Al Hurra, the Pentagon funded US propaganda channel targeted at Arabs will broadcast photos and video of Saddam-era atrocities! These should make all Americans feel better about their torture chambers, and the Arabs should realize once and for all that they have no...
Apparently, Sistani's "red line" is right around his house. U.S. tanks thrust into Iraq holy city U.S. forces have intensified their war against Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, sending tanks into Najaf's vast cemetery to blast guerrilla positions on sacred ground in the...
I'm trying to work up an appropriate expression of...um. Gloating. Schadenfreude. Sympathy? For this news: Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper [has] suspended the weekly column of Barbara Amiel-Black after its parent, Hollinger International, filed a lawsuit accusing...
Guantanamo prisoner: "After a while, we stopped asking for human rights - we wanted animal rights."Senator: “Almost everybody was naked all the time.” I remember when these accounts first came out I thought they might be exaggerated. Tarek Dergoul, 26, from London,...
Rumsfeld says White House lawyers are claiming that it is "illegal" to release additional photos of torture at Abu Ghraib prison.U.S. administration lawyers are advising the Pentagon not to publicly release any more photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused by U.S....
Juan Cole is sounding the alarm here. He points to an AP report about heavy fighting in Karbala.The US used heavy firepower in the sacred Shiite city, destroying half of the historic al-Mukhayyam Mosque not so far from the shrine of the Prophet's martyred grandson,...
On the Nick Berg Beheading Col. Lounsbury writes what I think may be the definitive post here. Lounsbury quotes the Washington Post: The persistent violence contrasts sharply with U.S. officials' optimistic calls for private companies to invest in Iraq. Over the past...
The claim is that it is revenge for the torture of detained Iraqis in US military prisons. The video showed five men wearing headscarves and black ski masks, standing over a bound man in an orange jumpsuit - similar to a prisoner's uniform - who identified himself as...
This is a good post by Steve Gilliard referencing Juan Cole on the subject of the Spanish refusal to accept the suicide mission to bring al Sadr in "dead or alive," which was what the Bushie Americans asked them to do. Steve points out that the US military is acting...
Several blogging soldiers have pointed out how egregiously bad was Donald Rumsfeld's inability to cite the chain of command leading from the "six morons" to the top. A non-military person would be likely to miss this: Arkhangel: I saw Don Rumsfeld's testimony today,...
