Month: June 2005

Iraqi Gov’t Slashing Budgets and Jobs

While CNNMSNBCFOX obsess over the disappearance of another pretty young white woman, we turn to this LA Times story (free sub.) chock full of shockers, given the billions we’ve shelled out for the new Iraqi government....

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Open Thread

Biden Urges U.S. to Take Steps to Close Prison at Guantánamo Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. said that the military detention center “has become the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the...

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Iraq Admits Targeting Sunnis in Crackdown

This AP story did not appear in the NY Times or the Washington Post, today (that I could find). There was a crackdown in Baghdad which began last Sunday, 29 May. The US named it Operation Lightning. 40,000 Iraqi security forces...

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