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Here’s another great piece from Michael Totten, in which he gets to the bottom of The Truth About Russia in Georgia. TBILISI, GEORGIA – Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of ...
Michael Totten has filed a Report from Tbilisi at City Journal. Senator John McCain may have overstated things a bit when, shortly after the war started, he said, “We are all Georgians now.” But apparently even rank-and-file Russian soldiers view the Georgians and Americans as allies. Likewise, these simple ...
Another must-read piece from Michael Totten: An Israeli in Kosovo. Imagine what would happen to a handful of Jewish veterans of the Israel Defense Forces who tried to move from Tel Aviv to an Arab country to open a bistro and bar. In only a few countries could they ...
Here’s part 2 of a really good piece by Michael Totten on Kosovo, Macedonia, and the insidious influence of Saudi Arabia: The Bin Ladens of the Balkans. (Part 1 is here.)
LGF, Serbia, Bosnia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Totten
More great reporting from Iraq by Michael J. Totten: In the Villages of Al Anbar.
An interesting piece on an important subject by Michael J. Totten at Commentary Magazine: The Moderate Supermajority.
In Fallujah, Michael Totten gets a glimpse of hell on earth when he visits an Iraqi jail: The Dungeon of Fallujah. FALLUJAH – Next to the Joint Communications Center in downtown Fallujah is a squalid and war-shattered warehouse for human beings. Most detainees are common criminals. Others are captured ...
Don’t do anything else today until you read Michael J. Totten’s latest report from Fallujah: The Final Mission, Part II.
Here’s another excellent new report from Fallujah by Michael J. Totten: The Final Mission, Part I.
Another excellent report from Michael J. Totten in Fallujah, where no American soldier has been killed in months, but it’s still necessary to have A Plan to Kill Everyone.
Michael J. Totten has another excellent piece from Fallujah, one of the hottest of the Iraqi hot spots, now returned to something more like civilization: After the Battle of Al-Fajr.
Michael J. Totten and Army Captain Phil Messer take a walking tour of Ramadi, Iraq, in a 20 minute video shot during a dismounted foot patrol in early August, 2007: On Patrol in Ramadi.
Another must-read report from Michael J. Totten: The Best Police Force in Iraq. “We see Iraqis smile now,” Sergeant Kitts said to me on our way out. “And seeing Iraqis smile ... that’s a big deal. These people haven’t had anything to smile about for a very long time. ...
Anbar really has awakened, and you shouldn’t miss Michael J. Totten’s latest report.
Here’s another terrific piece of writing by Michael J. Totten in Iraq, on the amazing changes in the city of Ramadi: Anbar Awakens Part I: The Battle of Ramadi.
Michael J. Totten interviews an Iraqi translator for US forces, in another of his must-read reports from the ground in Iraq: Michael J. Totten: An Iraqi Interpreter’s Story. MJT: Why do you work with Americans? Hammer: When I was 14 years old all I liked was American cars and American ...
Michael J. Totten has another riveting report from Baghdad: Baghdad Raid Night. BAGHDAD – “We want to use you as bait,” Sergeant Eduardo Ojeda from Los Angeles, California, told me before I embedded with his unit on what was shaping up to be a night raid. “Excellent,” I said. “That’s ...
Don’t miss this report from an area in Baghdad where the troop surge has already worked, by Michael J. Totten: In the Wake of the Surge.
It’s the photograph that was too good to fake just once, as Hizballah and Michel Aoun try to pull off a blatant frame-up using the gunman from the infamous “burning garbage dump” fauxtograph. Michael J. Totten has the details: Busted.
Totten, Lebanon, Israel, War Crimes, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Fauxtography
Here’s an outstanding post from Michael J. Totten, doing the kind of investigative work the media just doesn’t care about, and interviewing an IDF soldier about Hizballah’s militarization of civilian areas in Lebanon: “They Had Machine Guns Welded in Windows.” MJT: An article was recently published in the Washington Times, ...