Juan Cole, discussing the arrest warrant out for Ahmed Chalabi asks, "He was charged with counterfeiting old Iraqi dinars (why not counterfeit new dinars if you were going to counterfeit?) and money-laundering." Chalabi counterfeited Iraqi dinars and exchanged them...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) _ A judge says Iraq has issued an arrest warrant for Ahmad Chalabi (AHK'-mahd SHAH'-lah-bee), a former governing council member, on money laundering charges.And Iraq's chief investigating judge says a warrant has been issued for Salem Chalabi...
Insurgents show off a part taken from a U.S. Army OH-58 helicopter that made an emergency landing north of Baghdad on Sunday. By Mohammed Uraibi, AP AP reports:A U.S. Army OH-58 helicopter made an emergency landing in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, the military said....
Zbigniew Brzezinski points to two Bush administration "blunders" which have "precipitate[d] the increasingly intense hatred for the US, not only in the Middle East but in the Islamic world at large." In both instances, it "adopted a stance that was not only unilateral...
Juan Cole asks, Did the Bush Administration Burn a Key al-Qaeda Double Agent? It appears that they did: ""Simon Cameron-Moore and Peter Graff of Reuters reveal the explosive information that the Bush administration blew the cover Monday of double agent Muhammad Naeem...
InstaHack posts pictures of a smoldering cathedral and desecrated Jewish graves in New Zealand and insinuates Helen Clark instigated the vandalism:Did Helen Clark establish the climate that makes this sort of thing more likely? And this story suggests that Helen...
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani is headed for London via Beirut. The Al-Khoei foundation, a Shiite institution based in London with which Sistani has close links, said that the cleric was expected to arrive at London's main Heathrow airport at 2:00 pm. "I've heard three...
On weekdays (at about 10am EST), the Department of Defense releases a pdf file with updated casualty information from Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the url changes on a daily basis, so linking to it is difficult. No longer. Check out "Daily DoD Casualty...
"With this legislation America's military will know that their country stands behind them as they fight for our freedom and as they spread the peace," Bush said.UPDATE:From Pro-War.com, another brain cramper: "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our...
"We will wage jihad and war against the foreign troops, not against police and Iraqi forces," said Sheikh Saad al-Basri, al-Sadr's representative in the largely Shi'ite city. [Basrah] "However, if Iraqi personnel fight on the side of the occupiers, we will strike them...
