Isolated Incidents, Cont.

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...

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Did MI order torture photos?

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...

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Bizarre Bus Ride From Abu Ghraib

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...

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Who’s Really “Defending Our Freedom”?

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...

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Americans Murdered Iraqi Prisoners

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...

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Chalabi Fan Club Implodes

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...

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Amazing hostage hero story

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...

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More CPA censorship alienates Iraqis

The editor and entire staff of a Pentagon-created, US funded Iraqi newspaper has quit in disgust saying they're sick of American interference in their choice of subject matter. They say they're starting their own newspaper, called Al-Sabah Al-Jedid (The New Morning)....

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We Heart the United Nations!

What with all the bludgeoning of war opponents over the oil-for-food scandal, I think it's time for those of us on the antiwar Right to come clean: we love the U.N. Always have, always will. Yep, everyone here at Antiwar.com just adores global government,...

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