Iraq
Avert a humanitarian catastrophe Mr President
US President Barack Obama, who is visiting the UK at the moment, will be aware of the urgent humanitarian situation facing 3,400 Iranian pro-democracy supporters in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, who came under deadly attack by Iraqi armed forces last month at the behest of Iran.
By Lord Corbett | Notebook | Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 3:42 pm
Military “Failure” in Helmand and Basra
I’ve had an interesting response to my post on the recent lack of British military success in Afghanistan, which sought to summarise a thesis propounded by Matt Cavanagh, Denis MacShane, Anthony King and Lieutenant General Chris Brown.
Gavin Bailey, lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Dundee University, emailed to say that the buck passing from the [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 15 May 2011 at 9:44 pm
Solving the Ashraf crisis
On the 8th of April a vicious massacre took place in Camp Ashraf, Northern Iraq, home for the past 20 years to more than 3400 Iranian dissidents. Under relentless pressure from the Iranian government, the Iraqi military sent 5 Divisions of heavily armed troops with tanks and armoured vehicles to mow down unarmed men and women in a brutal assault that shocked the civilised world.
By Struan Stevenson MP | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 11 May 2011 at 1:28 pm
Inadequate response to massacre in Iraq
Such international condemnation as there has been of the deadly attack this month carried out by Iraqi forces against a camp housing members of the Iranian opposition leaves two pertinent questions unanswered. First, is the attack a crime against humanity under the principles of international law; and, secondly, have the US authorities turned a deliberate [...]
By Lord Alex Carlile | Notebook | Wednesday, 27 April 2011 at 6:00 am
Crime against humanity at Camp Ashraf
Last week Iraqi forces entered a camp in Iraq housing members of the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI). Thirty three residents were killed and over 300 wounded. Were the US authorities, as it has been suggested, told of the intended attack by the Iraqi Government?
By Lord David Waddington | The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 12 April 2011 at 12:48 pm
Blair: “Libya is less like Iraq and more like Kosovo”
Tony Blair, interviewed in Denmark, gives his clear view on the situation in Libya for the first time (in one short interview with The Times, pay wall, he spoke only of his phone calls to Colonel Gaddafi).
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 5 April 2011 at 10:33 pm
“Obama is Awesome”: the transcript
Can’t seem to update my blog on the “Obama is Awesome” video without losing the embed code.
One of my friends, who took a reasonable view in opposition to British participation in the Iraq invasion, didn’t appreciate it. “A crude caricature of a small portion of the anti-war majority in the US, mixed with some of [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 28 March 2011 at 2:54 pm
“Obama is Awesome”
Thanks to Blair Supporter for finding this fabulous YouTube film entitled “Coworkers Compare Iraq and Libya”. Satirising anti-war arguments against the Iraq war, he asks if she is happy that “Obomber” is attacking a country that has no WMD and innocent civilians will die. She responds: “Obama is awesome.” Or: “Obama is cool and awesome.” [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 26 March 2011 at 10:26 pm
A new Iran policy in the new Middle East
The tide of change engulfing the Muslim world is getting bigger and more pervasive day by day. What has happened in less than six weeks in this region has already made it a historical year as a huge geography used to political and social stagnation has been witness to its biggest changes since the [...]
By Lord Tony Clarke | Notebook | Tuesday, 8 March 2011 at 5:27 pm
Leaning forward, falling over
Jonathan Powell has a good review of Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir, Known and Unknown, in this week’s New Statesman (not online: buy it here). The book adds little to our knowledge, except that in its “wearing” and “relentless” attempt at self-justification, in which “everyone else was to blame for what went wrong”, it confirms Rumsfeld’s responsibility [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 8 March 2011 at 2:26 pm
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