{mosimage}There was hope of the capital city of Iraq, Baghdad, there were several reports regarding improvement of situation in the city. The police were also thinking of removing roadblocks from certain parts of Baghdad to allow smooth movement from one place to another for people. However, this has changed suddenly when there has been another incident of car bomb explosion in the city. There are reports that there was one car bomb that exploded in the Shia dominated part of the market killing ... Read More

On September 18, 2001, exactly one week after the fall of the World Trade Center, the United States of America came to the grips of another scare, this time from an entity so small it can never be seen without the aid of a microscope. It came in the form of a deadly bacteria strain known as anthrax. What is anthrax? As stated above, anthrax is a strain of bacteria commonly found in ruminant animals. It is not contagious and ... Read More

The Internet and the media are rife with conspiracy theories on what really happened during the September 11 terrorist attacks. Among the more popular bodies of evidence being bandied about by the conspiracy theorists pointing to a possible cover-up or engineering by the US government has something to do with the amount of damage sustained by the Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks. We will all remember that one of the four planes hijacked by the 19 terrorists supposedly deployed by ... Read More

Suicide bombings and bombings against the coalition troops continued in Iraq, there were news of bombings in different places in the country. A female suicide bomber entered a crowd of 200 police recruits and detonated a bomb. The bomb killed 14 persons and injured several others. This happened in the Muqtadiyah city which is some 60 miles to the northeast of Baghdad. There were also attacks on the coalition soldiers. There were reports of three soldiers killed when a roadside bomb detonated in ... Read More

There have been reports of yet another suicide attack in Ramadi, the town happened to be one of the peaceful towns in Iraq. There are also reports that the attacks were basically targeted to the checkpoint at Ramadi. The suicide attack was through a truck, due to this attack the number of people killed is 35 and there are 50 people injured. The truck was driven to the checkpoint and the bomb was detonated later, this resulted in heavy destruction. Most of the ... Read More

Tanks spearheaded the Ninth Army when the Roer River drive was started; a battle of armor developed, and ... German tanks met their master By Ed Wilcox, Warweek staff writer The lessons ... Several important things were learned in this armored engagement. First, it helped convince Nazi commanders they are no match for our armor. Ninth Army tankmen, who know their business, say that in the future German panzer units will be used even more cautiously and sparingly than in the past. The ... Read More

There was news of a U.S. Helicopter being shot down near Latifiya in Iraq. However, the number of casualties is not yet known. There are also questions whether the helicopter exploded or was only damaged. Eyewitnesses say that 'the helicopter was shot, moved right and left and landed down very hard, there was no explosion heard'.   It is being considered that the militants used anti-aircraft guns to fire at the helicopter. This incident has spurred fears that the militants have studied the flight ... Read More