Neither a Good War, nor a Badr Peace
On Bayan Jabr's watch, sectarian militias have swelled the ranks of the police units, and Sunnis charge, used their positions to carry out revenge killings against Sunnis. While allowing an...
View ArticleIran supplying Zarqawi?
Omar over at Iraq the Model translates an article from az-Zamman that claims Iranian Revolutionary Guards are supplying Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with advanced weaponry, with Lebanese Hizbollah as the...
View ArticleLebanon hurtles toward crisis
A story I filed for the _Singapore Strait Times_: BEIRUT — Lebanon found itself hurtling further toward political crisis today, brought on by a head-on collision between pro- and anti-Syrian blocs over...
View ArticleMisimpressions about Lebanon
BEIRUT — Well, the oafs at Little Green Footballs are at it again. Of course, they never stopped. But it gives me a chance to point out the sheer wrongness of their worldview and clear up some wrong...
View Article“The blood of the Shi’ites is boiling”
Here’s the latest I filed from Lebanon. “A much shorter version”:http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-10/116556152129650.xml&coll=1 appeared in the _Newark Star-Ledger_, but here’s...
View ArticleBeirut in flames
An opposition member cradles the head of an exhausted comrade as they take a break from blocking roads in Beirut on Tuesday (c) 2007 Christopher Allbritton BEIRUT — If there was any question whether...
View ArticleTwo buses blown up in Christian area
Bombs destroyed two commuter buses today in the small Christian community of Ain Alaq, in the mountains north of Beirut. Was this Syria? Hezbollah? CIA? (A Hezbollah spokesman said it was the latter.)...
View ArticleEscape from Iraq
A story I wrote appeared Monday in the Newark Star-Ledger, a great smaller paper that cares about foreign news. The story dealt with the plight of the Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Lives suspended by war...
View ArticleLatest IraqSlogger: Chalabi’s back
My latest for IraqSlogger is up, and there’s a howler of an op-ed in today’s _Wall Street Journal_. As I wrote for the Slogger: Melik Kaylan writes a fawning piece on Ahmad Chalabi for the _Wall Street...
View ArticleThe latest silly article on Iran…
Possibly one of the most ridiculous articles I’ve read in a while: Why Iran’s Top Leaders Believe That The End Of Days Has Come | Fox News. Yeah, I know. “Fox News”, right? But one of the reasons Iran...
View ArticleNothing “civil” about it…
Regular readers know I think we've been in a low- to medium-grade civil war for some time, with the Feb. 22 Askariya bombing a huge step toward open conflict. Well, read this.
View ArticleNothing “civil” about it…
Regular readers know I think we've been in a low- to medium-grade civil war for some time, with the Feb. 22 Askariya bombing a huge step toward open conflict. Well, read this.
View ArticleNeither a Good War, nor a Badr Peace
On Bayan Jabr's watch, sectarian militias have swelled the ranks of the police units, and Sunnis charge, used their positions to carry out revenge killings against Sunnis. While allowing an...
View ArticleIran supplying Zarqawi?
Omar over at Iraq the Model translates an article from az-Zamman that claims Iranian Revolutionary Guards are supplying Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with advanced weaponry, with Lebanese Hizbollah as the...
View ArticleLebanon hurtles toward crisis
A story I filed for the _Singapore Strait Times_: BEIRUT — Lebanon found itself hurtling further toward political crisis today, brought on by a head-on collision between pro- and anti-Syrian blocs over...
View ArticleMisimpressions about Lebanon
BEIRUT — Well, the oafs at Little Green Footballs are at it again. Of course, they never stopped. But it gives me a chance to point out the sheer wrongness of their worldview and clear up some wrong...
View Article“The blood of the Shi’ites is boiling”
Here’s the latest I filed from Lebanon. “A much shorter version”:http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-10/116556152129650.xml&coll=1 appeared in the _Newark Star-Ledger_, but here’s...
View ArticleBeirut in flames
An opposition member cradles the head of an exhausted comrade as they take a break from blocking roads in Beirut on Tuesday (c) 2007 Christopher Allbritton BEIRUT — If there was any question whether...
View ArticleTwo buses blown up in Christian area
Bombs destroyed two commuter buses today in the small Christian community of Ain Alaq, in the mountains north of Beirut. Was this Syria? Hezbollah? CIA? (A Hezbollah spokesman said it was the latter.)...
View ArticleEscape from Iraq
A story I wrote appeared Monday in the Newark Star-Ledger, a great smaller paper that cares about foreign news. The story dealt with the plight of the Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Lives suspended by war...
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