Archives: July 2007

Iraqi Parliament Adjourns Asean Calls

Iraqi Parliament Adjourns ASEAN Calls for US Withdrawal from Iraq Iraq's parliament went on a one-month hiatus Tuesday afternoon, having not passed any significant legislation. Bush had outlined 4 'benchmarks' last January…

Third Of Iraqi Children Malnourished

A third of Iraqi Children Malnourished Baghdad Neighborhoods Emptied by Snipers Skepticism on Gates-Rice MissionThe aid organization Oxfam estimates that a third of Iraqis, about 8 million persons, are in urgent need…

Basra Governor Dismissed Fadhila Brands

Basra Governor Dismissed Fadhila Brands al-Maliki Gov. "the New Baath" Sunnis Complain about "Threats" The Sunni Arab bloc in parliament, the Iraqi Accord Front, traded insults on Saturday with the al-Maliki government.…

Hearing On Us Embassy In Iraq Mayberry

Mayberry Testimony on Kidnapping of Workers for US Embassy BaghdadI mentioned story the other day briefly about allegations that the Kuwaiti contracting firm building the US embassy in Baghdad has Shanghaied workers,…

Al Maliki Tensions Severe With Petraeus

Al-Maliki Tensions Said Severe with Petraeus; US Raid in Karbala Steven R. Hurst and Qassim Abdul-Zahra of the Associated Press get the scoop that relations between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and US…

Epic News Release Responsibility To

EPIC News Release: Responsibility to Iraqi Refugees ActThe Education for Peace in Iraq Center sent this news release on an important bill that is in danger of languishing in Congress:"On June 14th,…

8 Us Troops Killed 100 Casualties In

8 US Troops Killed 100 Casualties in Karrada Bombing KRG MP: US oil Interests driving Iraqi Legislation It was announced Thursday that Iraqi guerrillas had killed 7 US soldiers. The Daily Times…

Bombings Kill Dozens In Street Crowds

Bombings Kill dozens in Street Crowds Sunni Arabs threaten withdrawal from Parliament Iraqis were unified for a brief period on Wednesday as they came out in the streets from the north of…

Us Iran Alliance Against Sunni

US-Iran Alliance Against Sunni Guerrillas? US Security Plan Envisages Troop Presence to 2009 The headlines will probably concentrate on the shouting match between US Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Iranian diplomat Hassan Kazemi…

Bush Falsehoods About Al Qaeda In Iraq

Bush Falsehoods about Al-Qaeda in IraqBush gave a speech on Tuesday in which he made a large number inaccurate statements. Likely the recent Pentagon and White House practice of referring to all…

Debate Scorecard On Iraq Here Is Debate

Debate Scorecard on Iraq Here is the debate transcript from last night.The candidates basically split into a) those who wanted gradual withdrawal with political arrangements and perhaps some troops left in Iraq;…

Massive Bomb Kills 22 Wounds 60 At

Massive Bomb Kills 22, Wounds 60 at Hillah US Blockades Mahdi Army New Turkish Government may Decline Military Option A suicide car bombing of a market in the southern Shiite city of…

Us Raids Umm Al Qura Mosque Sistani

Turkish Muslim Party Wins Landslide US Raids Umm al-Qura Mosque Sistani said in Peril In neighboring Turkey, the Islamically tinged AK Party won nearly 47% of the vote on Sunday, which will…

Feingold On Censure Full Discussion

Feingold to Introduce Censure Resolution against Bush Senator Russ Feingold plans to introduce a censure motion against Bush for misleading the US public into war, he told Meet the Press on Sunday.Feingold…

Blumenthal Young Republican Chicken

Blumenthal: Young Republican Chicken Hawks Max Blumenthal via YouTube,on young Republican Chicken Hawks [wouldn't they just be 'chicks'? Or maybe 'peepees'?].You'd think after what happened to Jonah Goldberg, they'd get together and…

How To Create Angry American

How to Create an Angry AmericanRepeated from SundayA clever montage of Bush administration falsehoods and denials regarding the Iraq War, via YouTube (film-maker's link).

Us Airstrike Kills 15 Children Women

US Airstrike Kills 15 Children, Women, Men; Mosul Rocked by Death Squad, Roadside Bomb Killings; Shiite UIA Rejects Arming Sunni Arabs The United States military has bombed Iraqi cities quite a lot.…

June Attacks In Iraq At All Time High

June Attacks in Iraq at All-Time High Da'wa Party Protests Saudi Jihadis Reuters obtained from the US Department of Defense statistics that show there were an average of 177.8 attacks on Iraqi…

Tpmtv New Al Qaeda Bamboozle

Josh Marshall on the Iraq Al-Qaeda Bamboozle

4 Multinational Force Troops Killed

4 Multinational Force troops Killed Turks Shell northern Iraq Turkey intensively shelled Kurdish PKK positions inside Iraq, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Iraqi side. Turkey views the PKK as a terrorist…

Sunni Bloc Returns To Parliament Lat Is

Sunni Bloc Returns to Parliament ABC News Raw Footage The LAT is reporting that the Sunni Arab Iraqi Accord Front is ending its suspension of participation in parliament. It had demanded that…

Two Deadlocked Parliaments Democratic

Two Deadlocked Parliaments The Democratic senators held an all night session Tuesday night, to underline that they are unable to get through their plan on an Iraq withdrawal plan because of Republican…

Nie Iraq Fueling Al Qaeda Threat To Us

NIE: Iraq Fueling al-Qaeda Threat to USFred Kaplan at Slate points out that it does not take much reading between the lines to conclude that the new National Intelligence Estimate indicates that…

80 Dead In Kirkuk Bombings Lat Reports

Dozens Massacred in Diyala 80 Dead in Kirkuk Bombings Sunni Arab gunmen massacred dozens of Shiite villagers near Muqdadiya in Diyala province the night of Monday into Tuesday morning, according to a…

Egyptian Sudanese Jihadi Volunteers

Egyptian, Sudanese Jihadi Volunteers Suspected by Iraq　This wire service compilation done by the Daily Star adds more information on foreign detainees in Iraq. As I read it, in addition to the over…

Few Foreign Fighters In Iraq Many Are

Few Foreign Fighters in Iraq; Many are Saudi Al-Maliki Says Iraqi Troops ready Manan Ahmed gives further insights into the motivations of the Glasgow bombers. Ned Parker of the LA Times reports…

Pace Independent Iraqi Battalions In

Pace: Independent Iraqi Battalions in Decline Gen. Peter Pace says that the number of Iraqi battalions (about 500 men) who can operate wholly independently of the US forces has fallen in the…

Iraq Minorities In Extreme Peril Bbc

House rebuffs Bush on Iraq Iraq Minorities in Extreme Peril The House of Representatives again rebuffed Bush on Iraq, voting by a comfortable majority to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq but to…

30 Bodies Found In Baghdad Death Squad

30 Bodies found in Baghdad Death Squad killings Spike For a Daily Kos diary on our panel at Yearly Kos in Chicago, Aug. 3-6, this link. Many thanks to Markinsanfran.Reuters reports civil…

Sadrists Furious With Al Maliki Over

Sadrists Furious with al-Maliki over "Baathist" Charge The USG Open Source Center reports on the tiff between the Sadrists in parliament and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki occasioned by the latter's charge that…

20 Rockets Mortar Shells Hit Green Zone

20 Rockets, Mortar Shells, Hit Green Zone; Kill 3 Petraeus Meets with Presidency Council On Tuesday, guerrillas launched some 20 katyusha rockets and mortar shells into the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad,…

140000 Turkish Troops Mass At Iraq

140,000 Turkish Troops Mass at Iraq Border Iraq Benchmarks still Waiting for Godot Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (a Kurd) warned Monday that 140,000 Turkish troops were massed at the border with…

Al Maliki To Face No Confidence Vote As

Al-Maliki to Face No-Confidence Vote? As Many as 150 Dead in "Turkmen Massacre" Readers sometimes ask me if analyzing the news from Iraq every day doesn't get me down.It got me down…

Shiite Wedding Bombed Sadrists Reject

Domenici Calls for Change of Course Shiite Wedding bombed Sadrists Reject Oil Law Republican Senator Pete Domenici has joined the small but expanding ranks of Republicans in Congress who are demanding a…

Iraqi Parliament Fails To Reach Quorum

Buyukanit Implies US Soft on Terrorism Major engagement near Baquba kills Dozens Iraqi Parliament fails to Reach Quorum Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Iraqi parliament was unable to reach a quorum…

Al Maliki Plans Overhaul Of His

Al-Maliki plans Overhaul of his Government 18 Dead in Bombing of Shiite Market Aljazeera Arabic is showing clips of a speech by PM Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq in which he is promising…

6 Us Soldiers Were Announced Killed On

US Air Raid on Diwaniya Allegedly Kills 10 Civilians 6 US Troops Killed Iran Denies US Charges of Covert Ops in Iraq 6 US soldiers were announced killed on Monday in Iraq.…

Al Maliki Calls For Provincial

Al-Maliki Calls for Provincial Elections MP Janabi defects to Guerrillas Sadrists Reject new Parliamentary bloc Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is calling for provincial elections to be held in Iraq by the fall…

Maliki Condemns Us Raid On Sadr City 77

Maliki Condemns US Raid on Sadr City 77% of Americans Say Iraq War going Badly 77% of Americans say that the Iraq War is going badly, and 66% say we should get…

Iran Welcomes President Talebani

Talabani and Ahmadinejad Buddy AroundThis video of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani visiting Tehran last week and hanging around gleefully with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad raises many questions: Didn't Bush say to Iraqi…