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Juan Cole

Iraq
200 Guerrillas Attack Mosul Police

200 Guerrillas Attack Mosul Police

Juan Cole

200 Guerrillas Attack Mosul Police Truck Bombing Kills 45 (Chlorine?} Zebari rejects Pakistani Troops I don’t know if it was all hell, but a good deal of hell, a generous dollop of hell, broke loose in Iraq on Wednesday. Police found thirty bodies in the streets of Baghdad yesterday. I think we would all be […]

Iraq
Brief History Of Islamic State Of Iraq

Brief History Of Islamic State Of Iraq

Juan Cole

A Brief History of the Islamic State of Iraq The USG Open Source Center translates a history of the Islamic State of Iraq posted to a jihadi internet site. ‘ Forum Participant Posts Analysis, History, Objectives of Islamic State of IraqJihadist Websites — OSC SummaryTuesday, May 15, 2007 Terrorism: Forum Participant Posts Analysis, History, Objectives […]

Uncategorized
New Template Whenever I Have Changed My

New Template Whenever I Have Changed My

Juan Cole

New Template Whenever I have changed my template it has been traumatic for some readers, and I deeply apologize. Some are complaining about the font size being too small. I will try to fix that. But, in this day and age you don’t need me to fix it for you. In I.E. go to “view” […]

Iraq
Mahdi Army Police Fight In Nasiriyah

Mahdi Army Police Fight In Nasiriyah

Juan Cole

Mahdi Army, Police Fight in Nasiriyah Fallon said to Oppose Iran Strike Serious fighting broke out Wednesday morning in the southern Shiite city of Nasiriyah, between local police and the miltiamen of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army. Most local police forces are heavily infiltrated by the Badr Corps of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, so that […]

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Wolfie Soprano Paul Wolfowitz Pleaded

Wolfie Soprano Paul Wolfowitz Pleaded

Juan Cole

Wolfie Soprano Paul Wolfowitz pleaded his case before the executive board of the World Bank on Tuesday. The Bush administration continued to try to keep him in office. Why? Why try so hard? It is clear that Wolfowitz does not have the confidence of his staff, and could not possibly hope to be an effective […]

Iraq
Jordanian Dailies On Cheney Visit

Jordanian Dailies On Cheney Visit

Juan Cole

Jordanian Dailies on Cheney Visit Condemn Iran “Madness” The USG Open Source Center paraphrases the Jordanian newspapers on Cheney’s visit to Amman and talks with King Abdullah II. Note the insistence that the Arabs don’t want a conflict with Iran, contrary to what the American Right keeps suggesting. ‘ Jordan: Dailies on Cheney-King Talks, Jordan’s […]

al-Qaeda
Lawrence Wrights Play My Trip To Al

Lawrence Wrights Play My Trip To Al

Juan Cole

Lawrence Wright’s Play “My Trip to Al-Qaeda” Don’t Miss the Special Engagement of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Lawrence Wright’s My Trip To Al-Qaeda ——————————————————————————– May 10, 2007 MY TRIP TO AL-QAEDA ENCORE Following a sold-out seven-week run at our Mercer Street theater and the recent announcement of Mr. Wright’s Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and […]

Iraq
Abdullah Ii To Cheney Israeli

Abdullah Ii To Cheney Israeli

Juan Cole

Abdullah II to Cheney: Israeli-Palestinian Problem Linked to Iraq 5 US GIs Killed Massive Manhunt for 3 Captured GIs Sunni Arab guerrillas killed 5 US soldiers on Monday, and Shiite militiamen in the south killed a Danish soldier and wounded 5 others with a roadside bomb. Steve Clemons meditates on the death of Lt. Andrew […]

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Cole On Laffaire Wolfowitz My Column

Cole On Laffaire Wolfowitz My Column

Juan Cole

Cole on L’Affaire Wolfowitz My column, “Wolfowitz’s Fatal Flaw,” is available at Salon.com. Excerpt: ‘ The small morality play unfolding at the World Bank tells us something significant about how the United States became bogged down in the Iraq quagmire when Wolfowitz was highly influential at the Department of Defense. The simple fact is that […]

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