28 February 2007 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Updated: 12:55 p.m. EST, March 1, 2007 At least 44 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 66 more injured in several smaller incidents. Also, a British soldier was shot dead in Basra. British bases were also shelled but no damage was reported. The U.S. military reported that one American soldier was killed [...]
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28 February 2007 | Uncategorized | bsnider
Making an unannounced stop in Pakistan on Monday, Vice President Cheney "expressed U.S. apprehensions of regrouping of al-Qaeda in the tribal areas and called for concerted efforts in countering the threat" according to an aide to Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. According to Musharraf, Pakistan "has done the maximum in the fight against terrorism." Furthermore, [...]
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28 February 2007 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
The new poll numbers on Iraq are in, and they mark a new level of discontent: a majority of Americans now favor setting a date certain for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Fifty-six percent don’t care if order is reestablished before the withdrawal begins: they just want out. As for the president’s defiant "surge" strategy, [...]
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28 February 2007 | Uncategorized | Scott Horton
Interviewed February 20, 2007 – Listen to the interview. Is Iran making nuclear weapons? Is the United States preparing to wage war against them to prevent them from obtaining nuclear weapons? Our guest is Scott Ritter. He is a former Marine, United Nations weapons inspector, and author of an armful of books: Endgame, War on [...]
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28 February 2007 | Uncategorized | Sarah Olson
The Army refiled five charges against 1st Lt. Ehren Watada late last week, paving the way for a possible second court-martial for the highest-ranking member of the military to publicly refuse to deploy to Iraq. When his first court-martial ended in a mistrial on Feb. 7, serious debate had not yet begun to surface [...]
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28 February 2007 | Uncategorized | Uri Avnery
“We are ready for the next war,” a reserve soldier in the Israel Defense Forces told a TV reporter this week, on the scene of a brigade-size maneuver on the Golan Heights. What war? Against whom? About what? This was not stated, and not even asked. The soldier saw it as self-evident that war will [...]
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27 February 2007 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Updated at 12:55 a.m. EST, March 1, 2007 At least 94 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 102 were wounded in various violent attacks. Also, four Americans soldiers were killed in separate roadside bombings, and another three were wounded. The U.S. military reported that three U.S. soldiers were killed and one more [...]
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27 February 2007 | Uncategorized | Ivan Eland
While media attention has been focused on the U.S. quagmire in Iraq, an equally failed war in Afghanistan has received little coverage. As in countless militaristic U.S. nation-building fiascoes, “mission creep” in Afghanistan is leading to another foreign policy disaster. Although the escalation in Afghanistan has not been announced publicly, a reliable source with connections [...]
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27 February 2007 | Uncategorized | Mohammed Salih
ARBIL – The security situation in Iraq’s northern oil rich-city Kirkuk has deteriorated over the past few weeks as a constitutional deadline approaches to determine the fate of the city. The city is home to a mix of Kurds, Turkmens, and Arabs, with the population of each hotly disputed. Bombings on Feb. 3, [...]
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27 February 2007 | Uncategorized | Trita Parsi
The winds of fortune in the Iranian nuclear standoff seem to have shifted, judging by the U.S.’ new confidence. But in Washington’s apparent quest to get an upper hand, misreading the causes of the backlash in Iran against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may cause the U.S. to lose rather than gain leverage. Over the past [...]
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