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Bob Woodward’s latest book, Plan of Attack, exposes the underbelly of the build-up to the US war with Iraq. In it Woodward reveals that the “CIA hired the leaders of a Muslim religious sect at odds with Saddam, but nonetheless with numerous members highly placed in Saddam’s security services. The CIA’s code name for them: … Continue reading “Once Again, the US Makes a Bad Deal with the Wrong Group”

Excerpts from the news conference with Mordechai Vanunu held upon his release from an Israeli prison after serving 18 years for disclosing Israel’s nuclear secrets. I have a statement to tell you. I’m speaking only in English. I’m not speaking in Hebrew. If Israel don’t let me to speak to foreigners, I’m not speaking in … Continue reading “‘I Am Happy and Proud to Do What I Did’”

Private First Class Matt Maupin assigned to the U.S. Army Reserve’s 724th Transportation Company based at Bartonville, Illinois, became the first prisoner taken by Iraqi insurgents since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The U.S. military is currently holding more than 20,000 Iraqis behind bars – most of them taken during house to house searches by … Continue reading “One US Hostage – and 20,000 Iraqi Hostages”

One of the few consistencies of the war in Iraq is America’s ability to make the wrong choices. From starting the war in the first place through outlawing the Ba’ath and sending the Iraqi army home to assaulting Fallujah and declaring war on Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, we repeatedly get it wrong. Such consistency … Continue reading “Why We Get It Wrong”

Unlike Sofia Coppola’s charmingly discombobulated film, there is nothing funny or charming about the way the Imperial “order” is crumbling everywhere, from the Balkans to Babylonia. Driven by a devastating mix of arrogance, ignorance, malice and stupidity, foreign occupiers in Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo strain to keep their grip on power, but are actually losing … Continue reading “Lost in Translation”

Bush in Deep Denial? Two reactions to the article: Your argument against preemptive aggression is convincing but more importantly for me, for the first time I realised its enormous, gaping flaw, namely: if you are going to strike something before it becomes truly harmful, then the first thing to do is find out why it … Continue reading “”

Testimony before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 20, 2004 This brief addresses three areas. First, what mistakes have been made in the Coalition administration of Iraq, and why? Second, what is the current situation? Third, what steps can be taken to ensure the emergence of a stable and democratic Iraq? Mistakes The biggest US … Continue reading “US Mistakes in Iraq”

I‘m traveling today, and so there’s no real column. I’m on my way to New York, where I’m speaking at the state convention of the Libertarian Party, an event I look forward to: as a longtime libertarian (small-‘l’), I have a lot to say, and you’ll be reading it next week, in this space. I … Continue reading “Instead of a Column”

U.S. soldiers’ negligence appears to be the cause of Monday’s killings of two Iraqi media workers in the city of Samara north of Baghdad, said an official from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Tuesday. The organization had not completed its probe of the killings of Al-Iraqiya correspondent Asaad Kadhim and driver Hussein Saleh, … Continue reading “Journalist Group: Latest Killings of Media Workers Fit Pattern”

The story of Yusuf Fakri Amash is the story of so much of Fallujah. The 11-year-old boy just managed to escape from the town with his family. But not before the U.S. military killed his best friend. "Ahmed was in my class," he says. "He was younger than me. He was standing next to the … Continue reading “Fallujah Cannot Even Bury Its Dead”