LA Times reports: The company said the decision was made after supply trucks protected by U.S. soldiers were attacked Friday by Iraqi insurgents just outside Baghdad, resulting in the death of one employee from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root. Seven...
Sikorsky Down - Where's the crew? The US military has confirmed that an H-53 Sikorsky helicopter has been shot down in the guerilla-held area between Baghdad and Fallujah. They very pointedly say that there is no indication that the crew was killed or injured. What...
Lawrence of Cyberia offers this quote, by Yossi Sarid MK, Former Israeli Minister of Education, in We cannot let death have dominion, as Quote of the Week: We are still trying to count, and to remember them as individuals, but with so many dead, it’s hard to keep...
Littlegreenfootballs posters or late German Fascists? I was inspired to build this quiz when I noticed that comments on Littlegreenfootballs.com (a popular warblog) tended to be indistinguishable in tone and content from the writings of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler,...
Raed Jarrar posted a bizarre Kimmitt (the Iraqis have started to call him Kimmitt the Frog)quote. The shadows of the unpleasant events of Falluja will affect the image of the American Army in Iraq… it will only increasing the anger of Iraqis, and help more extremist...
Go here for an eyewitness account of what it is like in Fallujah today. Rahul Mahajan is blogging it. There are no permalinks, so look for the entry "April 11, 2:00 pm EST.Fallujah, Iraq."
Juan Cole and Billmon both highlight an article appearing in the Telegraph today. Senior British commanders have condemned American military tactics in Iraq as heavy-handed and disproportionate. One senior officer said that America's aggressive methods were causing...
The Washington Post has a piece up today about a battalion of Iraqis that have refused to fight for the Americans at Fallujah. They are saying, "We did not sign up to fight Iraqis." There have been some efforts in the blogosphere to follow this story, mostly by...
"We haven't imposed any terms at the moment, we're just trying to get a cease-fire in place and we have asked the insurgents to stop attacking the Marines." "They didn't do that yesterday, we had a number of attacks yesterday, so we proposed a different time for one...
Two thought provoking posts from Eli at Left I on the News: Was Bush on vacation all of August 2001 because of the terrorist threat? The same threat that had Ashcroft travelling in leased aircraft rather than commercial flights? Libertarian Harry Browne reminds us...
