Tag Archives : Iraq

A prosecutor has asked Sweden said on Thursday that Julian Assange, founder of the site WikiLeaks, to be arrested on suspicion of rape, a charge he strongly denies. The Swedish prosecutor has begun an investigation into allegations of rape against Assange, an Australian citizen in September. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that he [...]

Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, on Saturday defended the release of nearly 400,000 American military secret memos that indicate that the Armed Forces of the United States ignored cases of torture by Iraqi authorities. The papers also have evidence that Americans were left behind in front of “hundreds” of civilian deaths at American [...]

Even with all the money spent by the U.S. government on technologies to detect explosives, the Pentagon assumes that its best weapon (and cheapest) is still smelling of dog. To the consternation of dogs. According to the Danger Room blog at Wired magazine, American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are only about 50% of bombs and explosives hidden when [...]

A supervisory body for U.S. federal criticized the Pentagon on Tuesday, 27, saying that it did not properly justify the expenditure of billions of dollars for the reconstruction of Iraq. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction said that the U.S. Defense Department is accountable for approximately $ 8.7 billion of the $ 9 billion for the [...]

Let us not kid ourselves. The heart of war is combat. David Price, a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologist and author of Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War, writes a counterpunch exclusive on the Human Terrain Systems (HTS). The HTS is a program by the United States Army [...]

In Iraq, there is a piece of news that’s more exhilarating than Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds ‘trying to resolve tough procedural issues over oil rights and shares of seats in parliament’ and preparations for a landmark democratic election proceeding full speed ahead towards its January schedule. The other good news, eclipsing the otherwise bleak [...]

Its been three years since the demise of the former President and dictator of the now liberated Iraq, but it seems that his popularity and his words are still entrenched in the hearts and minds of numerous individuals in the country and as well as across the Middle East. This weekend, the citizens of Iraq, woke up to a mysterious channel playing out [...]

Turkey has finally loosened its alliance with the West and ‘turned its focus toward its former Ottoman neighbors in Asia and the Middle East.’ Pursuing this trend, ‘it will be as strategically significant for the balance of power in the region as the emergence of Iran as a preeminent power thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the later [...]

In an October 1 meeting, Western governments ‘proposed that Iran agree to ship up to 80 percent of its LEU to Russia in return for eventual shipments of 20 percent enriched uranium to fuel a small medical reactor in Tehran.’ At an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) negotiations in Vienna last month, outgoing IAEA Director General ElBaradei [...]

The one reason that led to the war in Iraq in the year 2003 was the possession of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and it is the same reason, that has got the new Iraqi government all riled up. The new Saddam Hussein free Iraq is looking forward for its own nuclear capabilities which it emphasizes, is required to meet the nation’s [...]