http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/ AlterNet's War on Iraq News Log en-us http://www.alternet.org/rss/button.gif http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/ AlterNet: War on Iraq 2005-05-17T19:24:14-08:00 2005-05-17T19:29:56-08:00 Some malicious militant must have gotten his hands on a copy of Taliban For Dummies. Not even the humble hair stylist is safe in Iraq today. Since the middle of March, 10 barbers have been... http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/05/003769.html Marla Ruzicka's friends and colleagues are determined not to let her memory die -- nor her work on behalf of innocent victims of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Saturday, May 14 in Washington DC,... http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/05/003719.html If you're anything like the rest of us, you're constantly losing things: car keys, cell phones, bulky bags of cash. That's why it's so easy to understand how U.S. administrators in Iraq could have misplaced... http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/05/003675.html Even terrorists can have bad days. Iraq's chief evildoer, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is reportedly tearing his hair out because his men are complaining about the long hours, low pay and crappy benefits that come with... http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/05/003651.html Crikey. How the heck did this happen? Ahmad Chalabi, onetime Pentagon sweetheart-turned black sheep, has been named deputy prime minister of Iraq, giving him control -- at least temporarily -- of Iraq's vast oil reserves.... http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003619.html Finally. Three months after the election, the political vacuum in Iraq may be nearing an end. Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has finished drawing up his cabinet list and given it to the president, Jalal Talabani,... http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003607.html Attacks by insurgents are on the increase; three months after the election Iraqis still don't have a new government; and the airport road, which leads from Baghdad International Airport into central Baghdad, is still the... http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003573.html Visitors to the website of Marla Ruzicka's nonprofit organization, CIVIC Worldwide, will find a slideshow of arresting photographs of the young activist, some taken days before her death in a car bomb blast in Baghdad.... http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003535.html After a lively three-day battle at the annual Democratic convention in Los Angeles last weekend, 2,000 California Democrats passed a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. The resolution, which was... http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003507.html What's a law-abiding Iraqi citizen to do with his or her leisure nighttime hours? Watch television, of course. According to the Institute of War & Peace Reporting, Iraqis across the country are glued to a... http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2005/04/003498.html