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  • Tehran and Baghdad Plan to Loot 500 Million Dollars of Ashraf Assets

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - News from Iraq
    11 May 2012 | 3:42 pm
    This Camp is a complete city and it can be used as an administrative unit capable of supplying services to Al-Adim Township of this province.

  • Corruption scandals threaten to destabilise Iraqi Kurdistan | Fazel Hawramy

    World news: Iraq | guardian.co.uk
    Fazel Hawramy
    10 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Kurdish president Masoud Barzani has won international recognition for the region but has forgotten about reform at homeLast month, Zana Salih, the mayor of Iraqi Kurdistan's second largest city, Sulaymaniah, was arrested on corruption charges relating to the embezzlement of close to half a billion dollars. One week later he was found dead in a police cell. While the Kurdistan regional government (KRG) maintains that the mayor hanged himself, the mayor's wife and many members of the public believe he was killed because he had threatened to name a number of powerful corrupt officials.The…

  • Nearly 40 killed and more than 190 wounded in attacks as political crisis deepens

    Inside Iraq
    Sahar IIS
    20 Apr 2012 | 4:10 pm
        At least 39 people were killed and more than 190 others were wounded in seemingly coordinated attacks that included 24 explosions and some small arms fire that hit mixed and mostly Sunni provinces, Thursday, in the midst of a deepening political crisis that threatens to undo the fragile balance of the political process in the country.     In Baghdad, seven parked car bombs, three roadside bombs and one suicide car bomb killed 18 people and wounded 96 others, said security and medical sources. Four of the explosions hit Taji, a northern…

  • Role unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bid - San Jose Mercury News

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    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    ABC NewsRole unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bidSan Jose Mercury News"The Iraq war? The economy? Let's not revisit President Bush's record," Richard Rinaldi, FILE - In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Omaha, Neb.I'm for Mitt Romney: George BushNews TribeGeorge W. Bush honors Aung San Suu KyiUpdated Newsall 551 news articles »

  • Focus of primary races shifts to top state races

    Iraq News Headlines - Yahoo! News
    16 May 2012 | 3:48 am
    After an improbable Nebraska primary victory, state Sen. Deb Fischer has emerged from relative obscurity to take the mantle as one of the GOP's best hopes for picking up a U.S. Senate seat — though she'll have to beat a famous Democratic politician to do it — popular former Sen. Bob Kerrey.
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  • Role unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bid - San Jose Mercury News

    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    ABC NewsRole unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bidSan Jose Mercury News"The Iraq war? The economy? Let's not revisit President Bush's record," Richard Rinaldi, FILE - In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Omaha, Neb.I'm for Mitt Romney: George BushNews TribeGeorge W. Bush honors Aung San Suu KyiUpdated Newsall 551 news articles »

  • UN team in Syria stayed with rebels after attack - San Jose Mercury News

    16 May 2012 | 2:51 am
    The Daily StarUN team in Syria stayed with rebels after attackSan Jose Mercury NewsThe Observatory and the LCC also reported shooting by government troops in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour near the border with Iraq that left at least three people dead. They added that the rebel-held central town of Rastan was again under intense Group: Syria troops target health workers, woundedRome News Tribuneall 941 news articles »

  • Young voters lose enthusiasm amid anemic economy - The Detroit News

    16 May 2012 | 12:04 am
    Young voters lose enthusiasm amid anemic economyThe Detroit NewsThe president has wound down the war in Iraq, and is cutting the US military presence in Afghanistan, Ewing said. He's also trying to extend a reduction in interest rates on federal Stafford loans, affecting 7.4 million college students — with more

  • Tuck won't fan the flames of Osi's contract feud - New York Daily News (blog)

    15 May 2012 | 9:21 pm
    Tuck won't fan the flames of Osi's contract feudNew York Daily News (blog)The Iraq War vet – and double amputee – has a significant role in the movie Battleship, which also stars Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson and Rihanna. The screening, sponsored by Subway, was being held for alumni of the Wounded Warrior Project, and more »

  • Review: 'Battleship' loud, dumb but stays afloat - CBS News

    15 May 2012 | 6:55 pm
    CBS NewsReview: 'Battleship' loud, dumb but stays afloatCBS News(He's played by Gregory D. Gadson, a decorated Iraq war veteran who had both legs amputated after suffering injuries from an improvised explosive device; it's an inspiring film debut). Of all the mountains on all the islands in all the world, and more »
 
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  • Focus of primary races shifts to top state races

    16 May 2012 | 3:48 am
    After an improbable Nebraska primary victory, state Sen. Deb Fischer has emerged from relative obscurity to take the mantle as one of the GOP's best hopes for picking up a U.S. Senate seat — though she'll have to beat a famous Democratic politician to do it — popular former Sen. Bob Kerrey.

  • Bush says U.S. must stand by reformists in Arab spring

    16 May 2012 | 3:48 am
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States must stand by reformists in the Middle East and North Africa as the euphoria of revolution gives way to the tough work of building democratic societies, former U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday. Bush, who launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq that deposed Saddam Hussein, called the Arab Spring "the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism." However, he warned that the difficult path to democracy would test those societies and their supporters. ...

  • Role unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bid

    16 May 2012 | 2:59 am
    George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race — with four short words.

  • "Whiskey Rodeo" Supports Troops Via Soldiers' Angels

    16 May 2012 | 2:51 am
    "Meet & Greet" and Fundraising Activities Planned(PRWEB) May 16, 2012 Whiskey Rodeo, the self-described "ultimate alcohol-selling, rabble-rousing southern-fried party rock band" has joined forces with military support nonprofit Soldiers' Angels to support the troops. All proceeds from select merchandise at the band's May 26 and 27 San Antonio shows will be donated to Soldiers' Angels. As musicians, the band is particularly interested in supporting Soldiers' Angels Operation Harmony, a partnership with Yamaha that provides therapeutic music lessons for wounded troops and veterans. ...

  • Hearing Health Foundation Launches Public Service Campaign Featuring Iraq Veteran and Others on the Prevalence of Hearing Loss

    16 May 2012 | 2:47 am
    -- Research Underway to Find a Biologic Cure --New York, New York (PRWEB) May 16, 2012 Today Hearing Health Foundation announced its long term initiative to raise awareness and funds for hearing and balance research through a public service advertising campaign featuring real people who suffer a hearing loss. Johns Hopkins reports that nearly 50 million Americans suffer a hearing loss. That number is expected to double in 20 years. ...
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  • Iraq: Bomber Attacks Army Post

    14 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    A suicide bomber drove an explosives-rigged fuel truck into the front gate of an army post in Mosul on Tuesday, killing five soldiers, officials said.

  • Iraq: Guards Say Vice President Ordered Them to Kill Officials

    14 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Former bodyguards for Iraq’s fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs.

  • Privatized Torture

    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    A federal appeals court found that private military contractors are not immune from litigation when they engage in torture.

  • U.S. May Scrap Costly Effort to Train Iraqi Police

    12 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The State Department could jettison a multibillion-dollar training effort by the end of 2012 that has emerged as the latest high-profile example of America’s waning influence in the country.

  • Fatal Bomb Blasts End Relative Calm in Iraq

    12 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    A few years ago, the day’s toll would have been a footnote in Iraq, when it was not uncommon for 100 people to be killed in one day.
 
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  • What Iraq's Oil Boom Means For The Global Market

    9 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    In a remarkable shift, Iraq's oil exports jumped by 20 percent since January, and the country exported more oil in April than in any month since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990. Energy expert Daniel Yergin discusses how Iraq's oil wealth is driving the Iraqi economy and reshaping the global oil market.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Politics Not Far From Obama, Romney On Bin Laden Anniversary

    1 May 2012 | 3:46 pm
    Eight years ago, it was President George W. Bush who rode national security to re-election by raising doubts about his 2004 Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, This year, however, the tables have turned. It's the Democrat in the White House who is challenging Republicans on what has been a traditional area of GOP strength.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • VA Struggles To Provide Vets With Mental Health Care

    25 Apr 2012 | 2:01 am
    The Department of Veterans Affairs says any veteran who seeks mental health services gets help within days. But a new investigation by the agency's inspector general says the statistics are skewed to make wait times appear shorter. The VA will have a chance at a Senate hearing Wednesday to explain how it's going to do better.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • 'A Chance To Start Over': Wounded Vets Ride Again

    21 Apr 2012 | 5:26 am
    An annual four-day bike ride organized by the Wounded Warrior Project is being held across the country this week. One Marine says the ride gives them back the camaraderie they had in the military. "You look back and you got guys missing legs, missing arms — it doesn't matter. We're just all riding together."» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Multiple Blasts Hit Baghdad, Northern Iraqi Cities

    19 Apr 2012 | 3:52 am
    In all, officials said extremists launched 12 attacks in Baghdad and in northern Iraq, in Kirkuk, Samarra, Dibis and Taji. Additionally, mortars were fired into the northern cities of Beiji and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, but no injuries were reported there.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
 
 
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  • BMI: Iraq Telecommunications Report (Apr-12)

    15 May 2012 | 4:54 am
    BMI's Q212 Iraqi telecommunications market report provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments to occur within the country's mobile, fixed-line telephony and internet sectors. Our new forecast for the mobile market incorporates the latest subscriber data, published by the country's two largest operators, Zain Iraq and Asiacell, for Q411. Data on these two operators are published by Kuwait's Zain Group and by Qatar Telecom (for Asiacell). We have also included Q411 subscriber data for Iraq's third mobile operator Korek Telecom, in which French incumbent France Télécom has a…

  • BMI: Middle East and Africa Food and Drink (May-12)

    15 May 2012 | 3:58 am
    BMI’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ratings assess a market’s attractiveness to industry investors in comparison with its peers. The reward part of the rating takes into account market size, current consumption levels, future industry growth prospects (based on our five-year industry forecasts), market fragmentation (with greater fragmentation indicating higher opportunities) and the size of the youth population. Meanwhile, the risk part of the rating takes into account the legislative environment, the level of development of the organised retail sector (with higher development…

  • BMI: Middle East and Africa Oil and Gas (May-12)

    15 May 2012 | 3:47 am
    BMI View: The oil market will once again be tight in 2012, though the pressure should ease towards the latter half of the year as production starts to catch up with demand. This supply tightness has contributed to elevated oil prices and a high level of price volatility since 2010, which we expect to see again in 2012.

  • Iraq: 122 billion dinars for research and development, Higher Education

    15 May 2012 | 2:10 am
    Ministry of Higher Education allocated 122 billion Iraqi dinars to research and development projects.

  • Exchange prices crisis not burdened by CBI - expert

    15 May 2012 | 2:07 am
    A banking expert said that the crisis in the Iraqi exchange prices is not shouldered by the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) alone, but all governmental and parliamentary organs responsible for the economic dossier, calling to establish a crisis cell to implement a strategy for methodological economic plan to reform the economic system.
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    World news: Iraq | guardian.co.uk

  • Hopes grow of a confidence-building deal on Iranian nuclear programme

    Julian Borger
    16 May 2012 | 12:11 am
    Positive signs ahead of Baghdad talks suggest that concessions on both sides could lead to a permanent dialogueThe signals emanating from Tehran in recent days suggest that the upbeat assessment that came out of the Istanbul talks last month was not a flash in the pan.My understanding is that Ali Bagheri, the deputy Iranian negotiator, got in touch with his opposite number at the EU, Helga Schmid, the day after the Istanbul talks to ensure that the ball kept rolling. In the run-up to the next round of talks in Baghdad next Wednesday, the two have met at an undisclosed location to draw up an…

  • Iraqis held illegally in 'closed' prison, rights group claims

    15 May 2012 | 2:56 am
    Human Rights Watch accuses Iraqi security forces of 'grabbing people outside of the law' and putting them in secret jailsIraqis are still being held illegally at a Baghdad prison that the government was supposed to have shut down in 2011 after allegations that detainees were tortured and abused there, Human Rights Watch says.The report by the US-based rights group raises fresh concerns about the government's treatment of detainees after Iraqi authorities took over the country's prison system following the departure of US troops last December.Iraq's human rights ministry has denied the Human…

  • US fury after Baghdad court frees al-Sadr ally linked to killing spree

    Mitchell Prothero
    12 May 2012 | 3:55 pm
    Diplomatic storm rages around commander accused of ordering the kidnap of British contractors and murder of American soldiersA senior Hezbollah commander accused of orchestrating the killing of British and US citizens is at the centre of a diplomatic storm after a Baghdad court last week ordered his release.US government officials have accused Ali Musa Daqduq, a Lebanese citizen, of involvement in a string of attacks, including the killing of five US soldiers on a base in the Iraqi city of Kerbala in 2007, while he was acting as the group's liaison to a shadowy Shia insurgent group, the…

  • Corruption scandals threaten to destabilise Iraqi Kurdistan | Fazel Hawramy

    Fazel Hawramy
    10 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Kurdish president Masoud Barzani has won international recognition for the region but has forgotten about reform at homeLast month, Zana Salih, the mayor of Iraqi Kurdistan's second largest city, Sulaymaniah, was arrested on corruption charges relating to the embezzlement of close to half a billion dollars. One week later he was found dead in a police cell. While the Kurdistan regional government (KRG) maintains that the mayor hanged himself, the mayor's wife and many members of the public believe he was killed because he had threatened to name a number of powerful corrupt officials.The…

  • Photographer Richard Mosse's best shot

    Sarah Phillips
    9 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    'This is a pool at one of Saddam's old palaces. I had 14 minutes, then they barked at me to pack up'I wanted to document the US troops stationed inside some of Saddam Hussein's old family palaces. There are 84 dotted around Iraq, but it was 2009, and the clock was ticking as soldiers were being withdrawn. You need media accreditation to get embedded with the US military and, although editors liked my idea, no one was willing to take responsibility for my safety. Eventually, the Yale Daily News agreed. It became a running joke among journalists in Iraq that I had a press card from my old…
 
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    Dahr Jamail

  • Dahr Jamail Interviewed on Democracy Now! about Gulf Oil Spill

    Dahr Jamail
    23 Apr 2012 | 11:55 am
    Gulf Oil Spill: BP Execs Escape Punishment as Fallout from Disaster Continues to Impact Sea Life “Two years since the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, we look at its impact on the Gulf of Mexico’s residents and wildlife even as no BP officials have faced criminal prosecution for the disaster. Eleven workers died [...]

  • Al Jazeera features ongoing BP oil disaster coverage

    Dahr Jamail
    22 Apr 2012 | 7:24 am
    Al Jazeera’s Spotlight Page features Dahr Jamail’s ongoing coverage of BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico: Deep Trouble

  • Gulf of Mexico spill takes toll on health

    Dahr Jamail
    20 Apr 2012 | 4:33 pm
    While some ailing local residents and clean-up workers have settled with BP, others have filed class-action suits. Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, local residents and clean-up workers say they have developed serious illnesses. Those affected blame a combination of the five million barrels of oil spilled [...]

  • BP blamed for ongoing health problems

    Dahr Jamail
    20 Apr 2012 | 4:23 pm
    Gulf Coast residents and clean up workers have found chemicals present in BP’s oil in their own bloodstreams. Ocean Springs, Mississippi – Not long after BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, 2010, Lorrie Williams knew something was very wrong with her health. She began getting frequent headaches, was experiencing [...]

  • Dahr Jamail on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story

    Dahr Jamail
    19 Apr 2012 | 6:57 pm
    “Two years after the disaster, scientists and fishermen say they are seeing a disturbing amount of mutated sea life. Inside Story speaks with guests: Riki Ott, J Bennett Johnston, and Dahr Jamail.” The beginning of this video includes the Gulf seafood deformities report posted previously. Guest interviews begin about 5 minutes into the video.
 
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    Healing Iraq

  • Nahrain University's party pooper

    Zeyad
    11 May 2012 | 7:53 am
    This cell phone video went viral in Iraq yesterday. It shows Nahrain University (formerly Saddam University) President (yes, the mobster-looking guy in sunglasses, with the cigarette dangling from his mouth and surrounded by bodyguards) having a fit because his students dared to organize a graduation party with costumes on university grounds. He calls them 'donkeys' and 'degenerates' and warns

  • 8 May 2012 | 9:55 am

    Zeyad
    8 May 2012 | 9:55 am
    Egyptian MP Ahmed Qassim of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) from al-Fayyoum performs a quick 'exorcism' on one of his colleagues during parliamentary session yesterday morning.

  • Saving Iraqi Culture by Mohammed Ghani Hikmat

    Zeyad
    23 Apr 2012 | 4:37 pm
    One of five monuments designed by the late sculptor opened recently in Baghdad at Zawraa Park near the Baghdad International Fair انقاذ الثقافة العراقية - محمد غني حكمت

  • Gulf of Mexico seafood deformities alarm scientists

    Zeyad
    20 Apr 2012 | 7:42 am
     This is some crazy stuff. We eat a lot of that seafood here. Gulf of Mexico fishermen, scientists and seafood processors have told Al Jazeera they are finding disturbing numbers of mutated shrimp, crab and fish that they believe are deformed by chemicals released during BP's 2010 oil disaster. Along with collapsing fisheries, signs of malignant impact on the regional ecosystem are ominous:

  • updates

    Zeyad
    18 Apr 2012 | 12:03 pm
    I intend to make certain parts of the blog open by invitation only, possibly on its 10th anniversary. I will still post public updates about Iraq and general Arab topics the same as usual, but more in-depth and personal articles would be available for selected readers only. Also experimenting with layout and design. You can share your suggestions and thoughts in the comments.
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    Inside Iraq

  • Nearly 40 killed and more than 190 wounded in attacks as political crisis deepens

    Sahar IIS
    20 Apr 2012 | 4:10 pm
        At least 39 people were killed and more than 190 others were wounded in seemingly coordinated attacks that included 24 explosions and some small arms fire that hit mixed and mostly Sunni provinces, Thursday, in the midst of a deepening political crisis that threatens to undo the fragile balance of the political process in the country.     In Baghdad, seven parked car bombs, three roadside bombs and one suicide car bomb killed 18 people and wounded 96 others, said security and medical sources. Four of the explosions hit Taji, a northern…

  • First Kuwaiti Flight to Iraq After More Than 20 Years

    Sahar IIS
    17 Apr 2012 | 1:26 pm
      The first Kuwaiti flight to Iraq in more than twenty years landed in Najaf Airport today. But why in the southern, holy city of Najaf and not in Baghdad? Officials said that trips to Baghdad will be the next step, withought mentioning details. After the significant role Kuwait played in the occupation of Iraq in 2003, one would have thought that its relations with the new Iraqi leaders would have been "chummy" - At least that's what many Iraqis thought. But the truth of the matter is that relations between Iraq and Kuwait are still "strained". Kuwait made a…

  • Will Top Sunni Official Return?

    Sahar IIS
    3 Apr 2012 | 12:22 pm
      Just a few days after the U.S. military oficially departed Iraq last December, PM Nouri al Maliki accused top Sunni official, VP Tariq al Hashimi of leading death squads and killing Iraqi officials and civilians during the sectarian strife. In a press conference Maliki said that he had a criminal file on Hashimi that he had been sitting on for three years, and was now ready to prosecute him. For the objective observer, the timing of this announcement was telling. Most Iraqis believe that much of the violence was - and still is political. And that many politicians and officials on the…

  • It Is Not Our Parliament

    Laith
    24 Feb 2012 | 8:31 am
    On Thursday, Feb 23, a huge wave of attacks with car bombs swept Iraq led to the death of more than 60 people and wounding over 200. As usual, Iraqi president and the high rank officials including the speaker of the Iraqi parliament condemned the explosions, members of his parliamentary bloc (Iraqia bloc) blamed the government for the security violation and the speaker of the bloc demanded the government led by Nouri al-Maliki to resign if it can not control the security situation. on the other hand, a lawmaker from the Prime Minister bloc blamed Tariq…

  • Big Day in My Neighborhood

    Laith
    6 Feb 2012 | 2:02 pm
    Last Saturday was a big day in our street because it witnessed one of the important changes in the life of all the families in the street. Mohammed, the owner of the private generator had to move his generator to another location after he got a warning from the owner of the land where he used to put his generator. The landlady told him that he can’t any more use her land. The work started since 8 a.m. Members of the families who subscribe came to the location and started detaching their cables. It’s not easy to detach a cable that passes over many houses and electricity poles. The length…
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  • Clerical “Closening” Between Iraq and Iran

    Reid Smith
    7 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Over at The National, Hassan Hassan has authored an excellent analysis of Iraq’s complex relationship with Iran, and the evolving nature of her ties to the Arab Gulf states. Hassan suggests Iraq’s Arab neighbors should resist knee-jerk presumptions regarding another Persian proxy. Hassan complements his take with an interesting aside regarding clerical connections between the two Shi’a states. Despite facile notions that Iraq’s sectarian penchants will inevitably land its Shi’a majority in Iran’s evolving orbit, Hassan reminds his readers of the sharp, spiritual divide that exists…

  • The Donkeys’ Party Enters Kurdistan’s Political Bray

    Reid Smith
    12 Apr 2012 | 3:17 pm
    The Donkeys’ Party of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region unveiled an aptly wrought statue of its four-legged namesake today. Cast in bronze by famed Kurdish sculptor Zerak Mire, the officious fellow is buttoned up in a suit, collared shirt and tie. The political m’ass’cot stands five feet tall (I believe that’s ‘15 hands’ in ‘Equinese’), and three feet thick, along Nali Street – the provincial boulevard in Sulamaniyah named for a well-known Kurdish poet who penned a popular ballad about the working “jack.” Absent allusions to America’s Democratic…

  • Iraqi Political Tensions Alarm Arab Neighbors

    Reid Smith
    4 Apr 2012 | 5:03 pm
    Iraq’s fugitive vice president, Tariq al-Hashemi, initially fled Baghdad to Kurdistan to avoid capture at the hands of Shi’a forces loyal to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Rumors spread that the vice president’s body-guard had been slaughtered in a bloody attempt to seize the Sunni VP on trumped-up charges of “terrorism.” It is now being reported that the fugitive al-Hashemi has reached Saudi soil amidst the precipitous deterioration of national reconciliation talks in his native state – originally planned to calm tensions between Shi’a hard-liners and Kurdish factions in…

  • Shaima Alawadi and the Fickle Discourse of Instant Obsession

    Reid Smith
    27 Mar 2012 | 7:01 pm
    Kassim Al-Himidi with the body of his wife, Shaima Alawadi, during a memorial service. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / Associated Press via LA Times) America is in a state of public mourning for a young man by the name of Trayvon Martin, whose death at the hands of an over-zealous neighborhood watch volunteer – and under suspicions of racial profiling – has sparked a national dialogue on race. His shooting death has prompted outrage across with country, with dozens of rallies dotting the social landscape. President Obama remarked that if he had a son, the young man would bear an uncanny resemblance…

  • A little self-promotion…

    Reid Smith
    28 Jun 2011 | 6:08 am
    Recently, the folks over at The American Spectator saw fit to publish a piece I wrote about the political threat posed by radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Essentially, I make the argument that should Prime Minister al-Maliki allow a prolonged US troop presence in Iraq, Sadr’s private Mehdi Army won’t pose the primary threat to national security. Rather, his inevitable decision to remove his party from Maliki’s ruling parliamentary coalition will be more damaging to the fragile democracy taking shape in Baghdad than the 60,000 Kalashnikovs at his command. If you’d like…
 
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    At War

  • An Outpost of Afghan Dining Inside an American Military Base

    By GRAHAM BOWLEY
    15 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    At a United States military base in the eastern reaches of Afghanistan, one Afghan brings local flavor to American palates.

  • Supreme Court Rejects Case of Former Sailor With Stress Disorder

    By DAVID NELSON
    14 May 2012 | 5:18 pm
    The case was being closely watched by lawyers who represent current service members and veterans because it related to guilty pleas from people who had P.T.S.D. or bipolar disorder.

  • The Taliban, in Their Own Verse

    By C.J. CHIVERS
    11 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    A new anthology of insurgent poetry, just published in Britain, is being received with both appreciation and anger. The poems themselves show how the Taliban's public bravado and severe Islamic code are sometimes at odds with its fighters' ruminations.

  • Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sides With Veteran in DOMA Case

    By JAMES DAO
    11 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    The Department of Veterans Affairs said it would not defend the constitutionality of two federal laws that define marriage as between a man and a woman.

  • Iraq's Wounds

    By STEPHEN FARRELL and YASIR GHAZI
    11 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    A video report: Although the United States has declared an end to its war in Iraq, the suffering continues for thousands of the allies it left behind.
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  • Iraq: Guards Say Vice President Ordered Them to Kill Officials

    Ben Lando
    16 May 2012 | 1:53 am
    Former bodyguards for Iraq’s fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs, as a politically charged trial against the vice president began. Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who was in Turkey but faced trial in absentia, has been accused of playing a role in 150 bombings, assassinations [...]

  • Iraq still operating secret torture site, rights group says

    Ben Lando
    16 May 2012 | 1:51 am
    A clandestine jail and alleged torture site under the control of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki continues to operate more than a year after the government ordered it shut down, Human Rights Watch claims in a report being released Tuesday. Massive roundups of suspected loyalists of late leader Saddam Hussein and the Baath Party were [...]

  • Iraq bombs kill six

    Ben Lando
    16 May 2012 | 1:48 am
    Six people were killed in attacks in central and northern Iraq on Monday, including five who died in a spate of bombings in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah, officials said. In Fallujah, just west of Baghdad, three bomb attacks in close succession killed five people and wounded 18 others.

  • Syrian Kurds fleeing to Iraqi safe haven

    Ben Lando
    16 May 2012 | 1:45 am
    It was a January evening when his Syrian army unit raided a house near the city of Zabadani, not far from Damascus, the former sergeant recalled. A 70-year-old man wearing a hospital gown was brought to the house, and the soldiers, including a colonel, interrogated him. When he wasn’t able to respond to their satisfaction, [...]

  • US affirms Iraqi police training program

    Ben Lando
    13 May 2012 | 11:55 pm
    The US Embassy in Baghdad says it is scaling back efforts to train Iraqi police officials but has no plans to end the program completely. A statement Sunday by the Embassy denied a report in The New York Times that the US$500 million Police Development Program could be eliminated by the end of the year.
 
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