Conflict : Desert Storm II - Back to Baghdad
Sly Foodie (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
From hulu.com: In the late summer of 2006, in the middle of the insurgency, filmmakers Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi traveled to Baghdad to meet and interview the only heavy metal band in Iraq. Directed by Spike Jonze click here to watch Copyright www.slyparadox.com 2009. All rights reserved. Tweet This Post
Crate Kings (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Respect due to Seattle based producers KDcuts and Tryfe for teaming up and offering this collection of Bollywood inspired beats entitled Bombs Over Baghdad (B.O.B.). Although the tracks was individually by each producer, the 13 track beat tape delivers a high powered, yet cohesive sound throughout. Download: Bombs Over Baghdad (B.O.B) by KDCuts & Tryfe Visit Tryfe [...]
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Powell, the nation's top military officer under President George H.W. Bush and secretary of state for President George W. Bush, said the decision to use a lighter force to defeat the Iraqi army was correct. But he said in a television interview broadcast Sunday that the younger Bush's administration should have realized the initial success in 2003 was only the start of a longer fight.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
BAGHDAD – Khalida Waleed wants to thank Oprah Winfrey for keeping her fit. The 34-year-old office manager for an oil company doggedly does her 30-minute treadmill workout several times a week while watching. "I changed my life because of Oprah," she said, sighing. "Sometimes I don't exercise for a while, but when I watch her, I return to it." Waleed represents a surging trend...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
O ff the Wire: WASHINGTON, July 4, 2009 -- Newswire services Saturday reported that a heavy sandstorm has descended upon Baghdad, covering the Iraqi capital in dust. Conditions were so bad, Vice President Joe Biden was forced to cancel a planned trip to the Kurdish region in the country's north. Wind whipped across the streets of the Baghdad, leaving much of the capital hidden in a dusty haze, VOA...
France24 (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
An Iraqi government agent said Saturday that the US should not interfere in its affairs, in response to a remark made by US Vice President Joe Biden that Washington would politically disengage if ethnic or sectarian violence resumed.
Vedasri (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
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RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Vice-President Joe Biden presided in Baghdad over a naturalization ceremony, where 237 U.S. troops — comprising immigrants from places such as Mexico and Haiti and also some native Iraqi interpreters — were sworn in as American citizens. The ceremony took place in the late Saddam Hussein’s former Al-Faw Palace. CNN quotes the VP: We did it [...]
CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Vice President Joe Biden celebrated the Fourth of July with his son and other American troops in Iraq on Saturday, a day after warning Iraqi leaders that U.S. assistance will be jeopardized if the country reverts to ethnic and sectarian violence.
VOT3R (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Vice President Joe Biden spoke to troops in Baghdad on July 4. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden enjoyed a star-spangled Fourth of July in Baghdad, where he celebrated American patriotism and mocked the ubiquitous ghost of Saddam Hussein. He presided at a naturalization ceremony,...
Understanding Each Other, Diversity and Dissent (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Another Sovereignty Transfer Charade in Baghdad Gajendra Singh July 3, 2009 Tags: Iraq , US occupation , Oil 130,000 GIs Stay Put on Iraqi Soil “This war [in Iraq] is the most important liberal, revolutionary U.S. democracy-building project since the Marshall Plan. ... it is one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad." Thomas Friedman in New York Times 30 November,...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
More than one blogger has problems with what Vice President Biden told Little George this morning concerning Israel vis a vis Iran: ... "Israel can determine for itself — it’s a sovereign nation — what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else," he said, in an interview taped in Baghdad at the end of a visit there. ... As I heard...
Unbossed (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
I could hardly believe it when I saw this poll come out. It's a testament to effective public relations that a majority of people believe that they will be better off next summer than they are right now. If perception was all that mattered then the mission of fixing the economy has already been accomplished. Unfortunately for all of us, actual facts mean more than managing perception. Just ask Baghdad...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
"A baker scraping by when American tanks rolled into Baghdad, Mr. Mohsin recently spent $50,000 to throw a one-night bacchanal at the exclusive Hunting Club here. When guests visit his second home, in Baghdad, he proudly shows off the two peacocks he imported from Dubai, to join a menagerie of exotic birds that he sometimes gives away to friends. “I have four cars,” he said proudly....
The Belgravia Dispatch (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Via the NYT this Sunday : Plunging squarely into one of the most sensitive issues in the Middle East, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. suggested on Sunday that the United States would not stand in the way of Israeli military action aimed at the Iranian nuclear program. The United States, Mr. Biden said in an interview broadcast on ABC’s “This Week,” “cannot dictate to another...
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