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Iraqi Affairs

Jan 2, 2008: New York Review of Books Looks at McClatchy's Iraqi Bloggers
Comments: 0 | Categories: Iraq War: News & Analysis , Iraqi Affairs
Journalist and author Michael Massing has a gripping report in the January 17, 2008, edition of the New York Review of Books on McClatchy Newspapers' valuable Iraqi bloggers. They publish the Inside Iraq blog. "About a year ago," Massing writes,...

Sep 25, 2007: TPM Muckraker: State Department Told Black Water Don't Talk to Investigators
Comments: 0 | Categories: Iraqi Affairs
TPM Muckraker's Spencer Ackerman reported September 25, 2007, that "Just three days after [American] Rep. Henry Waxman announced his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would hold hearings into the deaths of 11 Iraqi civilians" [at the hands of Moyock,...

Sep 25, 2007: Miliband Admits Britain Has Alienated Millions of Muslims Over Iraq
Comments: 0 | Categories: Foreign Affairs , Iraqi Affairs
Patrick Wintour, political editor of the The Guardian of London, reports in September 26, 2007, dispatch that "David Miliband, the [British] foreign secretary, yesterday [September 25, 2007] attempted a break with a decade of Blairite foreign policy, admitting a scarred...

Sep 7, 2007: Blogger Riverbend Finally Leaves Iraq and Settles in Syria
Comments: 0 | Categories: Commentary on Iraq , Iraqi Affairs
Riverbend, the Iraqi blogger behind the widely popular Baghdad Burning blog, which was launched on August 17, 2003, and became known around the world, has finally left Iraq. She blogged about it on September 6, 2007. Before then, her last...

Aug 11, 2007: U.N. Expands 'Political Role in Iraq'
Comments: 0 | Categories: Diplomatic Affairs , Iraqi Affairs , United Nations
On August 10, 2007, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approved "a 12-month mandate extension for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)." According to UNSC, this expands "the world body’s political role in Iraq, aimed at bringing together...

Jul 25, 2007: President Bush Still Using Al-Qaeda to Justify U.S.-British Invasion of Iraq
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs , Iraq War: News & Analysis , Iraqi Affairs
(Editor's note: Below are excerpts from a speech that U.S. President George W. Bush delivered at Charleston Air Force Base in Charleston, South Carolina, on July 24, 2007. The portion on Al-Qaeda in Iraq is presented so readers of The...

Mar 19, 2007: Can 'Iraq: Where Things Stand' Serve As A Blue Print For War Crimes?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Iraq War: News & Analysis , Iraqi Affairs
A 38-page ABC News report on Iraq titled Iraq: Where Things Stand "paints a devastating portrait of life in Iraq: Widespread violence, torn lives, displaced families, emotional damage, collapsing services, an ever-starker sectarian chasm – and a draining away of...

Jan 22, 2007: TurkishPress.Com: 'Sunni-Shiite Meet Condemns 'Sectarian War' In Iraq
Comments: 0 | Categories: Iraqi Affairs
More than 200 scholars "from 44 countries," representing various Islamic groups condemned "the sectarian war between Sunnis and Shiites unfolding in Iraq, which is conducive to (its) fragmentation," said a statement issued at the end of a three-day conference on...

Nov 16, 2006: Erdogan: Turkey Is Ready To Train Iraqi Policemen, Soldiers
Comments: 0 | Categories: Iraqi Affairs
The Daily Star of Lebanon reports in its November 17, 2006, edition that, "Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan [of Turkey] told his Iraqi counterpart Thursday [November 16, 2006] that Turkey is prepared to train police and soldiers to help bring...

Oct 9, 2006: Where's Riverbend?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Iraqi Affairs
Riverbend, the young Iraqi woman who runs the popular Baghdad Burning blog, which was launched August 17, 2003, and became an international hit, hasn't posted anything since Saturday, August 5, 2006. Her last post was "Summer of Goodbyes...," which is...