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Archives for March 2007

Iraq War

25 Dead In Sectarian Killings In Mosul

Juan Cole

25 Dead in Sectarian Killings in Mosul; Muqtada Calls for Massive Demonstrations; Talabani admits that US is Occupying Iraq The sectarian killings in the northern city of Tal Afar appear to have spilled over onto another northern city, that of Mosul, where police found 25 bodies Thursday according to Reuters. Amer Mohsen at Iraqslogger summarizes […]

Iraq War

Bombers Kill Over 130 Wounding Over Two

Juan Cole

Bombers kill over 130, wounding over two Hundred US Embassy Orders Personal Armor in Green Zone Oh, yeah. Those rightwing Iraqi bloggers that Bush depends on for his news about the country have sure imposed security on Iraq by their sunny faces. Reuters reports on the horrific and massive bombings carried out by Sunni Arab […]

Iraq War

Shiite Fighters Kill 70 Sunnis In Tal

Juan Cole

Shiite Fighters Kill 70 Sunnis in Tal Afar Saudi King Abdullah Condemns Illegitimate US Occupation of Iraq Kim Gamel of AP reports that Shiite militants and some Shiite policemen went on a rampage in the northern Turkmen city of Tal Afar on Wednesday, killing 70 Sunnis indiscriminately, injuring another 30, and kidnapping 40 others. The […]

Iraq War

Al Dhari On Year 4 Of American Iraq Us

Juan Cole

Al-Dhari on Year 4 of American Iraq The US government Open Source Center translates an interview with Sunni fundamentalist leader Harith al-Dhari, a leader of the Association of Muslim Scholars, printed by al-Safir newspaper in Lebanon. ‘ Head of Iraqi Muslim Scholars Interviewed on 4th Anniversary of ‘Invasion’: Interview with Shaykh Harith al-Dari, head of […]

Iraq War

Mccain Checks Into Cloud Cuckooland 116

Juan Cole

McCain Checks into Cloud Cuckooland 116 Iraqis Killed in Day of Carnage Senator John McCain has contracted Rumsfeld’s Disease. This malady consists of a combination of bad temper, misuse of language to obfuscate reality, and a Panglossian optimism in the face of stubborn, sanguinary facts on the ground. McCain, for instance, hailed that deployment of […]

Iraq War

Green Zone Takes Rocket Fire New Offer

Juan Cole

Green Zone Takes Rocket Fire New Offer of Jobs to Baathists Guerrillas fired a rocket into the Green Zone on Monday, shaking the US Embassy and Iraqi government offices but causing no casualties. Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, has weighed in with Tehran to release 15 British sailors and Marines captured in what the Iranians […]

Iraq War

Guerrillas Kill 5 Us Troops Shiite

Juan Cole

Guerrillas Kill 5 US Troops Shiite Reprisals in Haswa Allawi Bid for New Coalition Founders Iran is considering trying the 15 British sailors it captured at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, in what it claims were Iranian territorial waters. British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Iran that it should not underestimate the seriousness […]

Iraq War

90 Killed In Wave Of Bombings Violence

Juan Cole

90 Killed in Wave of Bombings, Violence Two US troops were announced killed on Saturday. AP reporter Kim Gamel details a wave of bombings and mayhem across Iraq on Saturday. The deadliest attack was a suicide truck bombing at a police station in Baghad, which killed 20 and wounded 28, many of them police. Guerrillas […]

Iraq War

Reality Based Legislation House Dems

Juan Cole

Reality-Based Legislation: House Dems Demand end of US War in Iraq in 08 The Democrats in Congress passed a supplemental funding bill for the Iraq War that included a demand that troops be withdrawn by August of 2008. Contrary to what John McCain alleged, the bill does not micromanage the conduct of the war. It […]

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