Convoys and Logistical Woes

AFP Reports: Ramadi – Insurgents’ assaults on supply convoys west of Baghdad landed a blow to United States marines’ stomachs on Monday as their bases in al-Anbar province began rationing food amid fears their stocks could run low. Since Sunday, all...

Albright seeks profits in occupied Kosovo?

Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was unversally acknowledged as a major advocate of intervention in the Balkans, from her sponsorship of the Hague Inquisition to her drive for the bombing of Serbia in 1999. Now officially retired from politics,...

A trip into Fallujah

Jo Wilding travels into Fallujah: Trucks, oil tankers, tanks are burning on the highway east to Falluja. A stream of boys and men goes to and from a lorry that’s not burnt, stripping it bare. We turn onto the back roads through Abu Ghraib, Nuha and Ahrar singing in...

Hostages & Threats

Jo Wilding, with the circus troupe in Iraq, on the hostage situation and threats against foreigners. I expect everyone knows by now about the kidnapping of three Japanese civilians and the threat to burn them alive unless the Japanese government withdraws its troops...

Iraqis Invading US Next

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...