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Archives for March 2004

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Seeds Of Gridlock In Iraq My Op Ed How

Seeds Of Gridlock In Iraq My Op Ed How

Juan Cole

Seeds of Gridlock in Iraq My op-ed, “How the US is sowing gridlock in Iraq” is available online at the San Jose Mercury News. I worry in it about the Rube Goldberg executive in the Basic Law or interim constitution, with its three presidents and a prime minister (the presidents have to make all decisions […]

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Hundreds Of Students Strike In Baghdad

Hundreds Of Students Strike In Baghdad

Juan Cole

Hundreds of Students Strike in Baghdad, Najaf and Mosul ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Hundreds of universty students organized protests Saturday against the Basic Law or interim constitution, in accordance with the call of Shiite cleric Shaikh Muhammad Ya`qubi of the Virtue Party. Some students gathered in front of al-Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad, carrying placards. Those in Najaf […]

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3 Moroccans And 2 Indians Arrested In

3 Moroccans And 2 Indians Arrested In

Juan Cole

3 Moroccans and 2 Indians Arrested in Spain Bombing Al-Qaeda is increasingly emerging as the chief suspect in the Madrid bombings, against which 12 million persons protested on Saturday. The LA Times points out that the Spanish cultural center in Casablanca was targeted by an al-Qaeda affiliate in May of 2003. John Davies also surveys […]

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Iraqs Divided Loyalties And Bremer

Iraqs Divided Loyalties And Bremer

Juan Cole

Iraq’s Divided Loyalties and Bremer Walls Phil Smucker writes perceptively from Baghdad in The Scotsman about the discontents of Iraqis and their ethnic divisions. I thought his characterization of the difference between US and British patrol strategies interesting, and also had not heard the neologism “Bremer walls” for the concrete barricades behind which Americans have […]

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Black On Iraq One Year Later Eric Black

Black On Iraq One Year Later Eric Black

Juan Cole

Black on Iraq, One Year Later Eric Black of the Minneapolis Star Tribune contributes among the better entries in the “War in Iraq: One year later” genre of which we will see so much this week. (Truth in advertising: I’m quoted). Black writes ‘ “The ability of these Shiite leaders to quickly demonstrate that they […]

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Muhsin Abdul Hamid Sunnis Are Majority

Muhsin Abdul Hamid Sunnis Are Majority

Juan Cole

Muhsin Abdul Hamid: The Sunnis are the Majority ash-Sharq al-Awsat: The leader of the [Sunni] Iraqi Islamic Party, Muhsin Abdul Hamid, gave a long interview in Cairo in which he reiterated his allegations that Sunnis have been unfairly “marginalized” in Iraq by the US occupation authorities. He maintains that if you count all Sunni Arabs, […]

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Threat Of Hyper Inflation Guardian

Threat Of Hyper Inflation Guardian

Juan Cole

Threat of Hyper-Inflation The Guardian reports that the British head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Basra, Patrick Nixon, is warning about the dangers of inflation. The economy is heating up. Rents and housing costs in Basra are way up. Unemployment in Basra has fallen to 15%, in Baghdad to 30%, and in the country […]

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Engelhardt Follow Money In Iraq Tom

Engelhardt Follow Money In Iraq Tom

Juan Cole

Engelhardt: Follow the Money in Iraq Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch.com has very suggestive insights this week on Iraq, especially with regard to the role of money, of corrupt expatriate politician Ahmad Chalabi, and Pentagon control of US reconstruction aid in that country. I saw all the individual items Tom cites, but he has put it […]

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More Us Soldiers Killed Steady And

More Us Soldiers Killed Steady And

Juan Cole

More US Soldiers killed The steady and depressing drumbeat of US deaths and woundings in Iraq continues unabated. At 5 am on Saturday in Tikrit, guerrillas detonated a bomb in Tikrit that killed two US soldiers and wounded 4, several seriously. On Thursday, two soldiers had been killed by a roadside bomb at Habbaniyah. On […]

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