May 2006
February 2006
Iraq's death squads: On the brink of civil war
Most of the corpses in Baghdad's mortuary show signs of torture and execution. And the Interior Ministry is being blamed.
The New Yorker: The Memo by Jane Mayer
How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.
Jasem al-Aqrab: The Basra video should lay to rest a scurrilous lie
Since April 2003, the people of Basra have consistently been bemused by reports that they and their city enjoy a state of calm and stability under the command of the British forces, in contrast to the north of Iraq and the so-called Sunni triangle.
January 2006
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israel's shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians
Israeli soldiers killed twice as many Palestinians last week alone - both of them children - as the number of Israelis killed by Hamas all last year.
Guardian: Official US agency paints dire picture of 'out-of-control' Iraq
An official assessment drawn up by the US foreign aid agency depicts the security situation in Iraq as dire, amounting to a "social breakdown" in which criminals have "almost free rein".
Gag Reflex
If President George W. Bush shows no qualms about violating the 217-year-old U.S. Constitution or the 791-year-old Magna Carta, why should we be surprised to find that he is now violating the 2,400-year-old Hippocratic Oath?
Observer | Scandal of force-fed prisoners
New details have emerged of how the growing number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay are being tied down and force-fed through tubes pushed down their nasal passages into their stomachs to keep them alive. They routinely experience bleedin
The Huffington Post: Cost Of Iraq Could Top $2 Trillion...
The cost of the Iraq war could top $2 trillion, far above the White House's pre-war projections, when long-term costs such as lifetime health care for thousands of wounded U.S. soldiers are included
August 2005
Prospect - A muslim Journey
British Islam is dominated by culturally and theologically conservative south Asians. But the London bombs may help to make it more open to those who want to engage with the modern world
July 2005
Roy Greenslade: The lies behind the lies: Secrets and Lies: The True Story of the Iraq War by Dilip Hiro
A depressing but magisterial assessment of the reasoning that led to the invasion of Iraq.
January 2005
WorkingForChange-Is Al Qaeda just a Bush boogeyman?
A look at the conclusions of the BBC series Power of Nightmares
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