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I noted this last July: AMERICAN forces may have breached human rights and then removed evidence after the so-called wedding party airstrike that killed more than 50 Afghan civilians this month, according to a...

Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, [with] a group whose representative in Israel believed herself to have been attacked by witchcraft unleashed...

A man and his 12-year-old daughter spent the last four years living in a remote hillside in Portland’s Forest Park … Under a tarp-covered, wood-framed shelter, [police] found sleeping bags, a partially burnt log,...

The Bush administration wants the U.N. Security Council to renew on Friday a controversial resolution exempting American peacekeepers from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court … The draft resolution, introduced by the United...

Feith … who was described by … Gen Tommie Franks, as “the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth”, has been at the center of virtually everything else that has gone wrong...

Arms dealer Viktor Bout was the merchant of death wanted for feeding conflicts in Africa – until Iraq happened. Today the United States and Britain are using his extensive mercenary services in Iraq. The...

[Chalabi’s] prescient seizure of Saddam’s intelligence files a year ago has equipped him with a useful tool to intimidate opponents. In politics, despite his apparent lack of general appeal, he has been carving out...

I just noticed the chociest quote in all the wedding party massacre coverage: Major General James Mattis, commander of the 1st Marine Division, was scathing of those who suggested a wedding party had been...

“We were in Mukaradeeb. At 3am they rained the air with bombs … One after another the bombs were falling. Three houses with the guests inside were hit. They fired as if there were...

Why did the Bush administration turn against its former favorite Iraqi [Ahmed Chalabi]? Almost certainly because it realized that Chalabi, maddened by the realization that he was being excluded from the post-June 30 hand-over...