Iraqi authorities are not only accusing Blackwater guards of an unprovoked shooting of 11 persons at Nisur Square on Sept. 16, but also of engaging in an hour-long firefight with Iraqi police later that day. The firm appears to have deployed attack helicopters in the firefights.
Blackwater Accused of Cover-ups Deaths Drop in September Iraqi Parliamentarians want to Debate US Senate on Partition
Submitted by glodotorg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 00:1819 Killed in Mosul Wave of Violence Petraeus: Iran May be Helping
Submitted by glodotorg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 00:18A wave of violence rolled over the northern city of Mosul (pop. 1.5 million, Iraq's second largest) on Sunday. A member of the Ninevah Provincial Council and his three body guards were assassinated by machine gun fire; gunmen killed two policemen in the east of the city; armed men killed two people in a market; and 11 bodies were found in the streets, executed in the night. These nearly 20 deaths were produced by an insurgency. It targeted an official of the government and policemen (2 soldiers were also wounded), and sought to disrupt commerce by attacking people in the market.
The End of Bonapartism and the War on Terror
Submitted by glodotorg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 00:18NYT columnist Tom Friedman's column, "9/11 is over," sounds the death knell for the Neoconservative use of 9/11 and is in particular an attack on Rudy Giuliani.
Iraq Preachers Lambaste Senate
Submitted by glodotorg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 00:18The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases sermons given in Iraq on Friday, both Sunni and Shiite.
'Round-up of Iraqi Friday Sermons 28 Sep
Iraq -- OSC Summary
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Iraqi Establishment Rejects US Senate Resolution Al-Maliki: A Disaster for Iraq and the Region
Submitted by glodotorg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 00:18 Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday rejected the US Senate resolution calling for a soft partition of Iraq. Reuters reports:
Senate Partitions Iraq
Submitted by glodotorg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 00:18The US Senate voted for a soft partition of Iraq on Thursday. First they messed up Iraq by authorizing Terrible George to blow it up, now they want to further mess it up by dividing it. It makes no sense to me; the US Senate doesn't even have the authority to divide Iraq. Wouldn't that be for the Iraqi parliament?
Ahmadinejad Calls for Saudi Cooperation
Submitted by glodotorg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 00:17The USG Open Source Center has done a report on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's calls for Iran and Saudi Arabia to cooperate in filling the regional power vacuum. The Saudis do not seem eager for such cooperation and in fact have incisively criticized Iran's new role in the region.
Iran: Ahmadinezhad Calls for Saudi Support To Fill Regional 'Power Vacuum'
Iran -- OSC Report
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Polish Ambassador Wounded; Maliki: Blackwater Must Go; PM Praises Saudi Fatwa
Submitted by glodotorg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 00:17
Guerrillas injured the Polish ambassador to Iraq on Wednesday with roadside bombs.
The Arab Dilemma in Hollywood
Submitted by glodotorg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 00:17Ashraf Khalil at the LAT discusses the dilemma for actors of Arab extraction in Hollywood that they have to play terrorists or they just don't find work. Some Arab American actors only get ahead by "passing" (claiming, like the Coneheads on Saturday Night Live, to be "French.")
Sadrists Accuse Badr of Assassinations US Airstrike Kills 25
Submitted by glodotorg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 00:10Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that tensions have heated up in the Shiite South between the Sadr Movement and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (which maintains the Badr Corps paramilitary). The Sadr movement on Friday accused the Badr Organization of assassinating Sadr leaders. Sadrist MP Ahmad al-Masoudi accused the Badr Organization of having organized militias to assassinate prominent Sadrist leaders.
