Juan Cole

Chirac Calls for Withdrawal Timetable 5 GIs die in Iraq Bombings, killings continued apace. The US military announced the deaths of 5 US GIs by Iraqi guerrillas on Thursday. Guerrillas in east Baghdad killed three US soldiers with a roadside bomb. In al-Anbar province, a US marine died from earlier injuries inflicted by the enemy. […]

Iraqi Government Negotiations with Sunni Guerrillas The US Government Open Source Center translates the following from al-Ra’y: ‘Iraqi Reconciliation Conference Postponed ‘To Allow For More Time for Dialogue’ Report by Faysal Malkawi in Amman: “Contacts Between US Officials and Armed Factions… …and the Postponement of the Reconciliation Conference. The Iraqi Government Meets Representatives of the […]

3 GIs Killed 55 Dead in Killings, Bombings US Plans Ramadi Assault The LA Times reports that the deaths of 3 US GIs were announced on Wednesday: ‘ U.S. military officials announced the deaths of two troops a day earlier in Al Anbar province in western Iraq, raising to at least 105 the number of […]

2 US Troops Killed; 42 Shiites Kidnapped; Wedding Bombed in Baghdad; Maliki orders US Troops out of Sadr City Iraqi guerrillas killed two US GIs on Monday, bringing the one-month death toll for October to 103. Sunni Arab guerrillas near Tikrit north of Baghdad set up checkpoints, stopped minivans, and asked the passengers if they […]

Kaufmann: Iraq Partition Fait Accompli Chaim Kaufmann writes ‘ Juan, your piece in Salon objecting to a possible partition of Iraq is factually right about virtually everything — but addresses the wrong question: The issue is no longer whether to partition Iraq, but whether anyone can stop Iraq from partitioning itself. In the North a […]

Saudis Warn against Partition Day of Rage leaves 83 Dead Another US GI was reported killed on Monday. That brings the total about 101 in October. My article in Salon.com on what a bad idea partitioning Iraq would be has been published on the Web. Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Turki al-Faisal warned […]

Sadr City Bombing on Monday Kills 29, wounds 60 At Least 83 Killed Sunday In Basra, Bombers target Police Sunni Arab guerrillas killed a US Marine on Sunday, bringing to 100 the death toll for US troops in Iraq during the month of October. It is one of the deadliest months since the war began. […]

Goldberg and Jarvis Fold; And, The Real Meaning of ‘Fools Rush In’ I don’t take any pleasure in having been right about Iraq when they were wrong, or that they are they now are admitting it. I wish we could have avoided so much bloodshed and horror in Iraq, for our own troops and for […]

Marine Dies of Wounds 11 Iraqi Soldiers Kidnapped, 35 Killed in New Wave of Violence Reuters reports that a US Marine died Friday from wounds inflicted by guerrillas in al-Anbar Province. At least 2,803 GIs have been killed in Iraq, some 97 of them in October–making it among the costliest in US life since the […]