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Muqtada Thanks Iran Syria Sumaydi

Muqtada Thanks Iran Syria Sumaydi

Juan Cole

Muqtada thanks Iran, Syria; Sumayd’i Criticizes Emergency Law as Undemocratic az-Zaman: Muqtada al-Sadr expressed his gratitude Friday to Iranian President Muhammad Khatami and Syrian President Bashar al-Asad for rejecting foreign presence in Iraq. He also criticized Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, in his Friday sermon, read for him at the Kufa mosque by Shaikh Jabir […]

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Voice Of America Staff Petition To

Voice Of America Staff Petition To

Juan Cole

Voice of America Staff Petition to Congress I received the following from Alan Heil regarding the Voice of America and the continued sinister attempts to abolish it in favor of an AM radio format. This gutting of intelligent US debate and self-presentation to the rest of the world is being spear-headed by the Broadcasting Board […]

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5 Us Soldiers Killed 20 Wounded At

5 Us Soldiers Killed 20 Wounded At

Juan Cole

5 US soldiers Killed, 20 Wounded at Samarra 4 Iraqis dead, 24 wounded AP reports that the chaos in Samarra spilled over Thursday onto the nearby US base. Guerrillas attacked the base with a car bomb and nearly 40 rounds of mortar fire. They killed 5 US soldiers, 1 Iraqi guardsman, and 3 civilians. Some […]

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Guerrillas Number Over 20000 Some

Guerrillas Number Over 20000 Some

Juan Cole

Guerrillas number over 20,000 Some honest US officials in Iraq are finally admitting that US forces are not meeting a vanguard of international terrorism there but rather some 20,000 angry Baathists who fear for the fate of Sunni Arabs in the new regime. This way of putting the problem suffers from conceptual problems, too. The […]

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Iraqi And Arab Press Critical Of

Iraqi And Arab Press Critical Of

Juan Cole

Iraqi and Arab Press Critical of Emergency Laws The BBC surveys reaction in the Iraqi and Arab press to the announcement of emergency laws by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi that could gut civil liberties in Iraq. Typical excerpts: The government has no option other than to declare a state of emergency through the national security […]

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Zarqawi Not Al Qaeda Comment By David

Zarqawi Not Al Qaeda Comment By David

Juan Cole

Zarqawi not al-Qaeda: Comment by David Wright David Wright, a former Defense Department analyst and former Army Reserve strategic intelligence analyst has sent the following letter to the Washington Post and shares it here as a guest commentary: ‘ In some of your reporting (but happily not all) you refer to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as […]

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Kenny Boy And W

Kenny Boy And W

Juan Cole

Kenny Boy and W. Eric Boehlert of Salon.com quotes approvingly two major newspaper leads that did not shy away from mentioning explicitly the close ties between George W. Bush and Enron’s Ken Lay (now defending himself from criminal conspiracy charges): Los Angeles Times: “Lay lent Enron’s corporate jet to the younger Bush eight times during […]

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Children Detainees In Iraq Save

Children Detainees In Iraq Save

Juan Cole

Children Detainees in Iraq? “Save the Children” is intervening with Coalition members in Iraq in an attempt to secure the release of an estimated 100 Iraqi children being held as detainees. The US military and possibly Coalition partners have in many cases taken women and children hostage in order to force their male relatives among […]

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Bush Says Edwards Lacks Experience

Bush Says Edwards Lacks Experience

Juan Cole

Bush says Edwards lacks Experience George W. Bush alleged Thursday that John Edwards lacks the experience necessary to be president. The problem with this argument is that Bush lacked the experience necessary to be president when he ran in 2000, so this sort of cheap shot just hoists him by his own petard. Let’s just […]

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