ireland.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
A car bomb killed six civilians and wounded 14 other people in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad today, police said.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Source: Reuters BAGHDAD, July 6 (Reuters) - A car bomb killed six civilians and wounded 14 other people in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad on Sunday, police said. One woman was among the dead while three ...
Ynet News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Iraqi members of parliament livid, demand apology from president for shaking hands with Barak
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
by Eric Martin As I have been arguing for months, despite Bush administration spin to the contrary, the recent anti-Sadrist military operations in Iraq (Basra, Sadr City, Amarah) have had more to do with weakening the Sadrist movement politically, than...
Polimom Says (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Considering I’ve just been having a related discussion in the comments, I found this post from Ed Morrissey timely. In three different appearances over the last two days, David Axelrod, Susan Rice, and Claire McCaskill all offered competing visions of Obama’s policy on Iraq. (Former Captain) Ed is arguing that Obama’s surrogates are confused, and offers three [...]
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Iraqi security forces detained three senior provincial officials affiliated with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday, drawing a sharp rebuke from his movement.
Thoughts from Kansas (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Five years ago, President Bush called out Iraqi insurgents, telling them to "Bring 'em on!" and they did. The only thing that has changed the rates of US fatalities seems to be a cease-fire in recent months by the forces of Moqtada al-Sadr. Evidence suggests that he is using this time to rebuild his organization, and to build ties to Iran. Since Bush invited anti-occupation forces to "Bring 'em on!,"...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Iraqi Forces Detain Three Sadr Supporters in SouthBy VOA News 02 July 2008Iraqi police say security forces have detained three senior provincial officials affiliated with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, as part of a crackdown on Shi'ite militias in the south of the country.Police say the three detained in southern Maysan province Wednesday include the head of the provincial council.A spokesman for...
TIME: Top World Stories (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
A visit to the once hostile, radical slum shows new life -- but also frustration at what they see as government neglect
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
The leaders of the political bloc, which is on the verge of rejoining the Shia-lead government after a year-long boycott, say enough has been done to address their demands
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
So it appears the Iraqi Oil Ministry waited until the final months of the Bush administration to open the store for Western petrogiants. Call it a parting present. Now that we know the U.S. "advised" the ministry on giving no-bid contracts to Exxon, Shell, Total and BP, the Washington Post gives an overview of what Minister Hussain Shahristani -- a former exile who's sympathetic to both the U.S. and...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
The number of civilians killed in Iraq fell in June despite a few big bombings, keeping violence levels at around four-year lows, Iraqi government figures showed today.
The Glittering Eye (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
When did changing one’s policy prescriptions over time as circumstances changed become hypocrisy? That’s only prudent and it seems to me that prudence is a quality we’d want in our leaders. George Packer suggests in the New Yorker that Sen. Obama’s prescriptions on Iraq should change as the circumstances there change: Obama, whatever the [...]
The Strata-Sphere (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
This New Yorker article on Iraq and Obama’s idiotic plans to surrender to al-Qaeda there, despite all our hard won successes, is just stunning. First, it recognizes the work that made the sea change in Iraq possible - though in typical liberal faction it credits ‘luck’ instead of determination to win, and the sacrifices made [...]
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Source: Reuters BAGHDAD, June 30 (Reuters) - Bad weather delayed a ceremony due on Monday for Iraqi forces to take over security of a southern province from the U.S. military, officials said. Dust storms had ...
