Gorilla’s Guides

How To Fight Terrorists

The most potent intersection of radicalizing vectors is between an Arab citizen’s mistreatment by his or her own government, and seeing other Muslims assaulted, mistreated, jailed and killed in their own homes by American, Israeli, or other foreign armies. This is compounded by leading Western political leaders who routinely speak ...

The cost of war in Iraq keeps on rising

In his discussion he produced two truly dreadful and staggering statistics. US veterans returning from current wars are now committing suicide at the rate of 18 per day – a far higher death toll than on the battlefield. Bush's military adventures and huge defence expenditure, now around ...

POLITICS-US: Bush Pledges on Iraq Bases Pact Were a Ruse

WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - Two key pledges made by the George W. Bush administration on military bases in its negotiations with the government of Iraq have now been revealed as carefully-worded ruses aimed at concealing U.S. negotiating aims from both U.S. citizens and Iraqis who would object to them ...

The reality is that Iraqi authority would be nominal

If it is left to them [the US], they would ask for immunity even for American dogs. Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, promised Iranian leaders during his visit to Tehran last weekend that Iraqi territory would not be used as an American platform for a military attack on ...

واشنطن بوست: تحول كبير في مواقف العراقيين واحتمال فشل المفاوضات مع واشنطن

أبرزت صحيفة واشنطن بوست  Washington Post، الامريكية، الاربعاء، ما وصفته بـ"التحول الكبير" في موقف الحكومة العراقية إزاء الاتفاقية الأمنية التي يجري التفاوض بشأنها الآن بين العراق والولايات المتحدة، مشيرة الى تصريحات ادلى بها مقربون للحكومة العراقية، حول "احتمال" فشل المفاوضات مع واشنطن. وتحدثت الصحيفة في عددها الذي ...

Colonization Plans

Editor's Note: Arabnews is the voice of the Saudi establishment in English. George W. Bush brought death and chaos to Iraq on the basis of lies. Now, as he staggers through the last months of his failed presidency, he is trying one more bit of trickery — forcing the Nuri ...

Five Years on, Saddam’s Successor Resurfaces

For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003, the deputy of Saddam Hussein, the late President of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced, despite a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, in a lengthy interview with Abdel-Azim Manaf, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian ...

اتفاقية مع امريكا تضمن السيادة العراقية .. كيف??

ما ورد على لسان الناطق باسم الحكومة العراقية لا يعدو كونه محاولة لتبرير مواقف هذه الحكومة وعزل المقاومة العراقية الرافضة للوجود الامريكي والمتعاونين معه ومن عناصر هذه المقاومة الطبيعة الحال التيار الصدري الذي يعتبر جزءا من التركيبة الطائفية التي تدير شؤون العراق.

Lebanon’s short, sharp conflict, by Alain Gresh

An unexplained decision by the Lebanese government last month to challenge Hizbullah over its military capabilities provoked a Hizbullah-led alliance of militias to defeat those of the prime minister and a Sunni party. With the election of a new president, Michel Suleiman, the fighting ended, but Hizbullah’s participation ...

Basra: A harsh and conservative city

Once seen as one of Iraq's most cosmopolitan places, the southern city of Basra - founded about 1,370 years ago - was undergoing profound social changes that were making it increasingly conservative and harsh even before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.