If U.S. President-elect Barack Obama wants to begin dismantling Washington's nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, it appears he will have widespread support for doing so. Not only have some major foreign policy heavyweights recently called for ending the...
Updated at 7:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 8, 2008Iraqis began Eid al-Adha observances at dawn, so there will be little news out of the country today. Instead, the focus is on Utah, where five Blackwater Worldwide guards handed themselves over to U.S. authorities. No Coalition...
Updated at 8:20 p.m. EST, Dec. 7, 2008At least 12 Iraqis were killed and 65 more were wounded during the latest attacks. In one, the mayor of Baquba suffered injuries. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, a National Police commander announced new programs as...
According to the Commission On The Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism [.pdf], their mandate was "to examine the threats posed to the United States." But their principal conclusion was that "unless the world community...
Updated at 10:32 p.m. EST, Dec. 6, 2008At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 51 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, Muslims have begun the haj pilgrimage to Mecca, and several Iraqi provinces have strengthened...
The New York Times is reporting about an "apparent evolution" in president-elect Barack Obama's thinking on Iraq, citing his recent statements about his plan to keep a "residual force" in the country and his pledge to "listen to the...
Extremist settler groups currently involved in violent confrontations with Palestinians in the center of Hebron have chosen their next battleground, this time outside the West Bank. A far-right group know as the Jewish National Front, closely associated with the...
As rage coursed through India after the Mumbai terrorist bombings, Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's Secretary of State, flew to India and cautioned the Indian government on avoiding a knee jerk and counterproductive response. She warned the Indians that...
The virtually total impunity from prosecution accorded to private contractors in Iraq may be coming to an end. Under the new Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) approved by the Iraqi government last week, US contractors will be subject to Iraqi law for the first time....
"In a government of law, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the...
