3 US Troops Killed, 16 Wounded 19 Iraqis Dead, 33 Wounded in Muqdadiya Bombing The wire services reported at least 55 killed in political violence in Iraq on Tuesday, with hundreds wounded. Guerrillas detonated a car bomb near Baghdad University in the south of the capital, killing 5 persons and wounding 11. Guerrillas deployed a […]
White And Carapico Re Cole How To Get
White and Carapico re: Cole, “How to Get out of Iraq” My piece in The Nation on “How to Get out of Iraq” is generating some good discussion on an email list to which I subscribe. With their permission, I am sharing below comments of two seasoned observers of the Middle East. Sheila Carapico writes: […]
Tens Of Thousands In Najaf Demand Us
Tens of Thousands in Najaf Demand US Departure from Iraq Tens of thousands of followers of young Shiite nationalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rallied in the Shiite holy city of Najaf south of Baghdad on Monday, protesting the continued presence of US troops in Iraq. They burned US flags and held up posters saying, “America will […]
Turkish Iraqi Kurdish Crisis Over
Turkish/ Iraqi Kurdish Crisis over Barzani Comments All hell has broken loose rhetorically between the politicians in Turkey and those in Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked the president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (IKRG), Massoud Barzani, for Barzani’s comments on April 6 in an interview with the al-Arabiya satellite television […]
My Column John Mccains Iraq Problem Is
Cole in Salon: McCain’s Iraq Problem My column , “John McCain’s Iraq Problem,” is now available at Salon.com. Excerpt: ‘ On Sunday, April 8, Sen. John McCain appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an attempt to do damage control. Pressed on his assertion, in a CNN interview last week, that Gen. David Petraeus goes about […]
How To Get Out Of Iraq My Article How
How to Get out of Iraq I repeat: My article, “How to Get out of Iraq,”, is now out in The Nation. Here is a copy of an email I sent about the piece to a discussion list: Just to clarify in light of . . . comments, I was not proposing an optimistic scenario, […]
10 Us Troops Killed Thousands Of
10 US Troops Killed Thousands of Sadrist Demonstrators Come to Najaf Thousands of followers of young Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converged on Najaf Monday, planning to join rallies against continued US military occupation of Iraq. April 9 is the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to US forces. Although some journalists are writing that […]
64 Dead In Iraq 4 Us Troops Killed
64 Dead in Iraq; 4 US Troops Killed; Bombings in Baghdad, Bodies in Baquba; US vs. Mahdi Army in Diwaniya AP reports that 64 persons were killed or found dead in Iraq on Saturday. Among them were 4 US troops, killed by a roadside bomb near Baquba. 27 bodies were found in Baquba, a mixed […]
Closure Of Sunni Baghdad Satellite
Attack on Sunni Baghdad Satellite Channel Draws Criticism The US Government Open Source Center translated or paraphrased the following report from Sunni fundamentalist party internet sites; Iraq: AMS, Iraqi Islamic Party Condemn Attack on Baghdad ChannelFriday, April 6, 2007 The Iraqi Islamic Party WWW-Text in Arabic — website of the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party, led […]
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