Najaf

Source: forums.cgsociety.org --- 31 days ago
Forum: 3D Stills Posted By: omidseraj Post Time: 06-07-2008 at 09:48 AM ...

Source: www.upi.com --- 46 days ago
Najaf, Iraq, May 22 (UPI) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the holy city of Najaf to brief him on developments in the country. ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 47 days ago
Baghdad - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki traveled to the southern city of Najaf on Thursday to meet Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported, citing local officials. The talks come a... ...

Source: www.cato.org --- 52 days ago
One aspect of private military and security contractors that is relatively ignored is their relationship with regular military forces. Such discussion, as there is, is generally limited to sound bites about the reported envy that soldiers have for allegedly better paid ...

Source: www.alsumaria.tv --- 43 days ago
After clashes in Najaf City in summer 2004 between Iraqi and US Forces on one hand and Mehdi Army on the other hand, local forces took over security from US Forces in December 2006. Now secure, Najaf City is seeking support to reconstruct and redevelop the province. Following meeting with US ... ...

Source: reviews.media-culture.org.au --- 31 days ago
Reviewed by Elizabeth Emanuel It is a story we've heard before - fearing for his life, a refugee seeks asylum in Australia, is 'vetted' by the rigorous system enforced enthusiastically by the Immigration Department, attains residency then citizenship, is eventually reunited with his family and makes good. But Najaf Mazari's memoir, The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif , begs the question , have we really been listening ? ...

Source: dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com --- 27 days ago
"NBC Nightly News" anchor and managing editor Brian Williams has arrived in Afghanistan. Williams will anchor and report live from the region starting today and continuing for the next several days. For security reasons, NBC News is not announcing any details of the travel schedule within the country in advance, except to say that he'll be spending time with U.S. forces engaged in the fight against the Taliban. Veteran NBC News correspondent and Tel Aviv bureau chief Martin Fletcher is accompanying Williams on the trip. Fletcher and his team arrived in Afghanistan a few days earlier to begin their reporting. In addition to reporting for "NBC Nightly News," reports from Afghanistan will air on "Today," MSNBC, and msnbc.com. Also on msnbc.com, Williams and the producers traveling with him will blog on the Daily Nightly throughout the trip. Williams has made four trips to Iraq during the current war. During his first trip early on in the U.S. invasion effort, Williams was traveling with the U.S. Army south of Najaf when his Chinook helicopter was forced down due to enemy fire. His traveling team was rescued and surrounded protectively by an Army armored mechanized platoon and was able to fly out to safety days later. Williams later became the first NBC News correspondent to reach Baghdad during the invasion and he also covered the Iraqi elections in March 2007. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 44 days ago
AFP - Iraq's holiest Shiite city of Najaf had a blunt message for visiting US Ambassador Ryan Crocker -- your arms are not welcome here, but your alms certainly are. ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 44 days ago
Najaf, Iraq, May 24 -- U.S. officials on Saturday launched local reconstruction teams at two sites in the southern provinces of Karbala and Najaf, saying they intend to take advantage of security gains by repairing the region's ailing infrastructure and boosting economic development. ...

Source: uk.reuters.com --- 45 days ago
Najaf, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq praised Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday for cracking down on Shi'ite militias and Sunni Arab militants and said al Qaeda in Iraq had never been closer to defeat. ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 19 days ago
Robert Kaplan is a throw-back to the late nineteenth century imperialists who believed in the inherent right of the United States to dominate the lesser breeds and believed that the manly art of war is good for civilization. In Imperial Grunts he talked without a trace of irony about the glory of U.S. soldiers taking up "the white man's burden". Kaplan formed a one-man cheering section in late 2002 for the Bush project to take over Iraq and use its military bases to dominate the rest of the region. He confidently assured his readers that setting up a new government would be no big problem once the United States military was in control of the country. "Our goal in Iraq," he wrote, "should be a transitional secular dictatorship that unites the merchant classes across sectarian lines and may in time, after the rebuilding of institutions and the economy, lead to a democratic alternative." That political insight ranks alongside Paul Wolfowitz's belief that Iraqi Shiites wouldn't mind foreign troops occupying Najaf and Karbala, because he didn't think Iraq had any holy cities like Saudi Arabia. Kaplan is also a political attack dog for the imperialist right on Iraq. In his latest column he admonishes Obama that must change his stance on troop withdrawal from Iraq or face serious political consequences this fall. He suggests that Obama will become Iran's candidate if he does not accept the Bush administration position that the United Sta ...

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com --- 23 days ago
Najaf, Iraq : In a fresh blow to Iraq's embattled political process, hardline Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's group said on Sunday it will boycott October elections which Washington sees as critical to stabilising the country. ...

Source: www.post-gazette.com --- 37 days ago
Najaf, Iraq When the revered head of Iraq's largest Shiite opposition group was assassinated in 1999, the mantle of leadership passed to an unexpected heir: Muqtada al-Sadr, then a 25-year-old ... ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 44 days ago
Najaf, Iraq, May 24 -- U.S. officials on Saturday launched local reconstruction teams at two sites in the southern provinces of Karbala and Najaf, saying they intend to take advantage of security gains by repairing the region's ailing infrastructure ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 23 days ago
Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's followers won't field candidates under their movement's banner in upcoming provincial elections but will back sympathetic independents and candidates from other party lists, a spokesman said Sunday. The decision is part of a bid by the populist cleric to avoid a government campaign against the Sadrist brand, including efforts to prevent parties that operate militias from fielding candidates. Al-Sadr runs the biggest Shiite militia - the Mahdi Army. "We are not boycotting the provincial elections," said Sheik Salah al-Obeidi, a senior al-Sadr aide in the holy city of Najaf. "We will participate but not in a clear list for Sadrists. We will support independent figures and people whom we find suitable." Al-Obeidi also said any Sadrists who want to run in the elections would join other lists and represent the movement on an individual basis. The move is part of a shift in strategy by al-Sadr since a spring crackdown on his followers in Baghdad and southern Iraq. ...

Source: clipmarks.com --- 35 days ago
clipped by: papananook clipper's remarks: Not long after that, the President "launched" what an evidently bewildered Sanchez politely describes as "a kind of confused pep talk regarding both Fallujah and our upcoming southern campaign [against the Mahdi Army]." Here then is that "pep talk." While you read it, try to imagine anything like it coming out of the mouth of any other American president, or anything not like it coming out of the mouth of any evil enemy leader in the films of the President's -- and my -- childhood: "'Kick ass!' [Bush] said, echoing Colin Powell's tough talk. 'If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can't send that message. It's an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal. "There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevai Clip Source: www.smirkingchimp.com According to Sanchez, Powell was talking tough that day: "We've got to smash somebody's ass quickly," the general reports him saying. "There has to be a total victory somewhere. We must have a brute demonstration of power." (And indeed, by the end of April, parts of Fallujah would be in ruins, as, by August, would expanses of the oldest parts of the holy Shiite city of Najaf. Sadr himself ...