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...
What is it about putting on a uniform that makes the person in it no longer an individual? I guess that's part of the purpose, to make them less of an individual, less human. And if that person is killed, they often become just a name and number on a casualty list....
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...
With almost a complete media blackout of the events unfolding in Fallujah, about the only information source has become bloggers in Iraq and Al-Jazeera's camera crews. From Riverbend: Today, the day the Iraqi Puppets hail "National Day", will mark the day of the...
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...
Robert Fisk: "The British took three years to turn both the Sunnis and the Shias into their enemies in 1920. The Americans are achieving it in just under a year."
Rumsfeld on Wednesday sought to downplay the Iraqi resistance. "The vast majority of the 25 million Iraqi people want freedom for their country," he said. "The overwhelming majority of Iraqis are against those who are looting, intimidating and stopping children from...
"In Iraq ... we are transforming a place of torture chambers and mass graves into a nation of laws and free institutions." George W. Bush Address to the Nation September 7, 2003 Marine engineers patrolling near Ramadi on Wednesday reported coming across a mass grave...
