AFP Â Iraq ordered the cancellation on Monday of the operating licence of US security firm Blackwater after it was involved in a shootout in Baghdad that killed eight people, a senior official told AFP. Blackwater offers personal security to US civilian officials working in Iraq. “The interior minister (Jawad al-Bolani) has issued an order to…
Special to IFP by Sgt. Daniel Fearn
Richard Adams in Washington The Guardian Alan Greenspan, the consummate Washington insider and long-time head of the US central bank, has backed the position taken by many anti-war critics – that the invasion of Iraq was motivated by oil. His claim comes in his newly published autobiography, The Age of Turbulence, in which he also…
By Greg Hurst, The Times Online UK Britain’s outgoing Ambassador to Washington has accused the Bush Administration of misleading Tony Blair over its much-criticised plans for the reconstruction of Iraq after the invasion of 2003. Sir David Manning, who leaves his post at the end of this month, said that Britain was left in the…
