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Juan Cole

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

al-Qaeda
Plame Case Thrown Out National Security

Plame Case Thrown Out National Security

Juan Cole

Plame Case Thrown Out; National Security Imperilled A federal judge has thrown out the lawsuit of Valerie Plame Wilson against Bush administration figures Irv Lewis Libby, Karl Rove, Richard Bruce Cheney, and Richard Armitage. She sued them for conducting a campaign to out her in the press as an undercover operative and so ruining her […]

Iraq
4 Multinational Force Troops Killed

4 Multinational Force Troops Killed

Juan Cole

4 Multinational Force troops Killed Turks Shell northern Iraq Turkey intensively shelled Kurdish PKK positions inside Iraq, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Iraqi side. Turkey views the PKK as a terrorist organization, and blames it for a roadside bomb that recently killed several Turkish troops. One of the heartening things about the current US […]

Iraq
Sunni Bloc Returns To Parliament Lat Is

Sunni Bloc Returns To Parliament Lat Is

Juan Cole

Sunni Bloc Returns to Parliament ABC News Raw Footage The LAT is reporting that the Sunni Arab Iraqi Accord Front is ending its suspension of participation in parliament. It had demanded that deposed speaker of the house be returned to his post, and the Shiites and Kurds have given in and allowed it (with the […]

Iraq
Two Deadlocked Parliaments Democratic

Two Deadlocked Parliaments Democratic

Juan Cole

Two Deadlocked Parliaments The Democratic senators held an all night session Tuesday night, to underline that they are unable to get through their plan on an Iraq withdrawal plan because of Republican threats of filibuster. Despite what some commentators are saying, the Democrats (unlike the Republicans when they had a majority) are not trying to […]

Iraq
Nie Iraq Fueling Al Qaeda Threat To Us

Nie Iraq Fueling Al Qaeda Threat To Us

Juan Cole

NIE: Iraq Fueling al-Qaeda Threat to US Fred Kaplan at Slate points out that it does not take much reading between the lines to conclude that the new National Intelligence Estimate indicates that Bush`s Iraq War has generated a new and deadly threat against the US. In other words, the US had al-Qaeda on the […]

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