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...
Capitol Hill was recently roiled by an issue of no obvious concern to America: the World War I genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against its Armenian population. But the tendency of Washington policymakers to concoct foreign policy to satisfy influential...
The Annapolis conference is a joke. Though not in the least funny. Like quite a lot of political initiatives, this one too, according to all the indications, started more or less by accident. George Bush was due to make a speech. He was looking for a theme that would...
BAGHDAD - The executions of former regime officials are creating greater division, rather than reconciliation, among Iraqis. Special courts formed by the American occupation authorities in Iraq are issuing death sentences – like that carried out on former Iraqi...
Well, then what do we have to be thankful for? Let me count the ways …. 1. Bush hasn't gone to war with Iran – yet. Now that's a big one, but I don't think we should be overwhelmed with gratitude. Let us, instead, give thanks that we still have time to stop...
PRAGUE - The US proposal to set up an anti-missile defense system in Eastern Europe has drawn the Czech Republic into a high-level diplomatic debate between Moscow and Washington for which they may not be fully prepared. The defense system would have two elements: a...
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...
Updated at 12:20 a.m. EST, Nov. 23, 2007Mortars rained on the Green Zone has American troops there were celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. The British base in Basra also received a round of shelling. At least 66 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 36 were...
Imagine Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telling a group of leading U.S. policymakers that Iran's nuclear weapons program does not pose a direct threat to U.S. security, or former CIA Director George Tenet making the same kind of argument in a public forum. Imagine...
What do the current Pakistani political crisis, Israel's September air strike against Syria, and Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear enrichment all have in common? All three events reflect the aggressive policies adopted by the George W. Bush administration to deal...
