Today was a bad one. Another friend was kidnapped last night, and this morning a mortar shell hit our compound. Thankfully, my friend was released after a day — but he was very lucky.
InsurgencyWatch RSS- InsurgencyWatch moving to True/Slant October 24, 2009
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- FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan - Reuters October 2, 2009
Curious numbers in Ninevah
BAGHDAD — Ninevah province, home to the mixed city of Mosul and the besieged city of Tal ‘Afar, is seeing some very strange numbers. I’ve done back of the Excel envelope calculations and have found this: In the January election, which was boycotted by Sunnis, there were 165,934 votes cast, according to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq.