Kahl: The US Military and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq Professor Colin Kahl of the Political Science Department at the University of Minnesota shared the thoughts below on an email listserv and I thought them clear, concise and cogent and asked for permission to reprint here–which he kindly granted. There is a lot of confusion about precisely […]
Archives for March 2007
6 Us Troops Killed 8 Injured Or
6 US Troops Killed, 8 Injured or Sickened Chlorine Poison Gas attacks Kill 8, Sicken 350 Thousands Protest War on 4th Anniversary 6 US troops were announced killed on Saturday. Guerrillas killed 4 with a roadside bomb in west Baghdad, wounding one other and then shooting and injuring a sixth. Another 6 US troops were […]
Giving Aid And Comfort To Enemy Plame
Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy: the Plame Affair Valerie Plame Wilson, whose career Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney wanted destroyed in a fit of pique, was finally allowed to testify before Congress on Friday. Some in the blogosphere are arguing that the outing of Plame Wilson was an impeachable offense. Defenders […]
Aipac Cool To Cheney Responding To This
AIPAC Cool to Cheney Responding to this IC posting, Ron Kampea kindly writes: I was one of the reporters noting the relatively cool reception for Cheney’s remarks, an impression I confirmed later in extensive conversations at the conference. (Similar accounts appeared in Ha’aretz, the Forward and the Jerusalem Post.) There were whole chunks of the […]
16000 Detainees In Coalition Hands
16,000 Detainees in Coalition Hands Iraqi Shiites attempt to Regroup 11 detainees in a British jail in south Iraq exchanged clothing with their visitors and escaped. Ed Wong at NYT has an excellent piece on Iranian economic relations with Iraq. Every politician who talks about “limiting Iranian influence” in Iraq should read this article first. […]
Senate Republicans Defeat Iraq
Senate Republicans Defeat Iraq Withdrawal Timetable; 5 US Troops Killed 5 US GIs were announced killed on Thursday. Militiamen or guerrillas killed 4 with a bomb as they were returning from Sadr City (Shiite East Baghdad). Another had been killed on Wednesday by Sunni Arab guerrillas in al-Anbar Province. Police found 20 bodies in the […]
Clinton Would Keep Troops In Iraq
Clinton Would Keep Troops in Iraq Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that she would keep some US troops in Iraq to fight al-Qaeda, curb Iranian influence, protect the Kurds and assist the Iraqi military. The elements of this plan will not work or are unnecessary. 1. The Kurds don’t need protecting. Their Peshmerga military, […]
4 Us Troops Killed 9 Wounded 1993 Wtc
4 US Troops Killed, 9 Wounded 1993 WTC Attack was al-Qaeda, not Saddam A lot of commentators will note that Khalid Sheikh Muhammad has admitted that he planned out the 9/11 attacks. What they will miss is that he claimed the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as his idea, as well, and as an al-Qaeda […]
Sunni Arab Member Of Parliament
Sunni Arab Member of Parliament Criticizes al-Maliki Government The USG Open Source Center carries a translation of remarks of Khalaf al-Ulayyan, a member of parliament from the Sunni Iraqi Accord Front, made in Amman recently. Al-Ulayyan implies a conspiracy by the al-Maliki government to expel several Sunni Arab members of parliament on the grounds that […]
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