Our mission in Iraq is personal, say RAF crews
Aircrews flying combat missions over northern Iraq feel their task is “personal” because a British aid worker who was beheaded by Islamic State militants had once served in the RAF, sources said. David Haines spent 12 years as an RAF engineer before he later became an aid worker helping people in war zones to rebuild their lives. The 44-year-old was…
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Qa'eda prisoners 'had inside help'
Al Qa'eda prisoners who escaped from a jail in Basra last week had high-level government connections and were helped by insiders from a corrupt Iraqi intelligence unit, investigators believe. The 12 detainees, including leading members of the Islamic State of Iraq, an Al Qa'eda affiliate, walked out of a high security government compound on Friday, …
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Iraq Is Bleeding Every Day
Iraq enters 2011 – the year in which American forces are supposed to finally leave – with all too many wounds from our occupation. While we hear little here in the US about the effects of our war and occupation, Iraqis live with the results daily. Take for example, the continuing level of violence. Western media keep reminding us that the casualty count is …
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My husband is being tortured in Baghdad jail
A woman from north-west London has asked David Cameron to help her husband who she claims has suffered months of torture in an Iraqi prison.Rabiha al-Qassab, 63, who lives in Kilburn, said she worries “every minute of every day” about her husband Ramzi Shehab Ahmad, 68, who is being held without trial in Baghdad. She claims that he has been suffocated, give…
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Iraqi History: For Whom the Bell Tolls
It can only be described as astonishing, the fact that to explain away the failure of the US/UK occupation of Iraq, some people have sunk to a new depth and sought to exonerate themselves by placing the burden of responsibility upon the shoulders of Gertrude Bell. It is often said, that people can talk bad words of the dead because they are not here to defe…
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