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Giuliani Laughs At Habeas Corpus Habeas

Giuliani Laughs At Habeas Corpus Habeas

Juan Cole

Giuliani Laughs at Habeas Corpus Habeas Corpus is the right of a prisoner to petition a court to release him on grounds of wrongful imprisonment. It is a constitutional right. The Bush administration has attempted to abolish it with regard to certain classes of prisoner. In the Republican presidential debate in May, Ron Paul argued […]

al-Qaeda
Glasgow Attacked British Police Have

Glasgow Attacked British Police Have

Juan Cole

Glasgow attacked British police have arrested more suspects in the car-bombing of the Glasgow airport. Recent reports I hear at CNN suggest to me that suicide was more central to this Glasgow operation than usual in such attacks. The perpetrators are said to have doused themselves with gasoline. This was not in fact like Iraq, […]

Iraq
Maliki Condemns Us Raid On Sadr City 77

Maliki Condemns Us Raid On Sadr City 77

Juan Cole

Maliki Condemns US Raid on Sadr City 77% of Americans Say Iraq War going Badly 77% of Americans say that the Iraq War is going badly, and 66% say we should get the troops out, in a recent CBS news poll. It shows a dramatic 7% rise since last April in the proportion who want […]

Iraq
Iran Welcomes President Talebani

Iran Welcomes President Talebani

Juan Cole

Talabani and Ahmadinejad Buddy Around This video of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani visiting Tehran last week and hanging around gleefully with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad raises many questions: Didn’t Bush say to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, “We’re proud to call you, friend, Mr. President, and proud to have you as an ally in the war […]

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Glasgow Airport Incident Apparent Car

Glasgow Airport Incident Apparent Car

Juan Cole

Glasgow Airport Incident Apparent car bombing attack at Glasgow Airport. The two drivers appear to have been arrested. The eyewitness description suggests rank amateurs with no training. They didn’t actually get close enough to do much damage, and their behavior suggests that something went very wrong– what with one of them on fire and trying […]

Iraq
Mika Brzezinski Of Mnsbc Rips Paris

Mika Brzezinski Of Mnsbc Rips Paris

Juan Cole

Mika: Iraq is More Important Bravo Mika Brzezinski, the anchor who refused to read a story about the release from jail of socialite Paris Hilton as the lede on her MSNBC news program. Click in the middle of the video to play.

Iraq
Sunni Bloc Pulls Out Of Government 5 Us

Sunni Bloc Pulls Out Of Government 5 Us

Juan Cole

Sunni Bloc Pulls out of Government US Raids Sadr City, Kills 26 Talabani Slams Arab Neighbors Early Saturday morning, US forces raided into Shiite Sadr City, presumably challenging Mahdi Army commanders. They killed 26 in the course of the action. The Mahdi Army is loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who calls for a quick […]

Iraq
Hacking Muqtada Iraq Al Sadr Website

Hacking Muqtada Iraq Al Sadr Website

Juan Cole

Hacking Muqtada The USG Open Source Center reports on the hacking of the Sadr Movement’s website and its hijacking for anti-Shiite polemics. Cyberwar as part of the Iraq War is nothing new, as I noted in this column last February. The sectarian civil war in Iraq is being fought at every level, from poisoned watermelons […]

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Bomb Defused In London As I Write

Bomb Defused In London As I Write

Juan Cole

Bomb Defused in London As I write, London police are using a robot to investigate a parked car near Buckingham Palace. The operation comes hours after a car was discovered packed with explosives and ready to detonate outside a nightclub in Picadilly Circus. The proper response of Americans to these events? Book a vacation in […]

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