Iraqs political transition to selfgoverning status on 30 June is taking place amidst a relentless military insurgency. A number of fascinating and littlenoticed trends are underway in
The passing of the United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq on 8 June 2004 has fuelled optimism that the transition to an Iraqi government on 30 June 2004 may
Both George Bush and Tony Blair have welcomed agreement on the text of a new United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq as the beginning of the end of their
The Khobar attack and hostage crisis in Saudi Arabia on 29-30 May, in which twenty-two people died, is as important as any comparable events in the kingdom over
American and British efforts to gain legitimacy and support for their political project in Iraq are entering a new phase, with a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council
The predicament facing United States forces in Iraq is currently made even more severe by two apparently separate developments – the apparently systemic abuse of Iraqi prisoners, and Israel’s forceful
The graphic images of abused, humiliated and tortured detainees in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad have been widely seen across the Middle East in their original uncensored form. These images
It took several days for the impact of the Abu Ghraib prison photographs to have their, as yet limited, effect within the United States one that includes President Bushs
Hi-tech American weaponry is pounding Fallujah and Kufa, but the strategy behind it is tinged with desperation.
The widespread violence of the first two weeks of April in Iraq
The insurgency in Iraq is on the verge of becoming an uprising (see Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Karl Vick, Uprisings Force U.S. to Rethink Strategy in Iraq, Washington Post, 18
In the first twelve days of April, 76 United States troops died in combat in Iraq, making it already the worst month for deaths in action since the fall of
The insurgency in Iraq is continuing to take a heavy toll. The combination of attacks on United States and other coalition forces such as the 6 April assault in the
