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Archive for January 31st, 2007

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Famous Victory, Now with Extra MONEY

Finally catching up with McClatchy’s reporting. According to their report yesterday, “American soldiers confiscated perhaps as much as $10 million in U.S. currency from the compound, where the bodies of dead cultists still littered the ground.”
My emphasis.
This being McClatchy, you get more real detail than you do from pretend news organizations like the NYT or [...]

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Famous Victory, Now with Extra Fame

Patrick Cockburn’s writeup of what we should maybe call the First Whatever of Najaf brings the counternarrative most of us learned from Healing Iraq to a wider audience but adds only one intriguing smidge of news for obsessives:
The Iraqi authorities have sealed the site and are not letting reporters talk to the wounded.
Interesting. The Independent’s [...]