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Continued Attacks On Us Troops Wound

Continued Attacks On Us Troops Wound

Juan Cole

Continued Attacks on US Troops Wound Iraqis Instead Guerrillas set off a roadside bomb in Khalidiya on Friday, damaging US military vehicles; no injuries were suffered by our troops. Guerrillas in Baghdad threw a hand grenade at US army vehicles near the al-Karma Hotel, wounding five Iraqis. No US troops were hurt. Guerrillas in Tikrit […]

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Iran May Send Reconstruction Aid To

Iran May Send Reconstruction Aid To

Juan Cole

Iran may Send Reconstruction Aid to Iraq The US continues to be schizophrenic on the issue of Iran. The State Department appears to have reached out to the Iranians for help with reconstructing Iraq, and may get it, according to Robin Wright of the Los Angeles Times. At the same time, the Pentagon is being […]

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Iyad Alawi Takes Over Presidency Of Igc

Iyad Alawi Takes Over Presidency Of Igc

Juan Cole

Iyad Alawi takes over Presidency of IGC Iyad Alawi became president of the Interim Governing Council on October 1, in accordance with a compromise that lets each of 9 IGC members take one-month rotations as leaders. Alawi, b. 1945, was trained as a physician (a neurologist) at Baghdad University and practiced in the UK He […]

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Wesley Clark Calls For Criminal

Wesley Clark Calls For Criminal

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Wesley Clark Calls for Criminal Investigation of Bush Iraq policy Presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark said Friday he believes the Bush administration should be investigated for possible criminal wrongdoing in the case it made to the American people that Iraq was an immediate threat, according to the Telegraph. He said an independent counsel should look […]

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Land Ruled By Chaos Goldenberg Suzanne

Land Ruled By Chaos Goldenberg Suzanne

Juan Cole

“A Land Ruled by Chaos” – Goldenberg Suzanne Goldenberg’s long account of her recent journey to Iraq in The Guardian sounds an awful lot more like the Iraq visible in Arabic-speaking journalists’ accounts than the recent fluff pieces by non-Arabists like Max Boot and Patrick Clawson. Some quotes: “Iraq under the US-led occupation is a […]

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References Clark Bush Should Face

References Clark Bush Should Face

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References “Clark: Bush Should Face Inquiry” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main. jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/04/wclark04. xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/10/04/ixportaltop.html Robin Wright and Maggie Farley, “US Tries,” http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/ complete/la-fg-chalabi3oct03,1,1966418. story?coll=la-iraq-complete Robin Wright, “Iran May Assist” http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/ la-fg-usiran4oct04-1,1,6759673.story? coll=la-home-headlines Goldenberg, “A Land Ruled by Chaos” http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/ Story/0,2763,1055766,00.html

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4 Us Soldiers Wounded In Iraq Two Us

4 Us Soldiers Wounded In Iraq Two Us

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4 US soldiers wounded in Iraq Two US soldiers were wounded in a firefight in Falluja on Thursday, in which some civilians were also injured. Guerrillas in Kirkuk set off six explosions, using mortars or rocket-propelled grenades. They wounded two US soldiers. Then two suicide bombers set off another two explosions. Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez […]

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Unfortunate Says Rumsfeld Kay Mission

Unfortunate Says Rumsfeld Kay Mission

Juan Cole

“Unfortunate,” Says Rumsfeld; Kay Mission Fails David Kay reports a failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and asks for $600 mn. to allow him to go back with a team and look more. The old American saying, no use throwing good money after bad, applies here. Kay says he has evidence […]

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Chalabi Outlines Goals Of New Iraqi

Chalabi Outlines Goals Of New Iraqi

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Chalabi Outlines Goals of New Iraqi Government Addressing the UN, Iraqi member of the US-appointed Interim Governing Council Ahmad Chalabi laid out his vision of a new Iraqi government. Chalabi said that, “The pillars of this system are, first, a separation of powers,by writing a constitutional framework that ensures noninterference between the judicial, legislative, executive […]

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