War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Just as soon as we think the situation in Iraq is going to get worse, it does. Business for the new, improved Iraqi version of al-Qaeda is booming. The Iraq central government is farther pushing the country into a wide-open, no-holds-barred, bloody civil war each and every day. And literally scrambling around in the crosshairs…
Yesterday, car bombs in Baghdad and in a couple of other places in Iraq continue to explode-open a war which has become so confused and unfettered by the day. Fifty (at the minimum, probably more) people killed on Tuesday, another 18 on Monday in similiar attacks, which displayed another side of the horror of Iraq:…
According to the Associated Press, as of this morning 17 mostly-young US service people have been killed since Sunday. Five on Wednesday. The mortality rate has started to increase. While politicians fiddle, Iraq burns. BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Twenty-three people were killed and 83 injured in Baghdad’s Shi’ite slum of Sadr City Wednesday, security sources said,…
As the dust settles gently over the Tigris and Euphrates, Decider George’s war in Iraq has moved into its final stages — the US military should at least now have plans (or plans in the immediate works) for an ‘Eagle Pull.’ The last time was in Saigon, 1975, a disaster: Photos of helicopters lifting off…
An uneasy sense of watching in slo-mo some nasty, cruel shit hitting the fan. Iraq’s Prime Minister was staring into the abyss today after his operation to crush militia strongholds in Basra stalled, members of his own security forces defected and district after district of his own capital fell to Shia militia gunmen. With the…
Despite wanting to wield a mighty sword, Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki’s central government assault this week on Shia militia in Basra has encountered much difficulty, making no significant gains against the army of Mugtada al-Sadr, and creating a looming lump of problems. As fighting across Iraq between Shia and Shia continues, the main objective at Basra, to…
A spokesman for the Baghdad security plan, Tahsin al-Sheikhly, was kidnapped from his Baghdad home by armed men on Thursday, security officials told AFP. The officials said Sheikhly, who spoke on civic matters related to the security plan launched in February last year, was abducted from his home in Baghdad’s Al-Amin neighbourhood at around 2:30…
Just at dawn on Christianity’s most-holy day, rockets and mortor rounds slammed into Baghdad’s Green Zone. Time for the biggest blunder in history to begin its horrific draw down. The attack seemed to spark violent incidents all across Iraq, like a disjointed, ragged shock wave, although at first view might appear un-related: A suicide bomber at a police station in Mosul, leaving at least 17 dead;…
A mark in the sand. This evening as it does just about every evening, the death toll in the horrific war in Iraq has quietly spiked. BAGHDAD – Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb blast in southern Baghdad late Sunday, raising the death toll for American forces since start of the war to 4,000, according…
As we scanned the online news sources this morning there was nothing at all about this in any of the US mainstream or alternate news operations: Hamas has blamed George Bush’s tour of the Middle East for Israel’s latest deadly incursion into the Gaza Strip that has left at least 16 Palestinians dead and at…