Juan Cole

EAST GERMANY’S SPY FILES: COMPETING ISSUES OF PRIVACY AND OPENNESS Thought for the day: “Neighbours spied on the people living next door and there were instances of one spouse spying on the other, Dr Alexander Dix, Brandenburg’s Commissioner for Data Protection and the first in Germany with responsibility for access to information, told the International […]

Of the three persons arrested in Peshawar by Pakistani authorites off an FBI tip a couple days ago, one turns out to be a Tunisian who goes by various names–including Lutfi and Salim. He was a member of the Hamburg cell that plotted 9/11 and left Germany for Afghanistan shortly before that catastrophe. Once the […]

History News Network http://hnn.us/articles/987.html 9-23-02: News Abroad How Israel’s Occupation Affects Palestinian Children By Juan Cole Mr. Cole is professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author of Sacred Space and Holy War (I.B. Tauris, 2002). His website is: www.juancole.com. Over one in five Palestinian children in the […]

I have a technical question for the militarily informed on this list. There has been some discussion here already about the Israeli government’s warning that if, during an American campaign against the Baath in Iraq, Israel were struck by Iraqi scuds or missiles, it would retaliate. This is being represented as a change in policy […]

Bush’s Iraq Campaign With regard to . . . comments on Bush’s recent success in pushing his Iraq campaign, I don’t actually think it is that surprising. It has long been apparent that Bush would not be opposed by most Democrats in the Congress if he pursued this war, and important leaders such as Lieberman […]

The Grand Rapids Press First battle in war on Iraq will be at home Sunday, September 22, 2002 By Ted Roelofs The Grand Rapids Press On the surface, oil executive Sid Jansma Jr. might seem like the kind of guy President Bush can count on as he pushes for possible invasion of Iraq. Jansma is […]

According to AFP, the chief al-Qaeda financier was Mohammed Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi, who used to be an accountant for the Saudi royal family. Arrested in Spain last April, Zouaydi had set up a number of money laundering operations in Europe in 1996-2001. The World Trade Center was extensively videotaped in 1997 by Ghassoub al-Abrash Ghalyoun, […]

According to Asharq al-Awsat, 19 Yemeni al-Qaida members originally found in Afghanistan have been turned over to Yemen by a “sister” country (apparently Jordan), and they are now being interrogated. There are also 10-30 US military trainers in Yemen, teaching Yemeni forces how to combat terrorism. A manhunt is still going on in Ma’rib and […]

If Hussein is ousted, what next? Bush team wants to set up democracy; critics say forced change will only create instability By Cameron McWhirter / The Detroit News http://www.detnews.com/2002/nation/0209/16/a01-588600.htm (based in part on an interview with Juan Cole, w/ quote).