Apparently, the Bush administration, in consultations with Abizaid and the military commanders in Iraq, has decided to do something about the stalemates at Najaf and Fallujah. The game plan that they've made public seems vague and it is unclear what they intend to...
Raed Jarrar has a plan and it starts with a confession: The current pattern of failures and policy changing will not lead to any real solutions, the American administration must admit that the last year was a total mess, that nothing positive will come out if the...
Here's the latest on how the "heavy weapon" turn-in is going in Fallujah. Marine Lt. Gen. Jim Conway, in Fallujah, said only about "a pick-up full" of weapons have been turned in. He agreed with a characterization that the weapons collected so far have been "junk,"...
Jeremy Sapienza's article today, US Soldiers Puzzled by Iraqi Resistance to Censorship caused me to remember this picture and Rajhul Mahajan just happens to have written an interesting anecdote about this statue, which sits on the pedestal the Famous Toppled Statue...
Russ Kick of the Memory Hole says: >>> Since March 2003, a newly-enforced military regulation has forbidden taking or distributing images of caskets or body tubes containing the remains of soldiers who died overseas. [read more] Immediately after hearing about this, I...
Tammy Silicio and her husband have been fired for this photo: Tami Silicio and David Landry, a co-worker she recently married, were fired Wednesday by Maytag Aircraft Corp. of Colorado Springs, Colo., for violating federal government and company rules, said William L....
If you were a rebel in Fallujah, and you knew this: An armoured column of about 1,000 soldiers from the 1st Battalion 16th Infantry Regiment reached the outskirts of Karma today, a small village six kilometres north of Fallujah. They were attempting to clear food...
Marine commanders say some rebel fighters are turning in weapons as promised. But most of the weapons don't work. Did they say they had to turn in their good stuff? Peace efforts in this besieged city ran into trouble Wednesday as guerrillas mounted a heavy attack on...
Three Iraqi police stations and one police academy in Basra have been attacked by five simultaneous car bombs, killing over 60 people and wounding at least 200. British soldiers attempting to get to the sites of the explosions were reportedly stoned by the crowds. You...
Mordechai Vanunu was released from Israeli prison today, where he was greeted by hundreds of Israelis gathered to wish him a speedy death and to express their regrets that he hadn't been killed at Auschwitz. Vanunu says he will continue to campaign against Israel's...
