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 […]
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 […]
This is very interesting and should demand an immediate investigation: Yet the black officers say that McKinney was targeted because she wrote a letter on behalf of their black officer’s association demanding the ouster of the counsel of the Capitol Police, John Caulfield, for racist remarks and for contributing to and supporting a hostile environment […]
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 […]