IRAQI LEADERS SNUBBED IN MEMPHIS First, they meet this nutcase:The Iraqi civic and community leaders are in the midst of a three-week American tour, sponsored by the State Department to learn more about the process of government. The trip also includes stops in...
The Angry Arab links to this NYTimes story on the hysterical and mendacious Annie Jacobsen. For a breakdown post on the story with links to credulous warbloggers as well as the original Jacobsen panic-fest, go here. From the NYTimes' Joe Sharkey:Did, as a passenger...
Dr. Massouda Jalal's quest to be Afghanistan's president sounds even more improbable than Sean Connery's in The Man Who Would Be King (a great movie). But her ideas are admirable, and she is an actual Afghani, not one remodeled in America. Imagine that: an Afghani who...
Last time we had a pledge drive at Antiwar.com, I somehow missed calling on my readers to contribute - but I think many did so nonetheless. This time, I'll make it official: help Antiwar.com stay afloat, and you can count on more Balkan Express coming your way. So for...
Everybody having fun, now? FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- An Army investigator testified Tuesday that Pfc. Lynndie England and other members of her unit told him that photos of naked Iraqi prisoners piled in pyramids and other humiliating poses were taken "just for fun." As...
This chapter covers the various actors in al-Qaeda before 9/11. Much of the information, the report warns, comes from interrogations of captured terrorists. (page 146) First, the report covers Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the "mastermind" behind the attacks on 9/11....
Amy Mina sends this report from her recent visit to Bethlehem: The Prison of Bethlehem July 2004 This weekend I went to prison. Imposing grey towers stare out of their opaque black roving eyes at the transparent sky above, and the prisoners below. I listened to prison...
George Paine at Warblogging finds a good reason to long for the days of Victory Gardens and Private Ryan:An in-depth study recently released into the public domain shows that in World War II — this nation's "good war" or "best war" — only about 15% of American combat...
Booby-trapped car bombs exploded outside an Armenian church and a Catholic church in Baghdad's Karada neighborhood minutes apart from one another. One American soldier was killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near Samarra. A car bomb targeting a...
Best blog comment from an anti-war lefty on the deplorable Kerry is at Lenin's Tomb. "Kerry is the neocon dream. Pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-Plan Colombia. And also, not to miss the finer points, loaded." Lenin points out that not only is Kerry a hawk on Iraq, but he may...
