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| Baghdad Jews Have Become a Fearful Few | | 2008-05-31 22:20:48 | | By STEPHEN FARRELL : BAGHDAD — “I have no future here to stay.”
Written in broken English but with perfect clarity, the message is a stark and plaintive assessment from one of the last Jews of Babylon.
The community of Jews in Baghdad is now all but vanished in a land where their heritage recedes back to [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
| | Pride of Baghdad | | 2008-05-27 20:38:00 | | Brian K. Vaughan not only has the best first name a person can have, he's also one of my favorite comic authors. As readers of my blog could know, I love his Y: The Last Man series. I also picked up the first collection of another Vaughan series, Ex Machina, which was almost as amazing as Y: The Last Man. Today, when I was saddened to find Barnes & Nobles did not have the second volume of Ex Machina, I decided to pick up another Vaughan work I'd read good things about, Pride of Baghdad.Pride of Baghdad is a fictionalized account of what happened to four lions who escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003. The four lions, or pride as they were, discover that the sky is seemingly falling, granting them their freedom. Alpha male Zill, elder female Safa, younger female Noor, and Noor's cub, Ali, manage to escape the confines of the zoo thanks to errant bombs from an air raid.The lions find that the world outside of the confines of their cage is | | By: Sunrise on the Sufferbus | | |
| | No Playboy at playtime for the boys in Baghdad | | 2008-04-25 19:41:36 | | Censorship? No, it's more about decency. That's what Paul Broun unveiled in his House bill last week (April 16). The upstanding Congressman from Georgia says his Military Honor and Decency Act would amend a provision of the 1997 Defense Authorization Act that banned sales of “sexually explicit material” on military bases. Paul's all worried about the morals of the boys fighting the insurgents and renegades in Iraq and elsewhere.“Allowing sale of pornography on military bases has harmed military men and women by escalating the number of violent, sexual crimes, feeding a base addiction, eroding the family as the primary building block of society, and denigrating the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad,” Broun said. Now don't you hold back, Paul! You tell those guys that reading this stuff can make them go barmy and bawdy, and even belligerent. One part of the provision states that if a print publication is a periodical, it would be considered sexually explicit if | | By: A View from Middle England by Arden Forester | | |
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| In Baghdad, Struggle Ties Security to Basic Services | | 2008-04-21 20:55:07 | | By MICHAEL R. GORDON
BAGHDAD — Even as American and Iraqi troops are fighting to establish control of the Sadr City section of this capital, the Iraqi government’s program to restore basic services like electricity, sewage and trash collection is lagging, jeopardizing the effort to win over the area’s wary residents. For weeks, there have been [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
| | Mahdi Army taking significant casualties in Baghdad, South | | 2008-03-30 07:00:00 | | While the size of the Mahdi Army is a constant source of debate, media accounts often put the Mahdi Army at anywhere from 40,000 to 60,000 fighters. With an estimated 1,000 Mahdi fighters killed, captured, wounded and surrendered, the Mahdi Army has taken an attrition rate of 1.5 to 2.5 percent over the past five days. More...Photo: About 200 demonstrators held a rally to support the military operations in Basra and Maliki's government, in Diwaniya. | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
| | US Airstrike Kills at Least 4 in Baghdad | | 2008-03-28 11:59:43 | | BAGHDAD (AP) - A U.S. helicopter fired a Hellfire missile during fighting in a Shiite militia stronghold of Baghdad Friday, killing at least four people as deadly clashes broke out in Iraq’s oil-rich south for the fourth day.
American jets also dropped bombs overnight in Basra in the first use of U.S. air power in the [...] | | By: TexasFred's | | |
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| U.S. workers in Baghdad restricted | | 2008-03-27 21:01:15 | | BAGHDAD - The State Department on Thursday told all workers at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad not to leave reinforced structures following the deaths of two Americans in attacks on the Green Zone, a heavily fortified area besieged by militants this week.
The Baghdad military command imposed a curfew on the capital from 11 p.m. Thursday [...] | | By: TexasFred's | | |
| | News: Life in Baghdad Since Saddam | | 2008-03-18 05:56:10 | | Five years after the US invasion, no one misses Saddam, but some Baghdadis are nostalgic for the relative freedom and stability they had before the Americans came.Saddam's 24-year reign of terror ended in spring 2003. What followed, say Iraqis, was a brief period of freedom and prosperity before their nation fell apart.The situation in Iraq on the eve of the anniversary of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" has both opponents and supporters of the American military campaign puzzled. The body of a Catholic archbishop is found near the northern city of Mosul, and yet the US embassy in Baghdad is holding a flea market as if it were peacetime.The United States has been in Iraq longer than it fought in World War II. Only a quarter of the US citizens knows 4,000 American soldiers were killed in Iraq. According to Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, the war has already cost the country at least $3 trillion.Der Spiegel published an interesting article with reflections on "Life | | By: The Road to the Horizon | | |
| | al Qaeda in Baghdad has Been Defeated | | 2008-02-17 07:41:51 | | I thought I would write about a topic that used to be a daily, if not hourly subject but which has vanished from the news cycle, and political arena almost totally: Iraq.
Much that should be reported in Iraq is now being ignored and I find it disturbing although not surprising the the media would push [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
| | Angelina Jolie visits the Green Zone in Baghdad | | 2008-02-10 03:05:49 | | Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie brought her star power to Baghdad Thursday on a mission as a United Nations goodwill ambassador to highlight the plight of Iraqi refugees.The actress said there needs to be a more coherent plan as the more than 2 million internally displaced Iraqis begin to trickle back to their homes amid a recent lull in violence that had threatened to spark a civil war in the country."There's lots of goodwill and lots of discussion, but there seems to be just a lot of talk at the moment and there are a lot of pieces that need to be put together," Jolie said in an interview with CNN."What happens in Iraq and how Iraq settles in the years to come is going to affect the entire Middle East," she added. "And a big part of what it's going to affect, how it settles, is how these people are returned and settled into their homes and their community and brought back together and whether they can live together and what their communities look like."Jolie had a 30-min | | By: HOTTEST CELEBRITY BIKINI PICTURES AND OTHER HQ PIC | | |
| | BAGHDAD: Indian firm seeks Iraq crude deal | | 2008-01-09 10:11:43 | | Reliance Industries, India's top exploration firm, will seek a role in developing Iraqi oil assets despite signing contracts with its largely autonomous Kurdish region, a move which angered Baghdad. Reliance, which runs the world's third-largest oil refinery, will register with Iraqi authorities so...
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| | | AFP: Iraqis push Al Qaeda out of last stronghold in Baghdad | | 2007-11-19 03:45:00 | | A local militia calling itself the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” took over the Sunni district on the east bank of the Tigris on November 10 in a swift and audacious raid that sent Al-Qaeda fleeing from its last stronghold in Baghdad.On Friday, members of the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” controlled main roads into the neighbourhood as well the square housing the famous Abu Hanifa mosque where Saddam Hussein made his last public appearance before fleeing Baghdad in 2003 as US-led forces invaded the country…“Our men seized 11 car bombs and discovered several clandestine bomb-making workshops,” said the chief of the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah”, surrounded by armed bodyguards.More... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
| | Thousands of Refugees Returning to Baghdad | | 2007-11-03 20:34:41 | | From the AP:Thousands Return to Safer Iraqi Capital BAGHDAD (AP) - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday....things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide. About the same time, the Khadra neighborhood Awakening Council rose up against brutal al-Qaida control—the imposition of its austere interpretation of Islam, along with the murder and torture of those who would not comply. The uprising originated in Iraq's west and flowed into the capital. Earlier this year, the Sunni tribes and clans in the vast Anbar province began their own revolt and have successfully rid the largely desert region of al-Qaida control. At one point the terrorist group virtually controlled Anbar, | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
| | US: Raid of Baghdad’s Sadr City Kills 49 | | 2007-10-21 22:03:45 | | BAGHDAD (AP) - The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad’s Sadr City enclave, one of the highest tolls for a single operation since President Bush declared an end to active combat in 2003.
Iraqi police and hospital officials, who often [...] | | By: TexasFred's | | |
| | | Shiite Militia Expands Grip in Baghdad | | 2007-08-19 01:44:02 | | BAGHDAD (AP) - The street market bustles in the early mornings and late afternoons as shoppers come out to buy fruit, bread, clothes and toys. Late into the hot summer nights, whole families gather to eat grilled kebabs at tiny stalls, their small children shrieking as they play tag.
The Hurriyah neighborhood of northwest Baghdad, gripped [...] | | By: TexasFred's | | |
| | Half of Baghdad now under control | | 2007-06-30 03:08:18 | |
WASHINGTON — In the face of stiffening insurgent resistance, U.S. and Iraqi security forces now control about half of Baghdad, the American commander overseeing operations said Friday.
Maj. Gen. Joseph F. Fil, Jr., commander of Multi-National Division Baghdad, told reporters at the Pentagon that progress in securing the capital has been steady and that while he could use more U.S. troops he believes he has enough — with the recent arrival of reinforcements — to complete his mission.
“Some wonder: Are we progressing fast enough? Are we ahead? Are we on track?” he said in a video teleconference from his headquarters in Baghdad.
“This is a fight against extremists. It’s a fight to put power back into the hands of the average Iraqi citizens and to give them a vote and a voice in their own future, without intimidation or fear. I see progress, a steady progress, in every neighborhood that we’ve cleared and then established a full-time presence.”
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| | | Car Bomb Kills at Least 21 in Baghdad | | 2007-05-29 04:47:19 | | BAGHDAD (AP) - A suicide car bomber struck a busy Baghdad commercial district Monday, killing at least 21 people, setting vehicles on fire and damaging a nearby Sunni shrine, police and hospital officials said.
The blast went off at 2 p.m. in the Sinak market area on the east side of the Tigris River, just as U.S. and Iranian diplomats were wrapping up a historic meeting aimed at ending the violence wracking the country.
I guess someone didn’t get the ‘memo’ about the U.S. and Iranian ambassadors meeting to decide how they’re going to divide Iraq, reminds me of the stories about Berlin and the Russians from way back when, and it’s going to happen too, Iran IS about to become a major player in this thing, out in the open, so, I really want to hear the ‘Bush Bots’ spin this into one of those good things the MSM never tells us about…
Another 33 bullet-riddled bodies were found handcuffed, blindfolded and showing signs of torture in differen | | By: TexasFred's | | |
| | | Sharp drop in Baghdad deaths after crackdown | | 2007-04-21 17:43:00 | | MSNBC - Iraqi civilian deaths have fallen in Baghdad in the two months since the Feb. 14 start of the U.S.-led offensive, according to an Associated Press tally. Outside the capital, however, civilian deaths are up as Sunni and Shiite extremists shift their operations to avoid the crackdown. And the sweeps have taken a heavy toll on U.S. forces: Deaths among American soldiers climbed 21 percent in Baghdad compared with the previous two months. Figures compiled by the AP from Iraqi police reports show that 1,586 civilians were killed in Baghdad between the start of the offensive and Thursday. That represents a sharp drop from the 2,871 civilians who died violently in the capital during the two months that preceded the security crackdown. | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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