The administration can pull the “Mission Accomplished” banner back out and hang it again (4 years later). Looks like we got the big guy in Iraq: The interior ministry in Iraq says it has received intelligence that the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been killed. Abu Ayyub al-Masri, believed to be an Egyptian, has […]
April has been a deadly month for our troops and this latest tally pushes the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq past 100: Five U.S. troops were killed in separate attacks in the capital this weekend, including three in a single roadside bombing, the military said Monday, pushing the death toll past 100 in […]
Hits Baghdad: Iraqi security forces will dig trenches around Baghdad and set up checkpoints along all roads leading into the city to reduce some of the violence plaguing the capital, the Interior Ministry said Friday. To help halt that bloodshed, more U.S. troops have been shifted to Baghdad from the insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, […]
While Bush is still beating his war drums for Iran, we still got a growing problem in Iraq and it is getting worse: Thirty-two bodies of Iraqi police and security forces recruits were discovered in two areas of Baghdad on Monday, Interior Ministry sources said. All 32 were from the town of Ramadi in the […]
Bush last week in Ohio said: So today I’d like to share a concrete example of progress in Iraq that most Americans do not see every day in their newspapers or on their television screens. I’m going to tell you the story of a northern Iraqi city called Tal Afar, which was once a key […]
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 […]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Baghdad police found the bodies of 18 men, bound and blindfold, in a minibus close to a violent, mainly Sunni Arab, district of the capital, officials said on Wednesday. It was unclear how the men died, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. One police source said they may have suffocated. The identities of […]
Aljazeera have published a report by Amnesty International that the use of torture by US Military trained security forces have increased. Is it not about time that some independant organization was commisioned to look into this and report once and for all on the ‘goings’ on in these jails. If the US have nothing to hide […]
Remember back to the summer of 2003? We could not find those WMDs the administration swore Saddam had stockpiles of. Slowly the reasoning of our invasion turned from WMD to freeing the people from the rule of an evil tyrant. We heard stories of rape rooms and people being tortured by different means that made […]