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Archives for February 2009

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Palestinians: Israeli Attack on Jesus, Mary "Racist," Anti-Semitic

Palestinians: Israeli Attack on Jesus, Mary "Racist," Anti-Semitic

Juan Cole

The satirical comedy skits put on by Lior Klein concerning Jesus and Mary on Israel’s Channel 10 last week have provoked rallies and protests by Palestinian-Israeli Christians, of whom there are about 120,000. They also drew condemnation from Muslim Palestinian-Israelis, of whom there are over a million. Klein said that since Christians were denying the […]

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IAEA Inspectors: Iran not Producing Weapons-grade Uranium

IAEA Inspectors: Iran not Producing Weapons-grade Uranium

Juan Cole

As I mentioned yesterday, Iran is not producing weapon-grade uranium, and could not easily do so without detection. The Hindu, which despite its name is left of center (and which is one of India’s finest newspapers) writes: ‘ Iran has not converted the low-grade uranium that it has produced into weapon-grade uranium, inspectors belonging to […]

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Iran Nuclear Program Hyped again

Iran Nuclear Program Hyped again

Juan Cole

Note to mainstream media: Iran cannot construct nuclear bombs with uranium enriched only to less than 4%. It needs to be enriched to something like 90% to make a bomb. Iran is not known even to have that capability, and no it cannot be done in 2 months (try a decade), assuming they were trying […]

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Netanyahu: Train Wreck for Israel, Middle East; Looming Disaster for United States

Netanyahu: Train Wreck for Israel, Middle East; Looming Disaster for United States

Juan Cole

The selection of rightwing expansionist Binyamin Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government is being greeted with dismay by the Egyptian government, which remembers him for having derailed the Oslo peace process in the late 1990s. Netanyahu has vowed to abandon negotiations with the Palestinians, and says he will expand the program of Israeli colonization […]

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32 Killed, 145 Wounded in Bombing of Shiite Funeral in D.I. Khan;

32 Killed, 145 Wounded in Bombing of Shiite Funeral in D.I. Khan;

Juan Cole

Sunni fundamentalists used a suicide bombing to attack a Shiite funeral in the western Punjabi town of Dera Ismail Khan on Friday, killing 32 and wounding 145. Here is video from Pakistani television: Angry Shiite crowds went on a rampage against Sunnis in the city. The Pakistani authorities stepped in to impose a curfew. The […]

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Kyrgyzstan Expels US, Endangering Afghanistan Logistics for US Troops: Major Victory for Putin

Kyrgyzstan Expels US, Endangering Afghanistan Logistics for US Troops: Major Victory for Putin

Juan Cole

In a major blow for the US and NATO military effort in Afghanistan, the parliament of Kyrgyzstan voted Thursday formally to end US use of Manas Air Force base to resupply troops in nearby Afghanistan. With the effective closure of the Khyber Pass route into Afghanistan from Pakistan, this step endangers the logistics supply line […]

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Haidar: Bin Laden is not, either, Hiding Out in Shiite Parachinar

Haidar: Bin Laden is not, either, Hiding Out in Shiite Parachinar

Juan Cole

Murtaza Haidar shares with IC his letter to the editor of the MIT International Review [pdf] Gillespie et al. Finding Osama Bin Laden : An application of biogeographic theories and satellite imagery. MIT International Review. Feb 17, 2009. Dear Editors and founders of the MIT International Review: Professors Gillespie et al. while writing in MIT […]

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Iraq: Kurdish-Arab War in the Offing?

Iraq: Kurdish-Arab War in the Offing?

Juan Cole

McClatchy is alarmed at the rapid deterioration of relations between Kurds and Arabs in the north of Iraq. The victory of the Sunni Arab nationalist party, al-Hadba’, in Ninevah Province has dealt a setback to the Kurds, who initially controlled the province’s governing council and whose paramilitary, the Peshmerga, was deployed in parts of the […]

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Obama Orders 17,000 US Troops to Afghanistan

Obama Orders 17,000 US Troops to Afghanistan

Juan Cole

President Barack Obama has decided to send 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, on the grounds that “the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan demands urgent attention”. Civilian deaths from political violence increased about 40% in 2008 over 2007, reaching over 2000. They will be sent to the Pushtun south and east of the country, where guerrilla […]

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