Tag Archives: Iraq

Three car bombs in Baghdad

There are reports of a mor­tar attack and two large car bombs at the Sher­a­ton Hotel, home of Fox News and, next door in the Pales­tine, the Asso­ci­ated Press.

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Welcome to Kurdistan

WHAT WAS HAPPENING: I had this pic­ture taken as I stood on the shores of the Tigris after we had just crossed from Syria into north­ern Iraq. Down­stream, about 2 km, I could see a tower from the Iraqi base that com­mands the area. The Kurds told me that the Iraqis some­times snipe at the famÂiÂlies […]

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Kuwait backs U.S. on ICC

In another indi­ca­tion that war seems inevitable, Kuwait has exempted Amer­i­can troops from pros­e­cu­tion by the Inter­na­tionl Crim­i­nal Court. The agree­ment would exempt U.S. troops from war crimes while oper­at­ing in Kuwaiti ter­ri­tory, which is con­ve­nient in its tim­ing, to say the least.

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U.S. to pay Russia $10 billion for Iraq backing

Rus­sia gets its money and Qatar sur­vives a coup attempt. Amer­i­cans hear none of this news.

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Turkey preparing to invade Kurdistan?

Turkey has been mak­ing noises that the Iraqi Kurds should not get too hope­ful about estab­lish­ing a quasi-independent entity in the three gov­er­nates they con­trol in north­ern Iraq. Now, it looks like Turkey is ready to back up their words with force. How­ever, there is an elec­tion com­ing up in Turkey, so the pos­si­bil­ity that this is all fod­der for domes­tic con­stituen­cies can­not be ruled out.

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