Project leader: Jonathan Taylor Department: Middle East Project start date: 2002 End date: 2010 Other British Museum staff: Irving Finkel Project funded by: The Townley Group and the Andrew Mellon Foundation External partners: Dr Ali Yaseen Al-Juboori,
Jack Straw’s evidence at the Chilcot enquiry into the Iraq war yesterday [21 Jan 2010], and the discussion that it led to of deadlines and resolutions, tells an interesting and important story about the conduct of international relations and the problems
Dagens Arena-ledare 8.4.2010, av Nisha Beshara. Mer i Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike) och Wikileaks, som publicerade den 40 min långa hemligstämplade videon.
Gareth Porter "Under the administration's definition of the concept, combat operations will continue after August 2010, but will be defined as the secondary role of U.S. forces in Iraq. The primary role will be to "advise and assist" Iraqi forces. An offi
20 July 2010 Last updated at 22:44 GMT Iraq inquiry: Ex-MI5 boss says war raised terror threat Baroness Manningham-Buller said the Iraq war "undoubtedly increased" the level of terrorist threat. The invasion of Iraq "substantially" increased the terrorist
Declassified letter sent by the former MI5 director general to John Gieve, permanent secretary at the Home Office, a year before Iraq invasion. In it, she wrote that there was 'no credible evidence' to suggest a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida
Manningham-Buller referred more than once to Sir David Omand, the government's security and intelligence coordinator at the time, who gave evidence to Chilcot earlier this year. MI6 had "over-promised and under-delivered" when it came to Iraq, Omand said.
Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like his mentor Peter Mandelson. Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes. Blair’s will appear next month and earn him £4.6 million. Now consider Britain’s Proceeds of Crime
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Middle Eastern Affairs Colin Kahl and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Michael Corbin presented the administration plan for what they called a "transition from a military to civilian re
BENNIS: I heard one new thing, Paul, and that was President Obama's acknowledgment that this is now a trillion-dollar war in Iraq. Among those 50,000 troops are 4,500 special forces, [that] have two jobs. One is horrifying. They go around the country wit
By Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter October 22, 2010 | 5:35 pm | Categories: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks The secret-spilling website WikiLeaks released almost 400,000 U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War on Friday, marking the largest military leak in
The Frago 242 War Logs, by Tom Burghardt 24 Oct, 2010 Called "Frago 242" reports for "fragmentary orders," the military files summarized thousands of events. When alleged abuse was committed by an Iraqi on another Iraqi, "only an initial report will be
Sam Jones, The Guardian, 26 Oct 2010. "Christian Whiton says whistleblowing website presents serious challenge to national security after leak of Iraq war logs"
The Independent 26 Oct 2010: "We still haven't got to the bottom of the WikiLeaks story, and I rather suspect that there are more than just a few US soldiers involved in this latest revelation. Who knows if it doesn't go close to the top?"