Bush Team on Defensive Over al-Qaeda Leak

One of the greatest coups in Washington's nearly three-year war against al-Qaeda has suddenly turned sour with reports the White House prematurely exposed the identity of a key source whose contacts and communication with the terrorist group's operational masterminds...

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And So It Goes

Turns out, according to the Washington Post, the information on which the latest terrorist scare is based is two to three years old. It was sold to the American public initially as if it were a brand-new discovery. It seems that the Bush administration is unable to...

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Nodong No Joke?

A year ago some un-named US Government official "reported" that North Korea was working on a new missile that could perhaps be a threat to the US mainland. "We've had hints of this for several years, but it's only within the last year that we've been...

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Bush Outing of Khan and the Faustian Bargain

David Johnston of the New York Times tried to get further details of the Bush administration outing of Pakistani double agent Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan. But he was stonewalled when he called his Bush administration contacts: "American officials contacted on Saturday...

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Who ‘Outed’ Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan?

As the President of the United States and his reelection campaign invoked the specter of another terrorist attack on American soil – implicitly warning against the dangers of switching horses in midstream– other members of his administration were undermining...

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Targeting Civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The U.S. government has killed civilians for well over a century. During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman waged war on civilians in Atlanta. During the Philippine Insurrection at the turn of 20th century, U.S. forces killed about 200,000 civilians, and...

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Anguished Christians Flee to Syria

DAMASCUS - George Lutfi's voice trembled with emotion as thought back of Iraq and his family there. The 32-year-old deacon of the Chaldean Solaqa Church in Baghdad fled to Syria last week after the bombings at churches in Baghdad and Mosul that killed at least 11...

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Backtalk, August 8, 2004

2005 Draft?I'm a fan of your site, and I have a boyfriend in the army. He even likes it. I love how you're not anti-troops, but anti-war as all are. I have found something that has scared me, and I thought you could possible ease some of our minds out here about if it...

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Iraq on the Verge of Implosion

Robert Fisk is a reporter for the British newspaper The Independent. He has spent decades in the Middle East, and I know of no reporter who is his equal in that area of the world. After five weeks in Iraq, he recently reported a very pessimistic assessment of the...

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