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The Nonexistent Good News from Baghdad
Electrical wires span the streets in Baghdad, fed by private generators that provide backup for districts without power from the central grid. Photo: Marko Georgiev for The New York Times.Wrecked Iraq: What the Good News from Iraq Really MeansBy Michael … Continue reading
Iraqi Cabinet Rejects Revised SOFA*
Well, this will make things interesting insofar as the Bush administration is not especially willing to concede any further points in the agreement. As Juan Cole points out, By the time a draft agreement was circulated last week (text courtesy … Continue reading
Ethnic Cleansing of Iraq Is Not Yet Finished
A car bomb damaged this Chaldean church in west Mosul on January 17, 2008. Photo: Elizabeth Valgiusti.3,000 Christians flee Mosul raidsOctober 12, 2008 MOSUL — Militants blew up three empty Christian homes yesterday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, … Continue reading
Cholera in Iraq: A Result of Government Corruption
Children fill water containers in a former Baghdad army base, now a slum. Cholera has infected many supplies. Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGESCorruption blamed as cholera rips through IraqBy Patrick Cockburn / October 10, 2008 BAGHDAD — A deadly outbreak of cholera … Continue reading
NIE: Surge Has Not Put the US on a Path to Victory
US team warns of fresh ethnic violence in IraqBy Michael Jansen / October 9, 2008 THE TEAM preparing the latest US intelligence analysis of the situation in Iraq warns that ethnic and sectarian tensions could erupt into fresh violence, reversing … Continue reading
Despite the Surge, the Iraqi Brain-Drain Continues
Women carry rice and flour rations that the Iraqi army distributed to returning families in Khan Bani Saad in Diyala province. “We just want people to go back to their normal lives,” said Col. Ali Mahmoud, an Iraqi commander in … Continue reading
A World Premiere from Larry Piltz
Just Got Back (From Iraq and Nam) “Just Got Back”, an unprecedented Music Video, uses stunning unaired original photos from the Vietnam War, of Vietnam Veterans protesting 1972 Republican convention in Miami, of 1990s war-devastated Iraq, and of a modern … Continue reading
Iraq Is Going to Run Its Oil Industry, Not Neocons
New approach: Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain Al Shahristani… “Oil and gas are the property of the Iraqi people. Nobody can share that ownership.” Photo: AFPIs America losing out on Iraqi oil?By Atul Aneja / September 17, 2008 The grand American … Continue reading
On Meeting Junior’s 2007 Iraq Benchmarks
Frankly, I take issue with Mr. Doggett’s propensity to lay so much blame on the current Iraqi government. Remember that it was the United States military, with tacit Congressional approval and on the orders of George Bush, that illegally entered … Continue reading
Iraq Report: Mosul Very Uneasy
Three Armored Combat Excavators clear debris and obstacles from a four-lane highway while a Bradley Fighting Vehicle provides security in Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 2007.Fear and mistrust plague Iraq’s MosulBy Tim Cocks / September 11, 2008 MOSUL, Iraq — Falah Mohammed … Continue reading
Another Episode of Bringing Democracy to Iraq
Karkh juvenile prison in 2004. The prison currently holds 315 children, while its capacity is 250. Photograph: Marwan Naamani/AFPInmates tell of sexual abuse and beatings in Iraq’s overcrowded juvenile prison systemBy Jonathan Steele / September 8 2008 BAGHDAD — Hundreds … Continue reading
But We Are At the End of Our Rope
“It is not a good thing that al-Maliki is pressuring Iraqi refugees in Egypt and Jordan to return. The UNHCR says it is too dangerous for them as yet. Some returnees in Diyala Province were recently evicted from their homes … Continue reading
