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
The year since the first phase of the Iraq war ended, and the occupation by United States-led forces began, has seen a recurrent pattern of official optimism about the
The killing of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza on 22 March has dominated this weeks news from the Middle East. This incident does indeed have an importance that extends
A recent opinion survey among ordinary Iraqi people has produced significantly mixed results. The optimism of a majority of respondents about the countrys progress is combined with support for
Whoever was responsible for the atrocities on the Madrid railway system on Thursday 11 March, the implications will go far beyond the traumatic effects on the bereaved and injured.
If
A draft constitution for Iraq was belatedly approved on 8 March 2004 by the US-appointed Interim Governing Council (IGC), after last-minute disputes involving both Kurdish and Shia
