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Congress Probes White House Email Lost in Run-up to Iraq War Contrary to the mandate of the Presidential Records Act of 1978, the White House admits to the loss of at least 700 days of email, and additional gaps remain in the historical record that precedes the Iraq invasion. This morning, the House Oversight Committee opened an important investigation....
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 2:32pm PST
US military announces 10,000 more post-"surge" troops in Iraq Wednesday, February 27, 2008 :On Monday, the US military announced that the number of troops in Iraq following the “surge” begun last year will be some 10,000 more than pre-surge levels. What was originally presented as a temporary increase of US occupation forces will result in the indefinite presence of 140,000 US soldiers in Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 7:19am PST
Turkish Army Kills 41 Kurdish Fighters; 4 Shiite Pilgrims Killed in Bombing; 8 Iraqi Soldiers Killed in Diyala From a Tuesday, February 26, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 7:07am PST
Patrick Cockburn: Iraq Broils Monday, February 25, 2008 :A suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in a tent filled with Shia pilgrims walking to one of their holiest shrines south of Baghdad, killing at least 40 of them and wounding 60. The attack shows that al-Qa'ida has restarted its bombings of Shia Iraqis, whom it sees as heretics, and remains capable of launching numerous suicide attacks on the same day in different parts of Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 7:04am PST
U.S.-Backed Turkish Invasion of Northern Iraq Continues Monday, February 25, 2008 :On Thursday, thousands of Turkish troops, backed by air support, launched the largest cross-border ground offensive into Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The Turkish government accuses the Kurdistan Worker's party - or PKK - of using northern Iraq as a base to launch attacks inside Turkey. Turkey has been relying largely on intelligence and weapons provided by Washington....
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 7:26am PST
60 Dead in Attack on Shiite Pilgrims; Turkish invaders Kill 33 PKK Guerrillas; 2 US Soldiers Killed; Stewart Skewers McCai From a Monday, February 25, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 7:13am PST
Turkish forces push deeper into Kurdish northern Iraq Sunday, February 24, 2008 :In defiance of demands by the Iraqi government and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) that Turkey end its invasion, Ankara is continuing to deploy men and equipment into Kurdish northern Iraq. Turkish troops have pushed at least 30 kilometres inside Iraqi territory since the invasion was launched on Thursday night on the pretext of destroying the mountain bases of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)....
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 6:36am PST
37 Killed in Turkish-Kurdish Fighting inside Iraq; Basra Instability Forces British to Postpone Departure From a Sunday, February 24, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 1:26pm PST
Turkey Invades Iraq; Sadr Renews Freeze; Bombings in Baghdad, Green Zone From a Saturday, February 23, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 9:56am PST
Turkish troops invade northern Iraq Friday, February 22, 2008 :Thousands of Turkish army troops crossed the border with Iraq Friday in a major military operation against guerrilla forces of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which has fought for decades against the Turkish state, seeking a separate state for the 15 million Kurds who inhabit southeastern Turkey. The military action demonstrates the increasingly volatile conditions created by the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, which has destabilized the entire Middle East....
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 9:49am PST
Iraq: Iraqi Kurdish troops confront Turkish incursion. Heavy fighting in Basra From a Friday, February 22, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 7:23am PST
In Iraq forever? Friday, February 22, 2008 : Battle expected in Congress over Bush’s long-term Iraq stay The online activism group MoveOn.org has launched an “Iraq/Recession” campaign, aiming to “make sure that politicians and pundits understand what voters already know: As long as we keep pouring that money down the drain in Iraq, we won’t have the money we need to solve our economic woes.”...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 7:09am PST
Lebanon moves to regularize Iraqi asylum-seekers BEIRUT, 21 February (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) welcomed Lebanon's steps this week to issue work and residency papers to the estimated 50,000 Iraqi would-be refugees in the country, hitherto considered illegal and subject to imprisonment and deportation. Starting this week Lebanon's General Security intelligence body has given Iraqi asylum-seekers three months to regularize their status, which entails giving them residency and work permits that were previously denied....
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 7:08am PST
The Shortwave Report 2/22/08 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 4:55pm PST
US soldier guilty in Iraqi death Thursday, February 21, 2008 : US military court convicts Christopher Shore of aggravated assault....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 8:02am PST
Iraq: US occupation faces crisis of its own making Thursday, February 21, 2008 :The much-touted successes of the Bush administration’s deployment of 30,000 American additional troops to Iraq last year rest on unstable and rapidly eroding foundations. The unstated fear in the Pentagon debate over how many American troops can be withdrawn this year is that the policies associated with the surge have created potential triggers for a return to wide-spread resistance....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 7:54am PST
Risk of cholera multiplied by sewage collapse in Baghdad Thursday, February 21, 2008 :With the northern summer approaching, fears have been voiced that the dysfunctional state of the Iraqi sewerage system will cause a major outbreak of cholera or other water-borne diseases in Iraq’s desperately poor working class districts. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection that causes severe diarrhoea, vomiting and dehydration and can lead to death if untreated....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 7:53am PST
5 US Troops Killed; 25 Dead, 70 Wounded in Violence; Turkey Bombs Iraq From a Thursday, February 21, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 7:50am PST
Sadrist/ Badr Truce Breaks Down; Parliament Rejects Smaller Cabinet From a Monday, February 18, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 11:38am PST
California judge deletes Wikileaks indie journalism site stephen soldz
Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 06:20:15 AM PST
One of the most important web sites in recent months has been Wikileaks.org. Wikileaks has upset the Chinese government enough that they are attempting to censor it, as is the Thai military junta. Wikileaks is now under attack from a censorship effort by a California court....
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 7:45am PST
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