Report Showed 18.8% of Insurgent Fighters in Iraq Were From East Libya
In December 2007, the Combating Terror Center at West Point released analysis of a report that examined the places insurgent fighters in Iraq were coming from. The report, which was limited to the location of Sinjar, Iraq, a border city with Syria near Mosul, pointed out that 18.8% of foreign fighters were from Libya. More [...]
U.S. Must Consider Arab-Kurdish Issues During Drawdown in Iraq
A longstanding, critical factor to the American drawdown in Iraq is the historical ethnic tension between the Kurds and Arabs of Iraq. The Kurds in Iraq are concentrated in the northern part of the country, constituting between 15%-20% of the total population, and they also have a significant presence in Turkey, Iran and Syria, being [...]
President Fails to Highlight OIF Successes In Speech – WHAT?!
With the country tuning in to watch the president announce the official conclusion of Operation Iraqi Freedom, it was odd, dissatisfying and bewildering not to hear a specific highlighting of the war’s many success stories. From schools to hospitals, prisons to roads and oil to diplomacy, hundreds of personal, professional and international success stories remain [...]
