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Saddams Execution And Revival Of Baath
Saddam’s Execution and the Revival of the Baath Party in Iraq Saddam’s half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and the head of his revolutionary court were hanged early […]
Misreading Enemy My Op Ed At Mercury
Misreading the Enemy My op-ed at the Mercury News, “Misreading the Enemy,” argues that “As long as the Sunni Arabs of Iraq are so deeply […]
Mahdi Army Lowers Profile Sunni
Mahdi Army Lowers Profile Sunni Guerrillas now Mainly fight Shiites McClatchy reports that Mahdi Army militiamen in Baghdad have adopted a low profile as they […]
If Shoe Were On Other Foot Europeans
If the Shoe were on the other Foot Europeans who use a credit card to buy an airplane ticket to the United States open themselves […]
Attempts At Marginalizing Carter
Attempts at Marginalizing Carter Intensify Fourteen members of the Carter Center have resigned in protest over former president Jimmy Carter’s book,”Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” AP […]
Maliki Said To Have Pledged Mahdi
Maliki Said to Have Pledged Mahdi Crackdown Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that its sources in the Iraqi government are saying that there are some secret […]
Cole In Salon Did Us Just Provoke Iran
Cole in Salon: Did the US just Provoke Iran? My article, “Did the US Just Provoke Iran,” about the Irbil attack and other US-Iranian tensions […]
Terror Attack On Us Embassy In Athens
Terror Attack on US Embassy in Athens Terrorists fired a rocket from across the street into the US embassy in Athens on Friday morning. The […]
Us Forces Storm Iranian Consulate In
US Forces Storm Iranian Consulate in Irbil The US military stormed the Iranian consulate in the northern Iraq Kurdistan city of Irbil on Thursday. Irbil […]