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Truck explosion in Baghdad kills 95

By Moustafa Youssef

The Iraqi military released a video of a Ba’ath party loyalist confessing to coordinating a truck bomb that killed 95 people in Baghdad last week. Wissam Ali Kadhem, a former police chief, also noted that $10,000 was paid in bribes to checkpoint security staff to reach the finance ministry where the blast occured. The tape [...]

Unembedded: An interview with Scott Taylor

By Erica Butler

 
 
Scott Taylor’s new book, Unembedded (Douglas & McIntyre, year), is a memoir of Taylor’s life as a soldier and journalist covering Canada’s military.  In a CKDU news/Halifax Media Coop interview, Taylor shares his perspective as an unembedded war reporter in Afghanistan and Iraq, and recounts the trials and tribulations of his magazine, Esprit de Corps, [...]