Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Basil Maghrebi at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Friday, Israeli troops killed an American observer in the […]
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Poll Shows American Public Wising Up
Poll Shows American Public Wising Up A new CNN poll shows that the views expressed here at Informed Comment on most issues related to Iraq […]
Funerals For 67 Dead Draw Thousands
Funerals for 67 Dead Draw Thousands Fears of Instability Spreading Thousands of mourners came out in Najaf Monday to attend funerals for the 54 dead […]
Ofac Reverses Censorship Policy
OFAC Reverses Censorship Policy Further to William Fisher’s guest editorial here on last Friday, good news! OFAC has reversed itself on several of its provisions […]
43 Dead More Than 95 Wounded In Najaf
43 Dead, More than 95 Wounded in Najaf, Karbala Ambush in Baghdad Guerrillas detonated a huge bomb near the bus station in Karbala on Sunday, […]
Voter Registration Stations Attacked
Voter Registration Stations Attacked Ayatollahs: Shaalan Must Go According to Reuters, guerrillas in Dujail, 30 miles north of Baghdad, subjected the local voter registration site […]
Fisher Guest Editorial Us Squelches
Fisher Guest Editorial: US Squelches Shirin Ebadi RIGHT HAND, LEFT HAND By William Fisher Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe performs a genuine public service […]
Secular Majority In Iraq Unlikely
Secular Majority in Iraq? Unlikely Stephen Farrell argues at the London Times online that opinion polling suggest that “secularists” will get about 60% of the […]
Karbala Bomb Blast Bomb Blast Outside
Karbala Bomb Blast A bomb blast outside the holy shrine of Imam Husain in Karbala left Shaikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbala’i wounded with shrapnel in his […]
Fassihi On Muslim Jewish Relations In
Fassihi on Muslim-Jewish Relations in Prerevolutionary Iran Dr. Michael Fassihi writes concerning his own family’s experience of Muslim-Jewish relations in Iran: Today I came across […]