The Baghdad bureau chief of the New York Times could not have been any clearer. "The story really takes us back into the 8th century, a truly barbaric world," John Burns said. He was speaking Tuesday night on the PBS NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, describing what...
Just when one thinks the Empire is not capable of any further hypocrisy, word comes from Brussels that the mandarins of the EUSSR are "a little worried" about Serbia. Come again? After 15 years of demonizing the Serbs, blaming them for every incident of...
RUWEISHID REFUGEE CAMP - A small stretch of desert, sandwiched between the borders of Jordan and Iraq, is a "no-man's land," created by the Iraqi government's decision to cede part of its western frontier to Jordan. It has become a place where refugees from...
It started with a kiss. Finishing a bout of lovemaking in the back seat of Omar's car, Adil kissed him in the moment before their bodies parted – and that's when he heard it: a tapping on the windshield. The car was flooded with light and a veritable army of...
On Tuesday, June 13, while Mr. Bush spent a brave five hours in the "green zone" of Baghdad with puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, at least 36 people were killed across Iraq amid a wave of bombings. Eighteen of those died in a spasm of bombings in the oil...
This Sunday's sacred ritual of Mass, bagels, and tea with the Grumpy Old Men's Club was rudely disrupted by the headline of the day's Washington Post: "U.S. Airstrikes Rise in Afghanistan as Fighting Intensifies." Great, I thought; it's probably cheaper than...
Remember Saddam's "killing fields"? By now, the Bush administration has turned whole swathes of Iraq into a charnel house. Last week Hala Jaber, a fine British reporter, returned to Baghdad and visited one of today's killing fields – that city's morgue into...
Although on the surface, things have been going well lately for President Bush on Iraq – the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the installing at long last of a permanent government in Iraq, and a vote of support in the U.S. House of Representatives for the...
With Ali Fadhil RAMADI - As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the city daily, residents struggle to cope, both inside and outside the sealed city. A week spent in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of...
According to the United Nations statute establishing the International Atomic Energy Agency: "The Agency shall seek to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health, and prosperity throughout the world. It shall ensure, so far as it is...
