Winds of Change.NET (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009 | Iraq
One year ago, Moqtada al Sadr’s radical Mahdi Army militia strongholds in Basra and Sadr City were two of the biggest threats remaining to the Iraqi republic. Al Qaeda in Iraq had been reduced to...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009 | Iraq
BAGHDAD, March 11 -- An Iraqi court sentenced Iraq's former foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, and Ali Hassan al-Majeed, a senior colleague of Saddam Hussein, to 15 years in prison Wednesday for their role in what the court deemed a crime against humanity, the killing of 42 merchants in Baghdad in 199...
distributorcap NY (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009 | Iraq
From the New York Daily News Many Iraqis considered it poetic justice when a journalist tossed his shoes at President George W. Bush last month. Now the bizarre attack has spawned a real life work of art. A sofa-sized statue of the shoe was unveiled Thursday in Tikrit, the hometown of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Baghdad-based artist Laith al-Amari described the fiberglass-and-copper work...
Suitably Flip (Free subscription) | 12/14/2008 | Iraq
Shoe is the new pie. An Iraqi man in Prime Minister Nouri-al Maliki's palace threw two shoes at President Bush during a joint press conference with Maliki. The president had to duck to avoid the shoes but he was not hit. The man was grabbed and dragged out screaming. Bush joked about it and said, "that was a size ten shoe he threw at me you may want you to know. " Iraqi police have released...
