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Juan Cole

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Iranian Editorial Iraq Must Heed Al

Iranian Editorial Iraq Must Heed Al

Juan Cole

Iranian Editorial: ‘Iraq must heed Al-Sistani to avoid US “conspiracy”‘ Editorial of Iranian Newspaper Jomhuri-yi Islami, 4 Oct. 05, via BBC World Monitoring for Oct. 5 05: Iranian paper says Iraq must heed Al-Sistani to avoid US “conspiracy” SOURCE: Jomhuri-ye Eslami, Tehran, in Persian 4 Oct 05 p 1 Text of unattributed editorial: “Iraq is […]

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36 Dead Nearly 100 Wounded In Hilla

36 Dead Nearly 100 Wounded In Hilla

Juan Cole

36 Dead, Nearly 100 Wounded in Hilla Mosque Attack Cheney: ‘Get Used to It’ A guerrilla detonated his bomb amidst a Shiite mosque in Hilla on Wednesday, at the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan and during a mourning ceremony for a local man killed by guerrillas on Monday. The bomber killed 36 persons […]

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Parliament Reverses Referendum Rule

Parliament Reverses Referendum Rule

Juan Cole

Parliament Reverses Referendum Rule The United Nations has succeeded in convincing the Iraqi parliament to reverse itself. The interim constitution provides that if any three provinces reject the constitution by a 2/3s margin,it fails. (Iraq has 18 provinces). Sunni Arabs have been mobilizing to shoot it down in Anbar, Salah al-Din and Ninevah provinces, where […]

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5 Us Troops Killed In Sweep Of West

5 Us Troops Killed In Sweep Of West

Juan Cole

5 US Troops Killed in Sweep of West Sunnis threaten Boycott on new Constitution Five US soldiers have been killed by bombings and a sniper since Monday, in the course of a US sweep of western border towns. About 1250 Iraqi troops and 1250 American troops have attacked the towns, which had been bases for […]

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Rosh Hashanah And Ramadan I Wont Get

Rosh Hashanah And Ramadan I Wont Get

Juan Cole

Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan I won’t get a chance to say this all together again for a while, so L’Shana Tova and Ramadan Mubarak!

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Sunni Arabs Enraged At Law On 3

Sunni Arabs Enraged At Law On 3

Juan Cole

Sunni Arabs Enraged at Law on 3-Province Veto UN Begins Distributing Constitution The Sunni Arabs of Iraq have for some time had a sneaking suspicion that the Shiites and the Kurds whom the Americans had installed in power in Iraq intended to marginalize and humiliate them. In case they were still in any doubt, the […]

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Iraq Press Roundup Tom Engelhardt

Iraq Press Roundup Tom Engelhardt

Juan Cole

Iraq Press Roundup Tom Engelhardt writes about “Withdrawal Symptoms”— the increasing urge of Americans to get out of Iraq and the arguments for it. Jesse Jackson is eloquent on the need to rebuild America first. (I have often said that Bush is willing to spend over a billion dollars a week in Iraq, but just […]

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Ammar Al Hakim Iranian Influence Over

Ammar Al Hakim Iranian Influence Over

Juan Cole

Ammar al-Hakim: Iranian Influence Over-Stated Admits Iraqi Government has Performed Poorly From Al-Sharq al-Awsat (“The Middle East”), London: An Interview by Ma`d al-Fayyad with Ammar al-Hakim, the son of the powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (leader of the United Iraqi Alliance in Parliament). Translation courtesy the Foreign Broadcast Information Service of the US […]

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Welsh In Maysan Anything But Quiet

Welsh In Maysan Anything But Quiet

Juan Cole

The Welsh in Maysan: Anything but Quiet This article from last week was published obscurely but it is eloquent about the claim that the “problem” of insecurity is “only in four provinces.” Solidly Shiite Maysan, inhabited to a large extent by displaced Marsh Arabs, would be on no one’s list of the top security problems […]

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