#iraq-invasion

#iraq-invasion

You destroyed Iraq. I had to wait for my companion, the Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, to translate these words, but the thunderous look on this middle-aged man's face already told its own story. We were standing on Haifa Street, one of Baghdad's main thoroughfares, which runs along the west bank of the Tigris, and he had just been told I was British.

On August 2, 1921, a jury in Chicago acquitted seven former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team of conspiracy charges in the Black Sox scandal.