All Posts Tagged With: "Iraq"
Humiliation: U.S. Troops Routed by Former Iraqi Insurgents - Just Read The Article
McClatchy Newspapers
By Mike Tharp
An American soldier wears the team’s T-shirt to its “fallen heroes” during a soccer match in Iraq.
A soccer game on a dirt field between two amateur teams_ one U.S. Army soldiers, one local Iraqis — may not seem like a big deal in the scope of the wider war.
But the recent match [...]
Vets For Freedom Ask Senator Obama To Visit Iraq
Senator Obama: When will you finally visit Iraq?
Vets for Freedom is releasing a second ad, featuring Iraq war veteran and Vets for Freedom member, Specialist Kate Norley. Kate, who served 16 months on the front lines as a combat medic, asks Senator Obama two simple, but powerful, questions:
1. Senator Obama, when will [...]
29May2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
Iraqi Ayatollah Issues Fatwa Against Al-Sadr’s Militia
By Ned Parker, Raheem Salman and Saad Fakhrildeen
Every year, millions of pilgrims come to Najaf to pray at the Imam Ali Mosque, the tomb of the prophet Muhammad’s son-in-law. It was over the question of Ali’s succession that the Shiite sect emerged. Believers from across Iraq bury their dead in Najaf’s cemetery, named the Valley [...]
Jimmy Carter to Meet With Hamas Leader in Syria
Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.
The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, [...]
Muqtada Al Sadr Condemn’s Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei
by Meir Javedanfar
Sadr Rages Against Iran
Feeling the heat of the recent offensive against his forces around Iraq, Muqtada Al Sadr, who has long been suspected of receiving support from the Iranian government, decided to publicly condemn the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
His verbal attack was an unprecedented turn of events for the young Shiite, who [...]
Shiite Leader Al-Sadr Defies Iraq Gov’t
by Robert H. Reid
Al-Sadr To Followers: Don’t Surrender Your Weapons
Anti-American Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers Saturday to defy government orders to surrender their weapons, as U.S. jets struck Shiite extremists near Basra to bolster a faltering Iraqi offensive against gunmen in the city.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki acknowledged he may have miscalculated by [...]
