Mustafa Qadri

After a decade-long hunt, Osama bin Laden has been killed. But the grievances and poverty that give rise to terrorism remain, writes Middle East correspondent Mustafa Qadri No individual has influenced the course of US military strategy more over the last 10 years than Osama bin Laden. In an age of increasingly narrow ideologies, Osama has been [...]

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So we have, at present, between 800,000 and 1.3 million “excess deaths” as we approach the six-year anniversary of this war.

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Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said that suicide bombings that have rocked Iraq are a sign that fighters are afraid the Iraqi government is succeeding in restoring security… “I think in Iraq there will always be political conflicts, there will always be, as in any society, sides drawn between different factions, but [...]

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But in its ruling, the Tribunal said: “We have decided that the public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of the formal minutes of two Cabinet meetings at which ministers decided to commit forces to military action in Iraq did not… outweigh the public interest in disclosure.” The Tribunal said its decision to rule in such [...]

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Although the pact has experienced pockets of resistance, many Iraqis say the victory of US President-elect Barack Obama was a factor because of his promise to withdraw troops within 16 months of taking office.

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And you think that Sarah Palin is woefully ill-prepared to be president? When Bush is a two-term president?

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