We welcome three outstanding blogs – Living with Caucasians, a blog covering goings-on in Georgia, Slugger O’Toole and the Broom of Anger – two excellent Northern Irish newsbloggers. If you didn’t read this – you wouldn’t know that the “Police Fund IRA spies” story has been debunked. And you do now.
Read More Damn good blogs“On Dec. 6, according to a union spokesperson interviewed by phone, a convoy of 10 Humvees and personnel carriers descended on the old headquarters building of the Transport and Communications Workers union, in Baghdad’s central bus station, which has been used since June as the office of the Iraqi Workers Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU).…
Read More Christ! This is what Building Democracy looks like..Watching the 10 O’clock News and then (as yer do when you’re a politics addict) Newsnight last night I was shocked – really! – by the BBC’s performance. It was as if Conservatives on heat had invaded TV Centre and declared a coup d’etat. Where did they get the idea of illustrating the pre-budget report…
Read More BBC drop a bollock over the Pre-Budget ReportIraq Spy Service Planned by U.S. To Stem Attacks (washingtonpost.com) So, not only does Iraq now have a police force, a border patrol force, a civil defence brigade, a new army, the “facility protection service”, and a special paramilitary militia, but she will soon be blessed with a new-old internal secret service. Not surprisingly, “……
Read More CIA to form new Iraqi secret service