Iraq War

The argument is that Julian Assange revealed truths that put American lives at risk. To date, I am unaware of any casualties resulting from Wikileaks’ revelations, but let’s for a moment assume this argument has merit. If it is just and lawful to imprison a foreign journalist for costing American…

سعد المجرد بين الحركة الولائية والمدنية السياسية الراديكالية والراديكالية المضادة ثمة صورتين لحدث وقع يوم الخميس تحديداً في 9/6/2022 عندما هاجمت جماعات دينية موقع لاحياء حفل لمطرب مغربي اسمه سعد المجرد رافضة اقامة مثل هذه الحفلات في بغداد الكاظمين عليهما السلام كما ردد البعض منهم هذه العبارة، يقابله موقف لمدونيين ومدونات شنوا هجموا…

The Iraqi “Military Industry Authority” has recently unveiled the manufacture of an Iraqi UAV named “Saqar 1”. This came after an official statement by the head of the Military Industry Authority. You can see the pictures of the drone below with “Made in Iraq” posters behind it in Figure 1.

On this anniversary of my Brother being killed in Iraq, I cannot help yet reflect on former President Bush’s recent gaffe, where he calls attention to the “unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq” when meaning to refer to Ukraine. The former President followed his corrected gaffe by sullenly saying, “Iraq…

OCP clad bodies appear silently out of the thick night, drifting in like snowflakes to pile along the sides of a well worn path. Combat boots tread out a canticle on the tarmac, soft padding the only sound in the oppressive quiet. No words are spoken. Comrades greet with a…

“It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birthplace of Abraham. Tread lightly there” — Lt Col Tim Collins before the ground invasion of Iraq 2003. Since the first recorded human history of the Sumerians, the people and land of southern Mesopotamia, between…

George Bush Jr. recently in a talk sought to call out Russia for their invasion of Ukraine. But, as Bush Jr. is known to do, he made a verbal gaffe. You can see the video here. You’ve probably already seen it. Let’s lay out what the former president said: “The…

17-я сура Корана, Аль-Исра (Ночной перенос), названа так в честь путешествия Мухаммеда в Иерусалим, но ее содержание не исчерпывается данным травелогом. Так, Аль-Исра сообщает нам о планах Аллаха на загробный суд следующее (перевод Крачковского): … И всякому человеку Мы прикрепили птицу к его шее и выведем для него в день воскресения книгу, которую он встретит разверстой: “Прочти твою книгу! Довольно для тебя в самом себе счетчика!”.