Iraq

NOVANEWS A policeman in Baghdad knows the bomb detector he uses is fake, and will do vir tually nothing to save anyone's life, but he has his orders. "If I were given a mop and told that it detects bombs in cars, I would still do it without any hesitation," he told AFP, asking not to be identified. "The device is a 100 percent failure and we know that, but it is imposed on us; we cannot disobey direct orders," he added. James McCormick, a British businessman, made an estimated $ 240 million selling the "bomb detectors," based on a novelty golf ball finder, to Iraq and other countries. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail for fraud. But despite the sentencing and overwhelming evidence that the devices are worthless, the I raqi government has not taken them out of circulation. Relyin...

NOVANEWS Though receiving little international attention, the situation is putting Iraq on verge of "total collapse" by Jon Queally “It is wrong to say [Iraq is] getting close to a civil war... The civil war has already started.” That's what one Iraqi politician tells the Independent's Patrick Cockburn as the British foreign correspondent explores the undercurrents of growing violence and political conflict in the country still reeling and destabilized from more than a decade of war and an entire generation beset by Western sanctions, military intervention, and occupation. If things in Iraq continue to deteriorate, the politician predicts the results "will be worse than Syria." April in Iraq was the most deadly month in more than five years and many Iraqi politicians inside the countr...

NOVANEWS   Ongoing surge in violence shows an Iraq still torn by US war.   by Jacob Chamberlain At least 460 people died in sectarian and political violence in Iraq during the month of April, Agence France-Presse reports on Wednesday, documenting yet another surge in violence in a country still reeling from years of war and conflict brought on by the U.S. led invasion a decade ago. The AFP figures were released on May 1, a day on which another 15 people were killed in a series of bomb blasts across Iraq, police and medics said—showing the upsurge in violence was sadly undeterred by the start of a new month. The majority of April deaths occurred after April 23, "when security forces moved on Sunni anti-government protesters near the northern Sunni Arab town of Hawijah, sparki...

NOVANEWS iransview.com To understand Iran’s real stance toward the issue of the Holocaust, it is worth reviewing President Mahmoud Ahmadienjad’s remarks. In an interview with NBC NEWS’s Brian Williams on Sept 19, 2006, Ahmadinejad raised three questions about the Holocaust: 1) In the Second World War, over 60 million people (at least 50 million civilians) lost their lives. They were all human beings. Why is it that only a select group of those who were killed have become so prominent and important? 2) If this event (Holocaust) happened, and if it is a historical event, then we should allow everyone to research it and study it. The more research and studies are done, the more we can become aware of the realities that happened. We still leave open to further studies absolute knowledge of s...