Monthly Archives: August 2010
Iraq: An End or an Escalation? (Rep. Ron Paul)
| August 30, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
By Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) Amid much fanfare last week, the last supposed “combat” troops left Iraq as the administration touted the beginning of the end of the Iraq War and a change in the role of the United States in that country. Considering the continued public frustration with the war effort and with the growing laundry list of broken promises,…
US Wasted Billions in Rebuilding Iraq
| August 29, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq — A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets. As the U.S. draws down…
Taxpayer-Funded Computers for Iraqi Kids Are Auctioned Off
| August 28, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
By Rebecca Santana/ The Associated Press BAGHDAD — The U.S. military is demanding to know what happened to $1.9 million worth of computers purchased by American taxpayers and intended for Iraqi schoolchildren that instead were auctioned by Iraqi officials for less than $50,000, the military said Friday. The U.S. news release was a rare public admission by the military of the…
Dozens Killed, 200 Injured in Iraq Violence
| August 27, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
Attacks Come One Day After U.S. Pulled Its Last Combat Troops From Iraq By Terry McCarthy (CBS) – With U.S. combat troops now out of Iraq, insurgents are putting the country’s security forces to the test. A series of coordinated attacks, 13 in all, were stages in just about every big Iraqi city. Suicide bombers targeted police. Roadside bombs killed civilians.…
Baghdad’s X-Rated Movie Market Rises From the Ashes
| August 27, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
Tarek al-Tablawy/ Associated Press – BAGHDAD: The nude women on the DVD cover in a Baghdad street stall say it all: Change, whether you like it or not, is afoot in Iraq. Hundreds of porn DVDs are stacked elbow-deep on a wooden table in Jassim Hanoun’s ramshackle stall on a downtown sidewalk. His other tables have Hollywood blockbusters, such as “King…
UPDATE: Iraq Resumes Crude Oil Pumping to Turkey – Shipper
| August 26, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
By Hassan Hafidh/ DOW JONES NEWSWIRES – Iraq has resumed pumping crude oil from its Kirkuk fields to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean since Tuesday afternoon following a closure that lasted five days, a Middle East shipping agent said Wednesday. “The Iraqis resumed the pumping at 1730 local time [1430 GMT] Tuesday,” the agent told Dow Jones Newswires…
U.S. Troops to Return Only if Iraqis Fail
| August 23, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
By Lolita C. Baldor/ Associated Press– WASHINGTON (AP) — It would take “a complete failure” of the Iraqi security forces for the United States to resume combat operations there, the top American commander in Iraq said as the final U.S. fighting forces prepared to leave the country. With a major military milestone in sight, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said in interviews…
Iraq Admits Minorities Remain Vulnerable
| August 21, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
BAGHDAD (RFE/RL) — The Iraqi government is doing all it can to ensure security for all citizens, but it is also aware that religious and ethnic minorities are particularly vulnerable and extra efforts are required to protect them, a senior Iraqi official has told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq. Ali al-Musawi, who is a media adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said…
Iraq War Vet Kills Pregnant Wife, Daughter, Self
| August 20, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
April Oles-Magdzas was due to give birth to her second daughter Wednesday, a little more than a year after she and her Iraq war veteran husband became new parents. But when Oles-Magdzas’ mother showed up that day at the couple’s home in Superior, she found the entire family dead of an apparent murder-suicide. Superior police said Thursday that Matthew Magdzas, a…
Foreign Investors Remain Wary of Iraq Stalemate
| August 18, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
Lack of government deters investment BAGHDAD: Foreign investors eager to win contracts to rehabilitate Iraq’s idle factories are delaying decisions due to a lack a government five months after an election, a deputy industry minister said on Tuesday. Iraq is trying to shake off the legacy of years of violence, sanctions and economic decline by opening up its financial and industrial…
Holiest Month in Religion of Peace Brings Uptick in Jihad Attacks in Iraq
| August 16, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
A phenomenon we have seen across the Islamic world, and have noted here at Jihad Watch since the site’s inception nearly 7 years ago. And somehow, it keeps happening. “Attacks in Iraq Rise During Ramadan,” by Anthony Shadid for the New York Times, August 15: BAGHDAD – Roadside bombs, booby-trapped cars and hit-and-run attacks reverberated across Iraq on Sunday, another violent…
Attacks in Iraq Rise During Ramadan
| August 16, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
BAGHDAD — Roadside bombs, booby-trapped cars and hit-and-run attacks reverberated across Iraq on Sunday, another violent day following insurgents’ threats to escalate their attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In the past two days, at least 19 people were killed in the attacks. While insurgents have sought to make dramatic gestures lately — raising their flag in prominent Baghdad…
Defeat in Iraq Will Quicken the End of Western Domination
| August 15, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
By Dr. Sawraj Singh– America is withdrawing its combat troops from Iraq this month. This is being clearly perceived as a defeat in the region. Not only is this perceived as a defeat for the West but also as a victory for Iran. Many people in Iraq feel that Iran will fill the vacuum left by America. The question is what…
U.S. Ambassador Leaving Iraq With Key Task Still Undone
| August 14, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
Anthony Shadid, The New York Times / BAGHDAD – Christopher Hill, the ambassador charged with reshaping the U.S. role in Iraq, on Thursday ended his 16-month tenure with a military withdrawal afoot but a key task not complete: the formation of a government that will inherit the country. Hill postponed his retirement as a diplomat in a last-ditch attempt to reach…
Postal Service Change Will Allow Military Personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan to Receive Cigarettes by Mail
| August 13, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
By Gregory A. Hall • ghall@courier-journal.com – It soon will be easier for cigarette-smoking members of armed forces to smoke ’em and get ’em. The U.S. Postal Service announced Thursday that it is changing its policy that effectively banned cigarettes from being mailed to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. The policy, which took effect at the end of June, was created…
Iraq Needs Help Defending Its Borders After U.S. Troops Leave in 2011
| August 12, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
Some form of continued U.S. military presence is necessary to protect against external threats and to train troops, commanders say. Iraq’s inability to defend its airspace is a key concern. By Liz Sly, Los Angeles Times/ Reporting from Besmaya, Iraq — Iraq will need U.S. military support for up to another decade to defend its borders because the Iraqi army won’t…
Iraq’s Excuser-in-Chief Speaks Up
| August 11, 2010 | Filled under Uncategorized |
By JOHN BURNS – With only a little more than three weeks until the last American combat troops are scheduled to be withdrawn from Iraq, the fragile political standoff between the main population groups — Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds — is set to move into a more stressful phase, one that could strain the fragile peace achieved under American dominion as…
And who, all of a sudden, has piped up from his Baghdad prison cell and urged President Obama not to proceed with the withdrawal schedule, which foresees the last of the 50,000 troops who will remain on Aug. 31 being pulled out of Iraq by the end of 2011?
The answer: None other than Tariq Aziz, who was the best known figure from the years of Saddam Hussein’s tyranny, outside Iraq, other than Mr. Hussein himself. Short, bespectacled, owlish-looking and gifted with a flair for injured innocence, Mr. Aziz cut an incongruous figure as the chief apologist for one of modern history’s most murderous regimes.
For more than 20 years, at every new chapter in Mr. Hussein’s history of aggression or deceit, there he was, as foreign minister, and later deputy prime minister, acting out his role as Iraq’s excuser-in-chief for its war with Iran, its invasion of Kuwait, its years of blocking and evading United Nations weapons inspectors.
Now, Mr. Aziz has executed one more vertiginous backflip. In an interview published last week in The Guardian newspaper in Britain, he offered his standard skein of justifications and rationalizations for Mr. Hussein’s blunders (“Didn’t Churchill make mistakes?”); for his own lack of culpability (“All decisions were taken by President Saddam Hussein. I held a political position. I did not participate in any of the crimes that were raised against me personally.”); and for Iraq’s defiance over more than a decade of U.N. Security Council resolutions requiring it to abandon its banned weapons programs and make them accessible to U.N. inspectors. Mr. Aziz said this was not aimed at the West as much as at Iran. (“Partially, it was about Iran. They had waged war on us for eight years so we Iraqis had a right to deter them. Saddam was a proud man. He had to defend the dignity of Iraq. He had to show that he was not wrong, or weak.”)
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