It takes Victor David "VD" Hanson four paragraphs of mild angst over the Abu Ghraib atrocities to segue into his apologia. The rationalizations for American torture of Iraqi prisoners are in five bulleted points. I'll sum them up so you don't have to read it. There's...
This is too funny: Myers: Former Saddam General Not in Charge in Falluja Gen. Jasim Mohamed Saleh, a former general in Saddam Hussein's army, is not in charge in the volatile Iraqi city of Falluja and is still being vetted for a possible peacekeeping role, the...
Thomas Hamill wandered up to an American patrol in Balad, between Baghdad and Tikrit today. The press accounts are calling it an "apparent escape" though the demand by the mujahiden originally was for the Marines to end the siege of Fallujah, so I expect that it will...
With world attention fixed on the Abu Ghraib prison torture outrage, an important story from Saudi Arabia is going under the radar. I first saw mention of the more exotic aspects of this story on Raed Jarrar's blog where he wrote: The thing no one said about the...
Oh, now I get it. Iraqi force to provide security for first convoy to Fallujah "In a few days we will have our first convoy go through the centre of Fallujah," said General James Conway, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. The US commander said that he...
Seymour Hersh, writing in the New Yorker, has an extremely detailed account of the hideous torture inflicted by American soldiers on detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. A fifty-three-page report, obtained by The New Yorker, written by Major General Antonio M. Taguba and...
British military officials confirmed Friday that they are investigating new allegations that their soldiers abused a prisoner in Iraq. From a Sky News report: Photographs in the Daily Mirror show an Iraqi being battered with rifle butts, threatened with execution, and...
Bush Administration whines to Qatar about Al Jazeera "I am not responsible (for) al-Jazeera," Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim said of the Qatar-based station funded by the Gulf ally's ruler. "But we will take this concern back to al Jazeera and they have to review...
Via Atrios, we learn that Sinclair TV has announced a boycott of Ted Koppel's Nightline show in which he intends to read the names and show a picture of all the Americans killed in combat in Iraq. Apparently, Sinclair is only interested in good news from Iraq. This is...
The general in charge of the US-run prison system in Iraq has been suspended and put under investigation over the alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees by US soldiers. A senior US military spokesman says Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was suspended from her duties in...
