Dahr Jamail’s Mideast Dispatches Inter Press Service By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* BAGHDAD, Feb 8 (IPS) – Now that the smoke has cleared and the rubble settled, residents of a group of bombed Iraqi villages see the raid as really a U.S. loss. Many Iraqis view the attack Jan. 10 by bombers and F-16…
The New York Times Time Runs Out for an Afghan Held by the U.S. By CARLOTTA GALL and ANDY WORTHINGTON KABUL, Afghanistan — Abdul Razzaq Hekmati was regarded here as a war hero, famous for his resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980s and later for a daring prison break he organized for three…
LONDON (Reuters) – More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain’s leading polling groups. The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) with 2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20 percent of…
The Independent Return to Fallujah Three years after the devastating US assault, our correspondent enters besieged Iraqi city left without clean water, electricity and medicine By Patrick Cockburn Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and…
