And here it is: The number of Iraqis killed in February rose by 33 percent over January, reversing a six-month trend of reduced violence, in a setback to the US military plan to curb the bloodshed ravaging the country. The combined figures obtained by AFP from the interior, defence and health ministries showed that the […]
Time again to see how the surge is going in Iraq. This has become a monthly series for me, and a chart makes it so much easier to gauge. First for U.S. casualties. These past three months have been the deadliest three month cycle for U.S. forces since the war began. While June was not […]
I am sure everyone has heard the news that the Taliban bombed a U.S. base in Afghanistan, where Dick Cheney was staying. The Taliban then released a statement that they were targeting Cheney. With all this news, there is a key question that isn’t gaining that much attention. Take this line: “This shows how much […]
KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) – Abdel Hussein al-Lami, whose brother and two nephews were gunned down in the northern Iraqi town of Hawijah, seethes and promises revenge. Nasser Bonyan al-Lami worked with two of his sons selling sandwiches in the Sunni-majority town when gunmen burst into their small eatery and machine-gunned them to death. “It’s a […]
AFP Reports AL-AHMADI, Kuwait (AFP) – Kuwait announced that it had made a major gas find in the north of the emirate that promised to sharply reduce its dependence on imports from the other Gulf states. “We can say now that Kuwait has entered the world of natural gas,” Energy Minister Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah […]
Here is an interesting article that doesn’t paint the pretty picture in Iraq that the administration would want us to believe. WASHINGTON (AFP) – Despite US claims of progress in quelling the insurgency in Iraq, it remains as robust as ever and could grow a good deal stronger, according to a new study. The study […]