BBC reports: Iraq's new Oil Minister Thamir Ghadhban has reportedly said that all coalition advisers will leave Iraqi ministries after the 30 June handover. Quoted by the UK's Financial Times, he said that the ministry would reassert full control over the country's...
Here's a bizarre post by a person named Clayton Cramer that I wandered across. It's titled "The Sheer Injustice Of It!" and he has linked an article about some lawyer who claims to be representing Saddam Hussein making allegations that the US has tortured Saddam while...
On Sunday, AP reported that the US military is "lowering its profile" in order "to avoid alienating its Iraqi allies who take power at the end of the month." The military has been criticised for it "heavy-handed tactics," hence the...
I find it funny that the Bush campaign has chosen to highlight the same Reagan speech I alluded to in my column today; I find it downright hilarious that they titled the speech "Empire of Ideals." What did Reagan say about empire in the speech?There was a time when...
Mark at Rafah Kid Rambles: The Guardian today has a story about Sharon losing his majority after two ministers quit in protest at his plan to pull Jewish settlers out of the Gaza Strip. Sharon looks as if he is battling heroically with the far right to withdraw from...
The Wall Street Journal has just uploaded the 2003 torture memo. Beware, it's a PDF file. April 2003 Defense Department memo Link via Phil Carter. UPDATE: The WSJ posting of the DoD memo has of course been censored. A poster at Billmon's Whiskey bar has counted up the...
So many incidents have happened in Iraq in the past day that I thought I'd do a summary. Fallujah rebels killed 12 and wounded 10 Fallujah Brigade soliers in a mortar attack today. The Fallujah Brigade is encamped outside Fallujah, which is ruled by the rebels. Middle...
According to The Angry Arab, Al-Hayat is reporting that some former Iraqi Governing Council members are leaving Iraq, running for their lives, while Chalabi tries to strike a last-ditch pose as a Shi`ite: "He sounded like Muqtada As-Sadr today trying to engage in...
Vinnell employee shot in Riyadh Gunmen shot 44-year-old Robert Jacob 9 times in the head outside his home in Riyadh's eastern Al-Khaleej district. Saudi police will undoubtedly add the shooter to their list of "wanted militants" in their "intense" manhunt that has so...
Chris Albritton has written a compelling account of his first three weeks back in Iraq, and the disturbing differences in the atmosphere of the place and the attitudes of the Iraqis he has encountered. Also striking is his experience with some American soldiers who...
