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The War Isn’t Over

Posted in Iraq, USA, WikiLeaks, tagged , , , , , , on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

While the last American soldier has left Iraq (only to return, after seasonal holidays, to nearby Kuwait), the Iraq Body Count has certainly to go on. The war isn’t over yet. The arrest warrant for Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi upon allegations of sparking violent tensions after the U.S. troop withdrawal has to be seen [...]

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No Immunity

Posted in Iraq, WikiLeaks, tagged , , , , , , , on December 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

When President Obama welcomed all American troops from Iraq home the other day one should not forget that the reason for the withdrawal is that the Iraqi Government would not grant immunity for remaining troops. Taking the known and yet unknown war crimes of the Americans in this basically illegal war into account, it would [...]

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Absurd Hiking Adventure

Posted in Iran, Iraq, WikiLeaks, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »

    The verdict in the more and more absurd case of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, the two American hikers, who were kidnapped by Iranian border patrol had inadvertently crossed the Kurdish-Iraqi Iranian border more than two years ago into Iran and who are sitting in Tehran’s Evin prison since then, is out. Both [...]

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A Green Light for War

Posted in Iraq, Kuwait, USA, WikiLeaks, tagged , , , , , , on January 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »

   April Glaspie, then Ambassador to Iraq, has long been blamed for giving a “Green Light” to dictator Saddam Hussein for invading Kuwait on August 2, 1990. The young Ambassador had been summoned, for the very first time, to the president’s palace only one week before Iraqi troops crossed the disputed borders between the two [...]

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Hiking In the Danger Zone

Posted in Iran, Iraq, USA, tagged , , , , , , , on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Update below. It is hoped that the enormous amount of data on the Iraq war 2003-2010 which have been made public by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks this week will keep analysts busy for the coming weeks. Amazingly, the leaked 391,832 military documents, the so called Iraq War Logs, contain a note about the three American hikers, Shane [...]

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