Commentators and columnists are agreed. Pierre Gemayel's assassination must have been the handiwork of Syria because his Christian Phalangists have been long-time allies of Israel and because, as industry minister, he was one of the leading figures in the Lebanese...
Friday: 98 Iraqis, 1 UK Soldier Killed; 93 Iraqis Injured
Updated at 10:50 p.m. EST, Nov. 24, 2006 A day after the single largest attack since the occupation of Iraq began, Baghdad remains under an indefinite curfew. However, some retaliatory violence already has occurred and more is expected. So far today, 98 Iraqis have...
Bloody Thursday: 332 Iraqis Killed, 315 Wounded
Updated at 11:40 a.m. EST, Nov. 24, 2006 In the deadliest attack since the U.S. invaded Iraq, suspected Sunni militiamen killed at least 215 people and wounded 257 others in Shi’ite Sadr City today; the death toll is expected to go much higher. In other events,...
Worse Than Staying the Course
The Democrats regaining control of both the House and Senate was seen by many as rejection of the Bush administration's Iraq policy and a referendum for withdrawal. The announcement the next day of Donald Rumsfeld's departure from the Pentagon and the nomination of...
Poisonous Propaganda
Justin Raimondo is taking the holiday weekend off. His column will return Monday. The continuing propaganda campaign directed at Vladimir Putin's Russia has taken a bizarre turn with the alleged "poisoning," in a London restaurant, of Alexander Litvinenko, a former...
Bush’s Only Real Victory
George Orwell warned us, but what American would have expected that in the opening years of the 21st century the United States would become a country in which lies and deception by the president and vice president were the basis for a foreign policy of war and...
Wednesday: 5 GIs, 106 Iraqis Killed; 3 GIs, 11 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 7:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 22, 2006 There was less reported violence on Wednesday than in previous days, but at least 106 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 11 were wounded. Also, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq released a report...
‘Cutting and Running’ Preferable to ‘Staying and Praying’
In the wake of the recent crushing Democratic election victory, most pundits in Washington have been expecting the Bush administration to change course in Iraq. For those people, last week's testimony by Gen. John Abizaid, the U.S. commander ultimately in charge of...
Support Builds for
Sunni Leader
With Ali al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - The arrest warrant issued last week by the Iraqi government for Sunni leader Dr. Harith al-Dhari has sent shock waves through the government and galvanized much of the Sunni population. Iraq's Minister of the Interior Jawad al-Bolani told...
Tuesday: 108 Iraqis Killed, 38 Injured
Updated 9:50 p.m. EST, Nov. 22, 2006 As Iraq formally renewed diplomatic ties with neighboring Syria today, at least 144 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 55 more were injured. No foreign deaths were reported, but Coalition forces killed six in separate incidents...


