From Breaking News.ie: As President George Bush appeared on Arabic television today in a bid to limit the damage caused by photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, a new image emerged which would shock the world. A photograph from an internal military...
when not-quite-white terrorists defeated their more civilized occupiers! Aka, Cinco de Mayo.
Here's an update to this post about the "private contractor" working for the CIA in Iraq murdering an Iraqi. Amazingly, there's another one - and a murder a CIA officer is thought to have committed. The AP reports: In addition, the deaths of two Iraqi prisoners...
A recurring feature in which we take a look at U.S. occupations around the globe, via the viciously anti-American Stars & Stripes. Story #1:Ramstein airmen face courts-martial on indecent assault charges KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Two Ramstein Air Base airmen face...
Nikolai at Lenin's Tomb seems to have caught an interesting case of possible revisionism. He quotes a BBC article: Those torture photos? Military intelligence ordered them to be taken : The lawyer for one of the soldiers accused of being involved in the events which...
Why they would do this is beyond me. Scores of prisoners released from the controversial Abu Ghraib prison Tuesday were forced to take a winding, nearly five-hour journey through central Iraq on three hot, rickety buses escorted by U.S. military Humvees before being...
An unorthodox suggestion from the Rational Enquirer. (Great post, except for the bit about tax cuts.) At issue here is not whether or not the Iraqi resistance are good guys or bad guys, as some simpletons frame it, but whether or not the unopposed domination of the...
Reuters reports:The U.S. military has investigated the deaths of 25 prisoners held by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and determined that two prisoners were murdered by Americans, one an Army soldier and the other a CIA contractor, Army officials said on...
Which neocons are on their way out? How many will Rove force to walk the plank off the USS Dubya? Which neocons are fed up with the "treacherous, spineless turncoat," Ahmed Chalabi? How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons The hawks who launched the Iraq war believed the...
CNN Reports: After three weeks of captivity by Iraqi insurgents, American Thomas Hamill walked free when his guards apparently fled from an approaching U.S. Army patrol, soldiers who found him said Monday. One of the soldiers, 2nd Lt. Joseph Merrill, said his platoon...
