Eli at Left Eye points out this Washington Post article which describes Blackwater commandos engaging in firefights with Iraqis alongside American soldiers. An attack by hundreds of Iraqi militia members on the U.S. government's headquarters in Najaf on Sunday was...
After denying all day today that more American troops (the only kind they can get) were needed in Iraq to deal with the incipient civil war Bremer managed to fire up, it comes to light that the US military has resorted to the old tried and true method of increasing...
More from Raed: So, Bush and Bremer said that all the clashes and attacks are being planed by terrorists, and that’s why the American army is killing and arresting “bad Iraqis” in those “bad cities”… those were just minority, but the CPA is going to give freedom and...
Iraqi blogger zayed is normally fairly pro-American, pro-Occupation. Here's his report from Baghdad today on Healing Iraq: A coup d'etat is taking place in Iraq a the moment. Al-Shu'la, Al-Hurria, Thawra (Sadr city), and Kadhimiya (all Shi'ite neighbourhoods in...
Perry de Havilland has a solution to the Iraqi quagmire! What seems to be developing into an open revolt in Iraq by Shi'a Islamists could be a Godsend to the coalition and secular elements of Iraqi society in the long run... in openly taking up arms against the...
Here's a discussion of Muqtada al Sadr from Raed Jarrar who posts on his Iraqi blog Raed in the Middle. Muqtada, is younger than me. He is around 25 years old, spent all of his life in Iraq studying in religious schools, I think he is very introverted, defensive and...
Why do you run anything by Jonathan Rauch? I know you guys are more interested in promoting Big Macs and drive-thru abortions than you are in advancing libertarian foreign policy, but I have yet to read anything even mildly liberty-oriented by Rauch. The absurd and...
Will the US assassinate al-Sadr? They've announced an arrest warrant for him, and called him a "terrorist." The White House accused Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr of being an ally of "terrorist organizations" on Monday and said the religious leader whose...
"Iraqi Army" turns on the Americans Watch for more of this to happen: US Apache helicopters sprayed fire on the private army of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during fierce battles today in the western Baghdad district of Al-Showla, witnesses and an AFP...
A look at Egyptian political theater, with valuable insight into what often cannot be otherwise openly expressed in the Middle East. U.S. Marines, actors armed with wooden assault rifles, storm into the theatre cafe even before the audience has taken its seats,...
