Being a recounting of my journalistic ventures in Iraq
The *New York Times* has an interesting piece today on the $20 billion arms deal to Saudia Arabia and some of the other Gulf sheikhdoms. Mark Mazzetti and Helene Cooper write that the U.S. has admitted that the plan to provide advanced weaponry to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel is to contain Iran. Helping America’s …
So, the Iraqi national team just scored it’s first goal against the Saudi team in Jakarta in the finals of the Asia Cup. This is the first time the Iraqis have made it to the final round, and they’re totally underdogs. But the Saudis are playing a messy game and I hope you all will …
Hello all. I’ll be in the Northern Arabian Gulf for a few days starting tomorrow to check out the training of the Iraqi Navy, the two oil terminals there (which supply Iraq with 90%+ of its income) and maybe I’ll even bump up against some Iranians. Stay tuned…
One of the things writing the U.S. media roundup on IraqSlogger allows me to do is get a high dudgeon up over the crap that passes for analysis on op-ed pages … or sloppy writing in the middle of reporting. (Michael Gordon of the New York Times has been raked over the coals for his …
My latest column is up on Spot-on and — surprise! — it’s about the one-year anniversary of the Lebanon War. Today, a year ago, I was witness to what U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would come to call “the birth pangs of a new Middle East.” I was in Jerusalem, “covering the abduction of …