Author: Addison

Largely as a result of portions (described in some sources as “splinter groups”) of the Mahdi Army engaging in illegal smuggling activities in Basra (which increased, accompanied by higher levels of violence when the...

[This was posted at Daily Kos and Red State. Considering my recent posts here I thought it’d be interesting to at least plop this diary into the discourse here too.]I have a question that I, myself, cannot answer....

Syria: Iraq and U.S. uncooperative on border control by BEIRUT DAILY STAR STAFFSyria has said that Iraq, the United States and Britain are not cooperating with its drive to prevent insurgent infiltrations to Iraq. The Foreign...

[promoted by BooMan. Hersh strikes again.]      Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker article is so well written and engaging I’m not really going to even try to summarize it. Or even analyze it too much. Suffice...

    Bizarrely, Iran and the US appear to be on the same side in the ongoing internecine warfare in Iraq. Both nations appear to want the current Shi’ite government to remain in power and strengthen their hold on...