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Us Forces In Iraq Are Attempting To

Juan Cole 09/10/2003

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*US forces in Iraq are attempting to seal the Syrian and Iranian borders on intelligence that outsiders are planning a big terrorist operation in hopes of discouraging the United Nations from sending a peacekeeping force. -al-Zaman. If true, it would show that the canny enemies of the US realize that internationalizing the reconstruction of Iraq will be a powerful legitimizing tool, and they wish to forestall it. American unilateralism suits them fine; it is an easy thing to whip people in the region up against.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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