From DPA, Feb. 23: LONDON – A group of mothers who lost sons in Iraq Friday set up a ‘peace camp’ outside the Downing Street offices of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London. They were joined by relatives of… Read moreBritish “war mothers” protest at Downing Street
Shades of Bosnia. From the UK-based Middle East Online, Feb. 23: Allegations of sexual abuse of Sunni women by Shiite forces stirred sectarian tensions in Iraq on Friday, while a US soldier was jailed for 100 years for the rape… Read moreRape emerges as fuel for Iraq war
Denmark has announced that it will pull all of its troops out of Iraq in August, following the British plan to scale back its forces in the country. Tony Blair announced that troops in southern Iraq would be cut by… Read moreDenmark, Lithuania to follow UK out of “coalition of the willing”
From IRIN via Electronic Iraq, Feb. 20: BAGHDAD – Umm Muhammad Jalal, 39, starts every day walking to a river 7km away from her temporary home in a displacement camp on the outskirts of Fallujah, 70km west of the capital,… Read moreIraq: critical water shortage in Fallujah
We strongly suspect that the front-page Feb. 19 story in the New York Times—based entirely on anonymous “studies” and quotes from anonymous “officials”—purporting huge hydrocarbon deposits in Iraq’s Sunni center (“Iraqi Sunni Lands Show New Oil and Gas Promise” by… Read moreIraq: oil lure fails to chill out jihadis
The House passes a non-binding resolution against the “surge”; the Senate fails to. Opponents invoke the need to “support the troops.” Is anybody listening to the troops and their families? From Military Families Speak Out, Feb. 5: Military Families Urge… Read moreMilitary families to Congress: cut the funds
From the Japanese American Nichi Bei Times, Feb. 16: On Feb. 7, the court martial of Ehren Watada, the Sansei army lieutenant from Hawai’i who refused deployment to Iraq to participate in what he considers an illegal war of aggression,… Read moreIraq war resister gets mistrial
The Shi’ite “Cult” Militia and Iraq’s Apocalypse by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT What the Bush administration is calling a victory over a strange new insurgent militia in Iraq is actually a sign of the terrifying fragmentation of the war into… Read moreBEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN”
Continue ReadingBEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN”From Air Force Times, Jan. 16: A small group of out-of-uniform active-duty service members, supported by veterans and academics, gathered inside a Norfolk, Va., church on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to hold a rally calling for the immediate withdrawal… Read moreService members rally against troop “surge”
In a Jan. 12 Washington Post opinion piece, the Trilateral Commission’s ideological guru and Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski comments on Bush’s speech pitching an escalation (oops, we mean “surge”) in Iraq: The speech reflects a profound misunderstanding… Read moreBrzezinski: Iraq adventure is “colonial war”
Incoming Defense Secretary Robert Gates has recommended that President Bush order an immediate buildup of 10,000 troops in Iraq, with an option of doubling that to 20,000 by spring. The plan is known as “Five Plus Two,” sending five Army… Read moreTilt to “pragmatists” in DC; tilt to Sunnis in Iraq?
Sadam Hussein was hanged in the pre-dawn hours of Dec. 30 for crimes against humanity in the mass murder of 148 men and boys from the Shi’ite town of Dujail in 1982, after a failed assassination attempt against him there…. Read moreSaddam executed; historical memory betrayed
