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Abu Ghuraib Redux Arabic Satellite

Abu Ghuraib Redux Arabic Satellite

Juan Cole

Abu Ghuraib Redux The Arabic satellite television programs showed the new Abu Ghuraib pictures repeatedly late last week, and they provoked a new round of disgust with the United States. Boing Boing tells the story of how these photos were tracked down on a photo sharing site by a reporter using the google search engine. […]

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Blogging Fallujah And Us Air War

Blogging Fallujah And Us Air War

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Blogging Fallujah, and the US Air War against Iraqi Civilians Thomas E. Ricks has a characteristically piercing examination of the way in which a single blogger has been able to challenge the public relations efforts of the entire US military with regard to the human cost of the Fallujah campaign. He contrasts the US military’s […]

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Arabkurdish Sunnishiite Violence

Arabkurdish Sunnishiite Violence

Juan Cole

Arab/Kurdish, Sunni/Shiite Violence Flares, Killing Dozens The violence in Iraq on Saturday, which killed at least 40 and wounded many more, was particularly worrying because it was again characterized by a strong element of ethnic warfare. In Mosul, a car bomber pulled alongside a bus bringing in Kurdish militiamen or peshmerga, who guard the offices […]

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30 Killed In Tsunami Of Attacks Arab

30 Killed In Tsunami Of Attacks Arab

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30 Killed in Tsunami of Attacks Arab satellite stations are reporting mortar attacks on the Green Zone in Baghdad (where the US embassy and government offices are located), and showing thick columns of black smoke rising over the capital. Guerrillas launched several coordinated attacks on Friday, aimed at disrupting the country as it moves toward […]

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Hollowness Of War On Terror Madrid Hit

Hollowness Of War On Terror Madrid Hit

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Hollowness of War on Terror: Madrid hit Again Madrid was thrown into chaos on Friday when the Basque separatist organization ETA set off five bombs at gasoline stations around the capital of Madrid, just as Spaniards were trying to leave the city on a vacation that marks the advent of a new, democratic constitution in […]

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Card Wins Legal Action Against Pipes

Card Wins Legal Action Against Pipes

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Card wins Legal Action against Pipes Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer settled a libel suit out of court with University of Oregon instructor Douglas Card. They had accused Card of being anti-semitic (i.e. a racist) and of being a leftwing extremist. Pipes has a history of levelling wild charges against academics, and of being unreliable […]

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More Violence In Iraq Associated Press

More Violence In Iraq Associated Press

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More Violence in Iraq Associated Press reports that the fortified Green Zone (US offices and Iraqi government buildings) in Baghdad took heavy mortar fire on Thursday. A car bomb wounded two US soldiers in Baiji. There was heavy fighting in Mosul, leaving a dozen people dead. We only hear about a fraction of such violence […]

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Psy Ops And News Los Angeles Timess

Psy Ops And News Los Angeles Timess

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Psy-Ops and News The Los Angeles Times’s Mark Mazetti writes about a US military psy-ops campaign against the guerrillas in Fallujah in mid-October, in which military spokesmen convinced CNN that an attack on the city was imminent and got this “news” broadcast so as to observe how the guerrillas in the city reacted to it. […]

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Election News Al Hayat Says That Sunni

Election News Al Hayat Says That Sunni

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Election News Al-Hayat says that the Sunni tribal shaikhs with whom Prime Minister Iyad Allawi met in Jordan on Thusday pleaded with him to postpone the elections. The leader of the Sunni clans of the Dulaim, Majid Ali Sulaiman, told al-Hayat that the shaikhs of the Iraqi tribes “meet Allawi during the past two days, […]

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