1. Deception, Spin and Lies
(Newsletter)

...by the U.S. occupying power on sectarian and federal “constitutional” basis to create a secure pro – U.S. post – Saddam regime as well as in the sectarian polity born therefrom -- or more to the point...

2. Security, Reconciliation in Iraq Are Irreconcilable
(Opinions/op-ed)

...by the U.S. occupying power on sectarian and federal “constitutional” basis to create a secure pro – U.S. post – Saddam regime as well as in the sectarian polity born therefrom -- or more to the point...

3. Chemical Ali and U.S. Hypocrisy in Iraq
(Opinions/Politic)

... Saddam’s forces in Kuwait and given President Bush’s repeated calls for the Iraqi people to rise up against the Saddam regime. As Saddam’s forces began massacring the Shiites, the Shiites begged Bus...

4. Saddam Trial
(Opinions/Politic)

... then did nothing .Shiias and Kurds killed many thousands of Baathist; they were then brutally suppressed by the Saddam regime. What if New Mexico or Scotland revolted.] “Saddam's counsel plan to dep...

5. WAR OVER SILK ROUTES
(Opinions/Features)

...z may be doubted, but the prophecy, even if invented post facto, was true enough.   The collapse of secular Saddam regime like the Buddhist Karakitai has been engineered by George W. Bush. His fa...

6. Iraq orders Karbala violence probe
(Archived/News/Arab)

Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has ordered an investigation into the deadly clashes surrounding a Shia religious celebration in Karbala last week.

7. Karbala under curfew after clashes
(Archived/News/Arab)

Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, has ordered an indefinite curfew in Karbala, Iraqi state TV says, a day after fighting left at least 52 people dead during an annual Shia pilgrimage.

8. Conference adopts Iraq compact
(Archived/News/Arab)

Delegates to a conference on Iraq in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort town have overwhelmingly adopted a five year plan aimed at stabilising Iraq and pledged $30bn of debt reduction.

9. Timeline: Four years of turmoil
(Archived/News/SReports)

April 9, 2003: US soldiers enter central Baghdad. Statue of Saddam Hussein is pulled down in Firdos Square. Kurdish fighters and US troops take control of cities of Kirkuk and Mosul in the north.

10. Saddam faces chemical weapons claim
(Archived/News/Arab)

Saddam Hussein's trial on charges of genocide against the Kurds has resumed with the prosecution submitting evidence it said linked defendants to the use of chemical weapons in 1988.