A gunmen stormed into the Arkansas Democratic Party headquarters and shot the party chair. Chairman Bill Gwatney is being treated in a local hospital. The gunman was captured and Gwatney is listed in critical condition. Think Progress caught this video from CNN: Think Progressame=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”> Developing….
The Green Zone has been hit yet again: Shiite militants are hammering the U.S.-protected Green Zone with rockets and mortars for the fourth day this week. Thick, black smoke is billowing from inside the heavily fortified home to the U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government. And Shiites are protesting in huge numbers: Tens of thousands of […]
Of course the cable news networks is still relatively silent on this (except Olberman last night): Iraq’s prime minister on Wednesday gave gunmen in the southern oil port of Basra a three-day deadline to surrender their weapons and renounce violence as clashes between Shiite militia fighters and Iraqi security forces erupted for a second day. […]
From the pages of “winning hearts and minds”: U.S. helicopters attacked allied Iraqi militiamen south of the capital on Saturday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding three, apparently because of a miscommunication during fighting with suspected Islamist gunmen. An Iraqi police spokesman put the death toll at 13. Casualties included two women and a […]
In the war George Bush forgot about: Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early Saturday, a provincial governor said. The two were stopped by gunmen outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, said Gov. Asadullah Khalid. He blamed the kidnappings on the “enemy of […]
John McCain was saying yesterday how safe Baghdad is now and that even General Petraeus can walk down the streets of Baghdad without security or armor. Of course Michael Ware quickly debunked this latest round of lies from McCain, saying Petraeus travels the streets in a heavily armored Humvee, complete with snipers, other vehicles and […]
With Bush out on a new “PR” push, we are learning more about how bad things really are in Iraq: A mob of gunmen went on a brazen daytime rampage through a predominantly Sunni Arab district of western Baghdad on Sunday, pulling people from their cars and homes and killing them in what officials and […]
Earlier while watching CNN I was shocked when I heard the same old line being used. Tori Clark, the former Pentagon spokeswoman turned CNN contributor was complaining about the reports of Haditha and how they are overshadowing the good that is being done in Iraq. She is still spewing out the same old rhetoric that […]
First Reuters gives us this: Gunmen wearing the uniform of Iraqi police commandos seized dozens of employees from the offices of a security company in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, police sources said. Two sources said about 50 people were taken. They said that the gunmen, who arrived in at least 10 vehicles, broke into the […]
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 […]