How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future
According to this book, Shia Muslims, the second largest sect of Islam, are gathering strength and cementing cross-border ties with fellow Shia following the fall of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The...
View Article“Is this the beginning of the end”
US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad has said stabilizing the country is possible in a realistic time-frame, despite ongoing sectarian violence. “Success in Iraq is possible and can be achieved on a...
View ArticleIs This The End For Saddam?
Read excerpts from what could become his last letter. Update Dec 29th 2006 2200 EST: Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq
View ArticleSaddam Dead, US Game Over
My peeve with Saddam’s death is not so much because the world lost a kick-ass dictator, but because he was the only one capable of keeping the 28 million or so idiots of Iraq from killing each other....
View ArticleBush says “Mission Accomplished” again!
Bush vetoed the war-spending bill again! In a repeat of the famous 2003 speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Bush, this time speaking from the Jedi Temple said “4 years and...
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