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Posted on October 4th, 2008 under Humour, Politics and Security. Tags: Cartoons, Steve Bell. Comments: None

Mr. Belldoes it again

Indexed under: Cartoons

Posted on June 10th, 2008 under Humour. Tags: Cartoons. Comments: 4

From Small Wars Journal:
I’d like to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak out on an issue of grave importance to Small Wars Journal readers. We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor.
Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define waterboarding terror suspects […]

Posted on October 30th, 2007 under Analysis Briefings Commentary, Human Rights. Comments: 1

Commentary: So much for all that lying crap about how “we can’t pull out or things will get infinitely worse.
Erdla.

BASRA, Iraq, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Residents of Iraq’s southern city of Basra have begun strolling riverfront streets again after four years of fear, their city much quieter since British troops withdrew from the grand Saddam […]

Posted on October 1st, 2007 under Features, Iraq. Tags: Basrah. Comments: 1

Iraq: Rate of displacement rising This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 28 August 2007, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate with the number of […]

Posted on August 28th, 2007 under Health, Iraq, Middle East, Politics and Security, Society And Economy. Tags: Poverty, Refugees, Syria, Water Crisis (Iraq). Comments: None

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) — The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported Monday growing risks to tens of thousands of displaced children in Iraq due to pervasive heat, poor hygiene and lack of water.
    ”Conditions facing many children are worsening, particularly amongst IDPs (internally displaced persons), whose numbers have now topped 1 million,” UNICEF said […]

Posted on August 28th, 2007 under Children, Health, Politics and Security, Society And Economy, Women and Children. Tags: Child Poverty, Children, Poverty, Refugees, Water, Water Crisis, Water Crisis (Iraq), Women and Children. Comments: None

I don’t normally comment on IRIN articles but I am going to do so here. None of this article is news to any Gorilla’s Guides team member. As markfromireland (who has such a tattoo) pointed out on November 4, 2006. Every single one of us who goes to or lives in Irak has such a tattoo. […]

Posted on July 19th, 2007 under Features, Iraq. Tags: id-tattoos, IRIN. Comments: None

AMMAN, 20 April 2007 – In one of the biggest humanitarian operations in Iraq in the last two years, a wave of 8,000 vaccinators will set out across the country starting this Sunday to prevent a possible outbreak of measles amongst Iraq’s children – many of whom have not received their routine immunization as a […]

Posted on April 20th, 2007 under Children, Health, Iraq, Women and Children. Tags: Children, Women and Children. Comments: None

This systematic censorship of Middle East reality continues even in schools
Published: 07 April 2007
Laila al-Arian was wearing her headscarf at her desk at Nation Books, one of my New York publishers. No, she told me, it would be difficult to telephone her father. At the medical facility of his North Carolina prison, he can only […]

Posted on April 7th, 2007 under Human Rights. Tags: Fisk - Robert. Comments: 3