Three Iraqi police stations and one police academy in Basra have been attacked by five simultaneous car bombs, killing over 60 people and wounding at least 200. British soldiers attempting to get to the sites of the explosions were reportedly stoned by the crowds. You...
Just because I'm a nice guy, I'll give this kid a link. Here's a snippet regarding my column on Monday:Normally, I ignore the disgusting rants of fools like Bargainer, given the extremist nature of his website and his fellow authors. However, since he's singled this...
Mordechai Vanunu was released from Israeli prison today, where he was greeted by hundreds of Israelis gathered to wish him a speedy death and to express their regrets that he hadn't been killed at Auschwitz. Vanunu says he will continue to campaign against Israel's...
Iraq's Shi'a community is in the ascendency after decades of Baathist suppression, and whether this bodes well or bodes ill for the future remains to be seen. Is there really as much animosity between the two Islamic sects as we have been led to believe? Is civil war...
According to Canadian military reporter Scott Taylor ("NATO in Kosovo, a place of divided goals" - The Halifax Herald Limited, Monday, April 19, 2004), various units among Kosovo's NATO occupiers reacted quite differently to the March 17-19 pogrom. For example, German...
US General calls Fallujah a "rat's nest." "We went in because we had to to find the perpetrators and what we found was a huge rat's nest that is still festering today. It needs to be dealt with," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee. All right. It's time to...
Jo Wilding took a second trip into Fallujah Saturday. Here's how it went: Sergeant Tratner of the First Armoured Division is irritated. “Git back or you’ll git killed,” are his opening words. Lee says we’re press and he looks with disdain at the car. “In this piece of...
Marcus Epstein spares us the drudgery of re-reading what the kids at National Review were saying about war and Wilsonianism last year. Arthur Silber re-reads Jonah Goldberg and gets the willies. UPDATE: I fixed the second link. Sorry.
Sadr's Army Has a Humvee Gutted Humvee becomes trophy for cleric's troops Raed Jarrar writes:A funny image of AlMahdi Army soldiers going around Kufa today driving an American Hum-vee, the military Hummer was left behind after some clashes around the city. That...
It seems that there are quite a few troops held over in Iraq that have worse problems than still lacking the body armor they were supposed to get and haven't yet. Some of them don't have anything at all. 23 News has learned that the 333rd Military Police Unit in...
