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Juan Cole

Iraq War
11 Electricity Workers Killed At

11 Electricity Workers Killed At

Juan Cole

11 Electricity Workers Killed at Checkpoint Democrats threaten to take On Bush on Iraq Funding Police discovered 14 bodies in Baghad, 7 in Baqubah and 3 in Mosul on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Guerrillas detonated two roadside bombs in south Baghdad. Early on Wednesday, gunmen killed 11 electricity workers near Hawija southwest of Kirkuk, after […]

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Cole In Salon Irans New Hostage Crisis

Cole In Salon Irans New Hostage Crisis

Juan Cole

Cole in Salon: Iran’s New Hostage Crisis My column, “Iran’s new hostage crisis,” is out at Salon.com. Excerpt: ‘ The capture by Iranian Revolutionary Guards of 15 British sailors and marines on March 23 has set off a diplomatic crisis and mobilized the public in both Britain and Iran . . . Why would the […]

Iraq War
21 Shiites From Mccains Market Killed 3

21 Shiites From Mccains Market Killed 3

Juan Cole

21 Shiites from McCain’s Market Killed 3 US Troops Killed Massive Truck Bomb at Kirkuk Remember that Baghdad market visited on Sunday by Senator John McCain to show how calm things are? James Hider of the London Times writes, , “21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The […]

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Iranian Television Surge Of Violence In

Iranian Television Surge Of Violence In

Juan Cole

Iranian Television: Surge of Violence in Iraq The USG Open Source Center translates an Iranian program discussing the increase of political violence in Iraq. Iranian Al-Alam TV ‘Iraq Today’ Program on Surge of ViolenceAl-Alam TelevisionMonday, April 2, 2007 Tehran Al-Alam Television in Arabic at 1330 GMT on 1 April broadcast its “Iraq Today” program which […]

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Hope Is Not Plan Thomas Mowles Edited

Hope Is Not Plan Thomas Mowles Edited

Juan Cole

Hope is not A Plan Thomas Mowle’s edited book, Hope is not a Plan, is now available. Below is the amazon.com blurb. I have heard Mowle speak at a conference and his insights are invaluable. Book DescriptionFrom the outset, the war in Iraq was directed from Washington and executed by troops on the ground. Between […]

Iraq War
15 Percent Increase In Iraq Deaths

15 Percent Increase In Iraq Deaths

Juan Cole

Increase in Iraq Deaths Despite Surge 6 US GIs killed over weekend McCain Continues Magical Mystery Tour For all those journalists and politicians who keep insisting that there are new “glimmers” of “hope” in Iraq because of the new security plan started 6 weeks ago, here is a sobering statistic from the Iraqi government. (I’m […]

Iraq War
Justice Minister Resigns Over Political

Justice Minister Resigns Over Political

Juan Cole

Justice Minister Resigns over Political Deadlock; Talabani: Success in Talks with Sunni Guerrillas Iraqi Justice Minister Hashem al-Shibli, has resigned. A Sunni, he represented the Iraqi National List of Iyad Allawi. The BBC suggests that one of his motives was the contradiction between his constitutional duty to oversee the upcoming referendum in Kirkuk Province concerning […]

Iraq War
25 Dead In Sectarian Killings In Mosul

25 Dead In Sectarian Killings In Mosul

Juan Cole

25 Dead in Sectarian Killings in Mosul; Muqtada Calls for Massive Demonstrations; Talabani admits that US is Occupying Iraq The sectarian killings in the northern city of Tal Afar appear to have spilled over onto another northern city, that of Mosul, where police found 25 bodies Thursday according to Reuters. Amer Mohsen at Iraqslogger summarizes […]

Iraq War
Bombers Kill Over 130 Wounding Over Two

Bombers Kill Over 130 Wounding Over Two

Juan Cole

Bombers kill over 130, wounding over two Hundred US Embassy Orders Personal Armor in Green Zone Oh, yeah. Those rightwing Iraqi bloggers that Bush depends on for his news about the country have sure imposed security on Iraq by their sunny faces. Reuters reports on the horrific and massive bombings carried out by Sunni Arab […]

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