BAGHDAD—Militants bombarded Baghdad’s Green Zone with rockets on Sunday, taking advantage of the cover of a blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in weeks on the fortified compound. The strikes appeared to defy a renewed call for a ceasefire by Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which has seen many of his masked […]
Category Archives: Iraq war
By Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail* DAMASCUS, Mar 3 (IPS) – More Iraqis continue to flee their country than the numbers returning, despite official claims to the contrary. Thousands fleeing say security is as bad as ever, and that to return would be to accept death. “Return to Iraq?” asks 35-year-old Ahmed Alwan, an Iraqi […]
The government has been forced to publish the secret first draft of the Iraq WMD dossier written by a Foreign Office spin doctor, reports Chris Ames The secret first draft of the Iraq WMD dossier written by Foreign Office spin doctor John Williams has finally been published after a ruling back in January under the […]
I have added a couple of counters to show the casualties if the war John Key claims is over, maybe someone should point him to this blog so he can see howmany people die every day in the finished war.(travellerev) New Zealand’s opposition leader, John Key, the head of the centre right National Party, has an interesting […]
