A worker walks through the nearly-complete waste water treatment site in Fallujah, Iraq, 40 miles west of Baghdad. The system is almost finished - at a cost of more than three times the original estimate and four years past the initial deadline A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water... 

Click on the image to enlarge it Six years after his brother was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents, Riyad is still haunted by the memory of identifying the disfigured body and watching the mutilation on a video distributed by the killers. Yet Riyad now has fresh worries to contend with: the threat of deportation from Sweden, which recently rejected his application for asylum. “They murdered my brother... 

US soldiers in Afghanistan, file photo The suicide rate among US soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has escalated to a record high, with an average of one suicide per day in June. According to US Army statistics, a total of 32 soldiers took their own lives last month, making it the worst month on record for Army suicides. Twenty-one were on active duty, with the rest being among National Guards... 

This is yet another video of American war criminals surrounding then shooting to death an unarmed old man (video 5 minutes). Notice their fear as they circle around him and hear their shouts to shoot him down even though he is unarmed. Update: We have been notified by our readers that the old Iraqi man was actually not innocent at all. He was holding a grenade in his hand and he refused to put the... 

WikiLeaks has just published video of US Military killing 12 individuals in Iraq, two of whom were later revealed to be staff members of the Reuters news organization. Wikileaks has previously been labeled a “muckraking” website by some in the press, and indeed the graphic video is presented by the site as an “indiscriminate” killing, when it clearly appears to be a grave and horrible mistake... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the United Nation’s General Assembly. Delegates from the US, Israel and EU stormed out as Iran’s leader was speaking.  Read More »

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In a frame from a video provided by IntelCenter, posted on the Internet on Thursday, April 13, 2006, al Qaeda’s deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, praises insurgents in Iraq. Al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group’s first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of...