Showing posts with label Baghdad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baghdad. Show all posts

Sunday, November 02, 2014

Where did all the yellowcake go?

The answer will really scare you.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Friday, October 12, 2007

Mission Accomplished!

With most Sunni factions now seeking a deal, the big questions in Iraq have been resolved positively. The country remains one, it has embraced democracy and avoided all-out civil war. What violence remains is largely local and criminal
Mission Accomplished

BAGHDAD, Oct. 11 — In a number of Shiite neighborhoods across Baghdad, residents are beginning to turn away from the Mahdi Army, the Shiite militia they once saw as their only protector against Sunni militants. Now they resent it as a band of street thugs without ideology.
Relations Sour Between Shiites and Iraq Militia

Friday, November 10, 2006

Democrats, are you happy now?

Al Qaeda gloats over Rumsfeld

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A purported audio recording by the leader of Iraq's al Qaeda wing gloated over the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...he said his group would not rest until it had blown up the presidential mansion in Washington.

Al-Qaida in Iraq Claims It's Winning War

BAGHDAD (AP) On the audio tape made available on militant Web sites, the al-Qaida in Iraq leader also welcomed the Republican electoral defeat that led to the departure of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Al Qaeda internet audio clip boasts of 12,000 terror 'troops'

UK (Daily Mail) Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, said in the recording posted on the Internet that the group has 12,000 armed fighters and 10,000 others waiting to be equipped to fight US troops in Iraq. "I tell the lame duck (US administration) do not rush to escape as did your defence minister ... stay on the battleground," he said.
Let us know if there's anything else we can do to make the enemy more comfortable.