Sort by technomusic2004 - 06/16/2008 - YouTube
... and the Iraqi government, following a year in which he ordered his Mahdi Army militia to observe a cease-fire and moved deeper into the political process. Sadr's aides said he is recalibrating his strategy as the American military drawdown transforms the U.S. role in Iraq. "We don't want anybody to blame us or consider us part of this government while it is allowing the country to be under...
Sort by Jeha's Nail - مسمار جحا (Free subscription) - 05/24/2008 - YouTube
To read the MSM, we Lebanese are partying, celebrating the new agreement and the end of war. Or are we? Far from heralding a new era of peace, the Doha agreement is at best a cease-fire, a cop-out. There are many devils lying in its details. Even if one sets aside the issue of the “Divine” armaments of the “Resistance”, many hurdles remain. In chronological order, those...
Sort by Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) - 05/08/2008 - YouTube
Rosen explains what's happened in Iraq after just getting back. He’s an excellent journalist and explains that the violence is down in Iraq because there are less people to kill. He tells us all about al-Sadr’s reasons for his cease fire and the al-Qaeda/Sunni/Shia relationships…The Sunnis consider all Shia’s– Iranian and they are [...]
Sort by Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) - 05/14/2008 - YouTube
... an almost daily basis into Israel. --- Related Articles at Infidels Are Cool: Israel rejects cease fire says “Hamas playing games” Rice tells Olmert she is concerned about Gaza civilians Hamas terrorist leader killed in Gaza air strike Hamas runs out of rockets, suicide bombers; calls for cease fire
Sort by Main and Central (Free subscription) - 05/13/2008 - YouTube
... cleric Moktada al-Sadr and lawmakers from Iraq's main Shiite political bloc signed a four-day cease-fire Monday in an effort to end seven weeks of fighting in the neighborhood of Sadr City here. That came as a bit of a surprise to me. This article in the LA Times points out a bit of what is expected... Lawmakers loyal to Maliki hope that the deal hammered out Saturday will pave the way for...
Sort by Main and Central (Free subscription) - 05/14/2008 - YouTube
... after Iraq's main Shia political bloc and supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army signed a cease-fire with the hope of ending seven weeks of violence in the city. Women and children were among the wounded, hospital officials said. The US had a nasty little scare as the IHT points out... A surface-to-air missile was fired on Saturday at an American Apache helicopter flying over the Sadr...
Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 05/01/2008 - YouTube
... of both Afghan and Pakistani security forces, instability, coupled with the Islamabad brokered cease-fire agreement in effect for the first half of 2007 along the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier, appeared to have provided AQ leadership greater mobility and ability to conduct training and operational planning, particularly that targeting Western Europe and the United States. … AQ leaders continued...
Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 02/19/2008 - YouTube
... in Iraq is a “ sect of Shi’ites .” – McCain falsely claimed Moktada al-Sadr “ declared the cease-fire ” after recent fighting in Basra and has said he is both a “major player” in Iraq and that his influence “has been on the wane for a long time.” – Economists and nonpartisan analysts have said recently that the numbers is McCain’s economic plan simply “ don’t add up .” – McCain has made...
Sort by Nye -- Gateway to Nevada's Rurals (Free subscription) - 04/07/2008 - YouTube
Republican Senator John McCain was on Fox news this morning. He repeated the false claim that Muqtada al-Sadr declared the cease fire in Basra last week, which he pointed to as proof that Sadr didn’t “think he was winning” the battle in Basra. He also said that the Iraqi army performed “pretty well.” McCain said: It was al-Sadr that declared the ceasefire, not...
Sort by Smithers MINNEAPOLIS (Free subscription) - 04/21/2008 - YouTube
FOX: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers. "I know he’s sitting in Iran," Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr’s latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire [...]...
Sort by Balloon Juice (Free subscription) - 04/02/2008 - YouTube
... still in place in Basra, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki possibly weakened and a de facto cease-fire brokered by an Iranian general. “There is no empirical evidence that the Iraqi forces can stand up” on their own, a senior U.S. military official in Washington said, reflecting the frustration of some at the Pentagon. He and other military officials requested anonymity because they weren’t...
Sort by Firedoglake (Free subscription) - 03/31/2008 - YouTube
The media this morning was full of announcements that Moqtada Al-Sadr had declared a cease fire or asked his troops to stop fighting (and I'm sure George, Dick and McSame cheered that news) but this afternoon they seem to have noticed that Al Sadr’s statement is more “nuanced.”
Sort by The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) - 03/26/2008 - YouTube
... that, as the Christian Science Monitor (no liberal rag) put it, “The Mahdi Army's seven-month-long cease-fire appears to have come undone” as battles have erupted across Iraq. Nor did Bozell mention the volatile economy, the state of American health care or even the nuclear missile parts the Pentagon mistakenly sent to Taiwan . No, the issues Bozell found missing in the media coverage was...
Sort by Anderson@Large (Free subscription) - 03/25/2008 - YouTube
This week marked a grim milestone in Bush's War -- 4,000 U.S. troops dead. As one New Yorker asked: What's the point? What are we fighting for? I think it's a hopeless fight. We are just losing people there. We have mothers without sons and young people without siblings. There is no point to this war without end. Indeed, McClatchy reports: A cease-fire critical to the improved security situation...
Sort by The Blue Voice (Free subscription) - 03/13/2008 - YouTube
Juan Cole complains today about what he sees as the pitifully poor coverage of the Iraq War on American TV news. And he points out that bloggers can also post news clips like this one: Muqtada al-Sadr, it seems, is having trouble restraining some units of his JAM (Mahdi Army) militia, who want to attack Americans: Iraqi militia told to cease fire after clashes Reuters 03/13/08. And here's a...
