Updated at 7:22 p.m. EDT, Oct. 31, 2009
At least three Iraqis were killed and 28 more were wounded in attacks across Baghdad and Mosul. Security in Mosul was tightened ahead of Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s historic visit to the northern city. Kurdish President Massoud Barzani greeted the minister and praised Turkish efforts to address a decades old conflict between the Turkish government and Kurds.
Jeff Huber hopes Gates bets low again on Afghanistan
International human rights groups have raised concern over a proposed non-binding resolution in the U.S. House Representatives which would call on the White House to oppose any future endorsement or consideration of Judge Richard Goldstone’s "Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict." The Goldstone Report, which detailed the laws-of-war violations …
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Ray McGovern on the “White Man’s Burden”
RAMALLAH — As the legal and moral implications of the UN Goldstone report on Israel’s military assault on Gaza continue to mount, Gazans are taking matters into their own hands and preparing civil lawsuits. The Israeli defense ministry’s prosecution department has received about 1,500 notices of future civil lawsuits against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) …
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Gordon Prather on the Iranian uranium deal
Updated at 7:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 30, 2009
At least four Iraqis were killed and seven more were wounded in very light, prayer day violence. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in two separate non-combat incidents.
The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg of heavy dependence by U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency forces on Afghan warlords for security, according …
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Would we do it again? asks Pat Buchanan
Justin Raimondo on Afghanistan as Vietnam
