The only new idea in Duhbya's latest speech is being rejected by the Iraqi Puppet Council as a "waste of resources." "We must not be sentimental," Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer told reporters. "As the Governing Council, we do not agree with demolishing it and the matter...

Check out Sydney Blumenthal's new article in Salon. Blumenthal writes, "FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent neoconservatives, who are being interviewed in an investigation of potential espionage, according to intelligence sources. Who gave Ahmed...

Hesiod on an odd omission from the US "Most Wanted Terrorists" list. See if you can tell who's missing before you click here.

From Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches. “When the Americans take over our police station, they bring us all together and tell us we are no longer in charge of anything,” he says, holding up his arms in exasperation. The policeman says that all of them were made to stay...

The US is apparently going to choose Iraq's interim government rather than the UN. Let's play their game. Asked whether the US would have veto power over the candidates it didn't like who were presented by Brahimi for the new Iraqi interim govt, a State Department...

Following orders? If Graner, England and other MPs accused in the Abu Ghraib toture scandal intend to invoke the Nazi Defense, that they were "just following orders," they're going to have to explain why they were selective about which orders they decided to obey. In...

UPI reports:The 155-mm shells containing sarin gas that exploded in Iraq May 17 were manufactured before 1991, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. That was a pre-Gulf War shell, a different category than the weapons being sought by the Iraq Survey Group, Brig. Gen....

If you ever doubted that the neocon/Republican/Bushies' claim to "support the troops" is anything but a phony pose, here's rock solid proof that it is. UPDATE: As long as we're on the Support the Troops subject, here's another excellent post....

The Brooding Persian has some reflections on Simone Ledeen and other junior Messiahs currently interning in Iraq:Don’t get me wrong now. I am all for on the job trainings. I don’t believe in the cult of expertise. But seriously, shouldn’t the family team so intent on...

"Occupation made world less safe, pro-war institute says." The US and British occupation of Iraq has accelerated recruitment to the ranks of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and made the world a less safe place, according to a leading London-based think-tank. The...