Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
"US forces fired on a civilian car in Tikrit, killing a three-year old boy and wounding six women and children as well as their male driver, Iraqi police and relatives have said," Reuters writes in story dated today, March 28. "Police said US soldiers based in Saddam Hussein's hometown, 175 km north of Baghdad, shot at the family's red car in the town last night."
"Soldiers headed for Iraq are still buying their own body armor -- and in many cases, their families are buying it for them -- despite assurances from the military that the gear will be in hand before they're in harm's way," the AP writes in a March 26 story. "Body armor distributors have received steady inquiries from soldiers and families about purchasing the gear, which can cost several thousand dollars. Though the military has advised them not to rely on third-party suppliers, many soldiers say they want it before they deploy."
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"Britain's special representative to Iraq has admitted the coalition forces 'misanalysed' the situation in the country both before and during the war," the BBC writes in a story from Friday. "In a BBC interview Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who ends his role on Saturday, also warned there would be no easy route to lasting peace in Iraq."
"The United States will transfer power in Iraq to a hand-picked prime minister, abandoning plans for an expansion of the current 25-member governing council, according to coalition officials in Baghdad," Jonathan Steele writes in a story published in yesterday's Guardian.
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"U.S. officials are moving rapidly to create a civilian-run Iraqi Defense Ministry that will work in tandem with the American military after the handover of Iraqi sovereignty on June 30 and could form the nucleus of a strategic alliance between the two countries," Sewell Chan writes in today's Washington Post.
You don't say.
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"The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, with less than 100 days left running the country, set up a $6 million commission to regulate the news media, a senior coalition officials said on Saturday," the AP writes. "The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission, whose nine members will be appointed by the U.S.-run Coalition Provisional Authority in consultation with the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, will organize telecommunications and broadcast operators and devise codes of conduct, the coalition official said during a briefing at which the official demanded anonymity." posted by micah holmquist at 3/28/2004 07:59:00 AM
