Iraq

Film review: Standard Operating Procedure

23.7.08

On Sunday July 13, I had the pleasure of taking part in a panel discussion, following a special preview screening at the Curzon Cinema on Shaftesbury Avenue, of Standard Operating Procedure, a documentary about the Abu Ghraib scandal by acclaimed film-maker Errol Morris. The event was organized by the Frontline Club, an excellent journalists’ club [...]

Identification of ex-Guantánamo suicide bomber unleashes Pentagon propaganda

11.5.08

Rather horribly, it seems, a former Guantánamo prisoner, Abdullah al-Ajmi, a Kuwaiti who was repatriated in November 2005 and who later married and had a child, blew himself up as a suicide bomber in Mosul, Iraq, last month. According to the US military, al-Ajmi was one of three suicide bombers responsible for killing seven members [...]

UK government deports 60 Iraqi Kurds; no one notices

30.3.08

Blinded by the apparent allure of a tall, thin woman from France, Britain’s press completely ignored the forcible deportation, on Thursday, of 60 Iraqi Kurds, who were transported back to a decidedly uncertain future on a German plane from a UK airport. Each of the 60 “failed asylum seekers,” as they are officially known, was [...]

Iraq’s refugees in Syria: Mike Otterman reports

7.2.08

I don’t normally post other people’s articles on my site, but I thought this article by Mike Otterman, author of American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond, was worth reproducing in full. Mike, a fellow Pluto Press author, who blogs at American Torture (named after the book), and who was also [...]

Book Review: Road From Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía

29.1.08

Every war produces its own iconic protestors. Vietnam, for example, had Ron Kovic, disabled in combat, and part of the campaigning group Vietnam Veterans Against the War, whose memoir, Born on the Fourth of July, was eventually made into a movie by Oliver Stone. One day, if the United States ever gets to look back [...]

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