October 25th, 2011 at 4:35PM
There’s a Tumblr in this. Something along the lines of: DictatorsPlayingWithGuns. Probably already exists. Image: Saddam Hussein practiced launching a rocket-propelled grenade during the Iraq-Iran war. INA/Reuters via New York Times.

There’s a Tumblr in this. Something along the lines of: DictatorsPlayingWithGuns.

Probably already exists.

Image: Saddam Hussein practiced launching a rocket-propelled grenade during the Iraq-Iran war. INA/Reuters via New York Times.

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May 25th, 2009 at 9:32PM
Iraqi grain farmers have been told that water to their fields will be cut due to ongoing drought. — BBC

Iraqi grain farmers have been told that water to their fields will be cut due to ongoing drought. — BBC

#iraq#drought
April 10th, 2009 at 5:12PM
Iraq: Deadliest attack in year kills five US soldiers A suicide truck bomb packed with a ton of explosives detonated near an Iraqi police headquarters in Mosul Friday, killing five US soldiers and two Iraqi policemen in the deadliest attack on American forces in more than a year. — Christian Science Monitor

Iraq: Deadliest attack in year kills five US soldiers

A suicide truck bomb packed with a ton of explosives detonated near an Iraqi police headquarters in Mosul Friday, killing five US soldiers and two Iraqi policemen in the deadliest attack on American forces in more than a year. — Christian Science Monitor

#iraq#attack#death
April 9th, 2009 at 8:53PM
Returning troops getting tested for brain injuries Every soldier who’s gone to war in the past year paused before leaving to take a brain test - basic math, matching numbers and symbols and identifying patterns to measure response time and accuracy. Now that some of these troops have returned, they’re taking a fresh round of tests, all part of a broad effort by the military to better treat head injuries. — AP

Returning troops getting tested for brain injuries

Every soldier who’s gone to war in the past year paused before leaving to take a brain test - basic math, matching numbers and symbols and identifying patterns to measure response time and accuracy. Now that some of these troops have returned, they’re taking a fresh round of tests, all part of a broad effort by the military to better treat head injuries. — AP

#brain injury#iraq
January 31st, 2009 at 3:06PM
Pointing to a New Era, U.S. Pulls Back as Iraqis Vote Iraqis across the country voted Saturday in provincial elections that will help shape their future, but regardless of the outcome it is clear that the Americans are already drifting offstage — and that most Iraqis are ready to see them go. The signs of mutual disengagement are everywhere. In the days leading up to the elections, it was possible to drive safely from near the Turkish border in the north to Baghdad and on south to Basra, just a few miles from the Persian Gulf — without seeing an American convoy. In the Green Zone — once host to the American occupation government, and now the seat of the Iraqi government — the primary PX is set to close, and the Americans have retreated to their vast, garrisoned new embassy compound. Iraqi soldiers now handle all Green Zone checkpoints. — NY Times

Pointing to a New Era, U.S. Pulls Back as Iraqis Vote

Iraqis across the country voted Saturday in provincial elections that will help shape their future, but regardless of the outcome it is clear that the Americans are already drifting offstage — and that most Iraqis are ready to see them go.

The signs of mutual disengagement are everywhere. In the days leading up to the elections, it was possible to drive safely from near the Turkish border in the north to Baghdad and on south to Basra, just a few miles from the Persian Gulf — without seeing an American convoy. In the Green Zone — once host to the American occupation government, and now the seat of the Iraqi government — the primary PX is set to close, and the Americans have retreated to their vast, garrisoned new embassy compound. Iraqi soldiers now handle all Green Zone checkpoints. — NY Times

#iraq#elections
December 15th, 2008 at 1:29PM
This is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog!… This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq! — Muntader al-Zaidi, 29, an Iraqi television correspondent, upon throwing his black dress shoes at President Bush during a press conference in Baghdad.
#iraq#bush#shoes
November 21st, 2008 at 8:09PM
More than 10,000 Iraqis, mostly supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, gathered in Baghdad’s Firdos Square on Friday to protest the security agreement with the United States that Parliament is scheduled to vote on on Monday. — Protests in Baghdad on U.S. Pact , New York Times.
#baghdad#moktada al-sadr#iraq#security
November 16th, 2008 at 12:51PM
We have always said this is not a perfect solution for the Iraqi side and it is not a perfect solution for the American side. But it is a procedure which was forced by circumstances and necessity. This is the time after the progress in the security situation to transfer the security file to the Iraqi side, step by step. — Iraqi government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, after the Iraqi cabinet approved a security agreement that sets conditions for the United States’ presence until 2011.
#iraq#security agreement
November 16th, 2008 at 12:45PM
My brother took my hand and we ran. And I had a feeling then that life was precious… Thank God that I cannot see because my friends had such a bad time after that. I tried to comfort them, but they could not forget because they had seen the man with the gun. — Ahmed Abdul Rasool, an 18-year-old blind student in Baghdad, recalling how a gunman began shooting while he played outside.
#baghdad#iraq
November 15th, 2008 at 5:54PM
I repeat my demand to the occupier to leave our land without keeping bases or signing agreements. If they keep bases, then I would support honorable resistance. — Iraqi Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr on ongoing negotiations on a security agreement between the United States and the Iraqi government.
#iraq#sadr#security agreement
November 10th, 2008 at 9:34AM
I rushed to the site and saw several girl students trapped in a bus and screaming for help. We took the girls outside the bus and rushed them to the hospitals. — An Iraqi witness to a triple bombing that killed dozens in Baghdad.
#iraq#bombings#war
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:32PM
I cannot believe what happened. Who can plant a bomb in this fortified area in the presence of police patrols? — Policeman at the scene of a bombing in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior’s criminal investigations unit in Baghdad.
#iraq#bagdhad#bombing
October 11th, 2008 at 7:25PM
…either convert to Islam or pay the jizyah or leave the city or face death. — Leaflets distributed in predominately Christian neighborhoods in Mosul, Iraq.
#iraq#war
September 17th, 2008 at 3:08PM
It is like they are living with a red dot on their head. With the quietness of the Predator, you never knew when a Hellfire [missile] would come through your window. — A former US military official on new surveillance technologies being used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan that are believed to be able to see through building walls.
#military,#counter intelligence#iraq#afghanistan#pakistan
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:00AM
The state cannot accept the Awakening.Their days are numbered. — Iraqi Parliamentarian Sheik Jalaladeen al-Sagheer on the government’s arrests of US backed Sunni leaders of the Awakening movement.
#iraq#shia#sunni#awakening