Monthly Archives: August 2005

I am not intentionally ignoring the nearly 800 pilgrims who just died in Baghdad while doing their pilgrimage. However, I’ve been obsessed with Katrina in New Orleans (hell, that’s MY house, after all), and I’ve been distracted from Iraq temporarily. … Continue reading →

Here’s yet another posting on Katrina’s aftermath. Minimal editorializing on my part this time, but I have a lot of interesting accounts to post below: 1) This is an eyewitness account of Katrina’s aftermath by an anonymous friend who stayed … Continue reading →

This is another entire posting devoted to Katrina’s after effects. It’s getting uglier and uglier, and New Orleans appears to be finished for now. While one mustn’t ignore the nearly 800 Iraqis who died today in the bridge stampede, that … Continue reading →

1) Another posting in response to the one I just sent out: I want to let you know that all members of my family evacuated and are safe. Don’t know what will happen next. Several members of my extended family … Continue reading →

Today the entire posting is devoted to what appears to be the demise of my beloved home town, New Orleans. There are some Middle East relevant postings waiting, and they’ll probably come tomorrow. For those New Orleanians on this list, … Continue reading →

1) I discovered last time that I can’t get Arabic text to transmit correctly on Yahoo. However, it did come out OK on the blog. The attachment to this message is another Arabic text that came through my inbox as … Continue reading →

1) The following is a long article on the looting of the Baghdad Museum by Matthew Bogdanos, the US Army officer with a classics MA who oversaw recovery efforts in the spring of 2003. Although I have never met Mr. … Continue reading →

1) Fisk in Iraq I. The death counts quoted in this article attracted some attention last week:http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081705B.shtmlSecrets of the Morgue: Baghdad’s Body Count By Robert Fisk The Independent UKWednesday 17 August 2005 Bodies of 1,100 civilians brought to mortuary in … Continue reading →

1) Looks like folks are watching when we protest, dangerous folks. The person who posted this site is a friend of one of this list’s readers, so take it as an eyewitness account: http://www.mindspring.com/~wpoe/RoveCard.htm 2) I think the people who … Continue reading →

1) Naomi Klein, right on as usual: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1548419,00.html Racism is the terrorists’ greatest recruitment tool The problem in Britain is not too much multiculturalism but too little Naomi Klein Saturday August 13, 2005 The Guardian Hussein Osman, one of the … Continue reading →