Here is one bombing for today Laura: U.S. and Iraqi forces staged raids in Baghdad’s main Shiite militant stronghold Tuesday as part of politically sensitive forays into areas loyal to the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Southwest of the capital, three American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb. Meanwhile, police said a car bomb exploded […]
Now that the war-mongering lunatics of the right-wing are preparing their latest in viscous attacks, murthalied.com, we find out that Murtha has been telling the truth all along: The U.S. military charged a soldier with voluntary manslaughter on Sunday for shooting an unarmed Iraqi man in February, the latest of several such cases to come […]
On the one year anniversary of Dick Cheney saying the insurgency was in their “last throes”, we find this out: The Sunni Arab heart of the Iraqi insurgency seems likely to hold its strength the rest of the year, and some of its leaders are now collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists, the Pentagon said Tuesday. In […]
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 […]
Yesterday amounted to one of the deadliest days in Iraq since the war started. Sadly 11 soldiers are included in the deaths which plagued the country. What is even more troubling is the fact that these soldiers didn’t die in a single attack but rather in spread out attacks throughout the country. 2 Killed by […]
Remember the news last week that the insurgency was “fizzling out”? Well that point seems to now be as invalid as Cheney’s “last throes” comment from last spring. Baghdad (Reuters) – Five U.S. soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle while on patrol in Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said. Another […]