Iraqi Shoe Thrower Muntadhar al-Zeidi Released, Defends shoe-throwing (Vide
2009-09-15 22:10:00 Iraqi Shoe Thrower Muntadhar al-Zeidi Released, Defends shoe-throwing (Video) Posted using ShareThis
Iraqi Bundles of Love Overall Beauty Sending 9 Pounds of Yarn!
2009-08-29 21:16:00 I’m doing something a little different today. My sister got me involved in a project called Iraqi Bundles of Love. Where you can send boxes of yarn, buttons, sewing stuff to Art in Iraq who in turn is going to be giving all this boxes to the women of Iraq. So I had yarn! I ...
Powerful Iraqi Shiite leader has died in Iran
(AP)
2009-08-26 14:39:00 AP - Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the scion of a revered clerical family who rode the rise of Shiite power in Iraq to become one of the country's most powerful political figures but was deeply distrusted by Sunni Muslims as an ally of Iran, died Wednesday at the age of 59.
Popular Iraqi actor who died in Syria mourned
(AP)
2009-02-10 19:23:00 AP - A popular Iraqi actor, well known for his television portrayal of a controversial prime minister considered to be one of the founders of modern Iraq, died of kidney failure in Syria.
Iraqi Justice System Having Problems
2008-12-18 05:30:00 Turns out Iraq’s new justice system is a lot like the American military one. Iraq is failing to give criminal suspects fair trials and abuse of prisoners appears common ahead of the transfer of thousands of detainees from U.S. prison camps to Iraqi control, a human rights group said on Monday. What? Unfair trials and abuse of ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Iraqi Justice System Having Problems
2008-12-18 05:30:00 Turns out Iraq’s new justice system is a lot like the American military one. Iraq is failing to give criminal suspects fair trials and abuse of prisoners appears common ahead of the transfer of thousands of detainees from U.S. prison camps to Iraqi control, a human rights group said on Monday. What? Unfair trials and abuse of ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Iraqi Justice System Having Problems
2008-12-18 05:30:00 Turns out Iraq’s new justice system is a lot like the American military one. Iraq is failing to give criminal suspects fair trials and abuse of prisoners appears common ahead of the transfer of thousands of detainees from U.S. prison camps to Iraqi control, a human rights group said on Monday. What? Unfair trials and abuse of ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Iraqi Justice System Having Problems
2008-12-18 05:30:00 Turns out Iraq’s new justice system is a lot like the American military one. Iraq is failing to give criminal suspects fair trials and abuse of prisoners appears common ahead of the transfer of thousands of detainees from U.S. prison camps to Iraqi control, a human rights group said on Monday. What? Unfair trials and abuse of ...
By: Euphoric Reality
SAY WORD! | BUSH DODGES 50 MPH SHOES AT IRAQI PRESS CONFERENCE
2008-12-15 15:05:00 George W. is a good sport after an Iraqi reporter hurls not one, but two shoes at the outgoing President during a press conference. Gotta give props to Dubya on his excellent ducking reflexes. Check it out!
Iraqi Reporter Throws Shoes At Bush
2008-12-15 13:26:00 source: news.yahoo.comKABUL, Afghanistan ? President George W. Bush wrapped up a whirlwind trip to two war zones Monday that in many ways was a victory lap without a clear victory and left thousands protesting in Iraq streets. A signature event occurred when an Iraqi reporter hurled two shoes at Bush, declaring: "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."The president visited the Iraqi capital just 37 days before he hands the war off to his successor, Barack Obama, who has pledged to end it. The president wanted to highlight a drop in violence and to celebrate a recent U.S.-Iraq security agreement, which calls for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011."The war is not over," Bush said, but "it is decisively on its way to being won.""The war is not over," Bush said, but "it is decisively on its way to being won."Bush then traveled to Afghanistan where he spoke to U.S. soldiers and Marines at a hangar on the tarmac at Bagram Air Base. The ra...
By: ad3ck's bLoG
The Prisoner or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair (2006) PG-13 72min
2008-10-05 09:25:00 The Prisoner or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair (2006) This is a documentary about Yunnis Abbas, Iraqi journalist and reporter, who was once tortured by Uday Hussein for writing an article about the embargo. 5 years later as he was returning from a dance party he was arrested by American troops for allegedly planning the assassination ...
Iraqi Expat Wins British Invention Award: An Inspiring Story
2008-09-15 02:16:00 If you like stories of personal struggle that end well, you will like this one. It's about an Iraqi citizen who fled Iraq with his family to avoid the death squads of Saddam Hussein, worked day and night to support himself through the University of Derby in the East Midlands of England, invented a device.... Art and Design For Inventors Innovation International Invention Inventor News News Products Security Technology
Iraqi Oil and the War
2008-08-08 08:10:00 This is another rare political post from me, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to speak out about something. While I think the Iraqi war was mishandled in many ways, and the post-war plan was ineffective, I agree with the decision to invade Iraq. It wasn’t about one president’s desire to complete what his father started. ...
U.S. military admits Iraqi civilians killed
2008-07-28 20:18:00 BAGHDAD - The U.S. military admitted Sunday that American soldiers killed civilians after opening fire on a car last month on the heavily secured Baghdad airport road. The statement ? which called the man and two women killed “law abiding citizens of Iraq” ? reversed earlier military claims that they were suspected militants who shot at ...
By: TexasFred's
OOPS!: White House Shares Report On Iraqi P.M. Nuri al-Maliki’s Agreement
2008-07-19 17:22:00 Is President Bush’s “Legacy” To Be That Of The President Who Couldn’t Keep A Good “Secret” Under Wraps? In just another of a long line of “Oops!”... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the latest rantings of a gun toting liberal with a chip on his shoulder... harsh views, comments expressed.
Newfound Iraqi confidence pleases, worries US
2008-07-13 16:49:00 BAGHDAD (AP) - Wajih Hameed is an Iraqi general with an attitude. His swagger sometimes grates on American officers. But Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond sees it as a hopeful sign the Iraqi army - generals and soldiers alike - has reached a new level of self-confidence, pointing the way toward truly independent Iraqi forces and, eventually, ...
By: TexasFred's
$1,000,000 to Iraqi kids
2008-06-25 15:57:00 Actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million for educational aid to children impacted by the Iraq war in that country and in the United States, a charitable organization said on Wednesday. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation has given $500,000 to three groups in the war-torn country which will provide aid for some 5,700 children, said ...
By: Brangelina
Ex-Hussein loyalists to go into Iraqi custody
2008-06-09 03:32:00 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Eight former officials from executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's government will be transferred from U.S. military prisons to Iraqi custody in the coming days, Iraq's Deputy Justice Minister told CNN on Sunday.
By: Get rich
Ron Paul Speaks With Iraqi Legislator in Congress Committee Hearings
2008-06-06 16:11:00 This is a very interesting and telling question and answer session. The language and communication barrier is large, but it comes out loud and clear that the Iraqi people do not want a massive long-term U.S. military presence and a Vatican-sized U.S. embassy. George W. Bush said we were giving them democracy right? ...
By: Ponderthis...
The Iraqi Resistance: Five Years on, Saddam's Successor Resurfaces
2008-06-05 19:50:00 The following article is reprinted with permission from Global Research. It is presented in addition to today's News Briefing.The Iraqi Resistance: Five Years on, Saddam's Successor ResurfacesAddouri Outlines Anti-U.S. Strategy, Tactics of Resistanceby Nicola NasserGlobal Research, June 5, 2008For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003, the deputy of Saddam Hussein, the late President of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced, despite a $10-million U.S. bounty on his head.In a lengthy interview with Abdel-Azim Manaf, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Mawqif Al-Arabi, not a mainstream, on May 26 Izzat Ibrahim Addouri lays out the strategy and tactics of the Iraqi resistance led by the former ruling party, Al-Baath. Addouri's resurface and the resistance strategy he has laid out represent a direct challenge to the U.S. occupying power.Manaf told The Associated Press (AP) he interviewed Addouri "on the battlefield." The "dialogue" was con...
Iraqi councils shoulder more responsibility
2008-06-05 01:26:00 BAGHDAD - The meeting of the Jazera neighborhood council began, as usual, with a complaint. Hamid Rashid held up an asthma inhaler that had been supplied to the local health clinic by the government.
By: Get rich
Iraqi Citizens Rally In Support of al-Maliki & Military
2008-06-04 12:10:00 Gateway Pundit - Some 1000 protesters took to the streets of Kut supporting the recent military operations of Maliki in Basra. After the huge win over the Shiite militias in Basra and Sadr City this week, Iraqis rallied in support of their democratically elected leader and military.
NEFA Foundation: Iraqi Insurgents Quarrel Over Recognizing International La
2008-06-04 07:35:00 The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated two new statements from an emerging Sunni insurgent faction calling itself “the Iraqi Martyrs Brigades.” In its initial statement of purpose, the IMB indicated that its fighters were being guided both by Muslim Shariah law and “contemporary laws… Our clerics have previously agreed that fighting the enemies who are attacking Muslim countries—by any means necessary—is a duty in and of itself. International contemporary...(read more)
Shatha Hassoun - 3osha2 ???? ??? ???? - ????
2008-06-02 09:14:00 Image via Wikipediahttp://vb.shathawi.com-/This video clip is the third video clip for Shatha Hassoun, the female Iraqi singer and also the winner of Star Academy 4 Lebanon. It is the best so far from Shada Hassoun and better things are coming from her in the future. This song is written and composed by the Lebanese singer and composer Marwan Khoury and the video clip is directed by Tony Khouajy. Shada Hassoun said that this video clip and the song should be a new musical start for her because of what some people thought about the video clip Rooh being a not up to standards clip.???? ?????? ???? ?????? ???? ??????? ??? ????? ???? ????? ???? ??? ????? ???? ??? ???? ????? ??? ?????? ???? ??? ??? ????? ??? ???? ???? ???? ????? ??? ?????? ????? ???? ???? ??????? ????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ????? ???? ??? ??????? ?????? ??????? ????? ?????? ???? ???? ???? ?????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ??????? ????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ??????? ???? ??????? ????? ??? ??? ??? ???? ??? ???? ???? ???? ?? ????? ??? ...
Iraqi checkpoint 'hit by bomber'
2008-05-31 22:23:00 A suicide bomber has killed at least nine people at a police checkpoint in western Iraq, local officials say. The attack reportedly happened in the town of Hit in Anbar province, 170km (105 miles) west of Baghdad.
By: Get rich
Iraqi-U.S. security talks worry Shiites, Sunnis
2008-05-31 20:04:00 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Some Shiite and Sunni Muslim leaders in Iraq -- able to agree on little else -- are united in their opposition to a prospective long-term security agreement between their country's government and the United States.
By: Get rich
Christian Marines evangelizing Iraqi Muslims
2008-05-29 20:28:00 As if the situation in Iraq wasn’t bad enough it appears that American marines are contributing to the problem by attempting to convert the Muslim residents of Fallujah to Christianity. According to this report, unidentified Marines are said to have passed out evangelical coins at the gates of Fallujah while serving as guards. One side of the ...
By: Bligbi
Suicide bomb targets Iraqi police
2008-05-29 11:45:00 At least 16 Iraqis have been killed and another 30 wounded in a suicide bombing at a police recruitment centre in northern Iraq, police have reported. Two policemen were among the dead.
By: Get rich
Ask an Iraqi
2008-05-28 13:28:00 I came across this clip by accident. It is a segment from Ira Glass’s “this american life”. I did not know of this show, but it has begun running recently on Showtime i believe, and was originally an award-winnign radio show in the US on public radio. This particular segment, which i found beautiful and ...
By: Loopy's Manifold
U.S. Airstrike Kills at Least 2 Iraqi Children
2008-05-22 21:31:00 Children who will never see adulthood have been blown up by the United States because of our involvement in a country that we should never have invaded militarily in the FIRST place. We need a U.S. President who is for non-violence and wouldn't have approved of such a war. We need a U.S. President by the name of Congressman Dennis Kucinich in 2012. READ ABOUT THIS HERE
NEFA TerrorWatch: The Spillover Impact of the Iraqi Jihad in Afghanistan
2008-05-22 07:16:00 This week's episode of NEFA's TerrorWatch broadcast takes a closer look at Mohammed al-Thibaiti (a.k.a. Abu Sulaiman al-Otaibi), a Saudi Arabian national and a senior Al-Qaida lieutenant who was confirmed killed during recent clashes with the "crusaders and apostates" in the Paktia province of Afghanistan--and the larger spillover impact of the Iraqi jihad on the conflict in Afghanistan. On May 11, Al-Qaida leader Mustafa Abu al-Yazid published a letter confirming that al-Thibaiti "was martyred in...(read more)
Iraqi forces load up on U.S. arms
2008-05-22 05:12:00 WASHINGTON - Iraq is becoming one of the largest customers for U.S. arms, as the country turns from Soviet-bloc weapons to pricier but more sophisticated American weapons.
By: Get rich
Iraqi forces load up on U.S. arms
2008-05-22 05:12:00 WASHINGTON - Iraq is becoming one of the largest customers for U.S. arms, as the country turns from Soviet-bloc weapons to pricier but more sophisticated American weapons.
By: Get rich
Iraqi Army Standing Up More And More
2008-05-21 07:29:00 And it is making the mainstream media more and more (though, of course, the Washington Times does lean more to the right) Thousands of Iraqi troops moved unchallenged into Baghdad’s Sadr City Tuesday to seize the Shiite militia stronghold, in the largest attempt yet by the government to impose control, an Iraqi military spokesman said. The large ...
By: Pirate's Cove
11 Iraqi police recruits killed, police say
2008-05-19 23:43:00 BAGHDAD (AP) - Suspected Sunni insurgents ambushed a minibus carrying Iraqi police recruits near the Syrian border Monday, killing all 11 passengers, Iraqi officials said the first deadly attack since Iraqi forces launched a major sweep against
By: Get rich
1,000 Detained By Iraqi Forces
2008-05-17 16:33:00 Why is this not bigger news? Also, how the hell did this actually get printed (goes back to my theory that good news from Iraq is printed in the NY Times of Saturdays because the editors are all getting drunk on Friday nights. Apparently, it extends to Reuters) Iraqi forces have detained more than 1,000 suspects ...
By: Pirate's Cove
US and Iraq Regime Holding 51,000 Iraqi Behind Closed Bars, Most Illegally
2008-05-16 14:35:00 Sudhan @14:35 CET Sherwood Ross | Global Research, May 15, 2008 In addition to those detained by the U.S., its Iraqi government partner is holding 26,000 Iraqis in jail, bringing the combined number of Iraqi prisoners to almost 51,000. The U.S. is holding more Iraqis in prison than ever before?24,700?and is expanding its facilities to accommodate another 10,000, ...
By: Suzie-Q
SacBee: Anti-War Bias Hidden in Tale of Iraqi Girl Getting New Legs from U
2008-05-16 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Here is a sad example of the subtle anti-war bias that the MSM constantly hides in stories even when they are heartwarming tales of the great things our soldiers do for the people of Iraq. In this case, it is the Sacramento Bee putting in some almost ...
By: Publius Forum
US probing Iraqi companies for insurance fraud
2008-05-14 23:13:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - Companies working on Iraq reconstruction have been accused of padding their profits through an insurance scam, leading to a criminal probe and hurried changes in the way many contracts are handled by the U.S. Army, according to internal military documents obtained by The Associated Press. The investigation of two companies located in Tikrit ...
By: TexasFred's
Iraqi President Takes Charge Of Mosul Offensive
2008-05-14 20:09:00 More proof the Iraqi government is finally stepping up: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took personal charge Wednesday of a military operation to rout al-Qaida in Iraq in what the U.S. has described as the terror group’s last major stronghold, even as a tenuous cease-fire took hold over Baghdad’s Sadr City slum. addthis_url ...
By: The Hot Joints
Electric Avenue Iraqi Style
2008-05-13 05:47:00 H/T to the Jawa Report Nice to see that they didn't loose the White Man disease and still can't dance Nice ot see them act like normal guys. Making fools of themselves. I think that maybe they can make the...
By: Stix Blog
US Sergeant Trey Corrales Found Not Guilty Of Iraqi Civilian's Death
2008-05-12 23:53:00 In October of 2007, we posted an article about Sgt. First Class Trey A. Corrales, a highly decorated U.S. soldier for over a decade who was facing a charge of premeditated murder for killing an unidentified Iraqi civilian that his platoon believed was an insurgent, planting roadside bombs near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Here's the good news!! ConnieTalk has been in contacted with Sgt. Corrales' wife, Lily, and this month she sent us the news that her family had been hoping and praying for, for over nine months.
NY Times Reveals Iraqi Success,Hell Freezes Over
2008-05-12 16:40:00 I thought I saw Al Gore’s cold breath in the air last week…. the New York Times finally admits success in recent surge by Iraqi troops in Basra. Three hundred miles south of Baghdad, the oil-saturated city of Basra has been transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old. In a rare success, forces loyal to ...
By: GayPatriot
Iraqi Father Who Killed Daughter A Free Man!
2008-05-11 09:03:00 Among the reasons for the invasion of Iraq was to end a dictatorial regime and bring to that nation the semblance of a democratic government. Two weeks after the British newspaper, the Observer, revealed that an Iraqi father had killed his daughter because she had fallen in love with a British soldier, the man remains ...
Media Gets It Wrong Again: SGT Lawrence Hutchins Did Not Kill An Iraqi
2008-05-09 18:29:00 This entry is part 12 of 13 in the series Pendleton 8By now it’s fairly well-known news that the final sentence for Marine SGT Lawrence Hutchins III is in. He received 11 years–four less than the original sentence of 15. Over the last 24 hours, I’ve watched the same tired AP story from ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Iraqi army: Iraqi al
2008-05-09 02:33:00 BAGHDAD (AP) - The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
By: Get rich
Iraqi army: Iraqi al
2008-05-09 02:33:00 BAGHDAD (AP) - The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
By: Get rich
Proposed Iraqi law could blunt al-Sadr's power
2008-05-07 04:34:00 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A proposed election law could hurt the popular political movement of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr -- whose Mehdi Army militia followers have been battling U.S. and Iraqi troops in Baghdad's Sadr City.
By: Get rich
SA pumps power Iraqi water project
2008-05-06 11:10:00 Germiston-based APE Pumps has completed the second of two orders worth a total of R30-million to supply a multi-billion dollar water project to the southwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad with four giant water pumps, the largest the company has ever manufactured.
Gunmen pull Iraqi journalist from car, kill her
2008-05-05 04:17:00 MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi reporter on Sunday after pulling her out of a car in northern Mosul, a notoriously violent city where journalists are often targeted and live in fear of their life. Police said Serwa Abdul-Wahab, in her mid-30s, was on her way to work when gunmen forced her from ... |
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