Juan Cole has worked out some numbers for seats by party: United Iraqi Alliance (Shiite): 133 seats Kurdish Alliance: 71 Iraqiya (Allawi = Secular Shiites) 38 Iraqiyyun (al-Yawir= Sunni Arabs) 5 Turkmen Front of Iraq 3 Cadres and the Chosen (Sadrist Shiites) 3...
"Sgt. Curtis Greene loved the military; the structure, the stability. But eight months in Iraq changed him. And the thought of returning led him to a stark proclamation."
On 3rd February 2003, as part of ongoing resistance at Shannon Airport, the Pitstop Ploughshares disarmed a US warplane. Within the month, three of the four companies contracted to ferry US troops and weapons had left Ireland. The Pitstop Ploughshares are currently...
Numbers being reported by most wire services:UIA, the main Shiite list: 47.6 per cent PUK/KDP Kurdish coalition: 25.4 per cent Allawi's list: 13.6 per cent.Reuters: Overall turnout was 8.55 million votes, which was 58 percent of those registered to vote. The Shi'ite...
Senators Feinstein and Boxer ‘Disappointed' that Final BRAC Criteria Do Not Reflect California Legislators' Concerns "The DoD's base closure criteria are out of touch with reality and threaten the military readiness of the country,” Senator Boxer said. “The DoD does...
Well, war has broken out yet again in Mosul, but never mind all that because finally, two weeks after the "elections" we are promised results, allegedly by tomorrow morning. The suspense is a killer, but by tomorrow, we might know by what margin Ayatollah Sistani has...
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"Waging war isn't about fun and games. Or is it? A visit to one of the world's biggest conventions for military training technology reveals that today's armed forces are taking cues from video games, theme parks and Hollywood." "Now, you can also use this to enhance...
Saturday, between 4 and 6PM ET, Scott Horton will be interviewing Carl Webb, who's heroically protesting the US government's attempts to send him back to Iraq through the so-called "Stop Loss Program" and Michael Scheuer, former CIA analyst and author of "Imperial...
Space war game improves joint warfighting capability "The phrase "space war game" lends a notion that the game is focused on a military fight in space, but that is not the case, game officials said. "Our focus is how best to use space assets to coordinate the joint...
