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Juan Cole

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Shiite Sunni Shiite Shiite No Civil

Shiite Sunni Shiite Shiite No Civil

Juan Cole

Shiite-Sunni, Shiite-Shiite No civil war and Massive Casualties There were major gun battles in Mosul and Samarra on Wednesday, and bombs went off on the road to Baghdad airport and at Iskandariyah to the south. They don’t hate our freedoms. They hate US policies. This conclusion had been obvious from extensive polling done by Ron […]

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Baghdad Car Bomb Wounds 5 Us Soldiers

Baghdad Car Bomb Wounds 5 Us Soldiers

Juan Cole

Baghdad: Car Bomb Wounds 5 US Soldiers Baiji: Car Bomb Kills 7, Wounds 18 Guerrillas in Baghdad detonated a car bomb near a US convoy on the road to the airport, wounding 5 American soldiers. Guerrillas in the town of Baiji north of Baghdad detonated a car bomb in a crowded market, killing 7 persons […]

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Iraq Elections Negroponte Optimistic

Iraq Elections Negroponte Optimistic

Juan Cole

Iraq Elections: Negroponte Optimistic; Shiites Enthusiastic for Reasons that would not Please Negroponte The Chicago Tribune’s Liz Sly is back in Baghdad and has two important pieces out. One describes the confidence of US Ambassador to Baghdad John Negroponte that the Sunni Arabs will vote in the upcoming elections rather than boycotting them. She reports […]

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5 Us Troops Killed 18 Wounded I Take

5 Us Troops Killed 18 Wounded I Take

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5 US Troops Killed, 18 Wounded I take today’s New York Times/ AP report on Iraq as a very bad sign. For one thing, it says “On Monday, the military reported five new U.S. deaths: Two American soldiers from Task Force Baghdad were killed and three wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in northwestern Baghdad. […]

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Fallujah Report And

Fallujah Report And

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The Fallujah Report and the Liberal/Conservative Divide The “Fallujah Report” prepared by the Marines concerning their enemies in the most recent big campaign is now up on the Web in HTML rather than powerpoint, and so easier to download. One thing that leaped out at me was the small number of foreign fighters it reports. […]

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Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish Writer

Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish Writer

Juan Cole

Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish writer Sabah Salih has an interesting piece on the way the image of the Kurds has changed among European leftists from that of victim to that of collaborator with American imperialism. He suggests that European sympathy for Kurdish nationalism has correspondingly declined. He says that I oppose the creation of a Kurdistan […]

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Fresh Wave Of Violence In Iraq 5 Us

Fresh Wave Of Violence In Iraq 5 Us

Juan Cole

Fresh Wave of Violence in Iraq 5 US troops Killed The relentless guerrilla war continued apace in Iraq on Sunday. AFP reported that guerrillas killed two Marines in clashes on Sunday. Also, in Anbar province, guerrillas killed three US servicemen on Sunday, and two had died there on Friday. A bomb exploded on the road […]

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Henry Siegman In New York Review Of

Henry Siegman In New York Review Of

Juan Cole

Henry Siegman in the New York Review of Books Amid the unwarranted outbreak of optimism about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the wake of Yasser Arafat’s death, Henry Siegman’s essay in the New York Review of Books on Ariel Sharon’s true plans comes as a breath of fresh air. Sharon is giving lip service to things […]

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Shock Of Week Liberals In Liberal Arts

Shock Of Week Liberals In Liberal Arts

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Shock of the Week: Liberals in Liberal Arts George Will’s column this week is unusually unreflective. I don’t often agree with Will, but he is usually a bright and well-informed columnist on the Reaganaut Right. He knows enough to castigate Justice Scalia for saying that Darwinian evolution is “only a theory” (a theory is a […]

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