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. […]
I’m sure the White House will spin this as being progress: Fourteen US soldiers have been killed in two days of fighting, the military announced on Thursday, as US-led troops continued to press simultaneous offensives in and around Baghdad. The news came hours after a suicide bomber exploded an oil tanker south of Iraq’s oil-rich […]
This is very interesting. Last night Joe on AmericaBLOG posted this from a Washington Post article: Five suicide bombers struck Shiite marketplaces in northeast Baghdad and a town north of the capital at nightfall Thursday, killing at least 122 people and wounding more than 150 in one of Iraq’s deadliest days in years. The savage […]
Just today: At least three suicide car bombs exploded in a mainly Shi’ite town north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 40, police and hospital officials said. The blasts in Khalis, 80 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, follow a surge in sectarian violence outside the Iraqi capital that has killed scores. One car […]
“Hospital Officials Knew Of Neglect” – now that says alot, but not as much as the actual article: Top officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, including the Army’s surgeon general, have heard complaints about outpatient neglect from family members, veterans groups and members of Congress for more than three years. A procession of Pentagon […]