Uh-oh! Dilemma in Iraq: What should be done about the artifacts left behind by Saddam Hussein's regime? Such as, oh, I don't know, say, the 605-page Qur'an written in Saddam Hussein's blood?
Iraqi authorities have rounded up 73 suspected Al-Qaida operatives in recent weeks, some of whom claim to members of cells planning Christmastime attacks in the U.S. and Europe.
U.S. soldiers in Iraq who try to read about the Wikileaks disclosures—or read coverage of them in mainstream news sites—on unclassified networks get a page warning them that they're about to break the law.
Saddam Hussein's 269-foot yacht, Basra Breeze, which has been on the lam since the 1980s, is back in Iraq. Now the country's transportation minister, who enjoys using Saddam's toilet and sleeping in his bed, wants to make it a museum.
Did you know that al-Qaeda in Iraq once surgically implanted bombs inside two stray dogs and tried to put them on a plane to the U.S.? Here's how to tell if your dog is a bomb-carrying al-Qaeda agent.
Last week, the Yemeni mail bombs. Today, letter bombs exploded outside the Swiss and Russian embassies in Greece; a dozen coordinated bombs killed 63 in Baghdad; and a letter bomb was found in the German chancellor's mail room. Democracy flourishes.
The most recognizable (and best spectacled) member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle, ex-foreign minister Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court today for "eliminating Islamic parties" during Hussein's rule. Aziz knew he was doomed. [Al Jazeera]
Wikileaks released another enormous trove of classified military records on Friday, thumbing its nose at an outraged Pentagon and seeming to stand bravely for freedom of information. But this time they agreed to self-censor some information, and they overdid it.
Secret-sharing website Wikileaks just released the largest leak of U.S. military documents ever, and it's like the oposite of Christmas. The 400,000 Iraq war documents details widespread torture by America's Iraqi allies, abuse the U.S. military largely ignored.
To handle unredacted names in Wikileaks' Afghan War document release in July, the Pentagon set up a 120-member Information Review Task Force. Now they're worried about Iraqi informants in the big upcoming leak: "Maybe no one's name will be released."
On Monday, troubled secret-sharing organization Wikileaks plans to release what's been teased as the "biggest leak of military intelligence" ever: 400,000 Iraq war documents. Will it be enough to make everyone forget founder Julian Assange's pending sex crime case?
A terrifying cabal of elites is meeting this week in D.C. for the "Washington Ideas Festival," to discuss only the most important Ideas. So why was Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi liar who supplied false intelligence to the Bush administration, invited?
Former War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's years-in-the-making memoir, Known and Unknown, will be available at book merchants in January. Click to see the book's sexy mountain-man cover, as well as Rumsfeld's side-plan to silence the hippies by releasing "Iraq documents."
The Way We Live Now: riding the roller coaster. Playing the blame game. On the comeback trail. On the rebound. Entrepreneurially. And all sorts of other cliches that add up to one big goat on the roof, economically speaking.
War ravaged Iraq has agreed to pay $400 million to a group of Americans who say they were traumatized or tortured during Saddam Hussein's rule after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. What's so unfair about that? Oh, right.
Secret-sharing website Wikileaks is preparing the "'biggest leak of military intelligence' that has ever occurred"—three times larger than the cache leaked by the site in July. What's in it? More terrible revelations about "abusive treatment of detainees," apparently.