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Juan Cole

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Clergy Of Najaf To Mahdi Army Go Fight

Clergy Of Najaf To Mahdi Army Go Fight

Juan Cole

Clergy of Najaf to Mahdi Army: Go fight outside the City ash-Sharq al-Awsat: The clerics of the Najaf seminaries have called upon the Army of the Mahdi to go fight the Americans outside the city if they must, so as to avoid the spilling of innocent blood. They called on the militia to pursue peaceful […]

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Mortar Shells Kill 8 In Mosul Things

Mortar Shells Kill 8 In Mosul Things

Juan Cole

Mortar Shells Kill 8 in Mosul Things are so bad in Iraq, and so many people have been killed lately, that what would once have been my headline for today was barely picked up by the wire services. ash-Sharq al-Awsat says that guerrillas in Mosul accidentally launched their mortar shells into a civilian crowd, when […]

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Negotiations Over Muqtada Al Sadr Al

Negotiations Over Muqtada Al Sadr Al

Juan Cole

Negotiations over Muqtada al-Sadr al-Hayat: The Iranian delegation to Najaf is continuing its attempts to calm the situation, despite the assassination in Baghdad of the Iranian cultural attache, Khalil Na`imi. The Iranian delegation left for Najaf on Thursday to meet with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. It has decided not to meet with Muqtada al-Sadr after […]

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Bluster And Begging Duality Of Us

Bluster And Begging Duality Of Us

Juan Cole

Bluster and Begging: The Duality of US Foreign Policy in the Middle East The Bush administration requested Syria’s participation in “calming the situation” in Iraq. Bashar al-Asad received letters from Bush and Colin Powell concerning bilateral relations and Iraq. al-Hayat: At the same time, Gen. Myers insisted that foreign fighters continued to infiltrate from Syria […]

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Salon

Salon

Juan Cole

Salon.com Article on Fallujah My piece on Fallujah and its connection to the Palestine issue is online at Salon.com. Readers interested in this angle will also benefit from Tom Engelhardt’s “The American Legacy in Iraq at Tomdispatch.com. See also the always essential Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo for the important point that the US has […]

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Lone On How To Fix It Salim Lones Op Ed

Lone On How To Fix It Salim Lones Op Ed

Juan Cole

Lone on How to Fix It Salim Lone’s op-ed in the Toronto Globe and Mail gives an experienced UN hand’s view of the unfolding disaster in Iraq. He was communications director in Baghdad for Sergio Vieira de Mello before the bombing last summer. His point is an interesting one, now that so many Democratic politicians […]

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Brahimi Plan Unveiled Full Text Of

Brahimi Plan Unveiled Full Text Of

Juan Cole

Brahimi Plan unveiled The full text of the Brahimi plan is at the UN Observer. Here are the main points: ‘ 2. Let me emphasise from the outset that in this political process in Iraq, the elections scheduled to take place in January 2005 are the most important milestone. There is no substitute for the […]

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Muqtada Agrees To Dissolve Militia May

Muqtada Agrees To Dissolve Militia May

Juan Cole

Muqtada Agrees to Dissolve Militia, May go into temporary exile in Iran az-Zaman reports that Muqtada al-Sadr has accepted a solution of the problems between him and the Coalition on the basis of a deal. It would provide for the senior ayatollahs to issue a ruling or fatwa dissolving the Army of the Mahdi, Muqtada’s […]

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Muqtada Will Negotiate Without

Muqtada Will Negotiate Without

Juan Cole

Muqtada Will Negotiate without Preconditions: Iran Involved Reuters is reporting that radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ceased demanding a US pullback from Najaf as a precondition for negotiating. He gave in under enormous pressure from the senior Shiite establishment in Najaf, which wants to avert a US invasion of the city a la Fallujah. […]

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