Tag Iraq

128 gays to be executed in Iraq

Their “crime”? Being gay. Update: The site referenced by SFist is a blog with just a few posts, and it asks for donations. They cite an Amnesty article as their source, but Amnesty says that 128 will be executed, but…

A ‘fraud’ bigger than Madoff

Senior US soldiers investigated over missing Iraq reconstruction billions “I believe the real looting of Iraq after the invasion was by US officials and contractors, and not by people from the slums of Baghdad,” said one US businessman active in…

The Surge ebbs

The Guardian discloses how the thousands of Iraqis hired by the US to hunt al-Qaeda are on the verge of going on strike because they haven’t been paid. The incompetence and venality of the Bush Administration is quite extraordinary, isn’t…

2018?

How could the Iraqi defense minister possibly prognosticate that Iraq will not be able to defend itself until 2018? That’s 10 years away! There’s no way a prediction like that can accurately be made so far in advance. Answer: He’s…