Juan Cole

“A String of attacks that will continue and become stronger” The failure of the Bush administration to take the threat of Bin Laden and Zawahiri seriously and to capture them continues to leave Americans and others at risk. British authorities have arrested 21 members of a terror cell, apparently British-born or British-bred persons of Pakistani […]

More Bodies Found in Shiyah Rubble Hizbullah Kills 15 Israeli Troops Hizbullah Accepts Leb. Gov. Plan Shaikh Hasan Nasrallah, Secretary General of the Hizbullah Party, made a long videotaped statement released on Wednesday. Nasrallah said he approved of the plan passed by the Lebanese cabinet headed by PM Fouad Siniora, to send 15,000 Lebanese troops […]

Najaf Bombed 60 Percent of Voters Oppose War. Dozens of police were wounded and some may have been killed by a suicide bombing in the holy city of Najaf. Najaf has the shrine of Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, and if anything ever happened to it, all hell would break loose. […]

Cheney for Lieberman With Apologies to John Donne Lieberman’s selfishness in risking splitting the Democratic vote by running as an independent is breathtaking. He has proved that he is not a Democrat. He thinks he is an island, but no one is. And, when your most prominent defender is Dick Cheney, you’re not only not […]

Ghaziyah, Shiyah, Bombed, with civilian CasualitiesIsraeli Civilians Shelled, Evacuated from North The Israeli air force hit civilians at Ghaziyah in the south on Monday, killing 14. When the victims’ families and friends held a funeral procession on Tuesday, the Israelis hit them again, killing 6 more innocent civilians. (This terror tactic, where you kill people […]

Maliki/US Military Rift over Bombing Sadr City 33 Dead in Iraq bombings, Assassinations Al-Hayat writes: A series of bombings shook Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 24 Iraqis. AP is reporting Iraq-wide deaths at 33, with twice that number wounded. Reuters has details of the violence, which including bombings at Shurja Market and a bank […]

Lieberman’s Defeat It is very important that Joe Lieberman was defeated in the Democratic primary in Connecticut on Tuesday, for the following reasons. First of all, the man was brain dead on the Iraq issue. He seems seriously to have believed that the violence in Iraq only affected a third of the country (he appears […]

An Open Country for Civil Resistance FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2006 Lebanon: An Open Country for Civil Resistance www.lebanonsolidarity.org This is the first press release for the Campaign of Resistance, a coalition of over 200 Lebanese NGOs andcivic organizations. We, the people of Lebanon, call upon the local and international community to join a […]

Bush, Islamic Fascism and the Christians of Jounieh Bush is on vacation, his favorite place to be during a major crisis. The August retreat is the only open admission he makes that Cheney and Rumsfeld are actually running the country, and he just doesn’t need to be in his office. The only difference between his […]