Baghdad Garden Becomes Graveyard, Full of Grieving (International Herald Tribune)
On the first day of Id al-Adha, literally the Great Feast, thousands of mourners throng among the headstones on the banks of the River Tigris to pay respects to the dead.
Appeal of amnesty dwindles for Taliban as insurgency grows in strength (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – The appeal of amnesty has dwindled dramatically for Taliban thinking of giving up arms, hinting at an insurgency that is increasing its resolve and complicating President Hamid Karzai’s promise to reach out to insurgents.
Why Turkey Was the Iraq War’s Real Winner (Newsweek)
Turkey is the surprising beneficiary of our misadventures in the Middle East.
Afghan talks to seek road to security handover (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Britain will host talks on Afghanistan on January 28, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday, just days before U.S. President Barack Obama spells out his expansion of the war effort next week.
Going to war wasn t heroic: it was a no-brainer (Times Online)
It is 160 years since Thomas Carlyle wrote On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History , but the treatise was in my mind as I watched Sir Jeremy Greenstock, our former Ambassador to the United Nations, give evidence on Iraq to the Chilcot inquiry yesterday. Another time came flooding back.
The living flock to garden of the dead (The Age)
In the gardens of the living and the dead, the war goes on; not so much with enthusiasm as with resignation.
Army Sgt. Pepperman of Cicero returns from Iraq (Cnylink)
Army Reserve Sgt. 1st Class Scott H. Pepperman has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi
Insurgents turn to crime in Mosul (The Washington Times)
MOSUL, Iraq | Drive-by shootings, killings and extortion are the new calling cards of a weakened insurgency in Mosul, replacing suicide bombings as the worst nightmare for residents of the northern Iraqi city. A dusty, brooding city of 3 million people, Mosul has long been a tinderbox of sectarian tensions that has allowed al Qaeda to retain a foothold and terrorize residents even as other Iraqi …
Terror lessons spread (Stars and Stripes)
JOLO, Philippines The attack was unusually deadly, and it came in a nightmarish form familiar to U.S. servicemembers fighting thousands of miles away in Iraq and Afghanistan a homemade roadside bomb.
Insurgents turn to crime in Mosul (MalaysiaNews.net)
By Deepa Babington REUTERS NEWS AGENCY MOSUL, Iraq | Drive-by shootings, killings and extortion are the new calling cards of a weakened insurgency in Mosul, replacing suicide bombings as the worst ni…
