More Bombs And Minor Mutiny Did They

Juan Cole 10/16/2004

More Bombs, and a Minor Mutiny

Did they or didn’t they? Contradictory reports fly about the apparent mutiny of some troops in Iraq. Apparently they were ordered to take a convoy north with no air cover, and thought this was a very bad idea.

Violence continued in Iraq on Friday, with a spectacular car bomb detonated in Baghdad. Plus, the US heavily bombarded Fallujah on Friday, the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page