I recall an article in the New York Times entertainment section that heralded the forthcoming release of three overtly political films in what must have been the fall of 1979. (My memory might be playing tricks on me. I have
Today’s Washington Times’ column: This was the year Hollywood finally realized that it couldn’t sell an anti-Iraq war film. It also was the year the mainstream media discovered it couldn’t report that the war on terror had failed. Countless prime-time
AP: A woman hiding among Iranian pilgrims with a bomb strapped under her black robe killed more than three dozen people on Sunday outside a Baghdad mosque during ceremonies commemorating the death of one of Shiite Islam’s most revered saints.
AP: Under the new security agreement between Washington and Baghdad to replace a U.N. mandate for foreign troops in Iraq, the Iraqi government also now has control of American troops’ actions and of the country’s airspace.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Bloomberg:If confirmed by the Senate, Dennis Blair, 61, would oversee the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, which have a combined budget of at least $47.5 billion. Congress created the
Embedded video from CNN Video Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown confirmed during a visit to Iraq on Wednesday that British troops will leave next year after “building a democracy for the future.”
In a wide ranging interview with the AP, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that Iran has chosen to scale back much of its most troubling interference in Iraq, and she credits the strength of U.S. pressure.
Embedded video from CNN Video In a sign of modest security gains in this war zone, Bush was welcomed with a formal arrival ceremony—a flourish that was not part of his previous three trips to Iraq.
AP: Witnesses say the shooting was unprovoked but Blackwater, hired by the State Department to guard U.S. diplomats, says its guards were ambushed by insurgents while responding to a car bombing.
Reuters: Iraq and the United States signed a pact on Monday that will let U.S. troops stay in the country until 2011.
Sun-Times: Stanislaw “Stas” Gunkel won’t be able to vote until 2019, but that didn’t stop him from joining the ranks of political bloggers weighing in on the presidential election. The 7-year-old Edison Park boy blogged to support the Obama campaign,
AP: A new public service campaign encourages Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to log onto a new social networking site to obtain resources and communicate with each other.
AP: Democrat Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain battled for the White House in an election that challenged attitudes about race as surely as it gauged sentiments about the battered economy and the war in Iraq.
BBC: Wasit, bordering Iran in the east of the country, is the 13th of Iraq’s 18 provinces to be transferred.
AP: U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as “serious aggression.”
The leader of Hamas in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, says that the global credit crisis is a punishment from God. The Hamas leader says God is punishing the United States and its allies, especially Britain, for their wars against Iraq, Afghanistan
Embedded video from CNN Video Matt Roloff of TLC’s “Little People, Big World” tells CNN about his trip to Iraq to help kids with dwarfism.
Director Ridley Scott’s latest, a Mideast thriller with as harsh a streak of anti-Americanism as you’ll ever see, has bigger problems than politics: it’s just plain boring. You keep waiting for the story to kick in and instead the movie
Spoils of War: A Tour of Lara Logan’s Office from Broadcasting & Cable on Vimeo. NY Post: CBS news hottie Lara Logan could be in hot water for swiping souvenirs from the wreckage of bombed-out Baghdad. In a video profile
AP: Under intense scrutiny, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin stood her ground Thursday night against a vastly more experienced Joe Biden, debating the economy, energy and global warming, then challenging him on Iraq.
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Fox News: When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about “landing under sniper fire” in Bosnia, she was accused of “inflating her war experience” by rival Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign. But the campaign has been silent about Obama’s running mate,
Washington Post: Yemen is the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda has maintained a steady presence here, especially as fighters from the militant group return from Iraq.
