Juan Cole

Breaking News: Bombing at Dahab 30 appear to be dead, 100 wounded in the bombings of a Red Sea resort. Although Egyptian secret police have for some years controlled the radical fundamentalists in the Nile Valley, the radicals appear to have established some cells in the Sinai, a rugged, desert environment that is like Afghanistan […]

Fund Smears Cole with Barrage of Lies John Fund of the Wall Street Journal editorial page has published a large number of falsehoods about me. The most egregious is this: ‘ He calls Israel “the most dangerous regime in the Middle East.” ‘ This a lie. I never said that. Try googling it. (All that […]

Bin Laden Urges Jihad in Sudan In another reminder that George W. Bush has still not caught the man responsible for September 11, while he has mired tends of thousands of US troops in an unrelated Iraq quagmire, the murderous lunatic Usamah Bin Laden spoke again on Sunday. I don’t know how Bush lives with […]

3 GIs Slain, 27 Iraqis Slavery Revived by Contractors on US Military Bases A car bomb aimed at a police patrol in Baghdad killed three and wounded at least 25 persons Monday morning near the Ministry of Health. Guerrillas killed another three GIs on Sunday, and 27 Iraqis died in guerrilla violence. Four Iraqis were […]

All Right, Not All Right Today at Informed Comment, we are going to play the game of “All Right, Not All Right,” known in Washington, DC, as “business as usual,” but otherwise castigated by the moral philosophers as hypocrisy. It IS all right for Bush campaign strategist Karl Rove to leak classified intelligence about the […]

President Talabani asks al-Maliki to Form a Government; 6 Dead in Sunday Mortar Barrage; 5 US Troops, 26 Iraqis Killed Saturday The guerrilla movement replied to the political developments in Iraq on Sunday morning raining 11 mortar strikes down on various parts of the capital. Three mortar shells fell in the Green Zone where parliament […]

17 Killed in Guerrilla Violence UN: thousands Detained Illegally Guerrilla violence took the lives of 17 Iraqis on Friday, with major bombings in Mosul and Baghdad. At Baiji, guerrillas captured 6 troops and executed them. Al-Zaman says that the guerrillas killed or wounded some 28 policemen alone on Friday. In one of the worst incidents, […]

Al-Maliki Acceptable, Say Kurds, Sunni Arabs The Financial Times reports on the reaction of the Kurdish and Sunni Arab blocs to the selection of Jawad al-Maliki, 56, as the candidate for prime minister of the United Iraqi Alliance: ‘ “We have no objection to Jawad al-Maliki,” said Iyad al-Samarrai, of the Sunni-led Iraqi Islamic party. […]

Maliki the Shiite Candidate Breaking news: CNN is reporting that United Iraqi Alliance has informally decided to replace Ibrahim Jaafari with MP Jawad al-Maliki of the Islamic Dawa Party as its candidate for prime minister. The formal decision will be made on Saturday. ——- Here are some documents from the Open Source Center of the […]