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[From the Desk of Harold Poole] Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq « From the Desk of Harold Poole: It was rather that the leaders of the Sunni Arab minority, seeing the Shia-Kurdish government of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki about to fill the vacuum created by the US departure, wanted to barter their support for the accord in return for as many last minute concessions as they could extract. Some three quarters of the 17,000 prisoners held by the Americans are Sunni and they wanted them released or at least not mistreated by the Iraqi security forces.

[Voices] America Concedes: It was rather that the leaders of the Sunni Arab minority, seeing Nouri al-Maliki’s Shia-Kurdish government about to fill the vacuum created by the US departure, wanted to wring as many concessions as they could in return for their support. Around three-quarters of the 17,000 prisoners held by the Americans are Sunni and their leaders wanted them released or at least to have some guarantee that they wouldn’t be mistreated by the Iraqi security forces.

[MediaMouse.org: Grand Rapids, Michigan News and Independent Media] Media Mouse: 2008 Book Recommendations - Book Reviews - Grand ...: Aaron Glantz and Iraq Veterans Against the War have produced an essential book on the United States' occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan--so much so that writing a review almost seems superfluous. My first inclination is to simply tell people to just go and get the book--it's that important.

[Untitled] Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq- It’s All Spelled Out in ...: Security in  Iraq is certainly better than it was during the sectarian civil war between  Sunni and Shia in 2006-7 but the improvement is wholly comparative. The  monthly death toll has dropped from 3,000 a month at its worst to 360  Iraqi civilians and security personnel killed this November, though these  figures may understate the casualty toll as not all the bodies are found.  Iraq is still one of the most dangerous places in the world.  On  December 1, the  day I started writing this article, two suicide bombers killed 33 people and  wounded dozens more in Baghdad and Mosul.

[Untitled] The Weekly Standard: Araji, 39, stands at the center of Sadr's efforts to shape his followers into a religious and social movement that can maintain his popularity. In interviews across Baghdad and in the Shiite religious heartland of Najaf, where Shiite groups are vying for their community's leadership, Sadrists insist they still have the power to divide Iraq or keep it together.

[Untitled] M of A - Ring The Bells: Iraq Wins - Shrub Shuffles Off: Time ran out for the empire, the UN deadline compounded by amerikan elections, Iraqi provincal elections in Feb 09 and the need to ask Iran to make Moqtada back off to ensure that there were no dramas coming outta Iraq all year, all of that has meant that amerika had no leverage, the thing is signed and now everyone is hoping they can exit stage left with a minimum of publicity. If the rethugs ever do try too hard to lambast the dems, then Obama will pull out the sofa which was signed on shrub's 'watch' (I love the way these idiot pols adopt pseudo military jargon to pretend they know shit from clay).

[Untitled] The Iraq generation, by Vicken Cheterian: Lebanon, like Yemen, Algeria and Afghanistan, is a fragile country that has emerged from a long civil war (1975-90), an Israeli occupation (1982-2000) and a bloody war between Israel and the Shia-armed militia Hizbullah in the summer of 2006. This war made Sunni jihadist groups focus on Lebanon.

[Untitled] US forces capture 14 Iraqi Shia terrorists in Baghdad - The Long ...: The League of the Righteous is a splinter group that broke away from Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army after Sadr announced he would disband the Mahdi Army and form a small, secretive military arm to fight Coalition forces in June. Sadr's moves caused shockwaves in the Mahdi Army, as some of the militia's leaders wished to continue the fight against US forces in Baghdad and in southern and central Iraq.

[Untitled] The Surfing Conservative: Victory in Iraq Day - November 22, 2008: Having followed the Iraq War from a personal and professional standpoint since its inception, I watched as the US military struggled through the early years in what appeared to be an unexpected quagmire, facing insurgencies from both Sunni and Shia guerrillas and their international terrorist allies. But the changes that began two years ago have turned the tables in Iraq decisively, to the point now where we can legitimately claim to have achieved "victory" in the war.

[Iraq Updates - Latest News] The Iraq Generation | Iraq Updates: Until the invasion of Iraq, the jihadist movement had been peripheral to the core values, causes and struggles of the Arab world. It was inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood, forged in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and it went on to fight in Bosnia and Tajikistan in the early 1990s, and in Chechnya, with the arrival of 12 jihadists led by the Chechen rebel commander Khattab in early 1995.

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