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Juan Cole

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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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Bush Uses Sudan Iran Assets In Iraq Us

Bush Uses Sudan Iran Assets In Iraq Us

Juan Cole

Bush uses Sudan, Iran Assets in Iraq US GIs Killed, Trapped in Bridge Rubble; Al-Mashhadani Dismissed as Speaker; Clashes, Demonstrations in Sadr City Remember all that Bush administration bluster against Sudan? Turns out that the CIA is using Sudanese spies against the Iraqi guerrillas. Bush sees no enemies among the oil states, only opportunities to […]

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Paris Hilton Iraqi Prisoners American

Paris Hilton Iraqi Prisoners American

Juan Cole

Paris Hilton & Iraqi Prisoners American cable news has been fixated on the jailing of socialite Paris Hilton for the past week, on grounds that she twice violated the probation sentence she earlier received for drunk driving. They interrupted coverage of world leaders at the G8. They briefly spliced in Gates’s decision not to reappoint […]

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Nearly 50 Dead Saturday Us Fires On

Nearly 50 Dead Saturday Us Fires On

Juan Cole

Nearly 50 Dead Saturday US Fires on Baquba Mosque Muqtada: Postpone Kirkuk Referendum Police found 24 bodies in Baghdad on Saturday, according to Reuters. 3 soldiers were found shot dead in Kirkuk. A dead policeman was found in the southern Shiite city of Diwaniya. A suicide truck bomber attacked an Iraqi miltiary checkpoint near Iskandariya […]

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Guest Essay Polk On Iraq William R

Guest Essay Polk On Iraq William R

Juan Cole

Guest Essay: Polk on Iraq William R. Polk Fact Sheet on Iraq What is Iraq: Iraq was created by Great Britain at the end of the First World War from three provinces of the defeated Ottoman Empire. While it is common to think of it as still those three parts – the Kurdish Muslims in […]

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More Than 80 Killed Mcclatchy Reviews

More Than 80 Killed Mcclatchy Reviews

Juan Cole

More than 80 Killed Pace not Reappointed Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will not seek the reappointment of Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Gates appears to have feared that Pace’s long involvement in the Iraq War and his relatively subservient attitude to former SecDef Donald Rumsfeld would turn his […]

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Us Troop Death Toll More Than 3500

Us Troop Death Toll More Than 3500

Juan Cole

US Troop Death Toll more than 3500 British Toll at 150 Immigration Law Defeated by Iraq War (!); Muqtada Blames US, Rejects Iranian Influence On Thursday US military spokesmen announced that Iraqi guerrillas had killed another US GI, bringing the troop death toll over 3500. A British soldier was also killed, and three wounded, by […]

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Eighth Front According To Turkish

Eighth Front According To Turkish

Juan Cole

The Eighth Front According to Turkish sources, hundreds of Turkish troops crossed into Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning in hot pursuit of Kurdish terrorists. There was some skepticism about whether this incident actually occurred, and it was both affirmed and denied by various Turkish sources in the course of the day. MSNBC showed footage […]

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Bombs Rip Kadhimiya 4 Us Gis Killed

Bombs Rip Kadhimiya 4 Us Gis Killed

Juan Cole

Bombs Rip Kadhimiya; 4 US GIs Killed; Sunni Guerrillas Announce Truce with Each Other Two coordinated car bombs hit the Shiite Kadhimiya district of north Baghdad on Wednesday. A third bomb was found and disarmed before it could go off. The explosions killed 7 and wounded 27. They took place uncomfortably close to the shrine […]

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