....Bush's first major advertisement blitz loudly evokes details from the 2001 terrorist attacks that left 3,000 people dead -- including firefighters carrying a flag-covered stretcher out of smoldering New York rubble, sirens blaring in the background -- it is mute...
Brits freed from X-Ray allege torture
NY Times: Greg Powell, a lawyer for one of the freed men, Ruhal Ahmed, 21, from Tipton, said Thursday that Mr. Ahmed was on his way to meet his family. Mr. Powell said he had met his client in a London jail and found him in good health, but said the treatment by the...
Iraqi SOFA for The Troops
Spencer Ackerman, writing in Iraq'd, points out that according to the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), Americans are now the proud owners of the New Iraqi Army. Nathan Brown of George Washington University identified this situation first in his assessment of the...
Libertarians and the left
Roderick Long has organized a series of links for a very interesting debate that has been going on over at the Liberty and Power group blog on the subject of libertarians and the left. Here's a post I did a few days ago inspired by the Liberty and Power debate with...
Chalabi’s Coup Failed?
Spencer Ackerman has an interesting analysis on the gyrations of Chalabi & Co. last weekend. Essentially he asks, what if the walkout by the five Shi`a puppets wasn't Sistani's idea at all? What if what we saw was an attempted end run around Sistani? It makes sense in...
Halliburton Stiffs Food Contractor
A U.S. food subcontractor that runs 10% of the dining facilities in Iraq says it hasn't been paid by a Halliburton Co. subsidiary for months and is threatening to stop serving hot meals to U.S. troops stationed there, NBC News reported Monday. The company, Event...
Libertarian ‘Purity Test’
It's all the rage. Try it.
Iraqi Nuke Scientists Accuse US
Top Iraqi scientists, led by Jafar Dhia Jafar, who is known as the father of Iraq’s nuclear programme, said that UN inspectors had “reached total conviction” that Iraq was free of nuclear weapons before the US invasion of Iraq, yet failed to convey that information...
Al Sistani Denounces “Constitution”
BAGHDAD (AFX) The spiritual guide of Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called the country's new transitional law an obstacle to a permanent constitution. AP reports Al Sistani has issued a fatwa : "Any law prepared for the transitional...
Gaza – the Israeli rampage continues
14 dead, 80 wounded on one side, no casualties on the other side. By any definition that's a massacre. Well, by any definition except when it's the world's press talking about Israeli atrocities against Palestinians. Please note that while the Israelis may be correct...
