By Shaun Bauer The Nation Friday, Jun 5, 2009 Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute, the Center for Investigative Reporting and New American Media. Photo Courtesy of Shaun Bauer The light is fading from the dusty Baghdad sky as Hassan Mahsan re-enacts what happened to his family last summer. We’re [...]
According to French President Chirac, Bush told him that the Iraq war was needed to bring on the apocalypse: In Genesis and Ezekiel Gog and Magog are forces of the Apocalypse who are prophesied to come out of the north and destroy Israel unless stopped. The Book of Revelation took up the Old Testament prophesy: [...]
And So It Goes … by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Perspective In Kut, southeast of Baghdad, a girl cries after her mother was killed in a US military raid. (Photo: AP)Last week found Iraq swimming in blood once again. Attacks last Thursday brought the worst violence Iraq has [...]
5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Rumsfeld said “my interest is to hit Saddam”. by Washington’s Blog Global Research, April 22, 2009 Washington’s Bl 5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said “my interest is to hit Saddam”. He also said “Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not.” [...]
Instead of blanket-wiretapping Americans, maybe the Bush Administration’s intelligence agencies should have spent a little more time with Google Earth. Until recently, Google Earth prominently displayed an image of a clandestine US airbase that housed unmanned Predator drones in Pakistan. An image appeared to show three drones outside a hangar at the end of a [...]
We are now able to estimate the number of Iraqis who have died in the war instigated by the Bush administration. Looking at the empirical evidence of Bush’s war legacy will put his claims of victory in perspective. Of course, even by his standards — “stability” — the jury is out. Most independent analysts would [...]
Historically, some great powers have originated in the Middle East: The Persian Empire, the Islamic Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire. Following the collapse of the latter as a result of World War One, no great power indigenous to the Middle East has emerged, The aforementioned meant that, from that point onwards, outside powers became the [...]
By Dave Lindorff A new congressional report is belatedly confirming what many have long known: that the White House and in particular then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, lied to Congress in 2004 when he told them the Bush administration was not repeatedly warned by the CIA not to make the claim that Saddam had [...]
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra Associated Press Friday, December 19, 2008; A25 BAGHDAD, Dec. 18 — The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President Bush is begging for a pardon for what he described as “an ugly act,” the prime minister’s spokesman said Thursday. Muntadar al-Zaidi, a correspondent for an Iraqi-owned television station based in Cairo, [...]
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer 2 hrs 27 mins ago WASHINGTON – An internal State Department report says Blackwater Worldwide may lose its license to work in Iraq and recommends that the agency prepare alternative means to protect its diplomats there. The 42-page draft report by the State Department’s Inspector General says the [...]
AP photo / Karim Kadim A shoe is raised during a protest in Baghdad demanding the release of the journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush on Sunday. By Robert Scheer They hate us for our shoes. Somewhere in what passes for the deeper regions of President Bush’s mind might come that reassuring giggle [...]
WASHINGTON (CNN) — An extensive federal report released Monday concludes that roughly one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness. A U.S. soldier wears protection against chemical weapons during the Gulf War in a February 1991 photo. That illness is a condition now identified as [...]
Three U.S. soldiers killed four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots on the bank of a Baghdad canal last year, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Sergeant First Class Joseph P. Mayo, the platoon sergeant, and Sergeant Michael P. Leahy Jr., Company D’s senior medic and an acting squad leader, made sworn statements [...]
BAGHDAD — The tanks were full of enough clean drinking water for some 200,000 Iraqis at a new distribution station in eastern Baghdad, but local officials struggled Saturday to agree on where it should go. The dilemma was an example of the obstacles facing the Iraqis and their American backers as they try to rebuild [...]
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) has warned millions of radio listeners that the United States is heading into an illegal attack on Iran, stating his amazement at members of Congress who have openly voiced support for a criminal nuclear strike. “If we do (attack) it is going to be a disaster,” the congressman told the Alex [...]
