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Archives for May 2007

Iraq
Sharm El Sheikh On Iraq T

Sharm El Sheikh On Iraq T

Juan Cole

Sharm el Sheikh on Iraq T.V. The USG Open Source Center translates or summarizes comments on Iraqi television about the second day of the Sharm el Sheikh Conference, which focused on security issues. Al-Iraqiyah, Al-Sharqiyah Coverage of Sharm al-Shaykh Conference 4 May (2)Iraq — OSC SummaryFriday, May 4, 2007 Baghdad Al-Iraqiyah Television in Arabic — […]

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Hillary And End Of Occupation And Of

Hillary And End Of Occupation And Of

Juan Cole

Hillary and the End of Occupation and of the New Imperialism Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a surprise move, will introduce legislation with Sen. Robert Byrd to revoke the war powers granted to Bush in October of 2002. She says she had originally supported a Byrd amendment at that time to limit those powers to a […]

Iraq War
Rice Meets Syrian Envoy Warren Strobel

Rice Meets Syrian Envoy Warren Strobel

Juan Cole

Rice Meets Syrian Envoy Donors Cancel $30 Bn. in Iraq Debt Warren Strobel and Miret el Naggar report on US Secretary of State Condi Rice’s meeting at Sharm El Sheikh with the Syrian foreign minister, Walid Moualem. She pressed him to have Syria close its borders with Iraq to infiltrators. US generals on the ground […]

Iraq War
Sharm El Sheikh On Iraqi T

Sharm El Sheikh On Iraqi T

Juan Cole

Sharm El Sheikh on Iraqi T.V. The USG Open Source Center has translated and summarized reports on Iraqi television about the conference being held at Sharm El Sheikh on Iraq: Al-Iraqiyah, Al-Sharqiyah Coverage of Sharm al-Shaykh Conference 3 May (2)Iraq– OSC SummaryThursday, May 3, 2007 Baghdad Al-Iraqiyah Television in Arabic — government-sponsored television station, run […]

Iraq War
Murtha Urges Limited Funding Bombing

Murtha Urges Limited Funding Bombing

Juan Cole

Murtha Urges Limited Funding Bombing Kills 10 in Shiite Sadr City Iraqi guerrillas killed 3 US troops and wounded 2 on Wednesday. Guerrilla violence killed some 85 persons in Iraq on Wednesday. Reuters reports: ‘ BAGHDAD – A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 35 near a police station in the Baghdad Shi’ite stronghold […]

Iraq War
Note To Bush And Edwards On How There

Note To Bush And Edwards On How There

Juan Cole

Note to Bush and Edwards: On How there is not Really any al-Qaeda in Iraq I caught John Edwards on Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room Wednesday afternoon. Blitzer asked him about Bush’s remarks on al-Qaeda being enemy number one in Iraq. Edwards replied with great good sense and admirable forthrightness, and I’ll quote it in a […]

Iraq War
Bush Vetoes Supplemental For Iraq 11

Bush Vetoes Supplemental For Iraq 11

Juan Cole

Bush Vetoes Supplemental for Iraq Rice will be Polite 11 Killed in Minibus attack Bush vetoed the supplemental appropriations bill for Iraq that Congress sent him on May 1. You know, Bush and Cheney and others got this meme going last fall that critics of the war had a responsibility to put forward their own […]

Iraq War
Mission Accomplished 4 Years On

Mission Accomplished 4 Years On

Juan Cole

Mission Accomplished, 4 Years on: A Commentary in Links Remarks by President Bush announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq Thursday evening [May 1, 2003] from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln: Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq […]

Iraq War
3000 Sadrists Protest Us Raid 32 Killed

3000 Sadrists Protest Us Raid 32 Killed

Juan Cole

3,000 Sadrists Protest US Raid 32 Killed in Funeral Bombing Some 3,000 Iraqis came out Monday in Baghdad to protest US military action against the Mahdi Army at Kadhimiya, the site of revered shrine to the 7th Imam or descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. Members of the Iraq parliament as a result want to restrict […]

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