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Good News in Iraq: Jurf al-Sakhar Surrounded and Retaken from ISIS.
November 5, 2014.Jurf al-Sakhar is a city of 80,000 on a line from Baghdad going south-by-southwest toward Karbala. Back in early June an ISIS attack group took the city unopposed. Since then this was...
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ISIS in Iraq: Bandar Bush's Psychos Start Slaughtering Sunni Civilians. 220+...
Didn't you just love it when President George W. Bush walked hand in hand with his favorite Saudi potentate ???That's Prince Abdullah. One unknown is which of them had the sweatier palms....Thing is,...
View ArticleDemocrats didn't vote in 2010 & 2014. Senate, House, Governors. Almost...
Please, a small unobtrusive "CaT" diary.No Martians, no commies at Department of State. Nothing but stat for the CaT. And a worry that Hart InterCivic and other RW investment shops have bought their...
View ArticleBreaking: Iraqi News echoes ISIS announcement that al-Baghdadi has died.
Al-I’tisaam Media has posted this announcement:"We will soon publish details about the killing of the Caliphate Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the nomination of a new Caliphate for the Islamic State."...
View ArticleWe got to see Jon Stewart's "Rosewater" movie last night, plus their...
Helluva premier. Spread out over 200, maybe 250 theaters across the country. "Rosewater" tells the story of Maziar Bahari, an Iranian working for Newsweek who was arrested in Iran while covering the...
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al-Baghdadi: How'd you like them 15 minutes of fame, Big Guy ???
Uh, yeah.In the Age of Twit here's ISIS: “I can report to the Muslims that Amir Al-Momineen Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Hafid hu'allah is alive and well.”That pretty much lets you know he's dead. Here's a pic...
View ArticlePlan for "Surround and Annihilate" at Mosul announced. Kurds estimate ISIS at...
“The true heir to Osama bin Laden (is) ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi... a ruthless battlefield tactician... shrewd strategist...." -- David Ignatius, pumping Perpetual War for the Washington Post on...
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How does Hillary 2016 stack up with Al Gore 2000 ???
Which states does Hillary win in 2016 that Al lost in 2000 ??? This hypothetical puts Jeb Bush up as the GOP nominee.Note that we're starting from the Al Gore map, not an Obama map from either 2008 or...
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Congratulations to Banan Hussein, for her wedding to Badr Raad Mahmoud Nasser
And to the groom and to both extended families.Banan is the granddaughter of Saddam Hussein, daughter of Raghad Saddam Hussein who was born of Saddam's first wife Sajida Talfah. Wedding dress:The...
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If you are at Mosul, Iraq read this flyer:
Despite all the hopes of the Perpetual War Party here and in the Middle East, Mosul is being surrounded with ISF and Coalition troops and artillery. The PWP's favorites, variously called Al Qaeda of...
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#rapistsvote -- Why GOP anti-abortion and pro-rape propaganda carry the same...
Republicans conflate anti-abortion propaganda with pro-rape policies. They make it a whole lot easier to get away with rape in the military and also in civilian life. With no exceptions, the Big GOPers...
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Warthog "Dilgermobile" to Iraq !!
George Bush gave Iraq to Iran.Then he gave $100-billion in military equipment to the Iraqi Army.Who gave $30-billion of it to ISIS.Who transported dozens of ex-President Bush's tanks to Syria. Where...
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Forty Days celebration will bring 20,000,000 to Karbala, Iraq in January....
This is a big deal.The single largest religious gathering on the planet is going off in January, in Iraq, and with ISIS kicked to the curb.You may have missed the diary, here, in November celebrating...
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Remember Rima Fakih ??? The GOPers'"Terrorist in a bikini" now a...
Rima the Magnificent is the # 1 model in the world.She's also the only winner of "Miss U.S.A." (2010) to make something of herself internationally.Marilyn Monroe was a wasp; Arabs got Rima. And yeah,...
View ArticleQuvenzhané in "Annie." What's tougher on Teabaggers: Hushpuppy at 10 or Jamie...
First, one of the big stars of this year's "Annie" is Jamie Foxx's apartment.Based on New York City real estate, this apartment markets around $90,000,000. It's roughly a three bedroom with big living...
View Article"Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl
It's time.Kirsty MacColl has been gone for years. Phil Chevron more recently. A prayer for them, along with the annual nods to Jack and Bobby and now Teddy.This posting would indeed roll up 9,000,000...
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Merry XMAS in MENA: Funny "Death to America Day" in Iran and bad-bad videos...
And that's our allies. The Iranians. The guys who are fighting Islamic State (Is Shyte) ISIS for us.On the street in Tehran: -Hey, who would have guessed that their satellite feed includes Walking Dead...
View ArticleThomas Friedman had Five Principles for fighting ISIS last June. Now, one...
There's no IED explosion on Mr. Friedman's resume. No years spent as a linebacker in the NFL.Still, here's what he wrote under the title "5 Principles for Iraq" in the Sunday Review at NY Times. ISIS...
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"A City on Death Row": al-Jazeera tags Mosul as the Coalition prepares a...
The Coalition working out of Tikrit has retaken a couple hundred villages and towns in northern Iraq. Between human spotters and drones identifying ISIS assets, destruction of ISIS hardware has been...
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The Strange Case of Ms. Gill Rosenberg
Here's Ms. R.:She learned her weapons skills in Canada and with Israeli Defense Force 2006-2008 and now she is over in Kurdistan serving with the one female unit of their Peshmerga army.Jewish. Out...
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