http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/scat/22 The latest news about Blogs in Iraq en support@iraqupdates.com support@iraqupdates.com PHP RSS Feed Generator It’s Saturday night at the Alwiyah Club and 21-year-old Sarah al-Kimackchy is doing the hip thing: playing bingo. The streets outside may still not be as safe as they once were, and the occasional deadly bombing still rips through Baghdad, but Kimackchy is here with her family and entirely fixated... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/62452/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:40:00 +0000 The mausoleum of Hussein Ibn Ali, the third Imam of Shiism, in Karbala will soon have a new gate. It took dozens of Iranian artisans several years to make the gate that, according to experts, is a masterpiece of Persian handicraft. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/62356/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:07:00 +0000 It's always interesting when people take pseudoscience out of its natural habitat – north London's Islington – and off into a place where the stakes are quite high. Like the polio vaccine scare in Nigeria. Or Aids denial in South Africa. Or, in this particular case, detecting bombs in Iraq, where... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/62289/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:29:00 +0000 The military operates through indoctrination. Soldiers are programmed to develop a mindset that resists any acknowledgment of injury and sickness, be it physical or psychological. As a consequence, tens of thousands of soldiers continue to serve, even being deployed to combat zones like Iraq and/or... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/62100/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:51:00 +0000 The mercenary firm Blackwater has become a symbol of the utter lawlessness and criminality that permeates the privatised wing of the US war machine. The company's operatives have shot dead scores of Iraqi and Afghan civilians, while former employees allege in sworn statements that Blackwater's owner... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/62097/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:42:00 +0000 "We take our freedom for granted. But imagine not to be able to speak or discuss or debate or even question the society you live in," Tony Blair told the House of Commons in March 2003, urging MPs to support the invasion of Iraq. They were fine words. But they ring hollow more than six years... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/62096/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:41:00 +0000 After a seminar on the evolution of international policy up to 2003, the Iraq inquiry committee can be in no doubt that the purpose of that year's invasion, from both a UK and US perspective, was regime change. Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) barely got a mention and even assertions that sincere... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61866/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:23:00 +0000 At approximately 1:30 p.m. CST today, a soldier went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding at least 31 others, according to base commander Lieutenant-General Bob Cone. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61771/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:16:00 +0000 As the New York Times reporter asked northern Iraq’s interior minister Karim Sinjari about ever deepening Turkish-Iraqi ties, Sinjari looked at the deep-blue waters of the Bosporus and said, “A year ago, we couldn’t have imagined being here today.” http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61764/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:01:00 +0000 A reader asked whether figures on the number of professionals Iraq has lost in the past few years is not inflated? http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61696/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:10:00 +0000 Dr. Barham Saleh becoming Prime Minister of the Kurdish Region has great political value, not just for the Kurds, but also for the Arabs. It is true that this represents a [political] loss to Baghdad, but Barham Saleh will be taking his [political] value with him to Arbil. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61503/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:58:00 +0000 Your revelations about Iraq's modern-day atomic aspirations (Iraq seeks permission for new nuclear programme, 28 October) raise the question whether the UK nuclear industry – with encouragement of the government, now all reborn atomic aficionados – will seek to gain a foothold in the re-emerging... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61485/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:05:00 +0000 Perhaps Gordon Brown and Tony Blair will have the last laugh over the Iraq inquiry, after all. In the small print of the Iraq inquiry's announcement that its public hearings will start on 24 November is the news that any pre-election revelations will be decidedly limited. First, the hearings will... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61484/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:04:00 +0000 Perhaps Gordon Brown and Tony Blair will have the last laugh over the Iraq inquiry, after all. In the small print of the Iraq inquiry's announcement that its public hearings will start on 24 November is the news that any pre-election revelations will be decidedly limited. First, the hearings will... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61483/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:04:00 +0000 It is said that all’s fair in love and war, and in Iraq it seems that all’s fair in love, war and the elections. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61445/refid/RSS-blogs-20-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:32:00 +0000