The Iraq Few Report On

The New York Daily News buried this story on page A22 so you have to give USA Today some credit for publishing somewhere other than their obit page.
European and Asian companies are beating their American rivals into Iraq now that security has improved the investment climate, Iraq and U.S. officials say.
“It’s starting to turn … [...]

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Wasn’t Hillary in Favor of Closing Gitmo?

The Pentagon has confirmed that a Kuwaiti released from the US detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, three years ago carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq last month.
Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi and two other Kuwaitis are reported by their families to have taken part in an attack on Iraqi security forces in Mosul, a northern [...]

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Watch the America Haters and Moonbats go CRAZY!

The haters, moonbats, anti-Iraq war types and otherwise unstable will go even further batshit nuts when they read this.
“Esteem for US rises in Asia, thanks to Iraq war” via The Australian.

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Sen. Murtha, Call Your Office.

The Marine Corps has dropped its case against a serviceman accused in the killing of 24 Iraqis at Haditha in 2005.
The Corps has given full immunity to Lance Corporal Stephen Tatum who’d been accused of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and aggravated assault in the killings.
And yet another case dropped, this one to gain Tatum’s testimony [...]

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The Iraqi Perspectives Project — Saddam and Terrorism

“The Iraqi Perspectives Project — Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents.”
Saddam supported groups that either associated directly with al-Qaeda (such as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led at one time by bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri) or that generally shared al-Qaeda’s stated goals and objectives.
Captured documents reveal that the regime was willing to [...]

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Anti-War Rhetoric Emboldens Jihadist Cut Throats

Well, I guess this settles it then; Researchers at Harvard say that publicly voiced doubts about the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a measurable “emboldenment effect” on insurgents there.
Periods of intense news media coverage in the United States of criticism about the war, or of polling about public opinion on the conflict, are followed by [...]

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