Archives for July 2009

This message was received by email from Tehran three hours ago. I have anonymized it and made a couple of orthographical corrections and am passing it on for what it is worth. – JC And on the thirteenth day Michael Jackson died. Voice of America and BBC Persian are back up, if intermittently, and we […]

The casualty toll in the Kirkuk bombing on Tuesday has risen to 33, with about 100 injured. Four US troops were killed in Iraq on Tuesday, as well, though the circumstances are still murky. The Iraqi civil wars kicked off by the American invasion of 2003 continue. I’m sure a lot of observers think it […]