MEMRI TV quotes from an interview with Saudi cleric Dr Nasser bin Suleiman Al-’Omar on Al Jazeera. By Allah, a number of Iraqi religious scholars came to me, and said: “We have a problem.” What was the problem? They said: There have been so many American casualties that they loaded them on trucks and threw
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Nine killed in jail gun battle
All the media can come up to fill their daily ‘what is wrong in Iraq and here is proof that it is a civil war’ quota is a story about some prisoners having a stoush. AT least nine prisoners and guards were killed in a gun battle at a Baghdad high-security jail overnight after detained
The Swords of Righteousness in for a torrid time
Four peace activists taken hostage in Iraq were shown in an insurgent video broadcast on Arab television today, with a previously unknown group claiming responsibility for the kidnapping. The Swords of Righteousness Brigade said the four were spies working undercover as Christian peace activists, al-Jazeera television news reported. The station said it could not verify
Who’s winning?
A good post on just who is winning the war in Iraq from Samizdata When it comes to the future of Iraq, there is a deep disconnect between those who have firsthand knowledge of the situation — Iraqis and U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq — and those whose impressions are shaped by doomsday press coverage
Oh my God…now they’re using Willy Pete
Oh my God. The US are using weapons of war in a war ROME — Italian television aired a documentary yesterday alleging that the United States had used white phosphorus shells ”in a massive and indiscriminate way” against civilians in the November 2004 offensive in the Iraqi town of Fallujah. “White phosphorus kills indiscriminately.”says My
Another chance for the Left to get it wrong
BAGHDAD – Iraq’s major political parties finalised alliances on Saturday ahead of Dec. 15 polls that will select the first full four-year parliament since the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein. Should give the Left weeks of predicting doom, gloom and mahem followed by the normal silence; then rationalization of why so many voted. Of course
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Lyndie’s going down
If ever there was a woman with ‘victim’ written all over her face, it is Private Lynndie England. From my reading of her life, the word was most probably endorsed on her birth certificate…if there was one. Today’s Australian carries the story under the headline… Jail awaits the mistress of Abu Ghraib. Can anyone imagine
Iraqi Hostage Situation
Aljazeera has some balance coverage of the Aussie hostage in Iraq. They quote Howard as saying; “We can’t have the foreign policy of this country dictated by terrorists.” Tragic as it may seem, this is the only approach viable. It must make the family feel they are in a no-win situation but to take any
Aussie Hostage
An Australian engineer working in Iraq has been posted as taken hostage In other news, our wheat imports to Iraq are under threat as some local government officials claim others in Iraq are tring to sabotage the products with iron filings. Well, at least that’s what I think they are saying. You try and read
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