The American media establishment has launched a major offensive against the option of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. In the latest media assault, right-wing outfits like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page are secondary. The heaviest firepower is...
Don't be fooled by what you read in the British press. Tony Blair is still popular – in a small section of Washington, D.C., that is. This week, Blair spoke via video conference to the panel of the Iraq Study Group (ISG). His contribution follows an invitation to...
Updated at 11:15 p.m. EST, Nov. 15, 2006 Kidnappings by death squads are commonplace in Baghdad; however, mass kidnappings still grab the headlines. In developing news today, as many as 60 more Iraqis were kidnapped from several minibuses and another 15 from a cafe,...
There is an element of Schadenfreude in the reaction of critics of Washington's neoconservatives to the policy setbacks and ideological turbulence that their erstwhile bureaucratic rivals and ideological antagonists have been experiencing in recent weeks. With the...
Updated at 11:00 p.m. EST, Nov. 15, 2006 A day after a brazen mass kidnapping in Baghdad, a second mass kidnapping occurred south of the capital. In other events, 133 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 50 were wounded in various incidents around the country....
In September 2002, Arab League head Amr Moussa warned that an invasion of Iraq would "open the gates of Hell" in the Middle East. Four years later, with those gates – at least in Iraq – open wide enough to drive a tank through, the look of the Bush...
The antiwar public, having voted the Democrats into power, are hoping – although they're not convinced – that U.S. troops will now begin to be withdrawn from Iraq. They are dreaming. And here's why: "Cautious newly elected Democratic members of Congress...
Updated at 10:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 14, 2006 The violence continues unabated in Iraq. At least 143 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 109 were wounded; however, the main story from the war-torn country today is the mass kidnapping of staff members at the Higher...
ARBIL - As Saddam Hussein faces his second trial, this one over the killing of an estimated 180,000 Kurds in the late 1980s, people in Kurdistan are taking a particular interest whether the death sentence in the first case will be carried out before there can be a...
The report by Argentine prosecutors in support of the arrest warrants just issued for seven former Iranian officials for the 1994 terror bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires reveals that Argentina was continuing to provide Iran with low-grade enriched...
