Why trade the IQD/NID New Iraqi Dinar?http://sellthenewiraqidinar.blogspot.com/A successful Iraq will bring its currency from historic lows to an internationally recognized currency with world value.New Iraqi Dinar has advanced 25% since the end of major combat operations.
We print portions of a letter published in the Stars & Stripes in their edition of February 15, 2008. We will not comment since this soldier is entitled to express his opinion.
“I am appalled at the cover story on February 11 showing an Iraqi woman crying out in protest after U.S. troops clut the face [...]
The secet first draft of the nortorious Iraq dossier that helped take Britain to war against Iraq is expected to be released today. It is a victory for freedom of information campaigners. This early version, written by John Williams, the director of communications for the Foreign Office has long been the subject of controversy because [...]
Diana West - It isn't just that the total defeat and utter devastation of Japan nullifies the comparison with Iraq (which it does). There is something else. There is the completely different U.S. approach to Japan's animating, warlike state religion of Shintoism, which, not incidentally, bears striking similarities to the animating, warlike state religion of Islam.History shows that the conditions that drove the model transformation of Japan do not exist today with regard to the Islamic Middle East. We're going to need another strategy -- for starters, an immigration policy and new laws to halt the creep of Sharia -- to ward off the Islamization of the West.
A Ft. Carson soldier who was in treatment at Cedar Spring Hospital for a bipolar condition and alcohol abuse was released earely and ordered to deploy to the Middle east with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team. Health care workers said the soldier met criteria indicating he had bipolar and “some paranoia and possible homicidal tendencies” [...]
I always thought that my current workload is stressful - managing people, the games and coordinating with developers, etc. But there’s nothing more stressful than being in Iraq, donning a US Army uniform which makes you a walking target for terrorists. And that’s where video games come into the picture. Ain’t nothing like lounging in the [...]
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates believes there is lingering anger in Europe oveer the Iraq war and that is hindering efforts to obtain a complete commitment from NATO to wage war in Afghanistan. He wants Europeans to separate their feelings about Iraq from the needs in Afghanistan for more troops to fight the Taliban and [...]
The US intelligence chief has said that the al Qaeda is leaving Iraq to establish its cells in other countries. The al Qaeda is using tribal regions of Pakistan to train terrorist to wage attacks in Afghanistan, the Mideast, Africa and the US. “Al Qaeda remains the preeminent threat against the United States,” a foreign news agency quoted Mike McConnell as telling the Senate Intelligence Committee. Mike went on to say that less that 100 Qaeda terrorists have left Iraq to establish their cells in other countries, and it may deploy resources to mount attacks outside the country. He further said that violence in Iraq will not end in a year, adding, “It's going to be a long time to bring it to closure.” According to FBI Director Robert Mueller, the al Qaeda continues to present a "critical threat to the homeland". Mueller also warned that “homegrown terrorists” who are inspired by its propaganda on the
There is growing concern that local militias now allied with the U.S. are turning their guns on each other as the U.S. prepares to pull back its presence. These groups have been tasked with pacifying some of the most restive corners of Iraq — contributing to the measure of stability enjoyed by the country in the last few months. "We're paying them and training them so they're effective," says Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, of America's new partners, many of whom are former insurgents. But there are signs that these groups, called Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs) by the U.S. military, are already turning on each other in competition for territory. More...
Because of its imperial history, Britain has experienced much of what the United States is going through, Prince Andrew said. "If you are looking at colonialism, if you are looking at operations on an international scale, if you are looking at understanding each other's culture, understanding how to operate in a military insurgency campaign - we have been through them all," he said. "We've won some, lost some, drawn some. The fact is there is quite a lot of experience over here which is valid and should be listened to."
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government will begin talks with U.S. officials later in February on a pact that would lay the basis for long-term strategic ties between Washington and Baghdad, an Iraqi official said on Monday. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, President Jalal Talabani, Iraq's two vice presidents and the leaders of major political blocs had met on Sunday to discuss the pact. Dabbagh said the talks with U.S. officials would begin in the third week of February but did not give a date. "This agreement will bring economic, security, political, diplomatic benefits to Iraq and set up a sympathetic relationship with the American people," he said. Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari has said he hopes the pact will be concluded by July. U.S. officials were not immediately available for comment but U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker told Reuters in an interview late last month that the pact would "frame the bilateral relation
A veteran Turkish diplomat who led his nation’s delegation in discussing possible entry into the Iraq war on the side of the United States believes failure to do so prevented dealing with Kurdish rebels. Ambassador Deniz Boiukasi said Turkey’s parliament in March, 2003, narrowly rejected a government motion to militarily cooperate with the US invasion [...]
President Bush’s top diplomat in Iraq said the US plans on keeping troops there into 2009 and most probably beond that point. Ambassador Ryan Crocker believes the American presence is the center of gravity that holds together the effort to defeat militants in the war torn nation. He said both General Petraeus and hmself are [...]
Iraq's Oil Ministry has halted oil exports to Austria's OMV in protest at the company's oil deal with the Kurdish Regional Government.
"The ministry's decision has been enforced from first of January. We have informed them (OMV) of that," Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told reporters....
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s prime minister vowed on Saturday that improved security would not be derailed after two female bombers killed 99 people in the deadliest attacks in Baghdad since last April.
Nuri al-Maliki said Friday’s bombings at popular pet markets in the capital would not herald a return to the savage violence that took Iraq [...]
I was surfing through the blogs this morning and I came across this post on Stuck On Stupid that I found rather interesting.
In Florida John McCain tried foolishly to link words that Mitt Romney spoke to Romney’s support of timetables for withdrawal from Iraq. This was a bold faced lie and he was called out on it [...]
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney said John McCain used dirty tricks by suggesting shortly before the Florida primary that the former Massachusetts governor wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, as the two men squared off in a spirited debate Wednesday night.Coming 24 hours after McCain defeated him in the [...]
In other news today, Iraq has now been assimilated by World of Warcraft. According to the Chinese news sources CCTV, which is a military channel, on January 2nd they talked about recent military movements in the Middle East. Take a look at the image from the newscast showing the map of Turkey, Iraq, [...]
By Paul Tait BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nine bodies and 10 severed heads were found on Tuesday in an abandoned field north of Baghdad in a region where U.S. and Iraqi forces are pressing ahead with offensives against al Qaeda forces. In the northern city of Mosul, a suicide car bomber killed one civilian and wounded 15 others in an attack on a U.S. convoy, U.S. and Iraqi security officials said. The U.S. military said none of its soldiers were wounded in the attack in Mosul, where extra Iraqi troops and police have been sent for a "decisive" final push against al Qaeda. Five U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in a coordinated ambush in Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, on Monday. Police made the gruesome discovery of the bodies and severed heads in a field in Muqdadiya, 90 km northeast of Baghdad in Diyala, one of Iraq's northern provinces where U.S. and Iraqi forces are fighting Sunni Islamist al Qaeda. Police said some of the nine complete bodies were partiall
By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush offered relatively upbeat assessments of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that failed to address how hard it may be for his successor to stabilize them, analysts said. In his final State of the Union speech on Monday, the outgoing Republican president argued that over the past year Iraq has seen declining violence and growing political reconciliation among its main Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish ethnic groups. In Afghanistan, he described "a nation that was once a safe haven for al Qaeda" as "a young democracy where boys and girls are going to school, new roads and hospitals are being built, and people are looking to the future with new hope." In both cases, analysts said Bush painted an unduly rosy picture and omitted key factors that threaten their stability. "There has been a substantial decrease in violence (in Iraq) -- that is undeniable -- but there really has been little fund
The extensive dependence on reservists in fighting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars frequently results in rather bizarre encounters between members of the same family. Sgt. Tammi Johnson, a reservist, was deployed to Kirkuk Air base in Iraq only to discover she was taking over work tasks presently being done by her son, Derrrick. “This is [...]
Jill Morganthaler, a 30 year Army veteran, has decided to sift from fighting on the fields of Iraq to zeroing in on a Repulican congressman who ran a dirty campaign in 2006 to defeat a former female Iraq war veteran.If the 53 year-old suburban mother wins the Demcoratic nomination for congress, she will take [...]
In the article below, which I republish from the Morning Star,* Liz Davies warns that the withdrawal of US/UK troops from Iraq, whilst vitally important, by itself is not enough, as the purpose of the military occupation of Iraq was to lay the foundations for the long term political and economic control of that Nation by the USA. The Neo-conservatives who originated this wicked war and occupation have demonstrated by building a new US Embassy in Baghdad, [see photo] which will house over 4000 employees, that the USA has long term strategic and economic reasons for remaining in Iraq; and Liz deals with this matter in some detail in this piece, It is well worth a read.What now for Iraq?By Liz Davies.Half the population of Iraq is aged 16 or under. These children have lived their lives experiencing aggressive assaults on their country by the US and Britain. First, economic sanctions and then military invasion and occupation. Their parents grew up during the Iran-Iraq war when the West fu
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The police chief of Mosul was seriously wounded in an explosion on Thursday as he toured the scene of a huge blast a day earlier which had killed at least 20 people in the northern Iraqi city, police said. The cause of the latest blast which wounded Brigadier-General Salih Mohammed Hasan was not immediately known, police said. One of Hasan's bodyguards was killed and another five wounded, they said. Rescuers were still digging through the rubble in search of survivors from Wednesday's huge blast, blamed by U.S. military commanders on Sunni Islamist al Qaeda, which also wounded 150. That blast in a house used by militants to store weapons and tonnes of explosives also destroyed or badly damaged 35 homes. U.S. military commanders have identified ethnically and religiously mixed Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, as al Qaeda's last major urban stronghold. Al Qaeda fighters have regrouped there after being driven out of former strongholds in western Anbar province
By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed and 75 wounded when an unoccupied building blew up in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday just as police arrived to investigate a tip that weapons were inside, police said. Women and children were among the victims, police said, but it was unclear if they were on the street outside the building at the time or if the explosion had damaged nearby houses. Witnesses described the blast as one of the biggest explosions ever heard in ethnically and religiously mixed Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, and said a huge plume of smoke rose above the largest city in northern Iraq.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb attack on a residential building in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Wednesday killed at least seven people and wounded more than 70, police said. Witnesses said it was one of the biggest explosions they had ever heard in Mosul, part of a region where al Qaeda in Iraq militants have regrouped after being pushed out of Baghdad and western Anbar province. The Sunni Islamist militant group is blamed for most major bombings in Iraq. Women and children were among the victims, police said, adding that the death toll was expected to rise. Brigadier-General Abdul Kareem al-Jubouri, head of the operations room in the Mosul police command, said police had been tipped off about a large stock of weapons at the building. Iraqi police and soldiers were sent to the building. Just as security forces reached the building, it exploded, he said. A huge plume of smoke rose above Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad. The U.S. military has been carrying out large-
By Wisam Mohammed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Baghdad, Iraq's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, a landmark trip that would make him the first leader of Iran to visit its former foe. Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war in the 1980s in which hundreds of thousands were killed, but relations have improved since Saddam Hussein was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and a Shi'ite Islamist-led government came to power. "President Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation from President (Jalal) Talabani to come to Iraq," Iraqi deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abawi told Reuters. An aide to Ahmadinejad, who asked not to be identified, said: "We have heard about it but no date has been scheduled." Both Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have visited Shi'ite Iran, which some Middle East analysts say exerts greater influence in Iraq than the United States. Ahmadinejad has accepted the in
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb attack on a residential building in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Wednesday killed and wounded up to 50 people, police said. Women and children were among the casaulties, police said. They did not have an immediate break-up of the dead and wounded.
Two nonprofit organizations, the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism, after an exhaustive examination of documents, public statements and interviews, have concluded President Bush and other Republican administration offiicals led concerning the reasons for war with Iraq. The statements “were part of an orchetrated campaign that effectively galvinized public opinion [...]
Let's pretend the U.S. pulled out of Iraq in the coming months because the President had a huge change of heart. 90% of our troops are gone, by, let's say July 2009.What happens then?Let's say, for the sake of discussion, all out civil war breaks out in Iraq, but is limited to that country.Hundreds and thousands of Iraqis are dying every day, every week, every month. Does the U.S. have a moral obligation to step in and try to resolve the fighting?Or instead, do we sit back and watch, and wait for the rest of the region to potentially join in?
By Sami al-Jumaili KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala as 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi'ite rite on Saturday, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities. Police said sporadic fighting between security forces and gunmen from a messianic Shi'ite cult called the "Soldiers of Heaven" had broken out again in the cities of Basra and Nassiriya on Saturday. There was no information on casualties. Nearly 70 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in gunbattles on Friday after gunmen from the cult launched nearly simultaneous attacks in the two cities. In Kerbala, pilgrims thronged streets and narrow alleyways for the end of the 10-day Ashura ritual, in which Shi'ites mourn the slaying over 13 centuries ago of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein near the holy city. Among the pilgrims were hundreds of men wearing white robes, who marched through the streets st
By Sami al-Jumaili KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala as 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi'ite rite on Saturday, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities. Police said sporadic fighting between security forces and gunmen from a messianic Shi'ite cult called the "Soldiers of Heaven" had broken out again in the cities of Basra and Nassiriya on Saturday. There was no information on casualties. Nearly 70 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in gunbattles on Friday after gunmen from the cult launched nearly simultaneous attacks in the two cities. In the northern city of Kirkuk, a bomb planted in a trash can killed two Shi'ite pilgrims heading to a local mosque for the end of the 10-day Ashura ritual, police in the city said. In Kerbala, pilgrims thronged streets and alleyways for ceremonies mourning the slaying over 13 centuries ago of the Prophet Mohammad's gra
By Khaled Farhan NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia might not renew its six-month ceasefire, a key cause of the decline in violence in Iraq, unless attacks against it stop, a Sadr aide said on Saturday. Salah al-Ubaidi, a senior official in Sadr's political movement in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf, accused "criminal elements" inside Iraqi security forces of attacking Sadr's followers and Mehdi Army fighters. "If the government security forces do not stop their campaigns of detention and arresting our followers, we may reconsider our decision to freeze the Mehdi Army," Ubaidi told Reuters. The six months of the declared ceasefire run out next month. Sadr announced it after clashes between his followers and police during a pilgrimage in Kerbala, another holy Shi'ite city in southern Iraq, in August. The fighting, in which scores were killed and hundreds were wounded, sparked outrage and prompted a police investig
By Sami al-Jumaili KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala on Saturday for the climax of a major Shi'ite ceremony after gunmen from a Shi'ite cult attacked pilgrims and police in two other southern cities. Police said the cities of Basra and Nassiriya were calm following street battles on Friday between security forces and gunmen from a cult called the "Soldiers of Heaven" who killed dozens of people and wounded 100. In Kerbala, 2.5 million Shi'ites thronged the streets and alleyways of the holy city for the end of the 10-day Ashura ritual, in which Shi'ites mourn the slaying over 13 centuries ago of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein. Among the pilgrims were dozens of men wearing white robes who marched through the streets striking their heads with swords to underscore their grief at the killing of Imam Hussein. Blood flowed down their robes. Others beat their chests to the sound of drums and religious chants
According to a report in the Denver News, soldiers who were medically unfit or considered borderline have been sent to the Middle East to meet Army goals for “deployable strength.” The newspaper said more than 50 troops were deployed to Kuwait en route to Iraq while they were still getting medical treatment for various conditions. [...]
Remember that Iraq war study that was released that claimed 650,000 Iraqis have been killed during the war? This is the same report that far left wing bloggers still site as fact even though it was nothing but anti-American propaganda. It turns out that George Soros was a major funder of that fraudulent report. Of [...]
Although their numbers still remain small by comparison with those of males, women increasingly are playing an important role in the air war of Iraq. DefenseDepartment restrictions prohibit all services from placing women in direct ground combat. But Air Force women have been clelared to fight from the air in fighter jets, bombers and gun-ships [...]
According to an editorial in the Iraq newspaper, the situation in Iraq has grown worse despite American claims things are improving. “The security situation in Baghdad is deteriorating very quickly…The synchronized bombing of churches in three major cities in the country–Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk- and the ostensible surge in bomb attacks targeting U.S. supported Arab [...]
Jabbar Yawar, a spokesman for the Peshmerga security forces of northern Iraq, said on Friday that Turkish forces had shelled two areas in Dahuk province for two hours.Earlier, Iraqi Kurdish television said Turkish military had bombed northern Iraq, but gave no details of any injuries or damage to property.Turkey has also massed up to 100,000 troops on the border with Iraq.
BAGHDAD — U.S. planes dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives on Baghdad’s southern outskirts Thursday in a 10-minute massive strike, attacking what the military said were safe havens for al-Qaeda.
The air attack along the Tigris River “was one of the largest airstrikes since the onset of the war” in 2003, said Maj. Alayne Conway, a spokeswoman [...]
Iraq's crude capital, Basra, and perhaps its most controversial city, Kirkuk, also flush with oil, face a formidable 2008.
The futures of both depend on how the post-2003 power vacuum plays out, though the latter could be settled with a political compromise in Baghdad. In Basra, after nearly five...
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There are mixed reports on Iraq's resumption of oil exports to Turkey, which were shut last week because of full storage tanks, not security impediments.
The Iraq State Oil Marketing Organization predicts 400,000 barrels per day of exports starting this month, as Iraq starts setting prices for its...
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According to President Bush, his “surge” has produced dramatic reductions in the level of violence in Iraq and the number of dead people. However, recent figures released from the Iraq Body Count(IBC) which has extensive experience working in that country, concludes that violence outside of Baghdad actually rose until September. its figures recognize a [...]
It was just an ordinary holiday party at Christmas time when some friends got together in a Wisconsin town, but things got hot and biting when two men began discussing the war in Iraq. Ramon Aleaga, who had been fighting in Iraq, was sharing some gruesome tales of killing people during his tour of duty [...]
In an 11-minute interview with hometown Chicago radio broadcaster and journalist, Roland Martin, Barack Obama revealed that his first act, if elected president, would be to pull our troops out of Iraq as quickly as possible.Roland Martin: If you are elected what is the very first thing that you focus on as Commander in Chief of this country?Barack Obama: Well, we will call in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I will give them a new assignment and that is to bring our troops home in a careful, responsible way, but to end this occupation in Iraq. I will call in my Secretary of State and initiate the diplomacy that's needed to make sure that exit is accompanied by negotiations between the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds.Via Gateway Pundit
Democrats have been shifting their excuse for surrendering the Iraq war from, we can’t win to Iraq isn’t ever going to make political gains in an effort to legitimize the withdrawal of American troops before victory is achieved. Well now according to this article the Democrat’s new strategy may be ready to backfire on them [...]
Mrs Rose Lage, a middle aged mother and wife, was looking forward to her husband’s retirement and life spent with the grandchildren. That dreams vanished in the smoke from a bomb blast that severely injured her son Sgt. Michael Lage and left him with severe body burns. It has been rare for President Bush, who [...]
This article comes from politico.com, and it talks about how many of the newly elected Democrats want to stop focusing so much attention on their failed end the war strategies, and turn more towards domestic issues.
It seems as though the junior Democrats realize what a losing issue the Iraq war is to the Democrat party. [...]
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