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Archives for April 2006

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Poll Bush Cant Be Trusted On Iran Good

Poll Bush Cant Be Trusted On Iran Good

Juan Cole

Poll: Bush Can’t be Trusted on Iran The good news is that a majority of Americans does not trust George W. Bush to deal with Iran and its nuclear program. The bad news is that 2 in 5 Americans want to attack Iran if it continues its nuclear energy program. Former Iranian president and current […]

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Top Reasons You Wouldnt Want Mobile

Top Reasons You Wouldnt Want Mobile

Juan Cole

Top Reasons You Wouldn’t Want a Mobile Biological Weapons Lab Not only did Bush and Cheney and Libby tell bare-faced lies about the alleged “mobile biological weapons labs” in Iraq, the idea of such never made any sense anyway. 1. How could you have a clean room in a mobile biological weapons laboratory? 2. Petrie […]

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50 Dead In Violence Jaafari Refuses To

50 Dead In Violence Jaafari Refuses To

Juan Cole

50 Dead in Violence Jaafari Refuses to Step Down Robert H. Reid of AP reports on deaths in Iraq on Tuesday: * The US announced the deaths of 5 US soldiers, 3 killed by a guerrilla bomb on Tuesday and another two on Sunday. * Guerrilla violence killed 23 Iraqis on Tuesday. Reid writes, “A […]

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Iran Can Now Make Glowing Mickey Mouse

Iran Can Now Make Glowing Mickey Mouse

Juan Cole

Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches Despite all the sloppy and inaccurate headlines about Iran “going nuclear,” the fact is that all President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday was that it had enriched uranium to a measely 3.5 percent, using a bank of 180 centrifuges hooked up so that they “cascade.” The ability […]

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3 Us Troops Killed Muqtada Al Sadrs

3 Us Troops Killed Muqtada Al Sadrs

Juan Cole

3 US troops Killed; Muqtada al-Sadr’s Bloc backs alternative to Jaafari The Pentagon announced Monday that 3 US soldiers had been killed. Sunni Arab leaders in Iraq affirmed again on Monday their opposition to Ibrahim Jaafari as candidate for prime minister from the Shiite fundamentalist United Iraqi Alliance. The Kurds said much the same thing […]

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Political Gridlock Violence Continue

Political Gridlock Violence Continue

Juan Cole

Political Gridlock, Violence, Continue Protests Against “Liberation” Day Violence left 16 dead and others wounded on Sunday, the anniversary of the fall of Saddam (see below). Shiite leaders met Sunday to attempt to resolve the gridlock over the formation of a new government led by Ibrahim Jaafari. It failed. Now the leaders say they will […]

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Another Shrine Hit With 6 Dead Mubarak

Another Shrine Hit With 6 Dead Mubarak

Juan Cole

Another Shrine hit, with 6 Dead Mubarak Warns on Civil War, US Withdrawal Reuters reports that guerrillas hit yet another Shiite shrine on Saturday this one at Musayyib, killing 6 and wounding 21 (-Al-Sharq al-Awsat). Guerrillas ambushed police in Baquba, wounding 4, along with 4 civilians. In a separate attack in that city, they managed […]

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3 Us Troops Killed Al Saghir Blames

3 Us Troops Killed Al Saghir Blames

Juan Cole

3 US Troops Killed Al-Saghir Blames Sunni Arab Parties, Press for Mosque Bombing The US military announced the deaths of 3 GIs in Iraq on Friday. Jalal al-Din al-Saghir is the Shiite politician who may have been targeted by the suicide bombing of the Buratha mosque on Friday that killed over 80 and wounded at […]

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Breaking News 78 Dead Dozens Wounded

Breaking News 78 Dead Dozens Wounded

Juan Cole

Breaking News: 78 Dead, Dozens Wounded in Shiite Mosque Attack Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports that suicide bombers detonated their bombs at the Shiite Buratha in the northwestern Baghdad just after Friday prayers ended but before the worshippers began exiting. KarbalaNews.net says that Iraqi security forces report that the bombers were mingling with the worshippers. It says […]

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