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Archives for December 2003

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3 Us Troops Killed One Wounded Judge

3 Us Troops Killed One Wounded Judge

Juan Cole

3 US Troops Killed, One Wounded; Judge, Police Killed in North Reuters reports Guerrillas near Samarra detonated a powerful roadside bomb at a passing US military vehicle, destroying it and killing the three US troops within. In the city of Irbil, in the Kurdish north, a car bomb was detonated by its driver at the […]

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Bomb Found In Home Of Al Hakim On

Bomb Found In Home Of Al Hakim On

Juan Cole

Bomb Found in Home of al-Hakim On Monday, a bomb was found in the home of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the Shiite cleric who is December’s president of the Interim Governing Council, according to AFP.. He is also the leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. For many years he headed the paramilitary […]

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Nelson We Cannot Afford To Lose Peace

Nelson We Cannot Afford To Lose Peace

Juan Cole

Nelson: We cannot Afford to Lose the Peace; Northern Ireland Analogy Fraser Nelson has written a long post mortem in The Scotsman on all the things that have gone wrong in the aftermath of the Iraq war, which is a very long list indeed. He makes some telling points about the British side of things […]

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2 Us Troops Killed In Baghdad 2 Wounded

2 Us Troops Killed In Baghdad 2 Wounded

Juan Cole

2 US Troops Killed in Baghdad, 2 Wounded A roadside bomb killed two US troops in Baghdad, along with a civilian translator, and wounded two others. According to Michelle Faul of AP, the US military is worried that guerrillas will mount a Christmas offensive against US troops in Iraq. In other developments, interim Foreign Minister […]

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Sistani On Elections In Interview With

Sistani On Elections In Interview With

Juan Cole

Sistani on Elections In an interview with the Baghdad daily az-Zaman, a spokesman for Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani said that he expects his negotiations with various parties concerning the transition to an Iraqi government this summer to bear fruit in a matter of days. (Sistani has exchanged letters with US civil administrator Paul Bremer, and […]

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Rpg Attack In Mosul Injures 1 Sabotage

Rpg Attack In Mosul Injures 1 Sabotage

Juan Cole

RPG attack in Mosul injures 1; Sabotage of Petroleum Facilities Michelle Faul reports that on Sunday, guerrillas in Mosul launched a rocket-propelled grenade at a US military convoy. The grenade, fired near a police recruitment center, hit a civilian vehicle and seriously wounded the Iraqi driver. The nearby US troops were unharmed. Guerrillas using rpg’s […]

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Wrangling Over Future Of Kurdistan

Wrangling Over Future Of Kurdistan

Juan Cole

Wrangling over the Future of Kurdistan Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, a member of the Interim Governing Council, announced Sunday that the Kurds would not be satisfied with provincial federalism in Iraq. It was not enough that each of the 18 provinces retained certain privileges not granted to Baghdad. He wants the Kurdish regions to be […]

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Al Hakim In Damascus Abdul Aziz Al

Al Hakim In Damascus Abdul Aziz Al

Juan Cole

Al-Hakim in Damascus Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, president for December of the Interim Governing Council, visited Damascus and announced that he was seeking a security agreement with Syria that would guarantee “cooperation in preventing terrorist operations and prohibiting illegal infiltration,” since “the problem of security is one that Syria may face, just as Iraq does.” [Was […]

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Steps Toward Trying Saddam In Iraq

Steps Toward Trying Saddam In Iraq

Juan Cole

Steps toward Trying Saddam in Iraq According to al-Hayat, the court judge, Dara Nuruddin, a member of the Interim Governing Council, announced that 20 judges will be appointed to look into the crimes of Saddam’s regime, in preparation for trying him. He predicted that the investigation, gathering information and evidence will “take months.” He said […]

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