Juan Cole

23,416 US Casualties in Iraq War 21 GIs killed since Saturday Campaign Against Sadr City Looms Al-Zaman reports that 21 US troops have been killed in Iraq since Saturday, with 8 killed on Monday alone. As of Tuesday, 23,416 US troops have been wounded or killed in the Iraq War. If you really want to […]

Lies and Cover-Ups are not “Being in Denial” Foleygate, Ricegate and Insurgencygate The right wing of the Republican Party has a problem with the truth. The American press corps has an addiction to euphemisms. Bob Woodward called his book “State of Denial.” The press around the book raises the question of whether President George W. […]

2 GIs, 1 British Soldier Killed 113 Bodies Found Debaathification Targets Interior 10 American and British troops were killed or announced dead in Iraq over the weekend, an unusually high number over three days. There is an enormous discrepancy between the casualty figures reported by al-Zaman [The Times of Baghdad] (Ar.) and those of the […]

Sadrists Accuse Sunni Politicians of Ties to Terror 86 Dead in Political Violence The Sadr movement is calling for removal of some Sunni Arab cabinet ministers of the Iraqi Accord Front IAF) after a bodyguard of IAF leader Adnan Dulaimi was implicated in a plot to set off a string of car bombs in Baghdad, […]

Craig Murray on Manufacturing Terror Oil, Lily Pad Bases and Torture The Bush administration has been about “the Greater Middle East” (including Central Asia). It has been about basing rights in those areas. It says it is fighting a “war on terror” that is unlike past wars and may go on for decades. It has […]

Plot to Bomb Iraqi Gov’t in Green Zone Plan to Declare Islamic Emirate in Diyala Saudis to Build Security Wall, Fear Civil war Al-Hayat reports [Ar.] that the Iraqi government the curfew in Baghdad succeeded in preventing a rumored “suicide car bombing conspiracy” in the capital with its sudden imposition of a one-day curfew. The […]

Kabul Bombing Kills at Least 10 Zawahiri Condemns Pope At least 10 are dead and 54 wounded in a bombing at the Ministry of the Interior on Saturday in Kabul. (Update: The death toll is rising. Karzai blamed it on foreign elements. For those who want to read more about what has gone wrong in […]

Sudden Curfew in Baghdad The Iraqi government has imposed a curfew on Baghdad. Some reports say it is for 24 hours. This one maintains that it is for 3 days. For those who haven’t lived through them, it is worth noting that such curfews can be huge inconveniences. If you haven’t stocked enough food and […]

100 Dead in Iraq on Thursday; Including 60 Bodies found in Baghdad Reuters reports almost 40 persons killed in political violence as a result of Iraq’s civil war on Thursday. Guerrillas set off several bomb attacks and fired mortars inside Baghdad, accounting for a number of the deaths. In addition, Police found 60 bodies in […]