“The street was transformed into a swimming pool of blood.” – Ahmed Hameed, a shopkeeper in Shia-dominated Sadriya where 170 over 200 Iraqis died after a powerful bomb exploded in the middle of a market full of shopkeepers and shoppers. On the same day a bomb went off in Sadr City killing 35, in Karadda [...]

I was kind of shocked and saddened to hear about the shooting in Virginia Tech that has dominated western media in the past 48 hours, especially the Internet. I tend to pay close attention to how such incidents unravel in the media and the public eye. The number 30 was splashed across home pages of [...]

When I look at sectarian violence in Iraq I don’t see it under a religious context any more. Sects have become a source of ethnic identity and religion doesn’t seem to play much of a role at all. Sects are merely a way to identify people and it’s historically now the easiest way to do [...]

Iraqi kids in Baghdad don’t play cowboys and indians, rather sunnis versus shia’s. A sad article on how sectarian violence has seeped into children war games.

Jordan is severely restricting the number of refugees it is letting in. Partly for security reasons and partly because the country is already dealing with nearly one million Iraqi refugees. UN refugee body appealed for $60m in emergency aid for those fleeing the violence in Iraq – the largest long-term displacement of people since the [...]

The leader never carries out the killing himself but will always get his hands dirty. So how will the execution of Saddam be seen 200 years from now? A quarter of a million American troops invade Iraq. Hunt down its leader and set up a tribunal with all the trappings of ‘fairness’ and he is [...]

Last month, North Korea conducted a nuclear test. How does the US respond: banning iPods (which are probably manufactured in China, which is alright by China since it is the biggest lender to the US war on Iraq). The US is now targeting the lifestyle of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il and the families of [...]

To be fair…this is one WMD that hurts like hell. NY Times video of Saddam testing out WMDs like Molotov Cocktails and something that looks like an AB exercise device that I swear I’ve seen on late night infomercials.