Gorilla’s Guides

Iraqi babies for sale: people trafficking crisis grows as gangs exploit poor families and corrupt system

Monday, 04. 6. 2009  –  Category: Children, Features, Human Rights, Women and Children

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"During the period of investigations, we present ourselves as employees of a local NGO and offer some food and clothes. After we get their […]

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains

Friday, 02. 20. 2009  –  Category: Analysis Briefings Commentary, South Asia, Team Members

Ah yes … the inimitable Steve Bell is at it again. This time his cartoon is quoting Kipling’s The Young British Soldier on President Obama’s Afghanistan “surge”. Like most, I suppose, I had written off Kipling as hopelessly old-fashioned, an imperialist, and a racist. Moreover he used dialect a lot in his writings. I grew […]

جريدة حوارات الالكترونية… تقارير عراقية

Friday, 11. 2. 2007  –  Category: Analysis Briefings Commentary, Features, News

السلاح الشخصي، قبل أكثر من أربع سنوات، كان يعني للعراقي علامة من علامات السلطة والنفوذ، و محاولة جعل مقبض المسدس ظاهرا للعيان كانت تعني ان حامله يتمتع بتفويض من سلطة أمنية عليا. وبعد سقوط النظام السابق بات حمل السلاح شائعا، كحمل القلم، أو نظارة القراءة، أو سلسلة المفاتيح. ويقول (جاسم،ح) وهو ضابط في الشرطة برتبة […]

Cholera Update 2: September 11th 2007

Tuesday, 09. 11. 2007  –  Category: Cholera, Health

Summary Latest data available is:

10 Fatalities throughout KRG.
More than 7,000 case of acute watery diarrhoea.
Estimated 2.8 Million people living in the affected areas.

Twelve districts of Northern Iraq have reported laboratory-confirmed cases of cholera putting over 2.8 million people exposed to public health risk from this current outbreak. Five out of eleven districts of Sulaymaniyah province, […]

Cholera Update: Kirkuk September 11th 2007

Tuesday, 09. 11. 2007  –  Category: Cholera, Health

The Director of Health - Kirkuk has provided a brief report on the latest developments on cases of diarrhea and cholera. Diarrhea cases have increased over the past few days to 412 cases of diarrhea while the number of cholera cases currently in the hospitals has reached 24 reported cases. He said that the source […]

Breaking News | Headline News | Current

Wednesday, 07. 18. 2007  –  Category: Analysis Briefings Commentary

OSAMA BIN STEAMEN ATTACKS BIG APPLE!
Cheney’s pacemaker rushed to undisclosed secure location
Trained chimpanzee gives picture books to schoolchildren
Clinton and Obama demand constitution be suspended
Rumsfeld reappointed - Ottawa and Rio De Janeiro Nuked

more….

Iran Delenda Est

Friday, 07. 13. 2007  –  Category: Uncategorized

Re-posted in it’s entirety here by kind permission of Lurch of Main and Central. If you don’t have M&C on your reading list already now is a good time to start.
Du
The Third Punic War
The Third Punic War was a brief, tawdry affair, unworthy of the heroism of the previous conflicts. If ever there was […]

Blackwater deaths detailed

Sunday, 07. 8. 2007  –  Category: News

Blackwater deaths detailed
Sunday, Jul 08, 2007 - 12:09 AM
Some can be found in memos from a second team for Blackwater operating around Fallujah on March 31, 2004.
Blackwater, a private security firm based in Moyock, sent two squads through Fallujah without maps, according to memos obtained by The News & Observer of Raleigh. Both […]

Some Good News For A Change

Wednesday, 07. 4. 2007  –  Category: Uncategorized

Alan Johnson has been freed.

Like I said some good news for a change. The BBC’s report is here.
Du 

Main and Central - Baquba ‘Gainst the Wall

Tuesday, 06. 26. 2007  –  Category: News

So this platoon’s advance was held up for a day while they waited for artillery or an airstrike to clear the houses for them. The next day, finally, an M1 tank appeared and blew the houses with its main gun.
The insurgents/Sunnis/Mahdi Army death squads/resistance/ militants/Ba’athist dead enders are going to make the Americans […]