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Archives for September 2005

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Tal Afar Stormed Threat Of Ethnic

Tal Afar Stormed Threat Of Ethnic

Juan Cole

Tal Afar Stormed Threat of Ethnic Cleansing Grows in Iraq Iraqi troops took the lead in the ground assault in the northern Turkmen city of Tal Afar, in an attempt by the US to showcase newly trained Iraqi army units. The problem is that they are perceived as mostly Shiite, and the Tal Afar campaign […]

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Hitchens And Iraq History News Network

Hitchens And Iraq History News Network

Juan Cole

Hitchens and Iraq History News Network has reprinted my essay responding to Christopher Hitchens on the Iraq War.

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Television Review Flight That Fought

Television Review Flight That Fought

Juan Cole

Television Review: The Flight that Fought Back The Discovery Channel is airing a documentary on United Airlines flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11. It will be on 9 pm on Sunday, September 11, and then repeated at 11 pm and at 1 am. I watched it this morning and […]

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Private Company Shuts Down Baghdad

Private Company Shuts Down Baghdad

Juan Cole

Private Company Shuts down Baghdad International Airport More violence in Baghdad The steady drumbeat of mayhem continued again on Friday. One bomb in Baghdad killed 4 persons, including three policemen, and wounded 9. There were other assassinations and guerrilla violence elsewhere in the country. Al-Zaman: American forces, both infantry and armor moved further into the […]

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Another Winning Formula For Iraq

Another Winning Formula For Iraq

Juan Cole

Another Winning Formula for Iraq Distinguished Middle East historian William R. Polk writes: ‘ If my comments in my last essay on the suggestion of Scott Gerwehr and Nina Hachigian on how to turn around insurgents “with a little tenderness” depressed you, be of good cheer. All is not lost. I have just read about […]

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Disaster Of Us Economic Policy In Iraq

Disaster Of Us Economic Policy In Iraq

Juan Cole

The Disaster of US Economic Policy in Iraq An informed observer of the Iraq scene writes: ‘ For most constructive purposes, it is not worth adding controversy over the Bush Administration’s economic policy in Iraq and early plans to privatize the economy, including the oil industry. Until after there is an elected constitutional government, there […]

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Huge Bomb In Basra Kills 16 14 Bodies

Huge Bomb In Basra Kills 16 14 Bodies

Juan Cole

Huge Bomb in Basra Kills 16 14 Bodies Discovered in Mahmudiyah Guerrillas detonated an enormous bomb outside a restaurant in the southern port city of Basra on Thursday, killing 16 persons and wounding 21. Two children were killed in the attack. Basra has occasionally suffered from such guerrilla violence, which is carried out by Salafi […]

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Who Is Enemy Really My Talk At New

Who Is Enemy Really My Talk At New

Juan Cole

Who is the Enemy, Really? My talk at the New America Foundation conference on Terrorism, Security and America’s Purpose is available in streaming video (windows media player). Thanks again to Steve Clemons of the Washington Note blog for his key role in setting it up. And a shout out to Irish blogger Gavin, who blogged […]

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Louisiana National Guard Coming Home 4

Louisiana National Guard Coming Home 4

Juan Cole

Louisiana National Guard coming Home 4 US Security Men Killed Guerrillas used a roadside bomb to kill 4 US private security men in the southern city of Basra on Wednesday. They had helped guard the US consulate in the southern Shiite city. There are about 20,000 such private security guards in Iraq, and some 200 […]

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