Monthly Archives: May 2009

The Pakistani military claims to have completely taken over the city of Mingora, the largest in Swat, and says that the campaign in Malakand Division will be completed within three days. ITN has video: This upload from CCTV gives some … Continue reading →

Trying it on for size. Provided free by this site. The Web is a moving target. My old template started displaying oddly to some people, with a purple patch on the text. I hadn’t changed the code, so it means … Continue reading →

An Iraqi guerrilla killed a US soldier with a grenade near Mosul on Friday, bringing the May total for deaths of US military personnel to 22, the highest since September (though only about half the deaths in May were from … Continue reading →

The Pakistani military claims to have taken the village of Peochar and to have cleared it of militants. It was the headquarters of Mulla Fazlullah, a top leader of the Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan. The military also claimed to have taken … Continue reading →

The Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan took further revenge on Thursday for the military campaign launched against it by the Pakistani military in the Swat Valley, by setting off bombs and ambushing police and security forces in the northwestern city of Peshawar, … Continue reading →

Republican poobah Newt Gingrich has lambasted Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a ‘racist’ because she implied that a Latina woman could empathize with certain situations as a judge better than a white male could, and so would come to … Continue reading →

Iraqi guerrillas deployed a roadside bomb to kill a US soldier in Baghdad on Wednesday. Guerrillas have killed at least 20 US troops in May, compared to only 9 last March. The Daily Telegraph reveals that the unreleased photographs of … Continue reading →

The death toll in the Lahore bombing on Wednesday was announced to be 26, with 250 wounded. Aljazeera English suggests that an Inter-Services Intelligence building may have been among the targets. The Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan (The Movement of Pakistani Taliban) … Continue reading →

A car bomb exploded in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday morning, killing at least 30 and wounding 100. The death toll could rise. The bomb targeted Pakistani security and intelligence offices, and likely was a Taliban response … Continue reading →

Guerrillas near Falluja targeted an American convoy with a roadside bomb late Monday, killing 3 and wounding 2. One of those killed was State Department employee Terrence Barnich. Strongly Sunni Arab al-Anbar Province was the most violent place in Iraq … Continue reading →