On February 24, 1991, U.S. soldiers began an assault against Iraqi soldiers along a 10-mile-wide stretch of border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, a seemingly impervious boundary that was laced with barbed wire, dangerous minefields, and fortified trenches. When reporters reached the area the day after the attack, not a single Iraqi body was to…
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Desperate search for missing radioactive material in Iraq prompts ISIS dirty bomb fears
A newly uncovered report reveals authorities in Iraq are on a desperate hunt for “highly dangerous” radioactive materials that went missing from a storage facility in the southern city of Basra several weeks ago. The material, stored in a container the size of a laptop, was last seen in possession of a Houston-based oil industry…
U.S. Suspiciously Silent about Iraqi Abuses
The United States has been very vocal in its condemnations of Middle Eastern countries who use aggressive tactics on their protestors. When Iran cracked down on citizens the White House “strongly condemned the Iranian government’s organized intimidation campaign and arrests of political figures, human rights defenders, political activists, student leaders, journalists, and bloggers.†When Iraq…