Updated at 12:15 a.m. EST, Nov. 28, 2007At least 46 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 35 more were wounded during attacks that included multiple shootings involving U.S. troops and civilians. Also, an Iraqi journalist is accusing the Interior Ministry of killing...
Petraeus Sought to Prevent Release of Iranians
Recent statements by the U.S. military that Iran had pledged to stop supplying weapons to Shi'ite militias in Iraq and that this alleged flow of arms may have stopped in August were part of a behind-the-scenes struggle over whether the George W. Bush administration...
How to Control the Story, Pentagon-Style
Acts matter. Here's how Dahr Jamail, a young mountain guide and volunteer rescue ranger in Alaska (who did freelance writing in the "off-season") describes his rash decision, back in 2003, to cover George W. Bush's Iraq War in person: "I decided that the one thing I...
Monday: 30 Iraqis Killed, 4 Wounded
Updated at 5:40 p.m. EST, Nov. 26, 2007At least 30 Iraqis were killed and four more were wounded during a light day violence. The family of an Iraqi journalist is among the dead. No Coalition deaths were reported. Also, a Turkish helicopter violated Iraqi airspace on...
Conservative Revisionists and Hiroshima
When Paul Tibbets, pilot of the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 62 years ago, died earlier this month, conservative commentators responded true to form. They declared Tibbets to be a hero. They stridently defended the use of the...
Giuliani’s Culture of Corruption
They say he's the only one who can beat the Democrats in '08, the only one who's tough enough to take on Hillary and keep the White House for the GOP, but the truth is quite the opposite. With at least two major scandals brewing under the surface, in addition to his...
Sunday: 1 U.S. Soldier, 37 Iraqis Killed; 64 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:50 p.m. EST, Nov. 25, 2007A surge in bombings continues in Baghdad and Mosul. Overall, 37 Iraqis were killed and 64 more were injured in the latest attacks. Also, a U.S. soldier succumbed, on Thanksgiving Day, to wounds received in a roadside bombing...
Saturday: 32 Iraqis Killed, 40 Wounded
Updated at 6:25 p.m. EST, Nov. 24, 2007At least 32 Iraqis were killed and 40 more were wounded in the latest attacks. The fallout from yesterday's bombings in Baghdad and Mosul conitinues as well. No Coalition casualties were reported. The numbers from...
It’s Still Pakistan, Stupid
On May 28, 1998, in response to unscheduled underground tests, weeks earlier, of several nukes by the Indians, the Pakistanis somehow managed to prepare for and test, underground, up to six "Islamic" nukes, most of them based on almost-pure Uranium-235, but...
Friday: 1 U.S. Soldier, 61 Iraqis Killed; 104 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:05 p.m. EST, Nov. 24, 2007Although the prayer day is often the quietest day for news, this Friday has been markedly violent with an attack on a weekly pet market in Baghdad and more bombings in Mosul among the numerous incidents. Meanwhile, a shrine and...