Killer Haircuts - 7/12/2007 12:56:20 AM
Some malicious militant must have gotten his hands on a copy of Taliban For Dummies. Not even the humble hair stylist is safe in Iraq today. Since the middle of March 10 barbers have been...
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/05/003769.html
Remembering Marla - 7/12/2007 12:56:20 AM
Marla Ruzicka's friends and colleagues are determined not to let her memory die -- nor her work on behalf of innocent victims of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Saturday May 14 in Washington DC...
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/05/003719.html
Follow the money -- if you can - 7/12/2007 12:56:20 AM
If you're anything like the rest of us you're constantly losing things: car keys cell phones bulky bags of cash. That's why it's so easy to understand how U.S. administrators in Iraq could have misplaced...
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/05/003675.html
Al-Zarqawi all the time - 7/12/2007 12:56:20 AM
Even terrorists can have bad days. Iraq's chief evildoer Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is reportedly tearing his hair out because his men are complaining about the long hours low pay and crappy benefits that come with...
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/05/003651.html
The comeback kid - 7/12/2007 12:56:20 AM
Crikey. How the heck did this happen? Ahmad Chalabi onetime Pentagon sweetheart-turned black sheep has been named deputy prime minister of Iraq giving him control -- at least temporarily -- of Iraq's vast oil reserves....
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003619.html
Cabinet capers - 7/12/2007 12:56:21 AM
Finally. Three months after the election the political vacuum in Iraq may be nearing an end. Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has finished drawing up his cabinet list and given it to the president Jalal Talabani...
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003607.html
The longest yards - 7/12/2007 12:56:21 AM
Attacks by insurgents are on the increase; three months after the election Iraqis still don't have a new government; and the airport road which leads from Baghdad International Airport into central Baghdad is still the...
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003573.html
More about Marla - 7/12/2007 12:56:21 AM
Visitors to the website of Marla Ruzicka's nonprofit organization CIVIC Worldwide will find a slideshow of arresting photographs of the young activist some taken days before her death in a car bomb blast in Baghdad....
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003535.html
Progressive Dems win antiwar resolution - 7/12/2007 12:56:21 AM
After a lively three-day battle at the annual Democratic convention in Los Angeles last weekend 2 000 California Democrats passed a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. The resolution which was...
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003507.html
Iraq's reality TV experiment - 7/12/2007 12:56:21 AM
What's a law-abiding Iraqi citizen to do with his or her leisure nighttime hours? Watch television of course. According to the Institute of War & Peace Reporting Iraqis across the country are glued to a...
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003498.html
Report: Violence scarring Iraqi children - 7/12/2007 1:14:49 AM
The dark underside of the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis is the indelible scarring of millions of Iraqi children alarming numbers of whom have witnessed gruesome violence and have had close family members murdered a new report from World
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3116.shtml
Sectarian violence and displacement follow Samarra attack - 7/12/2007 1:14:50 AM
Civilians are defying a curfew to flee their homes in fear of an increase in sectarian violence after insurgents blew up two minarets at a revered Shia shrine in Samarra on 13 June. Partial destruction of the shrine last year sparked spiraling sectarian b
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3115.shtml
Now it’s the food poisoning… - 7/12/2007 1:14:50 AM
According to a doctor at Baghdad’s Yarmouk hospital there is a new enemy in Iraq: food sold and consumed past its sell-by date. Iraqis are suffering in greater numbers from food poisoning. ‘Some patients bring with them the empty cans
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3114.shtml
Child labor on the rise as poverty increases - 7/12/2007 1:14:50 AM
Iyad Abdel-Salim 12 left school six months ago and has been working to boost the family income. His father was killed in Iraq’s political violence. As the only boy in the family and with three smaller sisters to look after he was forced to go on
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3113.shtml
Poor municipal services worsen Iraqi living conditions - 7/12/2007 1:14:51 AM
Corruption neglect and insurgent attacks have left Iraq’s public services in tatters residents and officials say. Limited electricity and drinking water are the main problems causing disease and frustration.
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3112.shtml
Hundreds go missing or get killed at checkpoints - 7/12/2007 1:14:51 AM
Manned by the Iraqi police Iraqi soldiers or sometimes by militias checkpoints are adding to the immense strain already felt by Baghdad residents. Locals say that people are often arrested at checkpoints on suspicion of working with armed groups ̵
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3111.shtml
Photostory: Baghdad car wreck displayed in Amsterdam - 7/12/2007 1:14:51 AM
The Leidseplein a popular square in the centre of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) formed the backdrop for the display of a bombed out vehicle from Baghdad on Sunday. The Bazaar a discussion platform of the Greenleft and various NGOs brought the Iraqi car wrec
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3110.shtml
Displacement Situation continues to worsen - 7/12/2007 1:14:52 AM
‘We have 300 staff working full time on Iraqi displacement. Since the beginning of the year our offices have ed more than 130 000 Iraqi refugees. By the end of May UNHCR had interviewed some 7 000 of the most vulnerable Iraqis and sent their dos
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3109.shtml
I was forced to give up my humanitarian work to save my daughter - 7/12/2007 1:14:52 AM
Hilal Naim 33 has stopped working with humanitarian agencies in the Iraqi capital Baghdad after his son was killed and the life of his only daughter threatened by militants. Naim had never had any trouble in his job helping displaced families until milita
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3108.shtml
Drive to raise awareness of unexploded ordnance in south - 7/12/2007 1:14:52 AM
Southern based non-governmental organizations have been providing local children with information about mines and how to prevent accidents in areas still affected by Unexploded Ordnances left over from 25 years of war.
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3107.shtml