On Christmas Day, I like to recall the significance of Jesus and the nativity for Muslims. I’ve talked about Rumi, Attar, and other mystics. Today […]
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Is Kerrys Inconsistency On Iraq
Is Kerry’s Inconsistency on Iraq a Liability? Mother Jones,, rather unaccountably relying on Max Boot, raises the question of whether Kerry’s changing Iraq position will […]
Bahr Al Ulum Federalism Can Work With
Bahr al-Ulum: Federalism can work with 18 Provinces In a recent interview in al-Siyasah, a Kuwaiti newspaper, Muhammad Bahr al-Ulum implicitly opposed the Iraqi Kurds’ […]
Hilfiker On Army Strong Arm Tactics In
Hilfiker on Army Strong-Arm Tactics in Sunni Heartland Dr. David Hilfiker of the Christian Peacemaker Team has written an important account, presented by Tom Engelhardt, […]
John Lecarre On Iraq Intelligence
John LeCarre on Iraq Intelligence Failure From Laura Miller’s recent interview in Salon.com with the famed spy novelist David Cornwell and former British foreign service […]
10 Members Of Iraqi Civil Defense Force
10 Members of Iraqi Civil Defense Force wounded in Blast Guerrillas in the northeastern town of Baquba donated a big bomb, targeting a patrol of […]
10000 Shiites Protest In Nasiriyah Seek
10,000 Shiites Protest in Nasiriyah, seek Resignation of Provincial Council Az-Zaman newspaper reports that Muqtada al-Sadr’s organization staged a demonstration of 10,000 in the southern […]
Pachachi Envisages Triumvirate As Iraqi
Pachachi Envisages Triumvirate as Iraqi Executive AFP/al-Zaman report that Adnan Pachachi, the octogenarian interim president of the Iraqi Governing Council, envisages that the new transitional […]
Hutton Inquiry Whitewashes Blair
Hutton Inquiry Whitewashes Blair Government’s Exaggerations Seumas Milne of the Guardian argues that the report by Lord Hutton on the David Kelly affair is biased […]
Bomb At Baghdad Hotel Kills 3 In Other
Bomb at Baghdad Hotel kills 3; In other attacks, 6 US Troops Killed, 2 CNN Employees, 4 Iraqi Policemen; 6 US troops Wounded There was […]