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Blast Kills 6 7 Wounds Dozens At

Blast Kills 6 7 Wounds Dozens At

Juan Cole

Blast Kills 6-7, wounds dozens at Baghdad Hotel Two cars full of explosives raced toward the Baghdad Hotel early Sunday in Baghdad. The hotel, where many Westerners stay, was protected by security barriers, and Iraqi guards fired at the cars, killing the drivers and setting off the explosives some distance from the hotel itself. Between […]

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Masoud Barzani Confirms That Interim

Masoud Barzani Confirms That Interim

Juan Cole

Masoud Barzani confirms that the Interim Governing Council’s Consensus is against Turkish Troops Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democracy Party and prominent member of the American-appointed Interim Governing Council in Iraq, told an audience in Kuwait on Saturday that a consensus exists among the Iraqi people that troops from neighboring countries, including Turkey, should […]

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Mahdis Birthday Celebrated By 1 Million

Mahdis Birthday Celebrated By 1 Million

Juan Cole

Mahdi’s Birthday Celebrated by 1 Million Shiites in Iraq; Muqtada promises shadow government Hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million and a half Shiite worshippers crowded into the shrine city of Karbala on Saturday, to begin commemorating the birth of the Twelfth Imam (in the Western calendar it was 2 August 869 AD). The Polish commander […]

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Iraqi Hospitals Still Not Functional Us

Iraqi Hospitals Still Not Functional Us

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Iraqi Hospitals still not Functional US spokesmen keep insisting that Iraq’s over 200 major hospitals are back to functioning normally. This statement is manifestly not true, given what reporters have revealed of the situation on the ground. For another such report, see the report of the BBC’s Martin Asser: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/ hi/world/middle_east/3184326.stm

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Us Destroying Orchards Of Uncooperative

Us Destroying Orchards Of Uncooperative

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US Destroying Orchards of the Uncooperative Patrick Cockburn of the Guardian says that US troops are tearing up orchards belonging to clans that they believe are being uncooperative in the hunt for the Baath remnants. He calls this a form of collective punishment. (Collective punishment is strictly forbidden to Occupying Powers under the Fourth Geneva […]

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Rush Limbaugh And Pat Robertson Both

Rush Limbaugh And Pat Robertson Both

Juan Cole

Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson Both far rightwing commentators Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson have been in the news this weekend. Limbaugh, of course, is going into rehab to try to kick his addiction to prescription painkillers. Robertson agreed with the sentiment that the US State Department should be “nuked.” I think Limbaugh’s addiction problems […]

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Veiling And Male Cousins Noted

Veiling And Male Cousins Noted

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Veiling and Male Cousins Noted ignoramus Stanley Kurtz, an India anthropologist who wrote his dissertation on a psychoanalytic theory of Hindu mother goddesses and who knows nothing about the Middle East, has delivered himself of the theory that “veiling” protects male cousins of Muslim women from the competition of outsiders seeking their hands in marriage. […]

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Baghdad Most Dangerous City In World

Baghdad Most Dangerous City In World

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“Baghdad Most Dangerous City in the World” “We’ve had people Killed on our Front Lawn” David Enders, a recent U-M graduate, has been trying to run an English-language newspaper in Baghdad, but has run into severe problems of financing and of security. The Detroit Free Press says: “The news magazine hired an armed guard for […]

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Lame Pr Letters Supposedly From Us

Lame Pr Letters Supposedly From Us

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Lame PR Letters supposedly from US Soldiers Backfire on Bush Administration LEDYARD KING GANNETT NEWS SERVICE The Olympian Online WASHINGTON — Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country as U.S. public opinion on the mission sours. And all the letters are the same. A Gannett […]

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