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Tal Afar Bombing Kills 20 Wounds 70

Juan Cole 05/10/2006

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Tal Afar Bombing Kills 20, Wounds 70
Did Coalition Ship 200,000 Guns to Guerrillas?

Guerrillas killed 11 persons on a busnear Baqubah Wednesday morning.

At least 30 Iraqis died in the civil war on Tuesday. Some 14 corpses showed up on the streets in Baghdad and Kut, according to al-Zaman.

Guerrillas killed at least 20 and wounded 70 with a truck bomb in Tal Afar, the northern Turkoman city that the US reduced in August of 2005.

In southern Baghdad, someone assassinated Sunni cleric Ra’id Muhammad al-Dulaimi.

The Mirror may be a tabloid, but it asks a good question: have 200,000 AK47s been delivered to the guerrilla insurgency by corrupt contractors instead of to the new Iraqi military? It is apparently a distinct possibility.

David Enders in Iraq has more at Salon.com on the attempt of Muqtada al-Sadr’s movement to model itself on Lebanon’s Hizbullah– i.e. services, politics and paramilitary all rolled into one.

Prime Minister Designate Nuri al-Maliki has announced some progress in forming a government. This has after 5 years become the sort of thing where we’ll believe it when we see it.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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