The Elephant Bar

1,300 Iraqi troops, police dismissed By BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldi...

"In the past five years America has suffered 4,000 combat deaths and spent the astronomical sum of $3 trillion trying to get post-Sadda...

The Iraqi government should be able to handle this. They should also know that now that it has started, it needs to be finished. The indepen...

> ...American criticism of Britain's desire to pull back in southern Iraq has recently become public, with a US intelligence official...

Lt-Gen Raymond Odierno, the US deputy commander in Iraq, says Shia militants were responsible for 73 per cent of the attacks that killed or...

Well, they actually do not, but they sure do help. They are a remarkable means of communication with civlilian and military application, but...