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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 : Several injured as Iraqi PM says Mahdi Army fighters have 72 hours to surrender....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 7:39am PDT
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 : A new civil war is threatening to explode in Iraq as American-backed Iraqi government forces fight Shia militiamen for control of Basra and parts of Baghdad....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 7:35am PDT
From a Thursday, March 27, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 7:31am PDT
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 24 March 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
Monday, 24 March 2008....
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 9:10pm PDT
BAGHDAD — Iraq's once high-caliber educational system is now on the verge of collapse with schools and universities lacking essential materials such as books and labs, and students and teachers terrorized by violence....
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 7:37am PDT
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 :As the war in Iraq enters its sixth year, we take a look at "The Man Who Pushed America to War." That's the title of a new book about Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who helped drum up pre-war claims that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction and had links to al-Qaeda. We speak with author Aram Roston about Chalabi's past, his close ties to the U.S. government, his role in the U.S. invasion of Iraq and much more....
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 7:22am PDT
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 :Fighting between Iraqi government forces and militias loyal to Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr erupted Tuesday in the southern port city of Basra, as well as other towns and certain districts of Baghdad. Dozens were killed in the conflicts, according to the media and hospital officials. The new round of fighting threatens to unravel the fragile truce between Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia and the US and its puppet regime in Baghdad, declared by Sadr in August 2007 and reaf...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 7:21am PDT
From a Wednesday, March 26, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 7:20am PDT
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 : The Iraqi army is fighting the Mehdi Army Shia militia in the streets of Basra after the government launched its most serious offensive to gain control of the southern oil city....
Posted: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 6:49pm PDT
From a Tuesday, March 25, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 7:42am PDT
KIRKUK — With thousands of displaced families sheltered in camps and old government buildings with no access to food or clean water, the northern city of oil-rich Kirkuk mirrors the situation across Iraq five years after the US invasion....
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 8:39am PDT
Sunday, March 23, 2008 : At least 57 people have been killed in Iraq after rockets and mortars pounded Baghdad's US-protected Green Zone and a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army post in the northern city of Mosul....
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 8:16am PDT
From a Monday, March 24, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 8:13am PDT
From a Sunday, March 23, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 9:29pm PDT
From a Sunday, March 23, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 9:29pm PDT
Sunday, March 23, 2008 :The world marks the fifth year of the war in Iraq with no end in sight. Just as others in my generation could not remember a time when there was no Vietnam war, my life seems to have begun with the current massacre. What came before has been erased. I was just a whippersnapper of 65 back then when in February 2003, I signed on with the Human Shields and rode up to Baghdad in a London double decker bus to interpose my body between Bush's bombs and the Iraqi peop...
Posted: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 9:28pm PDT
Corporate media is reporting that the 4,000 US soldier has been killed in action in Iraq....
Posted: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 8:39pm PDT
NoArmy.com, an unauthorized remix of GoArmy.com that tells the truth recruiters don't want you to know....
Posted: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 1:17pm PDT
Arab Talk Radio Co-Host Jess Ghannam interviews Iraqi Raed Jarrar about the current situation in Iraq 5 years after the American invasion and occupation.
http://odeo.com/audio/17893993/view...
Posted: Sat, Mar 22, 2008 4:49pm PDT
From a Saturday, March 22, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sat, Mar 22, 2008 11:12am PDT