Josh Marshall posts this email he received from Baghdad. He describes the sender as"a friend of mine who spent a career in US military intelligence specializing in counter-terrorism, now in Iraq working as a contractor providing security for companies and NGOs." The...
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Kathy Kelly, a leader of Voices in the Wilderness, is now serving time in prison in Illinois for her activities to oppose the war in Iraq. She would appreciate hearing from supporters and friends, including giving her the latest antiwar news. She has no Internet...
Apparently George "I Don't Read Newspapers" Bush is still isolated from world events in his Wahington Neocon bubble. Here's an AP report on his Saturday radio address. Illustrations mine. Bush vows to defeat 'small faction' of Iraqi insurgents Saturday,April...
$100 billion for new pipelines, private security firms, Haliburton contracts, but not nearly enough for ammunition:Cpl. Richard Stayskal, a 22-year-old Marine from San Jose, Calif., arrived in Landstuhl Tuesday after being wounded by automatic weapon fire in Ramadi,...
Jo Wilding, with the circus troupe in Iraq, on the hostage situation and threats against foreigners. I expect everyone knows by now about the kidnapping of three Japanese civilians and the threat to burn them alive unless the Japanese government withdraws its troops...
Bush's Neocons still clueless As a week of mounting U.S. casualties in Iraq drew to a close, the Bush administration pledged Friday to take the fight to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and other Iraqi resisters. "We're worried, but I am not panicked about it," said...
Two U.S. Troops, Civilians Missing in Iraq -Official Two American troops and an unknown number of civilian contractors are missing in Iraq after an attack on a fuel convoy west of Baghdad, a Defense Department official said on Friday. "We do have the two U.S. service...
The main highway west out of Baghdad is held by the Iraqi insurgents. They've destroyed a fuel convoy, killing nine people. Most news stories are reporting one US soldier dead in this incident so presumably the other 8 are Iraqi. Hundreds of militants armed with...
What is it about putting on a uniform that makes the person in it no longer an individual? I guess that's part of the purpose, to make them less of an individual, less human. And if that person is killed, they often become just a name and number on a casualty list....
