Juan Cole

2 US Troops Killed; 42 Shiites Kidnapped; Wedding Bombed in Baghdad; Maliki orders US Troops out of Sadr City Iraqi guerrillas killed two US GIs on Monday, bringing the one-month death toll for October to 103. Sunni Arab guerrillas near Tikrit north of Baghdad set up checkpoints, stopped minivans, and asked the passengers if they […]

Kaufmann: Iraq Partition Fait Accompli Chaim Kaufmann writes ‘ Juan, your piece in Salon objecting to a possible partition of Iraq is factually right about virtually everything — but addresses the wrong question: The issue is no longer whether to partition Iraq, but whether anyone can stop Iraq from partitioning itself. In the North a […]

Saudis Warn against Partition Day of Rage leaves 83 Dead Another US GI was reported killed on Monday. That brings the total about 101 in October. My article in Salon.com on what a bad idea partitioning Iraq would be has been published on the Web. Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Turki al-Faisal warned […]

Sadr City Bombing on Monday Kills 29, wounds 60 At Least 83 Killed Sunday In Basra, Bombers target Police Sunni Arab guerrillas killed a US Marine on Sunday, bringing to 100 the death toll for US troops in Iraq during the month of October. It is one of the deadliest months since the war began. […]

Goldberg and Jarvis Fold; And, The Real Meaning of ‘Fools Rush In’ I don’t take any pleasure in having been right about Iraq when they were wrong, or that they are they now are admitting it. I wish we could have avoided so much bloodshed and horror in Iraq, for our own troops and for […]

Marine Dies of Wounds 11 Iraqi Soldiers Kidnapped, 35 Killed in New Wave of Violence Reuters reports that a US Marine died Friday from wounds inflicted by guerrillas in al-Anbar Province. At least 2,803 GIs have been killed in Iraq, some 97 of them in October–making it among the costliest in US life since the […]

At least 56 Killed in Sunni Arab Heartland; Sadrists and the Problem of Shiite Militias in the South The Sunnis Sunni Arab Iraq saw significance violence and tension on Friday, especially in Khan Bani Saad near Baquba and in Mosul and Ramadi. In Khan Bani Saad, Diyala Province, a guerrilla force attacked a police unit. […]

War Support Among Evangelicals Collapses Bush Incompetence Said to Delay Second Coming In the past 30 days, support for the Iraq War among white evangelicals has fallen from 70 percent to 58 percent. These numbers matter because evangelicals are a quarter of the people who actually bother to vote, and 78 percent of them voted […]

Maliki Condemns US for Raid Wednesday’s dramatic events in Iraq began with a US military raid into Sadr City, the vast Shiite slum full of followers of nationalist young cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The soldiers said that they were looking for a suspected death squad leader. The Americans were attacked by Mahdi Army militiamen, and they […]