Baghdad Jews must run for their lives
Baghdad Jews must run for their lives Eight Baghdad Jews who represent the remnants of that city’s Jewish community are facing security threats so grave that they need to flee the country, the community’s caretaker, Canon Andrew White, told The Jerusalem Post from London on Tuesday.
According to White, who himself has fled from Baghdad due [...]
Iraqi sheikh killed by al-Qaeda
Iraqi sheikh ‘killed by al-Qaeda’ A Sunni leader in the Iraqi province of Diyala, who encouraged his community to confront al-Qaeda in Iraq, has been killed by the group, police say.
The militants exploded a bomb in his house in the town of Kanaan, and fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at other houses and a Sunni mosque. … Until [...]
Islam’s unholy alliance
Australia: Islam’s unholy alliance On a hot summer’s night two years ago, a carload of Islamic gunmen drove along Auburn Road in Sydney’s west and sprayed bullets into a row of shops owned by Iraqi Australians.
This was no run-of-the-mill crime. On this night in January 2005, the gunshots echoed far beyond western Sydney and into the [...]
Veterans bear scar of sheer brutality in Iraq
The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness Over the past several months The Nation has interviewed fifty combat veterans of the Iraq War from around the United States in an effort to investigate the effects of the four-year-old occupation on average Iraqi civilians. These combat veterans, some of whom bear deep emotional and physical scars, and [...]
Why we remain but don’t wear rags on our heads
One should not live under the impression that American designs on Iraq are entirely benign. Their stated goal is to establish a viable democracy in the once-Baathist regime. To use the neo-conservative lingo; Iraq would be a bastion of transparent and equitable government in a sea of Arab despots. God willing, and this is Bush [...]
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