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Juan Cole

Iraq
Us Raids Umm Al Qura Mosque Sistani

Us Raids Umm Al Qura Mosque Sistani

Juan Cole

Turkish Muslim Party Wins Landslide US Raids Umm al-Qura Mosque Sistani said in Peril In neighboring Turkey, the Islamically tinged AK Party won nearly 47% of the vote on Sunday, which will allow it, after a multiplier is applied, to rule with a comfortable margin without needing a coalition party. It has been suggested that […]

Iraq
Feingold On Censure Full Discussion

Feingold On Censure Full Discussion

Juan Cole

Feingold to Introduce Censure Resolution against Bush Senator Russ Feingold plans to introduce a censure motion against Bush for misleading the US public into war, he told Meet the Press on Sunday. Feingold makes the good points that the president has been involved in things that look like criminality; that the votes aren’t there to […]

Iraq
Blumenthal Young Republican Chicken

Blumenthal Young Republican Chicken

Juan Cole

Blumenthal: Young Republican Chicken Hawks Max Blumenthal via YouTube,on young Republican Chicken Hawks [wouldn’t they just be ‘chicks’? Or maybe ‘peepees’?]. You’d think after what happened to Jonah Goldberg, they’d get together and make up some sort of collective alibi or something.

Egypt
Napoleons Egypt I Just Received

Napoleons Egypt I Just Received

Juan Cole

Napoleon’s Egypt I am repeating this posting for Monday, since many readers skip the weekends. I just received an advance copy of my new book, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East. I’m a proud parent/author and breaking out the virtual cigars. I think Palgrave Macmillan did a stellar job with the editing and production. The […]

Iraq
How To Create Angry American

How To Create Angry American

Juan Cole

How to Create an Angry American Repeated from Sunday A clever montage of Bush administration falsehoods and denials regarding the Iraq War, via YouTube (film-maker’s link).

Iraq
Us Airstrike Kills 15 Children Women

Us Airstrike Kills 15 Children Women

Juan Cole

US Airstrike Kills 15 Children, Women, Men; Mosul Rocked by Death Squad, Roadside Bomb Killings; Shiite UIA Rejects Arming Sunni Arabs The United States military has bombed Iraqi cities quite a lot. But few reporters have asked the question raised by Hannah Allam and Jenan Hussein about who exactly is being killed in such raids. […]

Last Neocon Attacks Hillary You Might

Last Neocon Attacks Hillary You Might

Juan Cole

The Last Neocon Attacks Hillary You might gather from a cursory examination of the wire services that “the Pentagon” has attacked Senator Hillary Clinton for requesting a briefing for her committee from the Department of Defense on contingency plans for withdrawal from Iraq. But as Fred Kaplan of Slate pointed out, it was a specific […]

Iraq
June Attacks In Iraq At All Time High

June Attacks In Iraq At All Time High

Juan Cole

June Attacks in Iraq at All-Time High Da’wa Party Protests Saudi Jihadis Reuters obtained from the US Department of Defense statistics that show there were an average of 177.8 attacks on Iraqi military and civilian and US targets per day in June– an all-time record for Iraq. The only other month during the past 4 […]

Iraq
Tpmtv New Al Qaeda Bamboozle

Tpmtv New Al Qaeda Bamboozle

Juan Cole

Josh Marshall on the Iraq Al-Qaeda Bamboozle

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