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Juan Cole

Iraq War
Senate Republicans Defeat Iraq

Senate Republicans Defeat Iraq

Juan Cole

Senate Republicans Defeat Iraq Withdrawal Timetable; 5 US Troops Killed 5 US GIs were announced killed on Thursday. Militiamen or guerrillas killed 4 with a bomb as they were returning from Sadr City (Shiite East Baghdad). Another had been killed on Wednesday by Sunni Arab guerrillas in al-Anbar Province. Police found 20 bodies in the […]

Iraq War
Clinton Would Keep Troops In Iraq

Clinton Would Keep Troops In Iraq

Juan Cole

Clinton Would Keep Troops in Iraq Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that she would keep some US troops in Iraq to fight al-Qaeda, curb Iranian influence, protect the Kurds and assist the Iraqi military. The elements of this plan will not work or are unnecessary. 1. The Kurds don’t need protecting. Their Peshmerga military, […]

al-Qaeda
4 Us Troops Killed 9 Wounded 1993 Wtc

4 Us Troops Killed 9 Wounded 1993 Wtc

Juan Cole

4 US Troops Killed, 9 Wounded 1993 WTC Attack was al-Qaeda, not Saddam A lot of commentators will note that Khalid Sheikh Muhammad has admitted that he planned out the 9/11 attacks. What they will miss is that he claimed the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as his idea, as well, and as an al-Qaeda […]

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Sunni Arab Member Of Parliament

Sunni Arab Member Of Parliament

Juan Cole

Sunni Arab Member of Parliament Criticizes al-Maliki Government The USG Open Source Center carries a translation of remarks of Khalaf al-Ulayyan, a member of parliament from the Sunni Iraqi Accord Front, made in Amman recently. Al-Ulayyan implies a conspiracy by the al-Maliki government to expel several Sunni Arab members of parliament on the grounds that […]

Iraq War
Ic Parodic News Edition Note To Humor

Ic Parodic News Edition Note To Humor

Juan Cole

IC Parodic News Edition Note to the humor impaired: Satire follows. Item: US petroleum company Halliburton, which received billions of dollars in no-bid contracts from the Bush administration for work in Iraq, is moving its corporate headquarters to Dubai. In other news, Vice President Dick Cheney announced Wednesday that he would be moving the Vice […]

Iraq War
House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi Got

House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi Got

Juan Cole

Hamudi: Iraqi Spies to be Placed in Embassies Abroad AIPAC Boos Pelosi on Iraq Withdrawal Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi got booed at the conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee when she called for a US withdrawal from Iraq. I don’t have a link for it, but some journalists maintained […]

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Democrats Blink On Iran Restriction

Democrats Blink On Iran Restriction

Juan Cole

Democrats Blink on Iran Restriction Khatami Calls on Iran to Allay Western Fears The Democrats are blinking and taking out of proposed legislation a provision that would have forbidden Bush to take military action against Iran without coming to the Congress first (i.e. without acting in accordance with the Constitution). I’m not sure why you […]

Iraq War
More Shiite Pilgrims Hit Iraqi

More Shiite Pilgrims Hit Iraqi

Juan Cole

More Shiite Pilgrims Hit; Iran says it Wants Iraq Stability Iraqi guerrillas killed two US GIs on Sunday. Meanwhile, as some Americans were risking their lives, Bush campaign guru Karl Rove had it sweeter than ever. Not only was he betraying the United States of America by outing a covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame Wilson– […]

Uncategorized
50 Killed In Two Major Sadr City

50 Killed In Two Major Sadr City

Juan Cole

50 Killed in two Major Sadr City Bombings US & Iran Speak at Baghdad Meet Guerrillas detonated two major bombs in Shiite Sadr City (East Baghdad) on Saturday, killing nearly 50 persons and wounding many more. They set off the bombs not very far away from where diplomats from neighboring countries and the US were […]

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