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Juan Cole

Iraq
137 Killed By Guerrillas Us To Talk To

137 Killed By Guerrillas Us To Talk To

Juan Cole

137 Killed by Guerrillas US to Talk to Iran In a tidal wave of violence, 137 persons were killed or found dead in Iraq on Sunday. Thousands of US troops searched south of Baghdad for 3 captured GIs. The Islamic State of Iraq (a guerrilla group) claimed to have been behind the ambush of two […]

Iraq
Sunni Arab Guerrillas Attacked Small Us

Sunni Arab Guerrillas Attacked Small Us

Juan Cole

Cheney in Saudi Arabia 5 US Troops Killed, 3 Missing Iraqi Parliament Decries Walls Cheney is trying to convince King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia not to write off the al-Maliki government or the US military surge strategy. He also tried to smooth over US/Saudi conflicts. King Abdullah is said to have concluded that Iraqi PM […]

Iraq
Jordanian Dailies On Cheneys Middle

Jordanian Dailies On Cheneys Middle

Juan Cole

Jordanian Dailies on Cheney’s Middle East Trip The USG Open Source Center paraphrases reports in the Jordanian press on US Vice President Dick Cheney’s current round of diplomacy in the Middle East. Jordanian Dailies Comment on Cheney’s Middle East Tour, ObjectivesJordan — OSC SummaryFriday, May 11, 2007 Jordanian newspapers published on 10 May are observed […]

Iraq
Sciri Adopts Sistani Emphasizes

Sciri Adopts Sistani Emphasizes

Juan Cole

SCIRI Adopts Sistani, emphasizes Iraqiness Bombings kill 26, wound 60 The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq held its annual party convention on Thursday and Friday and, according to Mariam Karouny of Reuters has decided to make some significant changes. They will drop the part of their party platform where they say that they […]

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Protest Over Detention Of Haleh

Protest Over Detention Of Haleh

Juan Cole

Protest over Detention of Haleh Esfandiari The Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association helped craft MESA’s letter protesting the detention by the Iranian government of prominent Iranian-American academic Haleh Esfandiari. [Help MESA defend Academic Freedom.] May 11, 2007 President Mahmoud AhmadinejadPasteur AveTehran 13168-43311Iran Your Excellency, I am writing on behalf of […]

Iraq
Congress Passes Short Lease Bill For

Congress Passes Short Lease Bill For

Juan Cole

Congress Passes Short-Leash Bill for Bush 9 Iraqi captives executed Congress passed an appropriations bill that only funded the Iraq War for about three months on Thursday. Bush has said that he will veto it. Senate Dems are working to find 12 moderate Republicans who also want toe war to end. WaPo confirms the report […]

Iraq
Radical Poem On Sharm El Sheikh Usg

Radical Poem On Sharm El Sheikh Usg

Juan Cole

Radical Poem on Sharm el Sheikh The USG Open Source center has paraphrased an ironic poem by a Muslim militant about the Sharm el Sheikh conference on Iraq. The frankly racist remarks about US Secretary of State Condi Rice and the implication that any male Middle Eastern politician who cooperated with her was effeminate and […]

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Those Who Live In Glass Houses Is Mitt

Those Who Live In Glass Houses Is Mitt

Juan Cole

Those who Live in Glass Houses Were Mitt Romney’s Remarks Anti-Muslim Bigotry? Mitt Romney has attacked Al Sharpton’s remark about his being defeated by those who ‘really do believe in God’ as a piece of religious bigotry. But first of all the remark came in the context of Sharpton’s debate with Christopher Hitchens concerning belief […]

Iraq
Cheney Greeted By Mortars

Cheney Greeted By Mortars

Juan Cole

Cheney Greeted by Mortars, Demonstrations: Iraqi Parliament pleads for US withdrawal Al-Hayat writes in Arabic that US Vice President Dick Cheney was greeted, on his surprise visit to Baghdad, by a rain of mortar shells on the Green Zone and by protests in several cities organized by Puritan Shiite followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. One […]

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