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Kurdish Offered At University Of

Kurdish Offered At University Of

Juan Cole

Kurdish Offered at the University of Michigan Pardon the narrowcasting– this is a message primarily for University of Michigan students, who should please share it with potentially interested friends. We have just enough applications to offer Elementary Kurdish of Iraq this summer term but we would like to get the word out to University of […]

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Juan Cole

Ft. Dix Plot is Milosevic’s Fault: Postcolonial Wars and Terror The small cell that plotted to attack Ft. Dix was made up of Albanians from Kosovo, along with a Turk and a Jordanian. Note that in the 1980s most Yugoslav Muslims were deracinated and secular. Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian are really the same language, and […]

Iraq
Decoding Iraq Violence Us Planes Take

Decoding Iraq Violence Us Planes Take

Juan Cole

Decoding Iraq Violence US Planes Take out Elementary School, Kill Children Kufa Blast Kills 16: US Blamed Irbil Bombing Kills 12 Violence in Iraq at first seems episodic and hard to decipher. It doesn’t take much speculation, however, to see patterns. For instance, the bombing on Wednesday morning in Irbil, Kurdistan, which killed at least […]

Iraq
Sunnis Threaten To Pull Out Of Al

Sunnis Threaten To Pull Out Of Al

Juan Cole

Sunnis Threaten to Pull out of al-Maliki Government, Demand a Unitary Iraq; 65 Killed in Civil War Violence In an interview with Nic Robertson of CNN, Iraq’s Sunni Arab vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, has laid down an ultimatum. He said that he would pull the Iraqi Accord Front (Sunni fundamentalists) out of the al-Maliki “national […]

Iraq
Petroleum Law Not About Fair

Petroleum Law Not About Fair

Juan Cole

Petroleum Law not About Fair Distribution of Revenues The Iraqi petroleum bill has run into heavy opposition in parliament from Kurds and other political forces. The Bush administration had made passing it by June 15 one of 4 major “benchmarks” for the progress of the al-Maliki government. Michael Schwartz at Tomdispatch.com covers the main issues […]

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Can Sarkozy Uphold Values Of 1789

Can Sarkozy Uphold Values Of 1789

Juan Cole

Can Sarkozy Uphold the Values of 1789? Rightwing nationalist Nicolas Sarkozy, is the next president of France. He campaigned on an anti-immigrant platform that veered uncomfortably close to that of Jean-Marie LePen, though he did make a provision for affirmative action. Sarkozy will try to break the unions, and his view of the immigrants who […]

Iraq
8 Us Troops Killed Major Bombing At

8 Us Troops Killed Major Bombing At

Juan Cole

8 US Troops Killed; Major bombing at Shiite Market killes 35; Boehner Favores Benchmarks Sunni Arab guerrillas killed nearly 100 persons in Iraq on Sunday in an orgy of civil war violence. The guerrillas in Iraq killed 8 US troops on Sunday, including 6 blown up by a roadside bomb along with an embedded European […]

Iraq
Al Zawahiri Attacks Democratic Plan In

Al Zawahiri Attacks Democratic Plan In

Juan Cole

Al-Zawahiri attacks Democratic Plan in Iraq; 75 Killed in Civil War Violence; Police/Mahdi Army Truce in Najaf Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s no. 2 leader complained in a videotape released Saturday about the Democrats’ plan to withdraw US troops from Iraq. Al-Zawahiri said he preferred that the US remain so that Muslim guerrillas could bleed the US […]

Iraq
3 Schools Of Islamic Resistance In Iraq

3 Schools Of Islamic Resistance In Iraq

Juan Cole

3 Schools of Islamic Resistance in Iraq The USG Open Source Center translates the remarks of a forum participant on the 3 distinct movements of Muslim fundamentalists in Iraq. Forum Participant Says Jihadist Arena Contains ‘Three Schools With Distinct Features’Jihadist Websites — OSC SummarySunday, May 6, 2007 Terrorism: Forum Participant Says Jihadist Arena Contains ‘Three […]

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