Last week a US Air Force C-17 transport plane (tail #96-0002) made a dazzling nighttime “wheels up” belly landing at Bagram Air Base in Aghanistan sending sparks and flames higher than the tailplane (which on the C-17 is five stories high). The crash led...
Peace in the Middle East, Bush Family-Style. The UN Security Council vetoed the invasion of Iraq and thus the UN did not support it, yet it realized its mandate and went into Iraq anyway hoping to help restore order… Actually, the UN already had an envoy and an...
And so the fleecing or the Iraqi people begins… -Ian. Begin forwarded message: > From: Tom > Date: Fri Aug 1, 2003 9:32:24 AM US/Pacific > To: fork [at] xent [dot] com > Subject: Can You Here Me Now > >> From http://www.arstechnica.com/ > > Middle East mobile...
In the Bush administration’s latest breach of the Geneva Convention, US forces in IRAQ are now kidnapping the wives and families of suspected Ba’ath party collaborators and holding them hostage to force those Ba’athists to turn themselves in....
War-weary troops long for home By Peter Greste BBC correspondent in Baghdad It was a single shot – nothing spectacular – but that split-second act of Iraqi resistance might well be recorded as the point at which America turned from liberator to occupier....
