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Archives for December 2005

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Parties Jockey For Power In Wake Of

Parties Jockey For Power In Wake Of

Juan Cole

Parties Jockey for Power in Wake of Elections; Dulaimi willing to Ally with Shiites Since Bush is going to say Sunday that the Sunni Arab participation in the elections suggests a near end of major guerrilla violence, let me just repeat what I said Thursday: the history of guerrilla insurgencies is replete with groups that […]

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Bush Spying On Americans Wire Tapping

Bush Spying On Americans Wire Tapping

Juan Cole

Bush Spying on Americans Wire tapping the telephones of American citizens without a court order is illegal. They impeached Clinton for a minor dalliance in which he didn’t even get to third base. But taking the Constitution and pushing it through the shredder, why that is just fine and dandy. He really does believe that […]

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Religious Shiite Coalition Sweeping

Religious Shiite Coalition Sweeping

Juan Cole

Religious Shiite Coalition Sweeping South; Allawi’s Showing Weak [If you’re in the giving mood this season, The History News Network” is a worthy cause.] Al-Zaman [Ar.]/ AFP: 10-11 million of Iraq’s 15 million potential voters came out on Thursday, according to al-Zaman. Of Iraqis abroad, 320,000 voted (a relatively small proportion of those eligible). The […]

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One That Got Away Cnn Is Reporting

One That Got Away Cnn Is Reporting

Juan Cole

The One that Got Away CNN is reporting that Iraqi authorities had arrested Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist, in Ramadi, but mistakenly released him. Nic Roberts reported that Zarqawi had put on weight, grown a beard, removed a tattoo, and was using a Kurdish passport, making him unrecognizable to Iraqi security forces. What I […]

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What Sunni Arab Vote Really Means

What Sunni Arab Vote Really Means

Juan Cole

What the Sunni Arab Vote Really Means According to wire services, Sunnis in Fallujah came out to vote: ‘ not only get rid of the Americans but to also get rid of the Shiite-dominated government. “It’s an extremist government [and] we would like an end to the occupation,” said Ahmed Majid, 31. “Really the only […]

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High Turnout Expected As Iraqis Go To

High Turnout Expected As Iraqis Go To

Juan Cole

High Turnout Expected as Iraqis go to Polls The guerrillas got off some mortars as voting began Thursday in Iraq, one striking the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad where the government offices are. A mortar was also fired in Mosul at a polling station but appears to have missed. A huge bomb was found and […]

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Helman On Rice And New Truman Doctrine

Helman On Rice And New Truman Doctrine

Juan Cole

Helman on Rice and the New Truman Doctrine Ambassador Gerald B. Helman writes: ” In an op-ed piece published in the December 11 Washington Post, Secretary of State Rice provides an important statement of the Administration’s global strategic posture. She underscores its importance by comparing the international environment the Administration confronted when it took office […]

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Thousands Of Shiites Demonstrate

Thousands Of Shiites Demonstrate

Juan Cole

Thousands of Shiites Demonstrate against Aljazeera; Four US troops were killed and a Sunni politician (Mizhar Dulaimi of Ramadi) was assassinated on Tuesday in the run-up to the Iraqi elections (scheduled for Dec. 15). Two days ago, another Sunni parliamentary candidate had been killed in Mosul. On Monday, Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, a Shiite candidate from […]

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Street Battles Bombings In Baghdad

Street Battles Bombings In Baghdad

Juan Cole

Street Battles, Bombings in Baghdad; Less Wealthy Candidates Cannot Campaign Baghdad was wracked with violence on Monday, witnessing a major carbombing at a police station, another carbombing in a southwest suburb, the discovery of four bodies of kidnapping victims, and two running street battles in Amiriyah and Ghazaliyah districts–with at least 43 persons wounded or […]

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