The accounts of the American assault on Kut indicate that the resistance had left before the US arrived. U.S. troops fanned out across Kut, southeast of the capital, after meeting little resistance in the city, witnesses said, in a major foray by the U.S. military...
With almost a complete media blackout of the events unfolding in Fallujah, about the only information source has become bloggers in Iraq and Al-Jazeera's camera crews. From Riverbend: Today, the day the Iraqi Puppets hail "National Day", will mark the day of the...
At first, it seemed to be a random attack. But now the security firm -- Blackwater USA -- said the workers were lured into a planned ambush by men they thought were friendly members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps. A Blackwater official told The New York Times that...
In the spirit of credit where credit is due, I think laying a large chunk of the blame for the violence in Iraq on The Man Of Peacetm, Ariel Sharon, for his assassination of Sheik Yassin in Gaza is perfectly justified. My case: Faiza, writing in A Family in Baghdad,...
UPDATE:Marchers break through US roadblocks April 9, 2004 THOUSANDS of Sunni and Shiite Muslims forced their way through US military checkpoints Thursday to ferry food and medical supplies to the besieged Sunni bastion of Fallujah where US marines are trying to crush...
Robert Fisk: "The British took three years to turn both the Sunnis and the Shias into their enemies in 1920. The Americans are achieving it in just under a year."
Rumsfeld on Wednesday sought to downplay the Iraqi resistance. "The vast majority of the 25 million Iraqi people want freedom for their country," he said. "The overwhelming majority of Iraqis are against those who are looting, intimidating and stopping children from...
"In Iraq ... we are transforming a place of torture chambers and mass graves into a nation of laws and free institutions." George W. Bush Address to the Nation September 7, 2003 Marine engineers patrolling near Ramadi on Wednesday reported coming across a mass grave...
Interesting posts by Stirling Newberry analyzing the campaign in Iraq in military terms. We have an enemy Up until now the highest level of discipline that the Iraqi resistence showed was the ability to execute an ambush. Control was localized, and there was little...
A recurring feature in which we keep an eye on the hysteria-inducing madmen of tomorrow, especially our favorite Central Asian megalomaniac.Turkmen Leader Attacks Tooth Fashion ANXIOUS to banish all signs of backwardness from his remote desert nation Turkmenistan's...
