Four Blackwater contractors involved in a 2007 Baghdad shooting incident that left 17 Iraqis dead, including a 9-year-old boy, and 20 wounded were sentenced to prison today. They were convicted in a U.S. federal court last fall after years of legal battles. One got life for murder; three others got [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
March 21st, 2015 - 1:07 am § in Uncategorized
THE Ave Challenge: You SHOULD Know Who He Is!
WARNING: Failure to answer this question correctly could be dangerous to your freedom. A. Muslim director of new movie starring Tom Cruise as “The Prophet” B. Russian commander of “Ukranian” liberation front. C. Iranian commander of Iraqi forces fighting Isis. D. Israeli adv[...]
February 12th, 2015 - 12:57 pm § in Misc.
HYPOCRISY: Iraqi Style
Iraq – Bids Over Rope That Hung Saddam Hussein Reach $7 Million Iraq – A bidding war was sparked after the rope that ended the life of Saddam Hussein was put on auction, London based al-Arabi al-Jadeed newspaper… Read More »[...]
February 11th, 2015 - 9:00 am § in Misc.
Iran Wins Bush’s War: Tehran and Baghdad Have Agreed To Iran Training the Iraqui Army.
Iran’s Brigadier Gen. Hossein Valivand has announced that Iran will assume responsibility for training the largely Shia forces fighting against ISIS under the flag of the US created Iraqui Republic. A Pentagon official told The Daily Beast that the department was unaware of Iran’s announ[...]
The Beginning of Winter Holidays Is Not a Happy Season for All
Muharram, a Muslim month devoted to mourning. Ashura, the tenth of the month, is a day of awe in Shi’a Islam, familiar in the west as scenes of self flagellation. In Shia Islam the month marks the schism from Sunni, when the Sunni caliph killed the last relative of the Prophet, Ali, and ended [...]
ISIS IS ISLAMIC
Alastair Crooke on ISIS as Islam (HuffPost abstracts and comments) I agree with Mr. Crooke. The President’s statement that ISIS is not Islamic was at best confusing political correctness. Obama said this, I assume, to avoid inciting bigots. However, the statement neglects a fa[...]
July 20th, 2014 - 4:10 am § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: 632 BCE to 2014 CE
“First the statue of a beloved local poet and the tomb of a great Arab historian fell to the caliphate’s wrecking crews. The world paid little attention.” Next “the caliphate’s troops “have removed statues of people that the city is really proud of,” said Ismail and archivi[...]
July 10th, 2014 - 10:24 am § in Misc.
README: On scene in Baghdad
Financial Times: Ten years ago Christine Spolar reported on the Iraq war. Last month she returned to find her old colleagues and friends living in fear, and a city traumatised by spiralling violence[...]
July 7th, 2014 - 11:29 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS
Reuters reports that the American units sent to shore up the Iraqi government forces have found that the Iraqis are able to defend the capital but will have difficulty recapturing lost territory. This is ominous because the geography could lead to a siege, with Sunni forces holding a cordon not fa[...]
Snipers: Cowards or Heroes? –by David Preston
David Preston: Special to The Ave Responding to last week’s blockbuster opening of American Sniper, documentarian and social critic Michael Moore suggested that the biopic’s subject, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, was no hero. As support for this, Moore tweeted that his own uncle had been kille[...]