Tom Squitieri, the reporter-turned-KRG flack, giving the commencement address at Indiana University in Pennsylvania, 2003 Photo: TomSquitieri.com
A spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Washington is an ex-USA Today reporter who resigned under pressure amid accusations of plagiarism, DCBureau has learned. The reporter, Tom Squitieri, once covered the Iraqi Kurds, who now pay him $8,000 a month as a registered agent of the KRG.
Continue reading Disgraced USA Today Reporter Makes Comeback as the Kurds’ DC Flack
Last December the Defense Health Board, a federal advisory committee for the Pentagon, reviewed the medical assessment performed by the Army’s Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (CHPPM) at Qarmat Ali and concluded that it was “timely, comprehensive and appropriate.” But according to medical experts on sodium dichromate, CHPPM used inadequate testing methods and reached tenuous conclusions about the level of chemical exposure at the water treatment facility.
Too Little, Too Late
Continue reading The Army’s Suspicious Science
 In late August 2003, medical testing of KBR employees at Qarmat Ali found elevated levels of total chromium in their blood. Total chromium is comprised of trivalent chromium—an essential and naturally occurring nutrient—and hexavalent chromium, the cancer-causing industrial component of sodium dichromate. In order to adequately determine if its workers were poisoned by sodium dichromate, KBR needed to separate out hexavalent chromium from the blood tests—a difficult and time-consuming process that usually requires a special laboratory.
Continue reading TOO BIG TO FAIL: The KBR-AIG Dream Team
Samir Sumaida’ie, Iraq’s Ambassador to the United States, is a revolutionary.
A decade ago, Sumaida’ie was an integral part of the diverse cadre of Iraqi dissidents who, from their perches in London, Washington, and Iraqi Kurdistan, provided impetus for the coup-by-proxy that would become one of the largest foreign policy blunders in modern American history.
Continue reading Baghdad’s Ambassador Confronts a Fragmented Iraq in the Washington Front of the War
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