“The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.”
The total of confirmed Cholera cases in Irak as of September 27th 2008 has risen to 340 according to the GZG Health Ministry. Most of the cases are in Babil. It is worth noting that in recent years the typical number of confirmed cases in Irak is 30.
It is worth noting that Irak had […]
It was Margaret who took leukaemia medicines donated by readers of The Independent to the child cancer victims of Iraq back in 1998 after we discovered that hundreds of infants were dying in those areas where Western forces used depleted uranium munitions in the 1991 Gulf War. She was a proverbial tower of strength, and […]
BAQUBA, Jun 24 (IPS) - Iraqis seem divided on who they would like to see as the next U.S. president, but few believe that either will end the occupation.
Neither he nor his Republican rival, John McCain, talk about changing the National Security Strategy of the U.S., or the military document Joint Vision 2020, which calls […]
FALLUJAH, Jun 5 (IPS) - Amidst the huge and growing death toll, it has been easy to forget that animals, in their own way, are finding it hard to survive in Iraq.
“Like human beings, animals find it very hard to stay alive now,” Dr. Sammy Hashim, a veterinarian who lives and works west of […]
Pump manufacturer Grundfos and a Funen auto distributor have been blacklisted by the UN for having dealt illegally with Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi government
Pump manufacturing giant Grundfos has been slapped with a six-month ban on dealing with the United Nations after the organisation determined the Danish company made illegal payments to the Iraqi government […]
DAMASCUS, May 19 (IPS) - In the struggle now just to stay alive, everyone has forgotten that Iraq has lost, among other things, its tradition in sports. Some of its best sportsmen are now refugees.
In Fallujah a football stadium was turned into a graveyard through the April 2004 U.S. siege when people could not find […]
“Occupation planners designed this poverty in order to make Iraqis work for them as policemen and spies. Iraq is floating on a lake of oil, but there is no gas to run water pumps. What an irony.”
“We just want our lives back,” said a college student who gave her name only as Nada. “We […]
In 2003, allegedly to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, the US and Coalition forces launched a war to bomb Saddam Hussein into oblivion, topple the Ba’athist regime and instate a new era of “liberty and peace.” By late April, down plonked Saddam’s statues (the man himself remained underground) and tanks rolled into Baghdad […]
DAMASCUS, Apr 26 (IPS) - More than a million Iraqis were lucky enough to flee into Syria. But in this relatively safe haven, there is no getting away from poverty.
Mohammad Saleem ran a successful supermarket in Baghdad. “I was leading a comfortable life with my family, despite the 13 years of UN sanctions,” Saleem told […]
Editorial: Before you read the text click the image to see two photos from AFP which give an idea of life for school children in Sadr city:
At the end of the 1980s, after pouring oil money into schools, Iraq had virtually eliminated illiteracy.
The education system in Iraq, once the envy of the Middle […]