Articles tagged with: Baghdad
Important new book: “Stripping Bare the Body” by Mark Danner
Author Mark Danner has just published a book you might like to read if you are interested in national security, human rights, or American politics and foreign policy. It contains 20 years of his reporting …
Patrick Cockburn: Can Obama turn rhetoric into the reality of peace with the Muslim world? The President’s bridge-building is welcome. But it will take more than words to erase the damage done by his predecessor
The start of the Iraq war in 2003 marked a crucial break between the US and almost all the states of the region. “None of Iraq’s neighbours, absolutely none, were pleased by the American occupation …
Iraq court reduces sentence of shoe-throwing journalist
By Safiya Boucaud, JURIST
A federal appeals court in Baghdad on Tuesday reduced the sentence for the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoe at former US president George W. Bush from three years to one …
