Drudge-ish, but apparently real, the story of a Maryland woman named Susan Lindauer - accused of spying for the Iraqi Intelligence - hit the wires a few hours ago. The first stories identified her as a former aid to several Democrats, but a bit more digging turned up...
4 GIs Killed in Iraq Attacks
Four more US soldiers died today as a result of Iraqi roadside bombs. The first was killed this morning in Baqouba. Two others were wounded in the attack. Later, two GIs were killed and one wounded in Habbaniyah. Another soldier died from wounds suffered from an...
US vs. the Arab Press
Salah Hassan, a cameraman for Al Jazeera tells a disturbing story of his arrest by American soldiers in Iraq. From Baquba, Hassan says he was taken to the military base at Baghdad International Airport, held in a bathroom for two days, then flown hooded and bound to...
All the Right Enemies
Lt. Col. (ret.) Karen Kwiatkowski has 'em, and they're piling on fast. Why just now? Ms. Kwiatkowski has been issuing indictments of the belligerati like a woman possessed for almost a year now. She appeared in the film Uncovered produced by the infamous MoveOn.org....
Neither Evil nor Geniuses
Brian Doherty soothes our fears about the Bush administration--or does he? Fears and anxieties about American empire don't need to be rooted in any perceived fever swamp, where only openly sinister and nakedly pecuniary motives push American foreign policy....
Don’t Take the Law into Your Own Hands…
Brendan O'Neill takes a swing at antiwar legalists: The focus on the pre-war intelligence and legality suggests that while some in the anti-war camp have technical quibbles about the current war in Iraq, they do not take a principled, political stance against Britain...
Traveling with Circus2Iraq
Jo Wilding's commentary while traveling inside Iraq creates a brief but valuable glimpse of what is happening inside the country and how the war has affected the lives of Iraq's people. Here, the circus performers, traveling past minefields, watch the celebrations in...
Iraqi Welfare State, Republican style
What happens when you send Republican neocons to oversee writing a "New Constitution" for Free Iraq? You get stuff like this: The individual has the right to security, education, health care, and social security. The Iraqi State and its governmental units, including...
Bush Ads Ignore Iraq
....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...


