From The Telegraph, Dec. 14, emphasis added: Saudi Arabia would respond to an American withdrawal from Iraq by funding and arming Sunni insurgents to prevent them being massacred by Shia militias, the kingdom has told the White House. The blunt… Read moreSaudis: We’ll arm Iraq insurgents
From the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), Dec. 7: Darkest Scenario for Women of Iraq: Public executions of women by Islamist militias in Baghdad Shia Militias: A new wave of public executions against women is undertaken by Al… Read moreOWFI: “Darkest scenario for women of Iraq”
One question that needs to be asked, is how much of the Iraqi bloodbath is due to the “Salvador option” strategem that Newsweek claimed Negroponte wanted to employ to quell the Sunni insurgency, using Shia militias. From AP, Dec. 1:… Read moreIntel supremo: Iraq worse than Nam
From Middle East Newsline, Nov. 13: The U.S. military plans to expand robot operations in Iraq. Officials and industry sources said the military plans to use the robots for explosive ordnance disposal. They said the robots would enhance detection and… Read moreUS to expand robot operations in Iraq
If this turns out to be true, we wager the beneficiary will be Iyad Allawi. From UPI, Oct. 23: CAIRO — Iraqi army officers are reportedly planning to stage a military coup with U.S. help to oust the government of… Read moreUS planning Iraq coup d’etat?
Even Bush appears to be facing the grim music from Iraq. Asked in an ABC News interview Oct. 18 whether he agreed with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s opinion that the violence in Iraq was “the jihadist equivalent of… Read moreIraq: “new caliphate” established?
It seems that hubristic neocons, with their ambitions to dismantle Iraq (and, eventually, the rest of the Arab world) are moving in for the kill, posing it as a solution to the sectarian and ethnic strife their own policies unleashed…. Read moreIraq Study Group poses “partition”
The Primer George Bush Should Have Read! Book Review: Understanding Iraq by William R. Polk Harper Perennial, 2005 by Vilosh Vinograd What are we to make of a book subtitled “The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, From Genghis Khan’s Mongols… Read moreIRAQ FOR NITWITS
Continue ReadingIRAQ FOR NITWITSAre we terrified yet? From AP, Sept. 29, emphasis added: BAGHDAD – Al-Qaida in Iraq’s leader, in a chilling audiotape released Thursday, called for nuclear scientists to join his group’s holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so they… Read moreAbu Ayyub al-Masri: let’s go nuclear
How many times a day do we have to say “A plague on both your houses”? First Saddam vows to “crush the heads” of Kurds testifying about his genocidal 1988 “Anfal” campaign. Then the judge in the case, Adullah al-Almiri,… Read moreHRW: “judicial independence” trampled in Saddam trial
Note that even as he asks Congress to legalize torture, Bush plans to hawk what he calls his “freedom agenda” before the UN next week. The obligatory Orwell reference here would seem almost superfluous. We hope. Sarah Ferguson writes for… Read moreNew Yorkers to protest Bush “freedom agenda”
Far from pursuing ultra-ambitious neocon agendas to dismantle Iraq, Washington appears terrified of a unified Iraqi state under at least some degree of US control breaking down, and sparking a crisis that could engulf the entire Middle East. On Sept…. Read moreUS rebukes Iraqi Kurds, PKK operative arrested
