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Juan Cole

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50 Sadrists Killed By Americans In

50 Sadrists Killed By Americans In

Juan Cole

50 Sadrists Killed by Americans in Karbala and Nasiriyah Sistani’s House Sprayed by Machine Gun Fire An aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani reports that his house in Najaf was sprayed with machine gun fire (-al-Hayat). (If Sistani gets killed in the current fighting in Najaf between the US and the Mahdi Army, there will […]

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50 Sadrists Killed By Americans In

50 Sadrists Killed By Americans In

Juan Cole

50 Sadrists Killed by Americans in Karbala and Nasiriyah Sistani’s House Sprayed by Machine Gun Fire An aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani reports that his house in Najaf was sprayed with machine gun fire (-al-Hayat). (If Sistani gets killed in the current fighting in Najaf between the US and the Mahdi Army, there will […]

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Powell Admission Begs Question By Now

Powell Admission Begs Question By Now

Juan Cole

Powell Admission Begs Question By now most persons with a television and an interest in US affairs will have seen the bizarre scene in which Deputy Press Secretary Emily Miller, an aide to Colin Powell, attempted to pull him off camera and stop him from answering a question put by Tim Russert of Meet the […]

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Powell Admission Begs Question By Now

Powell Admission Begs Question By Now

Juan Cole

Powell Admission Begs Question By now most persons with a television and an interest in US affairs will have seen the bizarre scene in which Deputy Press Secretary Emily Miller, an aide to Colin Powell, attempted to pull him off camera and stop him from answering a question put by Tim Russert of Meet the […]

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Moving To More Secure Camp Daniel

Moving To More Secure Camp Daniel

Juan Cole

Moving to a More Secure Camp Daniel Williams of the Washington Post wonders if Iraq can be salvaged. The article is one of the more clear-eyed I have seen: Some quotes: ‘ “We could not imagine the deterioration leading to such a point. It’s getting worse day after day, and no one has been able […]

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Moving To More Secure Camp Daniel

Moving To More Secure Camp Daniel

Juan Cole

Moving to a More Secure Camp Daniel Williams of the Washington Post wonders if Iraq can be salvaged. The article is one of the more clear-eyed I have seen: Some quotes: ‘ “We could not imagine the deterioration leading to such a point. It’s getting worse day after day, and no one has been able […]

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Gay Marriage In Massachusetts And

Gay Marriage In Massachusetts And

Juan Cole

Gay Marriage in Massachusetts and the Egyptian Boathouse This Web Log has focused on Iraq so much in the past year that sometimes readers complain if I stray into other subjects. But it was originally created after September 11 to have a pretty wide purview, and I’ve talked about all sorts of things, from Pakistan […]

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Gay Marriage In Massachusetts And

Gay Marriage In Massachusetts And

Juan Cole

Gay Marriage in Massachusetts and the Egyptian Boathouse This Web Log has focused on Iraq so much in the past year that sometimes readers complain if I stray into other subjects. But it was originally created after September 11 to have a pretty wide purview, and I’ve talked about all sorts of things, from Pakistan […]

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Ezzedin Salim People Have Been Asking

Ezzedin Salim People Have Been Asking

Juan Cole

Ezzedin Salim People have been asking me about the slain president of the Interim Governing Council, Ezzedin Salim (Izz al-Din Salim). The best profile I have found is a compilation of newswire reports at a South African site. He is said to have been a founding member of the Shiite al-Da`wa Party in 1958 when […]

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