Juan Cole

Civil War Violence Explodes Throughout Iraq At Least 80 Dead, Dozens Wounded 6 US Troops Killed al-Zaman says that [Ar.] Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has been forced to make alterations in his cabinet only 100 days after its formation by two crises– the lack of fuel and the lack of loyalty. Sources told al-Zaman that […]

Collier: The “Shaped Charge” Bogey Man Military historian and former Green Beret Tom Collier writes: ‘ We have read recently in the press about “sophisticated shaped-charge” mines destroying Coalition vehicles in Iraq. They are described as new, deadly, and coming from Iran. The truth is the shaped-charge effect was discovered in the 19th Century and […]

Achcar Guest Editorial: The Situation in Iraq The Situation in Iraq by Gilbert Achcar [The following excerpt is from the Epilogue to Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, by Noam Chomsky & Gilbert Achcar, edited with a Preface by Stephen R. Shalom, to be published by Paradigm Publishers September 15, 2006, Hardcover […]

Ahmadinejad: We are Not a Threat to Any Country, Including Israel Believe it, don’t believe it, that’s up to you. But at least we should know what exactly he said, which is not something our US newspapers will tell us about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech on Saturday: Kayhan reports that [Pers.] Ahmadinejad said, “Iran is not […]

European Force of 7,000 to be Deployed Israeli Blockade Strangles Lebanon The illegal Israeli blockade of civilian Lebanese ports continues to inflict massive damage on Lebanon and on ordinary Lebanese from all walks of life. The United States more or less supports this strangling of the little country. Illegal Israeli cluster bombs go on harming […]

91.7% of Iraqis Say “US Troops Out” 30 Dead, Dozens Wounded in Civil War Violence On Sunday morning in Iraq, guerrillas deployed a car bomb to blow up the offices of the al-Sabah newspaper in the Waziriyah District of Baghdad, killing at least 2 persons and wounding at least 20. Sabah was originally set up […]

EU to send 7000 Peacekeepers to Lebanon Israeli Cluster Bombs Menace Lebanese Children European nations have pledged 7000 troops to a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon. France will lead the force, and will have 2000 of its own troops on the ground. The Israelis are saying that they won’t end their blockade of Lebanese ports […]

Amara Base Looted as British Withdraw Qadiri Sufi Order Declared Jihad on Americans, Shiites Things did not go well in Iraq on Friday according to WaPo. First, the British withdrew from Camp Abu Naji near Amara. They only gave the Iraqis one day notice. This short notice suggests that the evacuation was done under considerable […]

Republican Congressional Report on Iran Riddled With Errors Here is what the professionals are saying about the Republican-dominated Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy report on Iran that slams US intelligence professionals for poor intelligence on Iran: The report demonstrates that these Republicans have poor intelligence . . . on Iran. What follows is summaries of things […]