Archive for August, 2007
Tal Afar SWAT: The Iraqi Police have an elite unit in Nineveh Province, courtesy of the US Special Forces
TAL AFAR, IRAQ — THE DAY BEGINS AT 0500, when the sun is still out of sight and the weather cool. As the pickup truck pulls up to the inside of the front gate of the Forward Operating Base (FOB), the men begin to emerge from the pre-dawn darkness, dressed in various assemblages of civilian [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Maliki’s ‘Grand Compromise’: Can the Grid of the Iraqi Government be Unlocked?
BAGHDAD, IRAQ – The Iraqi federal government has been under increasing fire for appearing unable to work together on key issues, or to make progress in securing and governing its own country. Called “non-functional” by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the Shi’a led administration has been hamstrung by its own attempts at unilateral policymaking, as well [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )All Combat Zone Journalism is NOT Created Equal
Katie Couric’s Impending Trip to Iraq Highlights the Difference Between Real Front-Line Reporting and Simply Going for an Exotic Byline
BAGHDAD, IRAQ – The recent headline-grabbing announcement that, in an effort to bolster the network’s sagging ratings, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric will be coming to Iraq for 12 days in September has, [...]
Too Soon to Give Up: A Report From Iraq
Baghdad, Iraq — I’ve been on the front lines here in Iraq for the last month, spending about three weeks in Salman Pak (just south of Baghdad) with the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division, from Ft. Benning, GA, and spending another several days near the Turkish/Syrian border with a Special Forces team.
As one [...]
Another Iraqi ‘Awakening’?: In yet another region of Iraq, one tribe decides that it wants something better than what the insurgency has to offer
JA’ARA, IRAQ – As has been seen in the last year in Iraq’s western Anbar Province, and as is beginning to be seen just north of Baghdad in Diyala, the Iraqi people – who, it goes without saying, have an even greater stake in their own security and in the success of their country than [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Southeast of Baghdad, the Surge is Working
SALMAN PAK, IRAQ – The region to the south and east of Baghdad, home to the Tigris River Valley, to the former terrorist training center (and resort town) of Salman Pak, and to the long-since defunct Iraqi nuclear reactor, has seen little of the coalition since the initial invasion of 2003. One of several areas [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )When are we going to admit that Iran is at war with a sovereign Iraq – as well as with America?
MOSUL, IRAQ — Attempts by Iran’s totalitarian government, via its Revolutionary Guard Corps, to destroy a Kurdish organization fighting for women’s rights and other civil liberties has begun to affect the ethnic population in northern Iraq. According to a deputy minister in Kurdistan’s regional government, attempts to destroy the Iranian Kurdish fighters has resulted in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Oh. My. GAWD.
To quote WWTDD (language and content warning), who is in turn quoting the Principal from Billy Madison:
What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in [...]
A portrait of the Author, as himself
It’s not too often that a guy who does his own writing, photo, and video gets shots taken of himself (at himself is, of course, another matter altogether
So, as it’s pretty rare, I’ve uploaded a couple of those photos somebody with me was kind enough to take and send to me, so that [...]
The Surge in Action: Baker Company 1-15 rallies villagers to the Coalition and against the insurgency
WUERDIYA, IRAQ — THOUGH EASE IS AN extremely relative attribute in this case, hunting and killing the enemy in the Salman Pak region of Iraq (southeast of Baghdad) is, in fact, the easy part of the U.S. mission there. ‘Terrain denial’ artillery missions are staged in known al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) areas on a [...]
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