Contract mismanagement and possible corruption in the Iraqi government are fueling a crisis over international gasoline delivery into Iraq. Citing a mountain of unpaid bills, the governments of Turkey and Saudi Arabia have shut off gasoline exports to Iraq. With its...
(With Arkan Hamed) BASRA - New footage of British soldiers beating up young Iraqi men in Amarah in 2003 and the release of more photographs of atrocities by U.S. soldiers against Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison have spread outrage across Iraq. The timing of the...
Last week, President Bush proposed a record $439.3 defense budget for fiscal year 2007, almost $30 billion more than the current budget. And as has been the case since 2003 – when the Bush administration decided to invade Iraq – the fiscal year 2007 defense...
Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart AttackHi folks -The AP article regarding Harry Whittington's heart attack states:"White House physicians who attended to Whittington at the scene after Cheney accidentally shot him were involved in the treatment, the officials said." I...
Foreign policy and human rights experts appear to agree with a United Nations report calling on Washington to shut down its detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but most believe that simply closing it misses a larger point: What to do with the prisoners? And...
CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr should be given some kind of award for the most outrageously off-target reporting on the newly released photos and videos of U.S. torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In her numerous appearances during...
As Washington's dependence on African oil intensifies, some analysts predict the region will increasingly play host to confrontations between U.S. forces deployed there and various insurgent groups, predominantly Islamic extremists. Currently, African oil accounts for...
WASHINGTON – Despite reports of growing tensions and even occasional clashes between Islamists and nationalists, the predominantly Sunni insurgency in Iraq appears increasingly united and confident of victory, according to a new report released here Wednesday by...
New Abu Ghraib Abuse Photos released February 15, 2006 by Australia's Special Broadcasting Service TV CLICK ON IMAGE FOR BIGGER PICTURE earlier Abu Ghraib...
One of the best television commercials I have seen in a while comes from Sprint promoting its "Fair & Flexible Plan" for cell phones. We see a pompous business executive discussing the Sprint plan and then telling his assistant that joining the plan is his way of...
