March 31, 2008 | Author: Greg Bruno
The recent explosion of intra-sect violence (NYT) in Baghdad, Basra, and other Iraqi Shiite strongholds has ominous implications for the U.S. and Iraqi governments. The reemergence of fighters loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatens to reverse security gains since an additional thirty thousand U.S. soldiers flooded Baghdad in 2007.
FORLORN mounds of sun-bleached clothes stretch across the barren field. Traces of the people who died wearing them - a washed-out vertebra near a small canvas shoe, a jawbone by a faded lavender dress - reveal that they mark the shallow graves of 1,200 of Saddam Hussein’s unidentified victims.
April 23, 2007
Lobby groups, TV commercials highlight region as 'the other Iraq'
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
The Washington Post
The 30-second television commercial features stirring scenes of a young Iraqi boy high-fiving a U.S. soldier, a Westerner dining alfresco, and men and women dancing together. "Have you seen the other Iraq?" the narrator asks. "It's spectacular. It's joyful."
"Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan!" the narrator continues. "It's not a dream. It's the other Iraq."
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 | The Associated Press
BAGHDAD: A witness on Tuesday recalled the random shooting deaths of a teenaged girl and three other people in a square packed with detainees as Saddam Hussein's forces rounded up Shiites after a 1991 uprising against his regime after the Gulf War.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 | By Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Leslie H. Gelb
The Bush administration and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki greeted last week's Senate vote on Iraq policy -- based on a plan we proposed in 2006 -- with misrepresentations and untruths. Seventy-five senators, including 26 Republicans, voted to promote a political settlement based on decentralized power-sharing. It was a life raft for an Iraq policy that is adrift.
