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The Saturday Profile: A Sadrist Governor Is a Folk Hero to Iraqis
Amara :: Romania | 16 days ago
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The Saturday Profile A Sadrist Governor Is a Folk Hero to Iraqis Adam Ferguson for The New York Times It doesn't make a difference if you are Sunni or Shiite or Christian...One man poked his head in the scrum and said, simply, I just wanted to give
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Crazy German Impostors Infiltrating U.S. High Society: The List Doesn't End At Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, AKA 'Clark Rockefeller'
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Reuters Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, AKA Clark Rockefeller, in court in Los Angeles. The case against Gerhartsreiter, or Clark Rockefeller, as he was known to the social elite of New England, culminated Wednesday when the 52-year-old was convicted
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Oakland Effect: Iraq War seen through the lens of photographers on display de Young Museum
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 months ago
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02/16/2013 12:00:00 AM PST This is an excerpt from reporter Scott Johnson's blog, which focuses on the effects of violence and trauma on the community...Iraq, I worked with two American photographers who were documenting the war's toll on civilian
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Saudi prisoner in Iraq...
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 months ago
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Saturday 9 February 2013 Last Update 8 February 2013 8:44 pm A Saudi prisoner held in Iraq longer than any other Saudi was beaten up with batons on Thursday by the prison guards in Baghdad. Nasir Al-Rowaily is a prisoner in the 6th Rasafa prison in
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As murder rate drops, flood levels rise and inundate Baghdad with raw sewage
Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 months ago
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Share +More Torrential rain caused floods all over Baghdad last week. It was not a pleasant sight: as the city's ageing sewage system failed to cope, streets filled with murky grey water that smelled and looked as if it was heavily polluted with raw
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Defiant Iraqis Fight US-Led Troops
Baghdad :: Iraq | 9 months ago
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March 2004 Iraqi guerrillas and rebellious Shiites fought US-led forces on two fronts yesterday, mounting a string of battles across the south that killed at least 30 people and taking on US Marines in the turbulent city of Fallujah. At least 18
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Sadr Rejects Ultimatum
Baghdad :: Iraq | 10 months ago
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August 2004 Followers of Moqtada Sadr fought US troops in Najaf yesterday after the Shiite cleric rejected an Iraqi government ultimatum for his Mehdi Army militia to lay down arms and vacate Imam Ali Mosque. US aircraft and tanks pounded the area
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Moktada al-Sadr Recast as Political Insurgent in Iraq
Baghdad :: Iraq | 10 months ago
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Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse Getty Images A portrait of Mr. Sadr in Baghdad's Kadhimiya area, site of a Shiite shrine. Now, with the United States military gone, he has emerged as something more prosaic: a mainstream political leader looking
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VIDEO: Pilgrims gather in Karbala
Baghdad :: Iraq | 11 months ago
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Pilgrims gather in Karbala 5 July 2012 Last updated at 00:10 ET Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have converged on the city of Karbala in southern Iraq to celebrate one of the most important figures in Shia Islam. The rituals to mark the birth of Al-
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Protests as Iraq moves to close 44 media outlets
Baghdad :: Iraq | 11 months ago
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An Iraqi press freedom group condemned authorities on Sunday for ordering the closure of 44 news organizations, including a U.S.-funded radio station. The country's media commission said it was only targeting unlicensed operations. No media outlet is
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