Violence Claims 81 Lives in Baghdad
Mar 27, 2006 The sectarian violence continues unabated. Also, a N.Y. Times reporter returns to Iraq after a year away and immediately sizes up the difference between an anti-U.S. insurgency and a civil war (although he doesn't use that word).
In Full: Statement of Freed Activist
Mar 26, 2006 Two days after being freed from a four-month captivity in Iraq, UK peace activist Norman Kember tries to deflect attention away from himself and onto Iraqis suffering amid the continuing violence.
The Roots of the Iraqi Civil War
Mar 25, 2006 This excellent article from the Boston Review opens with a brutal killing and goes on to stitch together the disparate threads of the sectarian violence now wracking the country.
Judge Pulls Plug on Hussein in Wake of Shouting Match
Mar 16, 2006 In his first formal testimony in his trial, the deposed Iraqi leader called on Iraqis to cease the sectarian violence and join forces against the Americans--while insisting that he is still the rightful leader of Iraq. The judge trying the case, quarreling with Hussein several times during his 40-minute speech, ended by closing the session to the public.Two Grim Assessments of Iraq’s Future
Mar 7, 2006 America's top envoy to Iraq: "The possibility is there" for sectarian violence to lead to civil war and all-out war in the region. A BBC reporter in Baghdad: "It gives me no pleasure today to forecast further doom and gloom here in Iraq. But, as in Iran in 1978, the facts on the street contradict the assertions of the generals, the politicians and the diplomats."
