Republican Candidates for Staying the Course; Tal Afar Bombing Kills 25; 60 Bodies found Near Baquba; 190,000 Guns Unaccounted for by Pentagon Republican candidates on Iraq Sunday: “They are making progress, and we are winning on the ground,” said Senator John McCain of Arizona. “We must win. And we will not set a date for […]
Archives for August 2007
Bonapartes Proclamation On Overthrowing
Bonaparte’s Proclamation on Overthrowing the Ottoman Beys of Egypt Just one day until the book is out!. From the Napoleon’s Egypt Blog today, Bonaparte’s June 1798 proclamation to his troops on the rationale for attacking Ottoman Egypt. Main points: 1. The Ottoman-Egyptian Beys (“Mamluks” or slave-soldiers) were favoring British commerce over French. 2. The beys […]
Obama Sticks To His Guns Senator Obama
Obama Sticks to his Guns Senator Obama still can’t see why it is controversial for him to threaten to violate Pakistan’s sovereignty to get at the Arab al-Qaeda in Waziristan. His comments of last week roiled US-Pakistani relations. What he should be saying is that if he had an opportunity to deploy a Predator against […]
Iraqi Sermons On Sunni Withdrawal Saudi
Iraqi Sermons on the Sunni Withdrawal, Saudi Calls for Destruction of Shrines The USG Open Source Center translates select passages from Sunni and Shiite sermons from last Friday in Iraq. Many of the Shiite preachers condemned the recent fatwas of Wahhabi Saudi clerics calling for the destruction of Shiite shrines. (Wahhabi Islam, like radical Protestantism, […]
Hard Of Hearing When It Comes To Saudis
Hard of Hearing when it Comes to the Saudis Iraqslogger discovers that the State Department suddenly can’t hear very well when the Saudi foreign minister starts fulminating against ‘foreign interference’ and ‘Occupation’ in Iraq. Plus: Jonathan Steele thinks it is good news that the petroleum bill has stalled out in the Iraqi parliament. And, Cindy […]
Al Anbar Resident Approval Of Sunni
Al-Anbar Residents approve of Sunni withdrawal Remember all that reporting about “progress” against “al-Qaeda” in al-Anbar Province? But for Sunni Arab Iraqis to hate the foreign Salafi fighters is not strange, and it says nothing about al-Anbar’s relationship to the Shiite government in Baghdad. al-Hayat writing in Arabic reports that its interviewees in al-Anbar wholeheartedly […]
Arc Of Crisis Panel At Yearly Kos Heres
Candidates at Yearly Kos Reactions to Arc of Crisis Panel Alas, although I heard the Democratic candidates for president at Yearly Kos and attended the break-out meeting afterward with Sen. Barack Obama, the controversy over his and Sen. Hillary Clinton’s remarks about Pakistan never came up. So, nothing new to report on that score. Here […]
Pakistani Protests Against Obama
Pakistani Protests against Obama; Clinton leaves Nukes on the Table; Tancredo an Inspiration to the Criminally Insane that They, Too, Could run for President I’m going to hear Senator Barack Obama on Saturday afternoon at the Yearly Kos convention. Will report back on Sunday about his remarks. On Thursday, he said he would not use […]
Shiite Militia Attacks On Us And
Shiite Militia Attacks on US and British Troops;The Kurds and the Kirkuk Crisis Remember that spate of newspaper stories about July seeing the lowest number of US military deaths in Iraq since November? Darrel Plant points out that the stories began before the month was over and before the final tally was even in. It […]
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