Alaa - Instablogs
Nov 2 2009
Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control. The dispute has caused a deadlock over the country’s election law, threatening to delay...
Oct 7 2008
Since 9/11, many of us have wondered: Where are the moderate Muslims? If they are out there, why are we not hearing more, and getting more help, from them in the fight against our common foe — the totalitarian Islamists?
Mar 26 2008
An Iraqi engineer who provided the information that became one of the key planks in the Bush administration’s case justifying the invasion of Iraq has been tracked down by undercover reporters to a drab residential block in southern Germany.
Mar 26 2008
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday ordered militants fighting Iraqi security forces in the southern oil hub of Basra to lay down their weapons in 72 hours or face “severe penalties”. “Those who were deceived into carry...
Mar 26 2008
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino is praising Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for sending Iraqi troops into battle against Shiite militia with links to Iran for control of the southern oil capital of Basra. She calls it a brave decision and...
Mar 25 2008
The Iraq war is now going better than expected, for a change. Most critics of the war, myself included, blew it: we didn’t anticipate the improvements in security that are partly the result of last year’s “surge.”