NPR (blog) | Funding for criminal inquiries of contracting in Iraq may be extended Washington Post Stuart W. Bowen, the head of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, said the agency, known as SIGIR, expects to obtain at least 20 additional convictions and secure up to $100 million in restitution, forfeiture orders and ... US aid spending unlikely to change, despite $8 billion wasted in Iraq US Spent Too Much In Iraq, Got Little In Return, Watchdog Report Says US rebuilding effort in Iraq 'achieved little' |
Iraq rebuilding is an $8 billion bust MSNBC The Washington Post's Rajiv Chadrasekaran said its a “mind-boggling, sobering” report on The Daily Rundown Thursday. “The real question is: what did we get for this? You could argue that in some cases, yes, it bought short-term security. But the ... |
New York Times (blog) | 10 Years After the Invasion of Iraq, a World of Hurt New York Times (blog) The revelation is, in the saddest possible way, the fulfillment of what James Fallows of The Atlantic magazine predicted six months before the March 19, 2003 invasion. In a piece last week taking stock of the real toll of the invasion of Iraq, Mr ... Why the Invasion of Iraq Was the Single Worst Foreign Policy Decision in ... Politics Weekly podcast: Iraq war legacy, Hugo Chávez and 'Cameronomics' Nahlah Ayed: The Iraq invasion 10 years on, was it worth it? |
The Guardian | Donald Rumsfeld must be indicted over Iraq militias The Guardian A Guardian investigation reports that Colonel James Steele, a special forces veteran, was nominated by Rumsfeld to help organise paramilitaries to quell a growing Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Steele reported directly to Rumsfeld. The paramilitary groups ... |
Press TV | El Salvador to Iraq The Guardian The photo of US Col James Steele with your article on the involvement of US covert forces in torture in Iraq awakened chilling memories for me (Report, 7 March). I came across Steele while filming a documentary in El Salvador in 1982. This was at the ... US ran secret torture centers in Iraq: Report From El Salvador to Iraq, the US torture trail Pentagon's link to Iraq torture centers revealed |
The Guardian (blog) | Reconciliation in Iraq is impossible without US truth about its dirty war The Guardian (blog) The investigation by the Guardian and the BBC into direct Pentagon involvement in the systematic torture of Sunni insurgents in Iraq is a bloody reminder of the catastrophe that the 2003 invasion wreaked on the people of Iraq. It also a key reason ... |
The Independent | Iraq 10 years on: from death to dollars - how Kurds struck it rich The Independent But there is no doubting international business enthusiasm for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the semi-independent enclave in northern Iraq that is prospering like no other part of the country. A Kurdish businessman says: “We are benefiting ... UPDATE 2-Iraq parliament passes budget despite Kurdish boycott Parliament approves national budget for Iraq UPDATE 1-Iraq parliament passes budget despite Kurdish boycott |
CBS Local | Local Soldier Reacts To Report That Iraq Wasn't Worth It CBS Local The problems in Iraq have been published in a new report from the U.S. government that says that our intent in Iraq — which was to topple a corrupt government and make the country an independent ally to the US — has failed in a very disappointing way. |
The Independent | Iraq 10 years on: The Shia are in power in Iraq – but not in control The Independent Iraq is the first Arab country to be ruled by a Shia government since Saladin overthrew the Fatimids in Egypt in 1171. But Shia rule is deeply troubled, and Shia leaders have been unable to share power in a stable way that satisfies the Sunni, the ... Iraq: A decade of despair Muqtada al-Sadr Attacks Iraq's Integrity Committee |
U.S. News & World Report (blog) | The Scars of the US War in Iraq U.S. News & World Report (blog) Hard as we Americans might try to forget the failures of our foray into Iraq that began 10 years ago this month, a number of reports making headlines this week are unwelcome but necessary reminders that the episode will likely be viewed as one of the ... |