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Juan Cole

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World Bank Reaction To Wolfowitz

World Bank Reaction To Wolfowitz

Juan Cole

Ding, Dong, the Witz has Fled The reaction among World Bank employees at the news that Paul Wolfowitz, their president, will resign on June 30: ‘ “Everyone ran into the hallways and were clapping and hugging each other,” one employee, who declined to be named, said. ‘ Bush earlier today complained about journalists dancing on […]

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Bush Admits To Destroying Blairs Career

Bush Admits To Destroying Blairs Career

Juan Cole

Bush Admits to Destroying Blair’s Career I just caught some of the Bush/Blair news conference on the adult version of CNN at noon. At one point, a reporter asked Bush point blank if he was the cause of Tony Blair having to step down as prime minister. Now, when you get a question like that […]

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Template I Give Up

Template I Give Up

Juan Cole

Template I give up. The new templates I tried just weren’t working for large numbers of readers. In particular, webtv and palm users complained. For those who liked the new settings, and there were apparently many, I’d just like to point out that if you use Firefox you can set the font, size, etc. easily […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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