Considering how much the right defends them, I guess this is also their method of supporting the troops: The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel. Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a […]
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 […]
Yeah – that other war! Islamic militants are using a recent peace deal with the government to consolidate their hold in northern Pakistan, vastly expanding their training of suicide bombers and other recruits and fortifying alliances with Al Qaeda and foreign fighters, diplomats and intelligence officials from several nations say. The result, they say, is […]
As much as Bush wants to stay in denial about the current condition in Iraq, their government is starting to see things in a different and more horrible light: A senior official in the Iraqi government has for the first time said Iraq is in a state of civil war. The deputy interior minister, Hussein […]
Call me stupid, but didn’t we know this already? Hasn’t the raod map been dead in the water for a while now? GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.S.-backed “road map” for Middle East peace is “hopelessly out of date” and needs to be revamped, a United Nations human rights envoy said. In a report to the […]
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 […]