Monthly Archive: December 2003

I have to face facts, after several days of hoping I just had a common cold, the symptoms have not gone away and I now realise I am infected with the damn influenza virus....

[Iran] will, come hell or high water, build an atomic bomb. I doubt the US can do much to stop it … Iranians have some 15,000, perhaps, 20,000 so-called Badr troops and entrenched intelligence-apparatus...

serving her country. She is the daughter of Michael Ledeen, the Iran-Contra luminary, AEI scholar, and all-around capo in the neocon mafia. She’s 29, a freshly-minted M.B.A., with little to no experience in war-torn...

Cluster Fucked The use of cluster bombs in populated areas caused more civilian casualties than any other factor, said [Human Rights Watch] In addition, 50 “decapitation strikes” by warplanes targeting Iraqi leaders after intercepts...

David sent me this video of US Marines executing a wounded Iraqi POW. Real Player Version Here Then I read this. Upstairs, he said, he found the Special Republican Guard member with the grenade...

A third of the soldiers trained by the U.S.-led occupation authority have quit, defense officials said Wednesday. Touted as a key to Iraq’s future, the 700-man battalion lost some 250 men over recent weeks...

Humans have been changing the global climate since thousands of years before the industrial revolution … Beginning 8,000 years ago, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide began to rise as humans started clearing forests, planting...

Iraqi Health Ministry officials ordered a halt to a count of civilian casualties from the war and told workers not to release figures already compiled … The health minister, Dr. Khodeir Abbas, denied that...

So it seems that to meet the political goal of securing an apparent Iraqi “free” election before the next US Presidential election, the Pentagon in Iraq has been asked to eliminate that pesky Iraqi...

The spurt in violence in Afghanistan in recent months has generally been attributed to the resurgence of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. However, aid workers in Afghanistan are saying that it is warlords with connections...