Ansar al-Sunna taunts the US:"First they said it was a mortar or rockets, then they said it was a suicide operation with local materials, and so on," the statement on Ansar al-Sunna's website said. "Are they really this stupid, that they still don't know how they've...
More information is surfacing about the Mosul suicide bomber:"I am concerned about ... copycat attacks," said Brigadier General Carter Ham, the U.S. commander in Mosul where the bomber killed 18 Americans and three Iraqi National Guards on Tuesday in a pre-Christmas...
If it is true, as now seems likely, that a suicide bomber is behind the carnage at the US base in Mosul yesterday, the fact that the troops were eating in a tent rather than a hardened facility may have actually saved lives, since the force of the explosion escaped...
(see 10 for introduction) 2.5 next John Nichols' Capital Times column Tuesday is headlined Curtailing Christians in Occupied Iraq in the print edition. Bethlehem's mayor and Jerusalem's Latin patriarch have been speaking out, will Thursday bring Curtailing Christians...
An interesting comment from Abbas Kadhim:As I recall it from my days in Mosul, Al-Ghizlani is one of the largest military facilities in Iraq. It has all kinds of places to have a dining room. Why would anyone have a tent for such gatherings?
Nearly a year ago, Antiwar.com completed a redesign and database integration of our original content. This week we finished the first of many steps toward databasing our news archive, which includes a new dynamically updated latest news page. With this feature, we can...
According to Mark Kassis' letter to the editor of Ames, IA's Tribune newspaper (12/9/04, print edition), the "economic draft" is gaining strength. Kassis writes that his son, a college student, recently received an offer from the US Army of "up to $20,000 enlistment...
Multiple casualties being reported. Atrios posts that CNN says 22 killed. Developing. UPDATE: Reuters: The Pentagon says 22 people have killed in a blast at a U.S. military base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, CNN has reported. UPDATE: (Reuters) - At least 22...
A unknown Russian firm called Baikal Finans Group won the auction for a subsidiary of the giant oil firm Yukos. The sale has become more suspicious as new information about the company surfaces The Baikal Finans Group, which listed its address as the same as that of a...
Last April, Russ Kick of the Memory Hole broke the embargo on showing the flag-draped caskets of America's war dead as they return home. Now, in his series The Purple Heart Project, Aaron Huey tells the rest of the story. Bookmark the Purple Heart Project because it...
