In April 2002, 17 American prisoners of war (POWs) and 37 of their family members brought an action in federal district court in Washington, D.C., against the Republic of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqi Intelligence Service for torture the POWs alleged they endured in 1991, following their capture during Operation Desert Storm. This action was the first in which prisoners of war sued a sove...

This study investigates the tone of political candidates’ election coverage in the evening newscasts of four Iraqi satellite television channels: Iraqia (state-run), Furat (Shiite), Hurria (Kurdish), and Baghdad (Sunni) for the 14 days leading up to the 7 of March 2010 Iraqi general election. Iraq is believed to have a new liberal and plural media that emerged after 2003 which is different from...

İngiltere emperyalist bir güç olarak yükselmeye başladığı andan itibaren Kürtlerle ilgilenmeye başlamıştır. Orta Doğu’da kazandıkça Kürtlere yönelik ilgi de gittikçe artmıştır. Birinci Dünya Savaşı sonrasında Osmanlı topraklarının paylaşılması sırasında Kürtlerden faydalanmaya karar vermiştir. Mondros Mütarekesi Doğu Anadolu’da Ermenistan kurulması için harekete geçmiştir. kendi kontrolündeki I...

A merica has an image problem. Only 1 percent of people surveyed in June 2003 in Jordan or the Palestinian Authority expressed a favorable opinion of the United States. Favorability ratings elsewhere in the Middle East were almost all below 30 percent. Osama bin Laden was among the top three leaders most often trusted to “do the right thing” by survey respondents in Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, ...

Truth claims in political discourse are implicated in a dialogic process whereby political actors "assimilate, rework, and re-accentuate" prior discourse (Bakhtin 1986:89). While political actors themselves may view truth as an object to be discovered, I argue that discourse analysts are best served by viewing truth as an emergent property of this dialogic process. In this paper, I examine how ...

T wo recent failures of the U.S. intelligence system have led to the creation of high-level investigative commissions. The failure to prevent the terrorist attacks of 9/11 prompted the creation of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (2004), hereafter called the 9/11 Commission, and the mistaken belief that Saddam Hussein had retained weapons of mass destruction p...

A 50-year-old man was referred for consultation because of disrupted sleep. He complained of a 10-year history of nonrestorative sleep, loud snoring, and a history of “restless leg syndrome.” Ten years previously he developed symptoms of depression. His physician prescribed fluoxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) agent. His symptoms of depression improved, however he subsequ...

Initially construed as the vital link between Saddam Husayn’s Iraq and al-Qaida in runup to war, Ansar al-Islam (AI) group formed Iraqi Kurdistan December 2001 has been subject of intense debate huge media coverage. In academic research, however, its history, evolution affiliation have received surprisingly little scrutiny. Commonly depicted an affiliated or a sub-group controlled by al-Qaida’s...