Author: mike

Army officials at Fort Dix and Walter Reed Army Medical Center are rushing to test all returning members of the 442nd Military Police Company of the New York Army National Guard for depleted uranium...

We were in Fallujah during the “ceasefire” … We depended for much of our information on Makki al-Nazzal, a lifelong Fallujah resident who works for the humanitarian NGO Intersos … With the “ceasefire,” large-scale...

Falluja, although heavily Sunni Arab, was hardly in Saddams pocket. Its imams got into trouble for refusing to obey his orders to praise him personally during prayers. Many inhabitants were Salafists (Wahhabism is a...

“My view and the view of the British chain of command is that the Americans’ use of violence is not proportionate and is over-responsive to the threat they are facing. They don’t see the...

On the way into the city from the airport, we drove past the wreckage of a convoy that was still smoking off to the side of the road. A few drivers nearby accelerated to...

I noted a year ago that the impending prolonged occupation would inevitably engender a more sophisticated Iraqi resistance. Insurgents fighting the U.S.-led occupation force have sharply increased the sophistication, coordination and aggressiveness of their...

Again and again, administration officials have insisted that some particular evildoer is causing all our problems. Last July they confidently predicted an end to the insurgency after Saddam’s sons were killed. In December, they...

The local rumor mill, and in some cases Arabic-language satellite television, feed anti-American sentiment with reports of wanton destruction of mosques and battlefield atrocities committed by Americans. But officers complain that there is no...

Armed contractorslike the four men ambushed in Fallujah last weekfall into an international legal gray zone. They aren’t “noncombatants” (as unarmed contractors are) under the 4th Geneva Convention, because they carry weapons and act...

The U.S. military says its operations are precise and it does not target civilians or women and children … An assessment by five international non-governmental organisations on Friday said 470 people had been killed...