June 17, 2008 – 5:20 pm
Via Michelle Malkin, the charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani have been dropped: A military judge has dismissed charges against a Marine officer accused of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis. Col. Steven Folsom dismissed charges Tuesday against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani after defense attorneys raised concerns that a four-star general overseeing the […]
June 12, 2008 – 9:04 am
Holy Hijinks, Batman! Guardian – Experts fear new front with al-Qaida as terror group switches focus from Iraq Last month an Arabic satellite TV channel broadcast a chilling video of a group of Iraqi teenagers called the “Youths of Heaven” – their faces masked and brandishing Kalashnikov rifles, chanting “Allahu Akbar” and vowing to blow […]
June 6, 2008 – 9:05 am
They just keep taking them down, so why do the Democrats want to retreat? (Operation Iraqi Freedom) Coalition forces detained more than 20 suspected terrorists and killed four during an operation targeting a major al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist network along the Tigris River Valley in the western portion of the Ta’mim province June 4. Among […]
June 5, 2008 – 9:04 am
I wonder why this isn’t the front page of most of the major U.S. newspapers, who certainly gave the initial reports about our evil, crazy Marines primary coverage? CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A Marine intelligence officer has been acquitted of charges that he tried to help cover up the killings of 24 Iraqi men, […]
June 4, 2008 – 5:26 pm
Liberals, please take note of the column that Ace called the “Best Essay on Iraq You’ll Read This Month. Or in many months. Read the whole thing. Of all that has been written about the play of things in Iraq, nothing that I have seen approximates the truth of what our ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan […]
May 31, 2008 – 3:58 pm
Did you know that the NY Times had an Iraq Blog, which is more about events inside Iraq than politics about Iraq? It’s rather interesting BAGHDAD — Spring has come. For all of about 17 minutes. This is a country that hurtles from winter chill to summer desiccation in roughly the time it takes Iraqis […]
May 17, 2008 – 10:33 am
Why is this not bigger news? Also, how the hell did this actually get printed (goes back to my theory that good news from Iraq is printed in the NY Times of Saturdays because the editors are all getting drunk on Friday nights. Apparently, it extends to Reuters) Iraqi forces have detained more than 1,000 […]
April 25, 2008 – 8:28 pm
 You call that a gun? We’ll show you a gun!
April 25, 2008 – 7:48 am
Apparently, the Times Online has decided it is going to break from the pack and cover the good news from Iraq, starting with this story yesterday Llewellyn Werner admits he is facing obstacles most amusement park developers never have to deal with – insurgent attacks and looting. When you are building an amusement park in […]
April 21, 2008 – 8:48 am
And this has really pissed of the usual subjects (check Memeorandum) BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers. Rice, in the Iraqi capital to […]
