At the end of September, the New York Times reported that "A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the...
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Updated 10:15 p.m. EDT, Oct. 10, 2006 Violence in Iraq continued Monday into Tuesday, leaving at least 196 dead and 45 injured. Included in the totals are the death of an American GI and a British security worker. One U.S. soldier was also injured. Also, a mass...
President Bush has so badly lied himself into a corner that he now needs the bipartisan "Iraq Study Group" – headed by the Bush family's fix-it man, former Secretary of State James Baker – to tell the American public that things are rapidly going...
North Korea has shocked the world by detonating a nuclear explosion and making good the threat it had held out six days earlier. Pyongyang's action is one more blow to the existing global nonproliferation order and will trigger greater instability in Northeast Asia...
In its initial reaction to Monday's North Korean nuclear test, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush indicated it will seek the strongest possible sanctions against Pyongyang at the UN Security Council but was not considering taking military action on...
Moments after hearing about North Korea's nuclear test, I thought of Albert Einstein's statement that "there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the...
With Ali al-Fadhily BAQUBA - The little-known city of Baquba is emerging as one of the hotbeds of resistance in Iraq, with clashes breaking out every day. The violence in this city 30 mi. northeast of Baghdad is also now spreading elsewhere around Diyala province....
I'm still wondering where all the damn outrage is, and I'm not talking about the Foley scandal. On Sept. 29, the Senate voted 100-0 in favor of the pork-swollen Pentagon budget, which earmarked $70 billion for our ongoing military ventures in Iraq and Afghanistan....
Updated 10:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 9, 2006 In Monday and overnight developments in Iraq, the main story is the poisoning of an entire police division. Also, the U.S. military today reported the deaths of three marines on Sunday and the death of one soldier on Monday. At...
