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Archives for September 2003

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My National Public Radio Interview On

My National Public Radio Interview On

Juan Cole

My National Public Radio interview on All Things Considered for Saturday, September 6, 2003, about my correspondence with the late Lt. Kylan Jones-Huffman, is now available on the Web. Scroll down and click on the 3rd clip, “A Reservist’s Last Letters Home.” http://www.npr.org/rundowns/ rundown.php?prgId=2&prgDate=current.

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Two American Soldiers Were Wounded

Two American Soldiers Were Wounded

Juan Cole

*Two American soldiers were wounded Wednesday at al-Anbar University in Ramadi by a suicide bomber. On Thursday, a British bomb-disposal expert was killed at Mosul in an ambush. *I see a real and alarming change in tone in the usually optimistic al-Zaman newspaper, whose owner, Saad al-Bazzaz, is a member of Adnan Pachachi’s Iraqi Independent […]

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As President Bush Went To United

As President Bush Went To United

Juan Cole

*As President Bush went to the United Nations for a new resolution in Iraq, his representatives immediately met again with the Indian Foreign Secretary* Kanwal Sibal about the possibility of India providing a division, nearly 20,000 men. The last such request was rebuffed by the Indians on the grounds that there would have to be […]

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Guerrillas Near Tikrit Set Off Roadside

Guerrillas Near Tikrit Set Off Roadside

Juan Cole

*Guerrillas near Tikrit set off a roadside bomb that wounded four US soldiers in a passing convoy. Later they fired mortar rounds at US positions in Tikrit, but the US military responded forcefully and chased them off. For now. Meanwhile, the US military revealed that a shoulder-held ground to air missile was fired at a […]

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Guerrillas In Southern Iraq Set Off

Guerrillas In Southern Iraq Set Off

Juan Cole

*Guerrillas in southern Iraq set off a roadside bomb as a US convoy went by on Monday, killing two US soldiers and wounding a third. Another US soldier was killed, and one wounded, on Tuesday in a helicopter accident. *Another car bomb went off in Baghdad on Tuesday, outside the HQ of the Iraqi police […]

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Fourteen Us Soldiers Were Wounded Over

Fourteen Us Soldiers Were Wounded Over

Juan Cole

*Fourteen US soldiers were wounded over the weekend. Several fell victim to attacks in the Sunni Arab triangle on Sunday. The WP now reports that the US military often does not release news of wounded soldiers unless one among the group has been killed. This practice has the effect of playing down the number of […]

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Note I Will Appear On Lehrer News Hour

Note I Will Appear On Lehrer News Hour

Juan Cole

Note: I will appear on the Lehrer News Hour on PBS on Monday 9/1, at 6 pm or 7 pm in most markets. Sorry for the last minute notice; it is how these things are done.

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Band Of 8 Iraqi Guerrillas Fired Rocket

Band Of 8 Iraqi Guerrillas Fired Rocket

Juan Cole

*A band of 8 Iraqi guerrillas fired rocket propelled grenades at a US convoy west of Kirkuk on Saturday, wounding two U.S. soldiers. The soldiers in the convoy fired back, killing six and wounding two of the Saddam loyalists. A new report says that one in seven of wounded US troops die. This is a […]

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