A warm welcome for Japan’s Iraq hostages
Japanese hostages released from their Iraqi captors returned home this weekend to a bill from the government for their rescue and a public scolding from the prime minister. Japan is…
Bringing ’em on
Civilian deaths in foreign wars are just so many statistics. The numbers easily obscure the human tragedies and suffering that are the result of the crude exercise of power. Famously,…
Doomed and buggered
Yes, I know, you all saw it last week, but here it is again, just to remind us what real fear and outrage is all about. Here’s the Observer story…
Riverbend: Blogging from Baghdad
For an extraordinary insight into life and politics in occupied Iraq follow this link to the Riverbend Blog. The blogger is an anonymous 24-year-old Iraqi woman living in Baghdad who…