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Lone On How To Fix It Salim Lones Op Ed
Lone on How to Fix It Salim Lone’s op-ed in the Toronto Globe and Mail gives an experienced UN hand’s view of the unfolding disaster […]
Brahimi Plan Unveiled Full Text Of
Brahimi Plan unveiled The full text of the Brahimi plan is at the UN Observer. Here are the main points: ‘ 2. Let me emphasise […]
Muqtada Agrees To Dissolve Militia May
Muqtada Agrees to Dissolve Militia, May go into temporary exile in Iran az-Zaman reports that Muqtada al-Sadr has accepted a solution of the problems between […]
Muqtada Will Negotiate Without
Muqtada Will Negotiate without Preconditions: Iran Involved Reuters is reporting that radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ceased demanding a US pullback from Najaf as […]
Mediation With Muqtada And Limits Of
Mediation with Muqtada and the Limits of Tolerance The Scotsman reports that the standoff between the American forces and those of Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf […]
Arguing With Bush I Saw President Bushs
Arguing with Bush I saw President Bush’s news conference Tuesday evening. He said many things that disturbed me, not in any partisan sort of way […]
Shadid Its Pretty Bad Here
Shadid: “It’s Pretty Bad Here.” It isn’t often that one gets to hear a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist speak in his own voice from the field, […]
Cole And Gerecht On Shiites Of Iraq
Cole and Gerecht on Shiites of Iraq (Lehrer Newshour) The text of my appearance on the Lehrer News Hour is available at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june04/alsadr_04-13.html.
Shiite Negotiators Warn Us Report About
Shiite Negotiators Warn US The report about Sistani’s strongly-worded message to the US warning them against attacking Najaf is now available in English. I haven’t […]