Category: Iraqi War

It seems a new tactic is being used in Iraq, attack the 600,000 strong Christian population.

Josh Marshall details a look into the Niger-Italian-Iraq uranium story. Have a read. Yglesias discusses it here.

Paul Krugman asks a fair question, where has all the oil money gone? And why has so little money been spent? He asks: Last month we learned that the United States, while it has spent vast sums on the war in Iraq, has so far provided almost no aid. Of $18.4 billion in reconstruction funds…

An armed group in Iraq has kidnapped an Egyptian diplomat in Baghdad, the Egyptian embassy in the capital says. Arab Al-Jazeera TV named the diplomat as Mohamed Mamdouh Qutb and said he had been abducted following comments by Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif.

Ever wonder about all those weird fiction books that Saddam wrote while he was in power, and why intelligence agencies were so interested? Jo Tatchell has written a good overview of his books.

Wow, Andrew Gilligan was certainly a nervous fellow interviewed by Gavin Esler on BBC Newsnight tonight. Still sticking to his guns though.

Sounds like the new Iraqi regime is trying to kick ass. Police in Iraq have detained at least 525 suspected criminals in their biggest co-ordinated operation since the US invasion, officials say. Some 500 Iraqi police staged a series of raids in Baghdad in an effort to clean up the capital’s streets, interior ministry sources…

An Islamic militant group in Iraq has threatened to kill two Bulgarian hostages – the latest to be captured. A videotape broadcast by al-Jazeera television shows two men with their hands tied, flanked by three gunmen. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is suspected to be behind it, but some Iraqi militias apparently have put a price on…

News is circulating that Keith Matthew Maupin has also been executed, these executions are becoming an all too frequent occurence. Why the new tack? A video or pictures of the murder will likely become available soon, but is this propaganda counter-productive?

The BBC is reporting that the captured US Marine, Cpl Wassef Ali Hassoun, has been executed. The report originated from al-Jazeera.