TagsTagsMichael Totten continues his must-read series on The Future of Iraq, Part IV. I don’t think many Iraqis today are afraid of the state. But everybody was terrified of Saddam Hussein’s totalitarian government. Speaking their minds could get them imprisoned or killed. It could get an entire family dragged off ...
Robert Spencer is mixing it up with Michael J. Totten and Mary Madigan at Totten’s pad. Totten asks Spencer a good question about his announced participation in the “Pro-Koln” conference — a question I’ve brought up as well: If the nutjobs in Cologne did nothing but invite Pamela, why did they ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom
Michael J. Totten answers an attack from anti-Islam zealot Andrew Bostom: Arguing for Uncertainty. Andrew Bostom – pal of Robert Spencer and the deranged Pamela Geller – bizarrely accuses me of being an uninformed dogmatist for publishing a “roseate view” of Iraq, even though my article in question was dedicated ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom
Michael J. Totten calls out Robert Spencer for a particularly uninformed comment about Iraq: We Are Not at War with Nouri al-Maliki. Robert Spencer, founder and lead writer for Jihad Watch, has a bit of trouble telling the difference between friend and foe in Iraq and still thinks, despite everything, ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer
Michael J. Totten has posted the second part of his look at The Future of Iraq. A must-read, for the kind of reporting the mainstream media no longer does. The first time I visited Baghdad, I only stayed for a week. The place stressed me out. The surge was only ...
Michael Totten has posted the first of a four-part series exploring the big issue on everyone’s minds: The Future of Iraq. Iraq has never been successfully governed by anyone but a strongman. You might even say Iraq has never been successfully governed at all. Who today sincerely believes the use ...
Another great piece from Iraq by Michael J. Totten: Sadr City After the Fall. The way into Sadr City itself was from Combat Outpost (COP) Ford, a one-company base wedged between Sadr City and the adjacent Beida neighborhood. Captains Todd Looney and A.J. Boyes ran the company, and they were ...
Another terrific report from Iraq by Michael J. Totten: Baghdad in Fragments. Many third world cities look better at night than during the day. Darkness hides shabbiness. You have to imagine what the city actually looks like. If you live in a first world city yourself, you might fill in ...
It’s an appalling and sickening story, but it’s also an indicator of great desperation on Al Qaeda’s part: Al Qaeda use two ‘Down’s syndrome’ women to blow up 73 people in Baghdad markets. Two women who reportedly had Down’s syndrome may have been unwilling suicide bombers in twin blasts that ...
Well, what’s gotten into Reuters this New Year’s Eve? In a safer Baghdad, Iraqis party for 2008. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - On New Year’s Eve Ridaa al-Azzawi squeezed into his pointy snakeskin boots, his tight black sweater and his snazzy corduroy flared jeans, hustled down to a Baghdad hotel ballroom and ...
Michael Yon was there taking pictures as a Catholic bishop returned to St John’s Church in Baghdad and celebrated mass: Come Home. Today, Muslims mostly filled the front pews of St John’s. Muslims who want their Christian friends and neighbors to come home. The Christians who might see these photos ...
Michael Yon emailed this photograph from Baghdad, with the following caption: Soldiers from 2-2 SCR patrol through what months ago were some of the most dangerous streets of all Iraq: South Baghdad. Months ago this likely would have resulted in a serious firefight. Tonight, 14 November 2007, we ...
The mainstream media are relentless. At least 36 killed as Bush makes surprise Baghdad visit.
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