last?" asks warbot site The Command Post hopefully. Fox News (surprise! I bet you didn't see that one coming....) is reporting that one entire shell might have had......sarin gas in it! WOO Hoo! See, America was imminently threatened, you anti-war doubters!!...

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IGC Pres. Killed in Iraq Car Bomb

A suicide car bomb exploded next to the car of Abdel-Zahraa Othman, a Shia Muslim widely known as Izzadine Saleem, as he waited to clear a US checkpoint outside the Green Zone.Mr Saleem had been in a convoy of five vehicles when an adjacent car exploded, Mohammed...

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Italian Forces Evacuate Nasiriyah

AP reports: Fighters loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr drove Italian forces from a base in the southern city of Nasiriyah on Sunday and attacked coalition headquarters there with grenade and mortar fire as tensions in the Shiite region escalated. Two U.S....

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Feith Sidelined JAGs

JAG lawyers are blaming Bush administration political appointees, specifically Douglas Feith, for blocking them from the Iraqi prison system because they insisted on humane treatment and Geneva Convention protections for detainees, setting the stage for the torture...

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Iraqi self-defense

Bush says U.S troops will stay in Iraq until the Iraqis can defend against "external aggression and internal subversion." Apparently that means the Iraqis will have to drive the Americans out themselves. Iraqi Shi'ite youths throw stones at a U.S. military convoy in...

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Republican Zone Mortared

The other day the NRO ran this piece about the Junior RNC Neocons that they have staffing the CPA headquarters in the Green Zone. As Washington Monthly describes them:When we last checked in with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, "Who's Who" noted that...

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Saturday Blog Tour

ArkhAngel rebuts "an email from SPC Joe Roche, who's currently serving with the 16th Engineer Battalion, part of the 1st Armored Division. Yes, that's the division whose tour was extended by three months. They're located in the Baghdad area, and they've seen some of...

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