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Latest tagged entries for 'IRAQ'
'Friendly Fire' Cover-up
Friday, 23 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-05
Two US soldiers were killed two years ago by Iraqi troops they were training.
From the Embassy, a Grim Report
Monday, 19 June 2006 10:07 A GMT-05
From the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, a stark compendium of its local employees' daily hardships and pressing fears.
The Other Cheney Behind the Scenes
Saturday, 17 June 2006 1:55 A GMT-05
Elizabeth Cheney and her role in the Administration.
At least 19 killed in Iraq, 11 in Baghdad mosque bombing
Friday, 16 June 2006 12:03 P GMT-05
19 people killed in Iraq today.
Keeping Iraq's Oil In the Ground
Wednesday, 14 June 2006 1:34 P GMT-05
Iraq's oil was meant not to be pumped: Greg Palast in his book "Armed Madhouse".
Unreported: The Zarqawi Invitation
Monday, 12 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-05
They got him -- the big, bad, beheading berserker in Iraq. But, something's gone unreported in all the glee over getting Zarqawi … who invited him into Iraq in the first place?
Al-Qaida in Iraq's al-Zarqawi 'terminated'
Thursday, 8 June 2006 11:46 A GMT-05
Al-Zarqawi allegedly killed; according to some sources, he has been dead for a long time now.
Baghdad targeted civilian killings soar in May
Tuesday, 6 June 2006 1:52 P GMT-05
1400 people killed in Baghdad in May of 2006; the figure includes the toll from targeted killings, excluding those who died in bombing attacks.
US commanders knew Haditha deaths from gunfire: NYT
Sunday, 4 June 2006 6:02 P GMT-05
Marine commanders in Iraq knew within two days of the killings in Haditha in November that gunfire, not a roadside bomb, had killed Iraqi civilians but they saw no reason to investigate further.
New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal
Saturday, 3 June 2006 8:09 A GMT-05
Army documents released by the ACLU allege the government's knowledge and approval of prisoner abuses in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere prior to the time the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke out.
When AWOL Is the Only Way Out
Friday, 2 June 2006 10:29 A GMT-05
As explained in a new book, Mission Rejected, the sight of U.S. troops kicking the heads of decapitated Iraqis around 'like a soccer ball' made Army soldier Joshua Key desert to Canada.
Basra carnage escalates as one person killed every hour
Thursday, 18 May 2006 6:44 A GMT-05
One person is being assassinated in Basra every hour, as order in Iraq's second city disintegrates, according to an Iraqi Defence Ministry official.
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The New 9-11 Psyche
Friday, 12 May 2006 8:41 A GMT-05
The war in Iraq destroys the post-9/11 thirst for vengeance.
60 Minutes: CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002
Monday, 24 April 2006 11:54 P GMT-05
Tyler Drumheller who was the chief of the CIA’s Europe division claims that Bush, Cheney and Rice among others were told by the then-CIA Director Tenet that no WMD program existed in Iraq.
Sex and money bought Iraq contracts
Thursday, 20 April 2006 9:55 A GMT-05
A CONTRACTOR in Iraq has pleaded guilty to providing money, sex and designer watches to US officials in exchange for more than $US8 million ($10.8 million) in reconstruction contracts.
Robbery, not reconstruction, in Iraq
Tuesday, 18 April 2006 7:23 P GMT-05
The great liberator of Iraq was actually the hyena that cleaned out the nation.
A boxer in the visa line
Sunday, 16 April 2006 10:29 A GMT-05
Najah Ali, a pro-American Iraqi Olympic boxer, denied a visa to come to the US for study.
The Ugly ‘D’ Word
Saturday, 15 April 2006 1:26 P GMT-05
There are a lot of nations in this world where people are kooky, but only America has the military outreach to project our kookiness onto the world. That is why more than any nation state, America desperately needs a military draft. Numb-skullism, wh
Coming home — disillusioned
Friday, 14 April 2006 8:58 A GMT-05
A Marine Corps captain who did two tours of duty in Iraq on his experiences and his disullisionment with the US policy.
Saddam’s pilots hunted down by death squads
Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:03 A GMT-05
Iraqi pilots and other military men who fought againdt Iran in 1980-1988 targeted in an apparent reprisal campaign.
Suicide bombers kill 71 at Baghdad mosque
Friday, 7 April 2006 1:29 P GMT-05
Scores killed by terrorists in Baghdad; the news nothing but routine.
How Massacres Become the Norm
Friday, 7 April 2006 12:47 P GMT-05
Dahr Jamail on war crimes in Iraq.
The new definition of military valour - saying no to politicians
Wednesday, 5 April 2006 4:28 P GMT-05
Military officers must refuse to to carry out political leadership's irresponsible orders.
Sectarian Strife Fuels Gun Sales in Baghdad
Tuesday, 4 April 2006 9:32 P GMT-05
After the shrine bombing in Samarra, the weapon sales explode in Iraq.
Why are we in Afghanistan?
Tuesday, 4 April 2006 2:07 P GMT-05
Let me ask the obvious: What in hell are 2,500 Canadian soldiers doing in this very dangerous place anyway? Certainly not peace-keeping. What then?
