Being a recounting of my journalistic ventures in Iraq
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 …
There’s some buzz that the U.S. is readying an attack on Iran, possibly as soon as this Friday. Don’t believe it. I’m due to be on board the _USS Stennis_, believed to be one of the ships taking part in this attack, next week — and it won’t even be in the Persian Gulf. I’m …
A former translator in Iraq, Dustin Langan, wrote me today to tip me off about an interesting read in Radar, about the lack of good translators in Iraq. He was recruited by MZM Inc., one of the companies connected with the “Duke” Cunningham corruption scandal, to work in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, and he has …
BAGHDAD — “Operation Swarmer” is turning out to be much less than meets the eye, or the television camera, for that matter. And that should raise concerns about relying on Iraqi intelligence.
Air strikes… in Baghdad?!
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