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[Consortiumblog] and a rising Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. So far, Iraq has been quiet enough that many in the media and public have redirected their attention to the wars du jour of Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
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[Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news] Yemen: All Not Quiet on the New Western Front: There, too, is an organization that has adopted the grandiose name of “Al-Qaeda of the Arab Peninsula” (after the Yemenite militants united with their Saudi brothers). But its chiefs are interested in world revolution much less than in the intrigues and battles of the tribes among themselves and against the “central” government, a reality with a history of thousands of years.
[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Iraq-Afghanistan Casualties: At churches in Baghdad this week, Christians are being asked for identification to determine if they have names that security force members recognize as Christian. Some churches around the northern city of Mosul are digging in, surrounding their buildings with giant earthen berms to prevent car bombers from getting too close.
[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Schwartz on Surging into Catastrophe in Iraq | TomDispatch: The Haifa Street battle sadly shows that Bush's new strategy will measurably increase the violence in Baghdad above already intolerable levels. With more troops at their disposal, American generals will try to pacify many more neighborhoods like Haifa Street and cities like Tal Afar that need "to be brought back under Iraqi security control." And when they do this, they will bring the same mix of horror that they brought to Haifa Street, including brutal air power, house-to-house searches and fighting, sectarian violence, massive dislocation, and ethnic cleansing.
[Jules Crittenden] Jules Crittenden » Happy Memorial Day: The AP story leads with the number of new graves opened for dead American soldiers since Memorial Day last, but only those killed in Iraq. Why this slight? Are the dead in Afghanistan not worthy of respect in the eyes of the Associated Press? It is possible that this article is not about honoring the dead at all, or even about reporting the news, but just another thinly veiled editorial attack on the Bush administration? Would the Associated Press be so callous as to use American dead in this manner, as a political tool?
[Straight Goods News RSS Feed] Straight Goods - Yemen a third quagmire - The Quiet American ...: They crowned a Sunni Arab as king over the Kurds, who are not Arab, and the Shiites, who are not Sunni. Only a succession of dictators, each of them more brutal than his predecessor, prevented the state from falling apart. The Washington planners were not ... Afghanistan has always been a graveyard for invaders. Mighty empires had escaped from there with their tails between their legs. Unlike flat Iraq, Afghanistan is a country of mountains, a paradise for guerrillas. ...
[The Hastings Report] Iraq bans 500 from election. Okay, this is really bad (Iraqracy IV ...: To me, this also indicates a willingness on some–and I say some not to be vague, but because it’s often unclear how prevalent these feelings are–in the Shiite dominated Iraqi government to play chicken with violence. An unwillingness to accept nothing less than total submission from the Sunnis, even if that means years more of insurgency and terror.
[INTIFADA] The Irrelevance of Bin Ladin « INTIFADA: The al-Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan in the 1980s used to get together and give each other sermons on the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem on a frequent basis. Bin Laden’s partner until 1989, Abdullah Azzam, was a Palestinian activist who thought that fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan was more realistic than the PLO struggle against Israel at that point in time, and more likely to redound to the cause of political Islam;
[The Hastings Report] Did an 'Iranian agent' guest blog for the Huffington Post ...: In fact, it gives some perspective on what his motivations might be in trying to get these candidates disbarred–he clearly no longer views America as an ally to Iraq, or at least his vision of Iraq, and it shouldn’t be shocking that he’s working against U.S. foreign policy goals there.
[World Blog] British town at center of Afghanistan war storm - World Blog ...: But with its proximity to the Royal Air Force base at Lyneham, where the bodies of soldiers killed in Afghanistan are repatriated, the town has become famous for its informal public mourning. Several years ago residents began quietly lining the streets as a show of respect to its war dead and it wasnt long before repatriation ceremonies became a tradition there.
[Joels Trumpet] Joels Trumpet » Blog Archive » The Religion of Denial: Then, instead of bombing Afghanistan, they should take the CIA people that developed them and put them in jail, instead of killing the people of Afghanistan - if that was even partially true, right? If they developed the group, and they went bad, why don’t they put the CIA in jail?
[The Hastings Report] Iraq: A man who killed five Americans gets released. Where's the ...: I doubt it, and certainly truth is something American government officialdom is going to do their best to avoid looking at in Iraq as we leave here. (To his credit, General Petraeus, reminiscent of Colonel Mathieu in the Battle of Algiers, is willing to look at this issue squarely.
[SWJ Blog] 2 January SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Democratic senators rallied around President Obama's pick to head the Transportation Security Administration on Friday as new details emerged indicating that key lawmakers already knew when they voted in November to advance his nomination that he had mischaracterized a personal incident in his testimony. The White House rushed to defend Erroll Southers, who is under fire for providing inconsistent statements to Congress about inappropriately accessing confidential criminal records 20 years ago about his then-estranged wife's new boyfriend.
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