Review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]
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Successful Caucus Elections In Samawa
Successful Caucus Elections in Samawa Veteran Middle East reporter Nicholas Blanford writes in the Christian Science Monitor about the successes of the Coalition Provisional Authority […]
Reaction To Saddams Capture In Iran In
Reaction to Saddam’s Capture in Iran In 1980, Saddam Hussein launched a war on Iran, attempting to grab its oil-rich Khuzistan province, and beginning a […]
4 Us Troops Wounded In Kuwait According
4 US troops Wounded in Kuwait According to Reuters, guerrillas in Kuwait attacked two US convoys moving through that country on Sunday in separate incidents, […]
Impact Of Saddam Arrest On Us Politics
Impact of Saddam Arrest on US Politics The capture of Saddam is probably more important for US politics than for the Iraqis. The Baath Party […]
Celebrations In Dearborn Arab Americans
Celebrations in Dearborn Arab-Americans in southwest Detroit came out into the frosty streets to celebrate Saddam’s capture, reports Nancy Youssef of the Detroit Free Press. […]
Musharraf Nearly Blown Up On Any Other
Musharraf Nearly Blown Up On any other day it would be front-page news. As Dawn notes, General Pervez Musharraf, who styles himself president of Pakistan, […]
Iraqi Joke About Capture Of Saddam Ash
Iraqi Joke about the Capture of Saddam Ash-Sharq al-Awsat says the following is making the rounds in Baghdad: ‘Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, the former Information Ministry […]
Rumors Of Iran Connection To Arrest Of
Rumors of Iran Connection to Arrest of Saddam Questioned Ali Nourizadeh, writing in the London-based Saudi daily, ash-Sharq al-Awsat, reports that rumors have swirled in […]
Reflections On Capture Of Saddam
Reflections on the Capture of Saddam Hussein Seeing a captive, disheveled Saddam on television this morning released a cascade of memories for me. I remembered […]