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Juan Cole

Iraq
Baath Party: Threats over Oil Law; Seeks Info on Shiite Crimes

Baath Party: Threats over Oil Law; Seeks Info on Shiite Crimes

Juan Cole

The USG Open Source Center translates two communiques from the Iraqi Baath Party. As long-time readers know, I believe the Baath Party cells are a significant component of what the US calls the ‘insurgency,’ but that they allow Salafi Jihadis to take the ‘credit’ for some of their terror operations. The first memo calls on […]

Iraq
Cheney Urges Strike On Iran Mcclatchy

Cheney Urges Strike On Iran Mcclatchy

Juan Cole

Cheney Urges Strike on Iran: McClatchy Bush threatens al-Maliki then Backs Off Bombing in Taji Kills 7 Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef of McClatchy report that VP Dick Cheney has been urging a military strike on Iran, but that Bush has decided for the moment to hit Shiite allies of Iran […]

Pakistan
Rumors Musharraf Will Impose Emergency

Rumors Musharraf Will Impose Emergency

Juan Cole

Rumors Musharraf will impose Emergency Laws in Pakistan Islamabad blames Obama Blogger acting up, affecting comments, archives. Should clear up soon. Sorry. Rumors are flying in Pakistan that Gen. Pervez Musharraf may declare what amounts to martial law, responding to ‘external’ and ‘internal’ threats. [Musharraf announced Thursday that he was not in fact going to […]

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Us Military Strikes Embarrass Al Maliki

Us Military Strikes Embarrass Al Maliki

Juan Cole

US Military Strikes Embarrass al-Maliki While he is in Tehran The US military took advantage of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s absence from the country to settle some scores with the Mahdi Army in Sadr City (East Baghad), attacking units there and mounting air strikes on them, killing 32 and wounding about a dozen. Local observers […]

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Beeman To Nyt Hyping Iran Threat In

Beeman To Nyt Hyping Iran Threat In

Juan Cole

Beeman to NYT: Hyping Iran Threat in Times of Diplomacy William O. Beeman of the University of Minnesota shared with IC this letter to the editor of the New York Times: “From: William O. Beeman Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 3:22 PM To: letters@nytimes.com Subject: U.S. Says Bomb Suppled by Iran Kills Troops in Iraq To the […]

Pakistan
Pakistani Editor Tancredo Has Expressed

Pakistani Editor Tancredo Has Expressed

Juan Cole

Pakistani Editor: ‘Tancredo has Expressed his Evil, inner Self’ At IC Global Affairs, the editors of major Pakistani newspapers reply to Tom Tancredo and Barack Obama. The issue came up again at the AFL-CIO debate in Chicago last night, with Obama being generally criticized by the other candidates not so much for the policy but […]

Iraq
Al Maliki Declines Turkish Treaty On

Al Maliki Declines Turkish Treaty On

Juan Cole

Al-Maliki Declines Turkish Treaty on Terrorism Kurdistan Passes Oil Law Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appears to have been ambushed by Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his visit to Ankara, when Erdogan suddenly presented him with a thoroughgoing counter-terrorism treaty to sign, pledging the Iraqi government to go after the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party), which […]

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Bush Vs Zombies

Bush Vs Zombies

Juan Cole

Bush v. Zombies A satire on Bush administration fear-mongering. courtesy YouTube.

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Usa Terrorism Hiroshima Atomic Bomb

Usa Terrorism Hiroshima Atomic Bomb

Juan Cole

US Deployment of Mass Terror: Hiroshima Not a shining moment. From YouTube.

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