Month: June 2007

Updated at 11:55 p.m. EDT, June 8, 2007In an unusually active Friday, 72 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 68 wounded in violent attacks. Two significant bombings occurred in Qurna and Daqqua, while the family of a police official was slaughtered in Baquba. No foreign casualties were reported.In Baghdad, gunmen bombed a mosque in … Continue reading “Friday: 72 Iraqis Killed, 68 Wounded”

Three human rights groups sued the US government Thursday to force it to disclose what it knows about the fate of more than three dozen detainees in the "global war on terror" who are believed to have been held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in secret prisons at some point over the past five … Continue reading “Groups Sue US Over Fate of 39 ‘Disappeared’”

UNITED NATIONS – Faced with an unwinnable five-year war in Iraq, the United States may be looking towards the United Nations to extricate it from the growing military quagmire, according to diplomats and political analysts. "With the war turning out to be a huge political liability for the ruling Republican Party at the upcoming elections … Continue reading “Is US Eyeing UN as Dumping Ground for Iraq?”

Rather like the Hotel California in the famous Eagles song, the U.S. will be able to check out of Iraq but never leave if President George W. Bush has his way. He says he hopes Iraq will become like Korea – where U.S. combat forces remain today, 57 years after they arrived. White House presidential … Continue reading “The Bush Escalation: Occupying Iraq, Forever”

Finally, the great American disconnect may be ending. Only four years after the invasion of Iraq, the crucial facts-on-the-ground might finally be coming into sight in this country – not the carnage or the mayhem; not the suicide car bombs or the chlorine truck bombs; not the massive flight of middle-class professionals, the assassination campaign … Continue reading “The Great American Disconnect”

As the situation on the ground in Iraq veers out of control, the rest of the Middle East is coming undone – a state of affairs directly attributable to our policy of “regime change” throughout the region. On the western front, Lebanon is teetering on the brink of (yet another) civil war, with the very … Continue reading “Middle East Meltdown”

Updated at 12:15 p.m EDT, June 7, 2007At least 90 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 95 Iraqis were wounded during violent incidents. An American MND-B soldier was killed and two more wounded yesterday in the capital. Also, one British soldier was killed and three others wounded when they came under a … Continue reading “Thursday: 1 GI, 1 Briton, 90 Iraqis Killed; 95 Iraqis Wounded”

Shadows of the Cold War stalked the German spa resort of Heiligendamm this week, as the annual G-8 summit got underway. Relations between Russia and the United States have grown steadily worse for months. The latest animosity can be traced to Washington’s belligerent insistence on severing the occupied province of Kosovo from Serbia, and deploying … Continue reading “Haunting Heiligendamm”

BAGHDAD – With the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq in its fifth year, one leading study estimates that more than 655,000 Iraqis have been killed – with no end to the violence yet in sight. Left behind are loved ones who continue to mourn their loss, as well as what might have been. Iraq was once … Continue reading “In Iraq, Broken Lives and Broken Hearts”

Updated at 12:28 a.m. EDT, June 7, 2007At least 122 Iraqis were killed and 70 were wounded during attacks which including a car bombing near a shrine in Baghdad. Six more GIs were killed in action, bringing the tally of U.S servicemembers who have died serving in Iraq to 3503 deaths.The DOD reported that two … Continue reading “Wednesday: 6 GIs, 122 Iraqis Killed; 70 Iraqis Wounded”