Back in Baghdad and, unfortunately on deadline now, but here are some photos and a movie I shot while in Najaf.
Think the Battle for Najaf is over, and Sistani is the big winner here. But I’m too frazzled and on deadline to make heads of this right now. More later, inshallah.
We’ve been writing a lot about recent events in Najaf, here at This Is Rumor Control, but sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. Over at Back to Iraq, Christophe
Thanks for the post and look forward to following you on insurgency watch. Hopefully Iraq can become a prosperous place that is truly free and safe.
You may find this interesting but I was in detention recently in Doha Qatar (something I’m not very proud of but relevant to this comment). I was in the same jail block as the above mention coup plotters (1996 counter coup). I would like to say that I those guys are not the assume militant types but very rational and well educated. I will have to say that they are victims of circumstances and not evil conspirators as many assume them to be.
Along with these guys there is an American (www.johnwdowns.com), he is charged with espionage. If you read through his website (it will offer you a more detailed/clearer explanation than anything I could explain), the charges charged against him are based in such ridiculous evidence (talk to his daughter Margaret Downs) but still he is spending a full life sentence in Doha, Qatar.
If only more people take notice and follow-up on cases like this then you will see the inequality so evident in Qatar and most gulf countries.
I feel that it does not make much sense to keep fighting the war in Iraq. Everything that we mess up we have to re-build it so why keep fighting if we don’t have to. The casualties that are shown in this blog are deaths that could have been well avoided. Alot of money problems should not be blamed on Obama but Bush.
Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister Pierre Gemayel Assassinated
[Developing]
It’s getting very tense in Lebanon:
Industry Minister and Christian leader Pierre Gemayel was gunned down as his convoy drove through the Christian Sin el-Fil neighbourhood.
The shooting comes at a time when Lebanese political and se…
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Najaf Show and Tell
We’ve been writing a lot about recent events in Najaf, here at This Is Rumor Control, but sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. Over at Back to Iraq, Christophe
Images and sounds of War in Najaf
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