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Archives for June 2005

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45 Dead Dozens Wounded In Guerrilla

45 Dead Dozens Wounded In Guerrilla

Juan Cole

45 Dead, Dozens Wounded in Guerrilla Attacks Restaurant Bombing Mocks Operation Lightning The Associated Press reports that a guerrilla wearing a bomb belt walked into a restaurant near the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad that was popular with Iraqi police and soldiers, and detonated his payload, killing 23 and wounding 45. Patrick Quinn writes, ‘ […]

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Fixing Intelligence Around Facts Part

Fixing Intelligence Around Facts Part

Juan Cole

Fixing the Intelligence Around the Facts Part Deux AP has gotten hold of the text of some more Downing Street Memos. Mark Danner at Tomdispatch.com has further thoughts about the Downing Street Memo and reactions to the dismissals of its significance in the mainstream press. Justin Raimondo explores one source of the controversy around the […]

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Us Uk Bombing Raids On Iraq In Summer

Us Uk Bombing Raids On Iraq In Summer

Juan Cole

US & UK Bombing raids on Iraq in summer 2002 were illegal Michael Smith of the London Sunday Times continues his reporting on leaked British memos from 2002 that shed light on the decision-making process that led to the Iraq war. Today he explores the implication of the US/UK bombing campaigns against Iraq, which Gen. […]

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Al Hakim Hails Iran For Its Cultural

Al Hakim Hails Iran For Its Cultural

Juan Cole

Al-Hakim Hails Iran for its Cultural and Religious Privileges Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the United Iraqi Alliance list that dominates the Iraqi parliament and head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, has been visiting Iran for the past few days. He met with Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei and several other high […]

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Bush Helps Hardliners Neoconservative

Bush Helps Hardliners Neoconservative

Juan Cole

Bush Helps Hardliners Neoconservative Ahmadinejad in Lead The Iranian voting public put a hardliner and a conservative pragmatist into a run-off election with their ballots on Friday. With a turnout of 62 percent or more, voters rejected reformist youth calls for a boycott and some said they meant their vote to be a slap in […]

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Fallujah Massacre Of Iraqi Troops With

Fallujah Massacre Of Iraqi Troops With

Juan Cole

Fallujah Massacre of Iraqi Troops, with 14 Dead On Friday in Fallujah, a suicide bomber targeted a gathering of Iraqi troops near the headquarters of the Iraqi Islamic Party. He killed 14, and wounded 8. The IIP has been targeted by guerrillas for its relative willingness to cooperate with the US. US officials have on […]

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First Round Of Irans Presidential

First Round Of Irans Presidential

Juan Cole

First Round of Iran’s Presidential Elections Inconclusive Turnout Stronger than Expected The Presidential elections in Iran produced a messy result that will require a run-off between the two top candidates. The final outcome won’t be clear until Saturday afternoon at least, but it seems that former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will be one of the […]

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Mosque Attack Wounds 4 Us Raids

Mosque Attack Wounds 4 Us Raids

Juan Cole

Mosque Attack Wounds 4 US Raids against al-Dhari, Muqtada Sibernews reports, ‘A car bomb has exploded close to a Shia mosque in eastern Baghdad as people were emerging from Friday prayers, injuring at least two people [the Guardian reports 4 wounded]. The driver seems to have rammed a fuel lorry passing through the Kamaliya district, […]

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Zarqawi And Scarlet Pimpernel Westley

Zarqawi And Scarlet Pimpernel Westley

Juan Cole

Zarqawi and the Scarlet Pimpernel WESTLEY: ‘ Well, Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. So he took me to his cabin and told me his secret. “I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts,” he said. “My name is Ryan. I inherited this ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you […]

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