Before driving to Ramadi on Wednesday, we spent the night at the home of a Shia family in Sadr City. 'There is no difference between Falluja and Sadr City,' said Nassir Salman, a barber who was working late. 'They are fighting and we are fighting. Inshallah , there...
Josh Marshall posts this email he received from Baghdad. He describes the sender as"a friend of mine who spent a career in US military intelligence specializing in counter-terrorism, now in Iraq working as a contractor providing security for companies and NGOs." The...
Apparently George "I Don't Read Newspapers" Bush is still isolated from world events in his Wahington Neocon bubble. Here's an AP report on his Saturday radio address. Illustrations mine. Bush vows to defeat 'small faction' of Iraqi insurgents Saturday,April...
Bush's Neocons still clueless As a week of mounting U.S. casualties in Iraq drew to a close, the Bush administration pledged Friday to take the fight to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and other Iraqi resisters. "We're worried, but I am not panicked about it," said...
Two U.S. Troops, Civilians Missing in Iraq -Official Two American troops and an unknown number of civilian contractors are missing in Iraq after an attack on a fuel convoy west of Baghdad, a Defense Department official said on Friday. "We do have the two U.S. service...
The main highway west out of Baghdad is held by the Iraqi insurgents. They've destroyed a fuel convoy, killing nine people. Most news stories are reporting one US soldier dead in this incident so presumably the other 8 are Iraqi. Hundreds of militants armed with...
The accounts of the American assault on Kut indicate that the resistance had left before the US arrived. U.S. troops fanned out across Kut, southeast of the capital, after meeting little resistance in the city, witnesses said, in a major foray by the U.S. military...
At first, it seemed to be a random attack. But now the security firm -- Blackwater USA -- said the workers were lured into a planned ambush by men they thought were friendly members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps. A Blackwater official told The New York Times that...
In the spirit of credit where credit is due, I think laying a large chunk of the blame for the violence in Iraq on The Man Of Peacetm, Ariel Sharon, for his assassination of Sheik Yassin in Gaza is perfectly justified. My case: Faiza, writing in A Family in Baghdad,...
UPDATE:Marchers break through US roadblocks April 9, 2004 THOUSANDS of Sunni and Shiite Muslims forced their way through US military checkpoints Thursday to ferry food and medical supplies to the besieged Sunni bastion of Fallujah where US marines are trying to crush...
