In a front-page story Jan. 25, “US Asking Iraq for Wide Rights in Fighting War,” the New York Times writes: “With its international mandate in Iraq set to expire in 11 months, the Bush administration will insist that the government… Read moreIraq: 100 years of occupation?
Further evidence of the humbling of the neocons comes in George Bush’s hailing of the new Iraqi law allowing former Baath Party members into public life. The party was declared illegal by the US-led administration after the invasion of 2003… Read moreIraq: oil greases bogus “unity”
A woman carried out a suicide bombing near a Shi’ite mosque in Iraq’s Diyala province Jan. 16, killing at least eight people. The attack provoked local Shi’ite militia fighters to use mortars against a nearby Sunni village in retaliation. Shi’ite… Read moreAshura terror in Iraq
A petition from the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), Jan. 5: The southern cities of Iraq which are totally under the grip of Islamist parties have turned into no-woman zones. Female physical appearance is not acceptable in the… Read moreEnd the genocide of women in Iraq
Two suicide attacks in Iraq killed at least 56 and wounded at least 42 this week—days after the US military delivered an upbeat report on security in the country, boasting that levels of violence had dropped over the past year…. Read moreIraq: al-Qaeda strikes back?
The Secular Left Opposition Stands Up by Bill Weinberg, WW4 Report July 4, 2007 saw the Fred Hampton-style execution of the leader of a popular citizen’s self-defense force in Baghdad. According to the Iraq Freedom Congress, the group Abdelhussein Saddam… Read moreIRAQ’S CIVIL RESISTANCE
Continue ReadingIRAQ’S CIVIL RESISTANCETurkish military authorities announced Dec. 26 that fighter jets again hit bases of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, in a third confirmed cross-border air raid in the past 10 days. Ankara called the raids an “effective pinpoint… Read moreTurkey bombs Iraq —again!
Workers march in Baghdad Striking teachers rally Iraq’s teachers and healthcare workers are uniting with other public-sector employees to demand the government take action on improving working conditions, and pledge to begin a campaign of public sit-ins in Baghdad Dec…. Read moreIraq: public-sector workers launch sit-in campaign
From the Iraq Freedom Congress, Dec. 12: We Must Stand Together Against the Women-Killing Gangs Unidentified gangs began to commit a series of organized crimes and killing many women in various cities in Iraq, particularly in Basra where more than… Read moreIraq Freedom Congress stands against “woman-killing gangs”
From the Iraq Freedom Congress, Dec. 8: Under the slogan of “No to occupation … No to sectarianism and subservience… No to the Oil & Gas Law,” the clans of southern Iraq held a large conference in the province of… Read moreIraq Freedom Congress wins support among southern tribes
Turkish warplanes attacked PKK guerilla positions across the border in the mountains of northern Iraq early Dec. 17, the military General Staff said in a statement. BBC reports that 10 villages were hit, and at least one person killed. A… Read moreTurkey bombs Iraq —again!
Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hosheyar Zebari met with officials in Damascus Dec. 12, with both governments agreeing to speed reactivation of the oil pipeline from the Kirkuk fields to Syria’s Banias terminal on the Mediterranean. The Syrian government pledged to help… Read moreIraq, Syria pledge pipeline reactivation
