Shane Michael Bauer, Joshua Felix Fattal & Sarah Emily Shourd charged with espionage in Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian judiciary official announced on Monday that three American citizens arrested in July near the country’s border with Iraq for illegal entry to Iranian territory have been charged with espionage.

Four US occupying soldiers ’shot dead in Mosul by ‘Iraqi Police’

At least four US soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter have been shot dead by gunmen wearing Iraqi police uniforms, unconfirmed reports say.
Interior ministry officials said the shooting – which has not been independently verified – took place in the northern city of Mosul.

Muntadar al-Zeidi throws his shoes at the dog name Bush

this is long overdue. the spineless so.called journalist who are the mouthpieces of imperialism should be ashamed of themselves that almost eight years on none of them thought of doing something to this devil dog.

Rafia Abdul-Jabbar arrested in Amarah

BAGHDAD – Iraqi troops on Thursday arrested the top official in Amarah, a Muqtada al-Sadr loyalist, officials said, drawing swift condemnations from followers of the anti-U.S. cleric and raising tensions as a military operation against Shiite militias got under way.
Rafia Abdul-Jabbar, who also was acting deputy governor for Maysan province, was seized from his office Thursday morning along with a member of the provincial council, a local official said.

Sheikhs Ali al-Nida, Abdul Nour Mohammed al-Tahhan & Mohammed Khalil Hamash killed for working with Americans

A bomb on Tuesday killed Sheikh Ali al-Nida, head of the al-Bou Nasir tribe, which includes Hussein’s family, according to an official from Salaheddin province.

The sheikh was traveling from Ouja, Hussein’s hometown, toward Tikrit when an explosive attached to his sport utility vehicle detonated. He and his driver were killed, and two bodyguards were critically wounded.

Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III – another negroe imperialist general

The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III talks during an interview to the Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 22, 2008. Gen. Austin said that he’s optimistic about security gains in Iraq but warns a Shiite militia truce in Baghdad’s Sadr City district is fragile and needs to be reinforced by reconstruction and aid. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed )

American occupiers massacre dozens in Sadr City

The US-led offensive against Shia fighters in Iraq has reached what could be its deadliest point to date. On Tuesday, residents of the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City said a US assault left at least fifty people dead and 130 injured, many of them women and children. A US airstrike was said to have destroyed at least three homes and buried families beneath the rubble.

‘Zimbabwe Worse Than War-Torn Iraq’ – big whitey

we will make no comment on this one, but this is big whitey at his best

DOING business in Zimbabwe is tougher than doing business in Iraq. At least that is what the World Bank says in its 2008 “Doing Business” report.

Bilal Hussein to be released Wednesday by American torturers

BAGHDAD — The U.S. occupiers said Monday they will release Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, more than two years after he was kidnapped by U.S. imperialist Marines on bogus suspicions of links to freedom fighters. The occupiers and torturers said they have determined after two years of torture that Hussein is no threat to them and plan on granting him freedom come Wednesday.

Iraqi shot by British occupier soldier awarded £2 million

By James Macintyre
An Iraqi man … shot by a British occupier soldier has been awarded £2m compensation by the Government in a move which could pave the way for similar claims.