elbelle

For anyone who has spent time in the Middle East, this article contains a hilarious combination of common experience (paying taxis, unclear directions) and…  well… I guess the result of sending a theater beat writer to the exotic east.

Reuters reports that Izzat al-Douri, fugitive head of Saddam’s Baath party has called for Sunni insurgents to form "national, political or supreme leadership council to include all armed and unarmed resistance powers". The article claims that the move “suggesting a possible shift away from armed struggle”. Would that that were true. One facet of Middle [...]

About a month, UNESCO smacked the US and Poland for the damage that has occurred over the last six years due to a military base being located in the ancient city of Babylon. Given the total cost of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan in capital and lives, it may seem that throwing a hissy fit [...]

Yesterday the British government launched Iraq Inquiry committee, just as the last troops were pulled back to Kuwait by today in compliance with the British-Iraqi SOFA, charged with” …considering the UK’s involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken, to establish, as accurately as possible, what happened and to identify the [...]

Hey all. By way of quick introduction, I’m el-belle, a student of Middle Eastern security studies and opposition parties. Spencer has kindly given me a much upgraded soapbox for the next few days as a change from my normal blogging home at http://phoenix-of-athena.blogspot.com/ . I can be reached at phoenixofathena at gmail dot com if [...]