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[anggiaputrinilasari's posterous] Going Home: Returning to Iraq after 10 years ...: This is meant to ensure security - although given past events this hasn’t seemed to have worked - but at the same time it just makes life really difficult as all the checkpoints become very congested. During critically dangerous periods, people in each area would open up shops and markets within their houses, so when it was too dangerous to pass through a checkpoint most of the things you might need would be available within the area.

[Gorilla's Guides] Iraq: Humanitarian Needs Persist | Refugees International ...: Most Iraqi refugees in Syria have benefited from generous government policies and hospitable neighbors. The government’s recent efforts to extend residency permits for six months, their commitment to issue some work permits, and their engagement in drafting legislation that will address the presence of Iraqis in Syria are all positive steps that help to advance the protection of refugees.

[Boise Weekly] Triumph of the Swill | The Hurt Locker supports the troops””and the ...: As film critic Andrew Breitbart wrote, The Hurt Locker stripped its Iraqi characters of their humanity "and turned [them] into story-props: villains, victims, foul-mouthed hustlers, or strange alien beings who keep an awkward distance and mourn the dead by yelling savagely at the sky."

[Iran News Digest | Stay Informed. Stay Green.] 3/18 Iran & the Middle East: This was not charity: The Islamic Republic of Iran was determined to ensure that its client could solidify its standing within Lebanon’s Shiite community and reconstitute its fighting strength before the next round against Israel. Hezbollah used these funds to compensate the Shiites who lost relatives, homes, and businesses during the war.

[The Best Defense] Iraq isn't as bad as you thought - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense: Of course with enough fear it could come back, but Shiites do not feel threatened by any other group, and Sunnis aren't being rounded up, the security forces provide decent enough security, and they are pervasive, there is no reason for people to cling to militias in self defense and besides militiamen are still being rounded up, I just don't see enough fuel here for a conflagration -- leaving aside the Arab/Kurdish fault line, of course. (Though if Maliki went to war with the Kurds that would only further unite Sunni and Shiite Arabs.) The Iraqi Security Forces like Maliki enough, even if they prefer Alawi.

[Signs of the Times] American Police Training and Political Violence: From the ...: In response to the wave of neo-conservative analysts extolling the virtues of empire in the aftermath of 9/11, Chalmers Johnson writes in Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic that the idea of "forcing thousands of people to be free by slaughtering them - with Maxim machine guns in the 19th century, or 'precision munitions' today - seems to reflect a deeply felt need as well as a striking inability to imagine the lives and viewpoints of others." He added that "all empires require myths of divine right, racial preeminence, manifest destiny or a 'civilizing mission' to cover their often barbarous behavior in other people's country."67 American imperial intervention throughout the long century from the conquest of the Philippines through the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has indeed sown much human misery and violence. While it has helped to vanquish some genuinely totalitarian forces, such as the Nazis and imperial Japanese, all too often those at the wrong end of the guns have been supporters of nationalist and social revolutionary movements seeking badly needed social change.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Sunday, Bloody ...: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is fighting for his political future against a coalition led by mainly Shiite religious groups ”” the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and a party headed by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He also faces a challenge from secular alliance led by Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister and secular Shiite, who has teamed up with a number of Sunnis in a bid to claim the government.

[mcclatchydc.com: World] LIVE BLOG: Polls now closed in Iraq after day of bombings | McClatchy: Major General Mohammed Al Askari, Iraqi ministry of defense spokesman: “Gunmen used mortars and stun bombs and the aim was to frighten people and shake their will to go to the polling centers and the truth of the matter only six mortar rounds hit Baghdad, one of them caused damages and the rest were minor and so far casualties stand at 15 killed and 20 injured.

[City Room] 105000 Dots for Iraq, and Counting - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com: The following year, in a project called “Dog or Iraqi,” he allowed the audience to decide whether he or a dog should be subjected to the torture technique called waterboarding, in which water is poured over a person’s face and into his mouth and nose, causing a drowning sensation. He was chosen over the dog and was waterboarded.

[Reason Magazine Full Feed] Iraq: Mission Accomplished! (Really, Now) - Hit & Run : Reason ...: So, John, again, because you're slow, IFthe Iraq invasion was wrong WHY would itbe wrong to want the aggressor to lose? And how is it that you canbe all sorts of aggressive towards those who would want the UnitedStates to lose an aggressive action, but not be mad at those whoplaced those Soldiers in harm's way for no reason in the firstplace?

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Iraqi police: Mortar fire kills 3 as Iraqis vote in key national ...: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is fighting for his political future against a coalition led by mainly Shiite religious groups ”” the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and a party headed by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He also faces a challenge from secular alliance led by former a secular Shiite, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who has teamed up with a number of Sunnis in a bid to claim the government.

[At War] Leaving Nebraska for Iraq - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: Her husband, a 42-year-old Iraqi screenplay writer, asked for his first name to be withheld because of fears that the couple may draw the attention of insurgents or kidnappers. He said that despite the geographical distance, they quickly realized that they had a lot in common.

[mcclatchydc.com: World] Iraqis question U.S. convoy's driving in fatal crash | McClatchy: The 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team convoy was going against traffic, but only on a short curve as part of the standard practice of swinging around an Iraqi checkpoint at a designated place, he said. The passenger van also appeared to be going in the wrong direction, Reese said, perhaps in an attempt to cross the median.

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