Being a recounting of my journalistic ventures in Iraq
JUST OUTSIDE NAHR EL-BARED REFUGEE CAMP — Just at the edge of this now devastated refugee camp, the Lebanese Army is showing signs of preparing for a showdown with the “Fatah al-Islam jihadist group”:https://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/2007/05/more_violence_and_an_update_on.php. Trucks full of ammunition have been seen rumbling north on the road from Tripoli toward the camp. Many of the Palestinian …
NAHR EL-BARED, Lebanon — Ali Said Mearbani, 64, mopped his brow and gratefully accepted a cool glass of water offered to him by a worker in the cafe. Mearbani had more reasons to be thankful, though. He had just escaped Lebanon’s latest war zone. Mearbani lives in the village of Ard al Hamra, which borders …
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A scientist friend of my former fixer in Iraq was shot and killed in traffic yesterday.
Muhammad over at Iraq the Model blogs on the seven (or six) insurgent groups coming in from the desert and proposing a truce. He doesn’t really add much to my previous post, but he does have an interesting comment: So far, everybody in Iraq feels good about Maliki’s plan and expressed their hopes for it …
Interesting. The day after PM Nouri al-Maliki introduced his “plan for national reconciliation”:https://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/2006/06/english_version_of_reconciliat.php, seven insurgent groups from the Ba’athist/Nationalist side of the insurgency have reportedly contacted the Iraqi government in order to offer a truce. The groups include the 1920 Revolution Brigades, the Muhammad Army (jaysh al-Muhammad), Abtal al-Iraq (Heroes of Iraq), the 9th of …
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