Updated at 11:10 p.m EDT, July 25, 2007Gunfire erupted again today, but this time it was caused by a win for the Iraqi national soccer team in the Asian Cup. The celebratory mood was felt throughout the country even into Kurdish areas. However, at least 116 Iraqis...
In the 1970s and '80s – as a response to Irish Republican Army attacks – the British government installed an extensive network of closed-circuit television surveillance cameras (known as the "ring of steel") in central London. British authorities...
Last week, Umm Daoud ("the mother of Daoud") met me and three friends at a bridge that crosses into her neighborhood. It was just after sundown; the streets were darkening as she guided us toward the narrow path that leads to her home. She and her five...
The secret prison was set up on a secure U.S. naval base outside the U.S. and so beyond the slightest recourse to legal oversight. It was there that the CIA clandestinely brought its "suspects" to be interrogated, abused, and tortured. That description might indeed...
The debate over how – or whether – to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq is stuck in a quagmire, bogged down on the question of what happens when we leave. What happens to those we supported in their quest to bring democracy and liberalism to a region that has...
Last Thursday afternoon, in a tightly packed press room of the U.S. Capitol building, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi stood at the podium and smiled heartily as she pointed to two columns of U.S. postal boxes stacked behind her. "Since Iran funds death," she told...
In June the Future of Freedom Foundation hosted "Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties," a conference that brought together liberals, conservatives, and libertarians in favor of peace and liberty. Among the speakers was James Bovard, author of...
NEW DELHI - After tortuous negotiations spread over four days in Washington, the United States and India have reported "substantial progress" on a bilateral agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation, but said they would now "refer the issue to our governments for...
BAQUBA - Life in the violence-plagued capital city of Iraq's Diyala province has become a struggle for day-to-day survival. Heavy U.S military operations, sectarian death squads, and al-Qaeda militants have combined to make normal life in Baquba, 30 mi. northeast of...
Updated at 11:20 p.m. EDT, July 24, 2007Today’s most significant event was a suicide bombing that killed or injured almost 100 in Hilla. Altogether, 59 Iraqis were killed and 103 were injured in the latest attacks. The DOD reported that one American...
