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Juan Cole

Iraq
Us Paramilitary Casualties Covered Up

Us Paramilitary Casualties Covered Up

Juan Cole

US Paramilitary Casualties Covered Up Sistani condemns Attacks on Sunni Shrines, Mosques Pakistan Rallies Condemn US Highly paid “security guards” play an essential role in the US war against Iraqi guerrillas. They form a paramilitary, which has inevitably taken great numbers of casualties (they sometimes actually guard US troops!) Turns out that they have been […]

Iraq
Sunni Mosque Demolished Turks Plan

Sunni Mosque Demolished Turks Plan

Juan Cole

Sunni Mosque Demolished Turks Plan Buffer Zone inside Iraq An important, historic Sunni shrine south of Basra was blown up on Friday, raising fears of further Sunni-Shiite sectarian killings and reprisals, according to Alissa Rubin of the NYT. The town of Zubayr near Basra is largely Sunni, though it is situated in the overwhelmingly Shiite […]

Iraq
Khamenei Global Demonstrations Blame Us

Khamenei Global Demonstrations Blame Us

Juan Cole

Khamenei, Global Demonstrations, Blame US Demonstrations in Sadr City, Basra, Kashmir 3 Sunni Mosques Torched Iran’s Supreme Jurisprudent,Ali Khamenei, managed to blame the Iraqi Baath Party, the Wahhabi sect of Islam, the Salafi Jihadi radicals among Sunnis, and the United States, jointly for the blowing up of the minarets at the al-Askariya Shrine in Samarra. […]

Iraq
Samarra Fallout Surge Not Working Sadr

Samarra Fallout Surge Not Working Sadr

Juan Cole

Samarra Fallout Surge not Working The Sadr Bloc in parliament [Sawt al- Iraq in Arabic] is threatening to suspend their participation in legislation in protest against the failure to rebuild and protect the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra. Often the Iraqi parliament, many of whose members live abroad, cannot get a quorum without the Sadrists […]

Iraq
Samarra Shrine Attacked Golden Dome Or

Samarra Shrine Attacked Golden Dome Or

Juan Cole

Samarra Shrine Attacked The Golden Dome or Askariya Shrine in Samarra had its minarets blown up on Wednesday. The shrine is among the holiest in the Shiite world, dedicated to the father and grandfather of the hidden Twelfth Imam. Millenarian Shiites believe that the hidden Imam will one day return to restore the world to […]

Iraq
Fox News Bimbos In Iraq Out Mashhadani

Fox News Bimbos In Iraq Out Mashhadani

Juan Cole

Fox News: Bimbos in, Iraq out Mashhadani to Sue Iran: Captured Diplomats Must not Be Harmed Fox Cable News spent more time than other cable news networks covering Anna Nicole Smith, and spent much less time covering Iraq than the other networks. Gee, back in 2003 they seemed to have a lot about Iraq. I […]

Iraq
Militiant Sufism In Iraq Usg Open

Militiant Sufism In Iraq Usg Open

Juan Cole

Militiant Sufism in Iraq The USG Open Source Center translates an interview with a spokesman for a militant offshoot of the Naqshabandi order in Iraq that fights the US military presence. Naqshbandis are known as a Sunni Sufi order and have been more “orthodox” and tied to legalism than most other mystic brotherhoods. Many Kurds […]

Iraq
Ban Ki Moon Surge Failing Diyala Bridge

Ban Ki Moon Surge Failing Diyala Bridge

Juan Cole

Ban Ki-moon: Surge Failing Diyala Bridge Blown Up Mashhadani not going Quietly UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in his quarterly report on Iraq that the “surge” in Iraq is failing. The file of the original document can be found via this page. Ban writes, ‘ 3. Despite the initial success of stepped-up security measures […]

Iraq
Iranian Media On Iraq Us Usg Open

Iranian Media On Iraq Us Usg Open

Juan Cole

Iranian Media on Iraq & the US The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases reports in the Iranian press last week regarding Iran-Iraq relations and the US presence in Iraq. Iran: Highlights: Iranian Media on Iraqi Developments – – 1- 7 June 2007 Iran — OSC Summary Friday, June 8, 2007 The following are […]

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