Arab World

100 Dead in Bombings, Violence; Iraq, Kurdistan, traded Barbs After the bombings of a major bridge in Baghdad and the cafeteria of the parliament, guerrillas on Saturday detonated a car bomb at a bus station in the Shiite holy city of Karbala near the shrine of Imam Husayn. Dozens are thought to have been killed […]

Parliament Bomber was Probably Bodyguard; Turkey Threatens to Invade Iraq; Wolfowitz Promotes Girlfriend The bombing of the cafeteria in the Iraqi parliament on Thursday was likely the work of a bodyguard of one of the members of parliament. Who exactly was killed and wounded among the parliamentarians has been a matter of dispute, as Iraqslogger […]

Bridge Damaged, 9 dead in Truck Bombing; Sadrists, Sunni Accord Front threaten withdrawal from Iraqi Government; Dodd, Obama Critique McCain Thursday morning in Baghdad, a truck bomb detonated on the Sarafiya bridge in Baghdad. Early reports gave the casualty toll as 9 dead, but observers said that five or six cars were sent into the […]

3 US Troops Killed, 16 Wounded 19 Iraqis Dead, 33 Wounded in Muqdadiya Bombing The wire services reported at least 55 killed in political violence in Iraq on Tuesday, with hundreds wounded. Guerrillas detonated a car bomb near Baghdad University in the south of the capital, killing 5 persons and wounding 11. Guerrillas deployed a […]

White and Carapico re: Cole, “How to Get out of Iraq” My piece in The Nation on “How to Get out of Iraq” is generating some good discussion on an email list to which I subscribe. With their permission, I am sharing below comments of two seasoned observers of the Middle East. Sheila Carapico writes: […]

Tens of Thousands in Najaf Demand US Departure from Iraq Tens of thousands of followers of young Shiite nationalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rallied in the Shiite holy city of Najaf south of Baghdad on Monday, protesting the continued presence of US troops in Iraq. They burned US flags and held up posters saying, “America will […]

Cole in Salon: McCain’s Iraq Problem My column , “John McCain’s Iraq Problem,” is now available at Salon.com. Excerpt: ‘ On Sunday, April 8, Sen. John McCain appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an attempt to do damage control. Pressed on his assertion, in a CNN interview last week, that Gen. David Petraeus goes about […]

How to Get out of Iraq I repeat: My article, “How to Get out of Iraq,”, is now out in The Nation. Here is a copy of an email I sent about the piece to a discussion list: Just to clarify in light of . . . comments, I was not proposing an optimistic scenario, […]

10 US Troops Killed Thousands of Sadrist Demonstrators Come to Najaf Thousands of followers of young Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converged on Najaf Monday, planning to join rallies against continued US military occupation of Iraq. April 9 is the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to US forces. Although some journalists are writing that […]