Category: War in Iraq & Afghanistan

Yesterday Saddam Hussain’s automatic appeal against his death sentence was rejected, and it was announced that he has to be hanged within 30 days, and that it could happen much sooner. Today, he was...

Now that the court in Iraq has handed down (sooner than I expected, I have to say) a death sentence on Saddam Hussain over the Dujail massacre, a number of people have piped up...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations – 'Marines' Cheer Song About Killing Iraqi Civilians I got this via Lenin: a four-minute video, posted on YouTube and later deleted but archived by CAIR (see link at...

The BBC is reporting that Michael Ancram, a senior Tory MP, has called for troops to be pulled from Iraq, on the grounds that there is a civil war: "It is time now for...

On Thursday you probably all heard that Norman Kember, a British peace activist who had been held hostage in Iraq by some rebel group or other, was freed by soldiers of various countries including...

The Guardian on how $23billion of money entrusted by the UN for the redevelopment of Iraq was lost to waste, theft and fraud: Because the Iraqi banking system was in tatters, the funds were...

Yesterday the Stop the War Coalition organised yet another of their marches in London against the Iraq war and against any expansion of it (into Iran, for example) (more from the BBC here). While...

The title of this entry rather sounds like stating the obvious, but of course Iraq and Bosnia have something in common, namely a recent or fairly recent western intervention. David Aaronovitch, in yesterday’s Times,...

Saracen has blogged at length about an article I was going to briefly link to: Madeleine Bunting in today's Guardian on how the "cheerleaders" for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have produced...

The Sunday Telegraph reports that a long-standing member of the SAS (Special Air Service, an élite British armed service) has quit because he is no longer willing to serve alongside US forces because of...

The BBC’s File on Four programme has broadcast a programme about the appalling security situation in southern Afghanistan – major maladminstration by provincial governors with links to such people as drug traffickers, “mujahideen” commanders...

The Evening Standard today (Tuesday) reported that the three British visitors killed in Iraq last week were in fact sent by officials of the Dawoodi Bohra sect to pray for its sick 93-year-old Indian...

I have to admit I was rather surprised to hear that the president of Iran had made some remarks about wanting to see Israel "wiped off the map", and that other countries were ever...

Via Crooked Timber, a classic example of the smears and jibes resorted to by pro-war leftists, in the Financial Times by John Lloyd. As revealed in the current New Statesman (here’s the article, but...

OK … as promised, I’ve finally prepared, scaled and uploaded a few of the pictures I took at the demonstration last Saturday. I took a total of 220 photos, some of which are not...

So, another anti-war demonstration is over. I attended today's event more to cover it than to take part in it, because I'm becoming rather cynical about the whole situation. I always thought the war...

I’ve just been looking at the list of speakers at the rally tomorrow in London (12 noon at Parliament Square), and there’s a refreshing lack of Marxist sectarians (Lindsey German of SWP, John Rees...