I was watching TV the other night and saw a new episode of the Verizon Wireless commercial, you know the one I mean, a guy with a cell phone at his ear repeatedly asks "Can you hear me now?" as he moves from spot to spot in the swamp, or desert, or city. And now, or...
Al Sadr is wounded or maybe he isn't. The US has stopped attacking the Mahdi Army and is reportedly engaged in truce talks. This has the warfloggers hopping mad, and if you read their comments you'll see that the neocons, Likudniks and Arab-haters are fragmenting from...
Forget the angle everyone else is taking. Who is Golan Cipel?
This chapter covers the end of the Clinton administration to the transition into the Bush administration. Clearly, the 9/11 plot was in full force, many of the hijackers already in the US learning to fly or preparing their missions. The commission continues to...
The same day Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry argued for the need to import prescription drugs, the acting FDA commissioner (appointed by the Bush administration, who is against importation) vaguely warned that imported prescription drugs are a terror...
I'll update this post throughout the day. The US is bombing Al Sadr's house and has sealed off the southern entrance to the Imam Ali shrine and blocked all roads leading to the shrine. US tanks occupy downtown Najaf. The deputy governor in Najaf has resigned in...
In a NY Times article titled "U.S. Forces, Close to Attack in Najaf, Suddenly Pull Back", we are told:The delay came after a day of intense preparation for the attack, with a convoy of tanks and armored vehicles leaving its base. Officers declined to discuss why they...
Al Jazeera reports that some Iraqi southern governorates will break away from the central government in Baghdad. Apparently this is why the southern Iraqi oil fields are no longer pumping oil to the southern terminal.Ali Hamud al-Musawi, head of the Misan governorate...
Apparently, the US is going to go Fallujah on Najaf. U.S. forces urge civilians to leave NajafNAJAF, Iraq American forces urged civilians to evacuate the combat zone in Najaf on Tuesday, the sixth day of clashes with Shiite militias that have restricted output from...
"Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. It's...you're...you're a...you've been given sovereignty...... (mp3)Listen to journalists break out in laughter as Bush tries to explain what "sovereignty" is. (Links via Daily Kos and Majority...
