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Sadrist Deputy Health Minister Arrested

Sadrist Deputy Health Minister Arrested

Juan Cole

Sadrist Deputy Health Minister Arrested Day of Carnage with Over 100 killed. AP reports that the Sadrist deputy Health Minister, Hakim al-Zamili, detained on Thursday was handcuffed by US troops accompanying a Special Operations unit of the Iraqi army that was vetted by the US. When the Sadr Movement joined the Shiite coalition, the United […]

Iraq War
Helicopter Crash Killed 7 Us Gis On

Helicopter Crash Killed 7 Us Gis On

Juan Cole

Crash Kills 7 GIs Arab Demonstration in Kirkuk A helicopter crash killed 7 US GIs on Wednesday. AP interviewed an Iraqi farmer in the area who said he heard a missile being fired before the crash, and a radical Muslim group took responsibility. Only an investigation will settle if it was a shoot-down, but the […]

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3 Month Record For Us Troops Killed

3 Month Record For Us Troops Killed

Juan Cole

3 Month Record For US Troops Killed Da’wa Terror Figure Member of Parliament More US troops were killed in the past 3 months in Iraq than in any comparable period since the war began. The kidnapping by guerrillas in Iraqi army uniforms of the second secretary of the Iranian embassy in Baghdad has raised tensions […]

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Republican Senators Block Debate On

Republican Senators Block Debate On

Juan Cole

Republican Senators Block Debate on Iraq al-Hakim in Tehran seeks Regional Cooperation The Republican Party blocked a debate in the Senate over Iraq War policy. The Republicans not so long ago were trying to get rid of the consensus rules, filibuster and other techniques the minority has at its disposal. They are singing a different […]

Iraq War
Is Tokyo Going Wobbly On Iraq Shengetsu

Is Tokyo Going Wobbly On Iraq Shengetsu

Juan Cole

Is Tokyo Going Wobbly on Iraq? The Shengetsu Newsletter follows: ‘ Newsletter No. 508 News-Analysis February 6, 2007 IS TOKYO “GOING WOBBLY” ON IRAQ? Just two weeks after Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma described the US invasion of Iraq “based on an assumption that weapons of mass destruction existed” in Iraq a mistake, comes a new […]

Iraq War
1000 Killed In Iraq In Past Week

1000 Killed In Iraq In Past Week

Juan Cole

1,000 Killed in Iraq in Past Week;Parliamentarians call for Expulsion of Arabs, Iranians The Reuters headline says it all: ‘Iraq: Children living without limbs lack support.’. Al-Hayat [Life] reports in Arabic that a tit for tat debate broke out in the Iraqi parliament on Sunday. Shiite delegates from the United Iraqi Alliance demanded the expulsion […]

Iraq War
Shamss Parody Of Bush Video Clip As

Shamss Parody Of Bush Video Clip As

Juan Cole

Shams’s Parody of Bush: Video Clip as Resistance When I hear Bush and Cheney keep talking about “getting the job done” in Iraq, the thing that most amazes me is that they don’t know they are laughingstocks in the region. It isn’t just that they are widely hated, or distrusted, or viewed as failures. It […]

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Sunni Arab Guerrillas Massacre 155

Sunni Arab Guerrillas Massacre 155

Juan Cole

Sunni Arab Guerrillas Massacre 155 Shiites, Wound 305 Sunni Guerrillas Kill 4 US GIs A Majority of Americans Wants Troops out within Year The US military announced on Saturday the killing of 4 more US GIs. A fifth died of a heart attack. Sunni Arab guerrillas drove a truck packed with a ton of explosives […]

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Realists In Us Tone Down Iran

Realists In Us Tone Down Iran

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Realists in US Tone Down Iran Accusations; Baquba Dean Executed in Public Two US GIs were announced killed in al-Anbar Province on Friday. Police found 23 bodies in Baghdad. Iraqi authorities made several arrests, in the small southeastern Shiite city of Kut, of members of a messianic cult that attacked the holy city of Najaf […]

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