AP /Fox News: Shiite militants agreed on a ceasefire in Baghdad's embattled neighborhood of Sadr City, an aide to a high level cleric said Saturday, holding out hope that weeks of clashes in the capital could be at an end. In the northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi army commander announced the start of a long anticipated offensive against Al Qaeda in Iraq's last urban stronghold. Sheik Salah al-Obeidi,...
Concerning actions in Sadr City, we have noted before that the emplacement of concrete barriers was initially intended to prohibit the firing of mortar rounds into the Baghdad Green zone, and we recommended pressing the campaign forward into Sadr City proper. There are further reports about the difficulty of completing the wall due to combat [...]
Not completely confirmed but looking good: Leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq Arrested in Mosul . BAGHDAD — The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the arrest of al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was confirmed to him by the Iraqi commander of the province....
Today, Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Max Boot continued to cheerlead for the “success” of the surge in Iraq in an online debate. Boot insisted that Iraq has met two-thirds of the original 18 benchmarks, that the government's offensive in Basra was successful, and that the so-called Sons of Iraq will always remain loyal [...]
Al-Arabiya television in Iraq has released what it says is a photo of Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. FOX News reported: Al-Arabiya television reports it has identified the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the network broadcast his photograph. The Dubai-based network, citing an Iraqi police official, said the real name of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi , who allegedly heads the Islamic State of Iraq,...
As our representatives in congress are preparing to approve more funding for the occupation of Iraq, the people of Sadr City are being warned to leave their homes in the face of even larger attacks. Congress - instead of putting a stop to the horror - asks the Iraqis to pay for it.
Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity. – General George S. Patton, Jr. U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division guard construction of a concrete wall running through the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, on Sunday, May 4, 2008. Why is the U.S. Army building [...]
From Fox News: BAGHDAD — A bomb hit a motorcade carrying the wife of Iraq’s first lady through Baghdad on Sunday, while the U.S. military said a roadside explosion killed four Marines in the deadliest attack in western Anbar province in months. The motorcade bombing in Baghdad's Karrada district injured four of Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed's bodyguards [...]
We have seen Gitmo recidivism before, and it's no surprise. When the inmates there see American soldiers handling the Qur'an with gloves, in implicit acknowledgment of their unclean status as non-believers as per Qur'an 9:28, what is disabusing those inmates...
Quote: US troops kill 28 Mahdi fighters in Sadr City By Bill Roggio The apparent respite in yesterdays fighting was illusionary as US forces killed an additional 27 Mahdi Army fighters and a senior Special Groups leader during a series of engagements in the afternoon and throughout the night in Sadr City. One of the larger clashes occurred as US force were attacked while constructing the barrier...
Dock workers shut down West Coast Ports today in protest against the War in Iraq. Protesters also gathered at the port in Oakland to try to persuade truckers to join them in their anti-empire protesting. ( NBC11 ) The longshoreman on the West Coast stayed home from work to protest the Iraq War today. The NBC11 reported: Terminal operators say West Coast cargo traffic has come to a halt as port workers...
I hope our friends at the ACLU rest comfortably tonight, knowing their efforts sprung this maggot so he could go back to doing what he was meant to do: murder innocent people. The blood is on their hands.A Kuwaiti man released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay in 2005 has carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq, his cousin told Al Arabiya television on Thursday. A friend of Abdullah Saleh
In this photo 2 year old Ali Hussein is seen being pulled from the rubble of his family's home in Sadr City Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Ali’s home was one of four destroyed by U.S. missiles. Ali died in hospital a few hours later. In this second photo 2 year old the body of 2 year old [...]
Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji, a political science professor at Kuwait University and a former adviser to the speaker of the Kuwaiti parliament, yesterday summed up the nub of Gulf-region thinking on the question of Iraq, where Condi today is urging more "support" for the Maliki government. (Others have pointed out that there are many reasons to smile and do nothing, including: (1) Lack of
