U.S. Troops and the Wounds of War in Baghdad
US News (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Finkel discusses The Good Soldiers .
US News (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Finkel discusses The Good Soldiers .
IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
Emotions ran high as the wives of Baghdad Four blasted their husbands' former employers and accused them of lying and abandoning them and their partners.
Iraqi Mojo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Baghdad has been increasingly segregated by sect over the last six years as a result of the conflict. I read Joel Wng's post in which he mentioned that Amriya was listed as Shiite-majority in 2003, which struck me as odd. My uncles moved to Amriya with my grandparents in the late 60s and my impression was that Amriya was always a Sunni majroity neighborhood, especially after my uncles were evicted...
Wired: Danger Room (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Caption contest! Here’s California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visiting the gym at Camp Victory, Iraq. Tell us what’s really going on… [PHOTO: U.S. Department of Defense]
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Nearly all destroyed in the war and subsequent violence, animals at Baghdad Zoo are now thriving and drawing more visitors than ever before.
Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Charges against one of the Blackwater contractors accused in September 2oo7, shootings in Baghdad will be dropped, according to NPR and USA Today.It's not yet clear why the Justice Department is dropping its case against former soldier Nicholas Slatten of...
Iraq Today (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The DoD is reporting a new death previously unreported by the military. Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian M. Patton died in a non-combat accident in an undisclosed location in Kuwait on Thursday, November 19th. He was supporting OIF. U.S. fears its aid to rebuild Iraq is often wasted: Gates Says U.S. Could Withhold Aid if Afghanistan Cannot Curb Corruption: US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard:...
MSNBC.com: Middle East and North Af (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting. Blackwater Worldwide - Security guard - Baghdad - Iraq - United States
Ace of Spades (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
This is just plain wrong.BAGHDAD - It seems that the Brett Favre-Green Bay Packers saga is such a worldwide phenomenon that it's being used by detainees in American military camps. According to a military official, detainees at a Wisconsin National...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday....
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.
The Cult of the Dead Fish (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The US justice department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide (now Xe Corp) security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, according to court documents. A one-paragraph notice filed on Friday says only that prosecutors have asked that the case against Nicholas Slatten be dropped. The government's detailed request to the court was filed...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
BAGHDAD — A top aide to Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader on Friday urged the country's fractious political blocs to solve a crisis over a key election law that threatens to delay national polls planned for January. Sheik Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalaie , the representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the holy city of Karbala, told worshippers during his regular Friday sermon that failure to break...
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abdulruff | 10/07/2009
Few US-led terror Forces Quit Iraq, at Last! By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ----- Global media with a sense of “democratic pride announced that on 2009 30 June Tuesday, US troops have withdrawn from towns and cities in Iraq, six years after the invasion ostensibly to locate Osama and his hidden nukes, having formally handed over security duties to new Iraqi forces. A public holiday - National Sovereignty...