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Juan Cole

Iraq War
10 Coalition Troops Killed Dems Set

10 Coalition Troops Killed Dems Set

Juan Cole

10 Coalition Troops Killed Dems set Withdrawal deadline Iraqi crowds Reject Security Wall It was with a heavy heart that I read that 10 Coalition troops were killed on Monday, 9 of them Americans. The guerrillas who attacked the US outpost also wounded 20 other soldiers, 5 of them seriously. Militiamen in Basra killed a […]

Iraq War
69 Dead In Bombings Shootings Al Maliki

69 Dead In Bombings Shootings Al Maliki

Juan Cole

69 Dead in Bombings, Shootings; Al-Maliki Stops Wall-building at Adhamiya Reuters reports that a lot of wounded vets from the Iraq War are having to turn to private care. A chilling passage: “Of the nearly 24,000 wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, about a third suffer from some degree of traumatic brain injury, or […]

Iraq War
3 Us 1 Polish Soldiers Killed Protests

3 Us 1 Polish Soldiers Killed Protests

Juan Cole

3 US, 1 Polish– Soldiers Killed Protests Against Adhamiya Wall Iraqi guerrillas killed three US soldiers and wounded 6 others on Saturday. In a separate attack, guerrillas killed a Polish soldier and wounded others. The attack occurred near Diwaniya in Shiite south Iraq. US troops also came under attack in that area. A city council […]

Iraq War
Sadrists Reject De Baathification Us

Sadrists Reject De Baathification Us

Juan Cole

Sadrists Reject Abandoning De-Baathification; US Walls off Adhamiya One of the four benchmarks that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pressed on Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on his recent trip to Baghdad was the end of “de-Baathification” or the exclusion of former Baathists from government jobs and high positions. Most of those disadvantaged by this process […]

Iraq War
5 Coalition Troops Killed 20 Iraqis

5 Coalition Troops Killed 20 Iraqis

Juan Cole

5 Coalition Troops Killed, 20 Iraqis Executed Gates Warns Clock Ticking Guerrillas killed 5 Coalition troops in Iraq– 3 Americans and 2 British, and wounded others. US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned the Iraqi leadership in a visit to Baghdad on Thursday that the US commitment to that country is not open-ended. Gates indicated […]

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Buzz Reason Real Reason Much Of Cable

Buzz Reason Real Reason Much Of Cable

Juan Cole

The Buzz Reason, the Real Reason Much of cable television news is a conspiracy to keep people gossiping about the wrong thing and to prevent them from understanding what is really going on. Here are some examples: The Buzz Reason for the shootings at Virginia Tech? Movie violence. The Real Reason for the shootings at […]

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Pakistani Analysis Of Reported Iran

Pakistani Analysis Of Reported Iran

Juan Cole

Pakistani Analysis of Reported Iran Arms for Taliban The US military report that it intercepted a cache of Iranian arms intended for the Taliban was analyzed on the Pakistani television station, GEO, by regional experts. They found the idea that the Iranian government is sending arms to the Taliban implausible, but suggested other reasons for […]

Iraq War
Bloody Wednesday Guerrillas Violence

Bloody Wednesday Guerrillas Violence

Juan Cole

Bloody Wednesday: Guerrillas, Violence kill Nearly 300 Iraqis Well I guess those Baghdad markets aren’t as safe as Senator John McCain thought. And, they look remarkably unlike small town Indiana this morning, contrary to what Congressman Mike Pence alleged a couple of weeks ago. The thing about reality and politics is that sooner or later, […]

Iraq War
85 Killed Or Found Dead In Baghdad

85 Killed Or Found Dead In Baghdad

Juan Cole

85 Killed or Found Dead in Baghdad, Ramadi, etc. Return of Death Squads to Baghdad? A Majority of Americans Say War is Lost In the past 6 months, US troops have been killed in Iraq at the highest rate since the war began. For the first time in polling on the Iraq War, a majority […]

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