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Juan Cole

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Sistani Fatwa On Insurgency Trans

Sistani Fatwa On Insurgency Trans

Juan Cole

Sistani Fatwa on Insurgency trans. J. Cole from Sistani.org Question: You know the cruel methods that the Occupation Forces are employing in the continuing clashes for several days in areas of Baghdad and in several provinces in the west, center and south–which have led so far to the deaths of numerous victims among civilians. Likewise, […]

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12 Us Troops Killed At Ramadi Over 24

12 Us Troops Killed At Ramadi Over 24

Juan Cole

12 US Troops Killed at Ramadi; Over 24 Wounded; 3 Killed at Kadhimiyah US troops died at the hands of Sunni Arab guerrillas at Ramadi on Tuesday, but also at the hands of radical Shiites in Kadhimiya, a suburb of Baghdad that is the site of the tomb of the 7th Imam. A two-front struggle […]

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Second Front Multi City Sadrist

Second Front Multi City Sadrist

Juan Cole

The Second Front: Multi-City Sadrist Uprising Continues The difficulty the United States and its allies are having in regaining control of the major cities of the Shiite south is breathtaking in its implications. There is little doubt that they can prevail eventually in a military sense. But if the Sadrist uprising were a minor affair […]

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Iran Factor There Has Been Great Deal

Iran Factor There Has Been Great Deal

Juan Cole

The Iran factor There has been a great deal of speculation about possible Iranian connections to the Shiite resistance to US occupation in Iraq. The connection is not straightforward. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Najaf is originally from a town near Mashhad in eastern Iran, but has been in Iraq since 1952, much longer than […]

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Mahdi Army Fights Coalition In Baghdad

Mahdi Army Fights Coalition In Baghdad

Juan Cole

Mahdi Army Fights Coalition in Baghdad, Karbala, Basra: Takes control of Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf wire services report that there was more violence on Monday in Baghad. A contingent of the Army of the Mahdi clashed with a US patrol in al-Showla. US helicopters strafed the militiamen and the headquarters of Muqtada al-Sadr. […]

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Muqtada Proud To Be Outlaw Al Hairi

Muqtada Proud To Be Outlaw Al Hairi

Juan Cole

Muqtada: Proud to be an Outlaw; Al-Ha’iri: Americans are making War on the Shiites Ash-Sharq al-Awsat: According to Shaikh Qais al-Khazali, the leader of the Army of the Mahdi in Baghdad, Muqtada al-Sadr was delighted to be called an “outlaw” by US civil administrator Paul Bremer. He attributed to Sadr these words: “If Bremer means […]

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Bush White House Deadlocked Over Iraq I

Bush White House Deadlocked Over Iraq I

Juan Cole

Bush White House Deadlocked over Iraq I saw Senators Biden and Lugar on the Lehrer Newshour on Monday, and I think Senator Biden intimated an explanation for some of what is happening in Iraq. He said he thought there might be a power stuggle between the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and Colin Powell’s […]

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Nearly 3 Million Iraqis Sunni And

Nearly 3 Million Iraqis Sunni And

Juan Cole

Nearly 3 Million Iraqis, Sunni and Shiite, Approve of attacks on Americans An opinion poll taken in late February showed that 10 % of Iraq’s Shiites say attacks on US troops are “acceptable.” But 30% of Sunni Arabs say such attacks are acceptable, and fully 70% of Anbar province approves of attacking Americans. (Anbar is […]

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Transcript Of Cole Interview On Npr

Transcript Of Cole Interview On Npr

Juan Cole

Transcript of Cole Interview on NPR: Muqtada al-Sadr You can listen to my interview Monday on All Things Considered online now.

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