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Strange Death Of Moustapha Akkad

Strange Death Of Moustapha Akkad

Juan Cole

The Strange Death of Moustapha Akkad; Zarqawi and “Halloween” The ironies and dangers of globalization are tragically epitomized in the death last week of Hollywood director Moustapha Akkad at the Radisson SAS in Amman at the hands of an Iraqi suicide bomber. Akkad was there with his daughter to attend a wedding. Akkad was born […]

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Bombing At Green Zone Exodus Of

Bombing At Green Zone Exodus Of

Juan Cole

Bombing at Green Zone; Exodus of Physicians from Capital Guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb outside an entrance to the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad, striking at a convoy of 3 vehicles and killing 2 South African security guards. Three other persons were wounded. In Ramadi, a bomb aimed at a US convoy instead killed 5 […]

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Death And Revenge In Iraq Guerrillas

Death And Revenge In Iraq Guerrillas

Juan Cole

Death and Revenge In Iraq Guerrillas killed two US troops on Sunday and a third died in a jeep accident. Mortar shells fell near the Iranian embassy in downtown Baghdad. A guerrilla bombing in Kirkuk wounded 5 Iraqi soldiers on Sunday. Hannah Allam says that there is some evidence that one of the four suicide […]

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Bush Administration Lie About Iraq

Bush Administration Lie About Iraq

Juan Cole

Bush Administration Lie about Iraq George W. Bush denied on Veteran’s Day that he had manipulated intelligence in order to take the country to war against Iraq. He said that the Democrats in Congress had seen the same evidence he had, and that the Clinton administration had also seen Iraq as a threat. Stephen Hadley, […]

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Sister Of Tawhids Anbar Cell Captured

Sister Of Tawhids Anbar Cell Captured

Juan Cole

Sister of Tawhid’s Anbar Cell Captured in Jordan Bombings Jordanian authorities have captured Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, the wife of suicide bomber Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari, who detonated his belt bomb at the Radisson in Amman. She turns out to be the sister of the Anbar leader of the Monotheism and Holy War (al-Qaeda in […]

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5 Dead In Baghdad Blast Sistani

5 Dead In Baghdad Blast Sistani

Juan Cole

5 Dead in Baghdad Blast Sistani withdraws from Politics The 77 refitted T-72 Soviet-era tanks offered to Iraq by Hungary have finally arrived, at Taji base. The tanks were due in September. But in a larger sense the tanks are years overdue. There can be no effective Iraqi military response to the guerrilla movement without […]

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Omani Embassy Killings Iraqis

Omani Embassy Killings Iraqis

Juan Cole

Omani Embassy Killings Iraqis Suspected in Jordan Bombings First, Secretary of State Condi Rice called Friday for more Arab states to open embassies in Iraq. Then, guerrillas staged a drive-by shooting at the Omani embassy in Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 4 persons. I think we may conclude a) that her visit is being monitored […]

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67 Dead In Iraq Guerrilla Violence

67 Dead In Iraq Guerrilla Violence

Juan Cole

67 Dead in Iraq Guerrilla Violence Oliver Poole of the Telegraph reports that suicide bombers hit a restaurant in Baghdad on Thursday that is a favorite of local police, killing at least 33 persons, mostly civilians. At least as many were wounded. In Tikrit to the north (the home town of Saddam Hussein), another bombing […]

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Al Qaeda In Iraq Claims Jordan

Al Qaeda In Iraq Claims Jordan

Juan Cole

Al-Qaeda in Iraq Claims Jordan Bombings Jordanians held an anti-terrorism demonstration in Amman on Thursday to protest the hotel bombings. The death toll rose to 59. The Times of London reported that “Bashir Nafeh, director of military intelligence chief in the West Bank, was named as being among the dead. He had stopped in Amman […]

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