TOKYO – The commitment made by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to the international community that the country's Self Defense Forces (SDF) would join a planned multinational force in Iraq, has far-reaching implications globally. According to analysts,...
DUBAI – A series of escalating spats in the Gulf waters between Iran, on one hand, and the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman, on the other, has cast a large shadow over relations between these countries. Officials from the three Gulf countries and many foreign...
From Dahr's weblog BAGHDAD – Dr. Faiq Amin, the manager of the Medico Legal Institute (i.e., the Baghdad morgue), told me a couple of days ago that their maximum holding capacity is 90 bodies. Since Janurary an average of over 600 bodies each month have been...
So it turns out that there weren't any links between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, after all, but, hey, guess what? The story has been revised and updated. Forget Iraq, we really meant to link Al Qaeda to – Iran! Yeah! That's it! And the beat goes on…....
Perhaps it is just as well to conclude regretfully that mere facts will seldom if ever hold much sway with people whose minds are already made up. In the wake of the report from the 9/11 commission to the effect that there is "no credible evidence that Iraq and...
I come to the floor today to offer amendment to the Defense Department authorization bill. The amendment would reaffirm a very important, long-standing position of our nation: that the United States shall not engage in torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment....
WASHINGTON – Amid increasingly strident calls from United Nations officials for international intervention to stop "ethnic cleansing" in western Sudan, a U.S. group is calling on Washington to declare the situation "genocide" and lead a military force into the...
WASHINGTON – In a direct challenge to recent assertions by both President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the special bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York and the Pentagon has found "no credible...
WASHINGTON – In an unprecedented broadside, more than two-dozen top retired U.S. career diplomats and military commanders, many of whom reached their top positions under former President George H.W. Bush, have called for George W. Bush to be defeated in his...
From Dahr's weblog I haven't slept very well the last couple of nights, as the growing anxiety of car bombs has me waking at the smallest noises outside my window nowadays. Dave was typing on his computer as I walk past him to the kitchen to make some coffee at 8:15...
