Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US military reports it has captured about 200,000 Iraqis, with some 96,000 of these being held at one time or another in US prisons in Iraq.
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Remembering the old days
A recently released book, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Northern Iraq, tells of a land where Jews, Christians and Muslims mixed relatively peacefully many years ago. How times have changed.
How to report the carnage
The two sides of media in Iraq: From the West: The number of foreign journalists in Baghdad is declining sharply, a media withdrawal that reflects Iraq’s growing stability and the financial strains faced by some news organizations. In a stark indication of the changing media focus here, the number of journalists traveling with American forces…
Killing them one by one
The real counter-insurgency plan for Iraq, revealed by Wikileaks. US-backed death squads are clearly a price to pay for “stability.”
Death by any name
Some of that democratic Iraq, reported by The Independent’s Robert Fisk: Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come. The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the prisons run by…
The forgotten minority
There are around 4,500 Mandaeans from Iraq and Iran living in Australia, making them the second largest community outside of the Middle East. Who are they?
Vibewire on The Blogging Revolution
Vibewire is one of Australia’s finest online youth portals (I used to write a regular column for them years ago.) I was recently interviewed by one of their writers, Jacqui Dent, about my book, The Blogging Revolution: Blogging is being used increasingly to speak out against oppression in authoritarian regimes and speak up amidst mainstream…
Get off their lands
Robert Fisk, on Democracy Now!, on the insidious role of the US in the Middle East: It was a baker in Baghdad who asked me this very obvious question. He said, “Why are you””–you” meaning Western military”–Why are you in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, French air base at Dushanbe running close as support for the British…
The American concentration camp
What really happened at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib? An American guard who was there tells all.
We wuz wrong, kinda
So the New York Times finally acknowledges its inability to seriously challenge Bush administration spin before the Iraq war?