According to this article in Salon, here's what the "peace deal" in Najaf looks like: On Friday morning, the number of armed men on the streets of Najaf did not seem to have diminished, and in places it seemed to have increased. And as of late Friday afternoon, Mahdi...
What's this game the UN's Brahimi is playing with the Iraqi Puppet Council? Apparently the Council has "nominated" one of their own, Iyad Allawi, for PM and now reports are coming out that Brahimi "respects" their choice. Reuters has gone out and interviewed some...
This is a weird story. First, in an article by the Canadian Press mostly about the IGC Puppets "nominating" Iyad Allawi for Prime Minister of Iraq (who asked them what they thought, anyway?) we have a couple of grafs thrown in, separated by other reports on various...
Oh, so this is why the US has been stuffing everyone they can lay hands on in Iraq into prison. They really do want to teach the Iraqis how to be free, just like in America. Link swiped from Libertarian Jackass.
zeyad at Healing Iraq has a bitter comment about the American version of justice in Iraq. If you've never heard zeyad's story about the death of his cousin at the hands of American soldiers, it is here. Instamonger calls this "misconduct," but because zeyad is...
The only new idea in Duhbya's latest speech is being rejected by the Iraqi Puppet Council as a "waste of resources." "We must not be sentimental," Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer told reporters. "As the Governing Council, we do not agree with demolishing it and the matter...
Check out Sydney Blumenthal's new article in Salon. Blumenthal writes, "FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent neoconservatives, who are being interviewed in an investigation of potential espionage, according to intelligence sources. Who gave Ahmed...
Hesiod on an odd omission from the US "Most Wanted Terrorists" list. See if you can tell who's missing before you click here.
From Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches. “When the Americans take over our police station, they bring us all together and tell us we are no longer in charge of anything,” he says, holding up his arms in exasperation. The policeman says that all of them were made to stay...
The US is apparently going to choose Iraq's interim government rather than the UN. Let's play their game. Asked whether the US would have veto power over the candidates it didn't like who were presented by Brahimi for the new Iraqi interim govt, a State Department...
