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Juan Cole

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Israeli Tourism Devastated By Sharon

Israeli Tourism Devastated By Sharon

Juan Cole

Israeli Tourism Devastated by Sharon The murder of Sheikh Yassin, the clerical leader of Hamas, has led to the collapse of what was left of the Israeli tourism industry, wth half of the remaining tours having been suddenly cancelled. (- ash-Sharq al-Awsat).

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Landres Big Brother Lurks J

Landres Big Brother Lurks J

Juan Cole

Landres: Big Brother Lurks J. Shawn Landres’ “Big Brother Lurks in Higher Education Bill” in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, makes short work of HR 3077’s provisions for an investigatory “advisory board” to oversee international studies. Regular leaders know that I have been urging readers to write their senators to protest this neo-McCarthyism.

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Marines Wounded Sheraton Green Zone

Marines Wounded Sheraton Green Zone

Juan Cole

Marines Wounded; Sheraton, Green Zone Rocketed The Washington Post reports that that guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb and then fired weapons at Marines near Fallujah early on Wednesday; two Marines were wounded, 3 civilians were killed. The Ishtar Sheraton Hotel, a haunt of journalists and contractors, took rocket fire but there were no casualties. A […]

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Clarke Smeared By Neocon Slime Machine

Clarke Smeared By Neocon Slime Machine

Juan Cole

Clarke Smeared by Neocon Slime Machine Dick Clarke’s testimony before the 9/11 Commission turned into a political ping pong match, with John Lehman, former secretary of the navy, insisting that Clarke has a “real credibility problem.” I read Clarke’s book while traveling the past couple of days, and found it anything but a liberal tract. […]

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Ministries To Become Independent In

Ministries To Become Independent In

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Ministries to become Independent in April; Shiite-Kurdish Disputes Fester (al-Hayat) Raghida Dergham of al-Hayat : Nasrin Barwari, the minister of public works, affirmed on Wednesday that four ministries will be turned over to Iraqi sovereignty in the beginning of April. These are education, health, water utilities, and public works. She said that “the Coalition advisers […]

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Brown Cpa Legislation To Shape Iraqs

Brown Cpa Legislation To Shape Iraqs

Juan Cole

Brown: CPA Legislation to Shape Iraq’s Future Professor Nathan Brown of George Washington University, a major figure in the US study of Middle Eastern law and politics, comments on the recent CPA rules signed by Paul Bremer: “The CPA has recently issued a series of legal enactments (‘Orders”) that give a little more sense of […]

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Demonstrations Denunciations In Iraq

Demonstrations Denunciations In Iraq

Juan Cole

Demonstrations, Denunciations in Iraq over Sharon Murder of Sheikh Yassin Xinhua reports that a wide range of Iraqi political forces on Tuesday condemned Sharon’s murder of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a religious leader of Hamas, the day before. The Board of Muslim clerics in Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad, “condemned the assassination and promised immediate […]

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Sharons Murder Of Yassin Endangers

Sharons Murder Of Yassin Endangers

Juan Cole

Sharon’s Murder of Yassin Endangers Americans in Iraq and Elsewhere David R. Sands makes excellent points about the connection between Ariel Sharon’s murder of Shaikh Ahmed Yassin on Monday and the security of Americans in Iraq and elsewhere. (I use the word “murder” to refer to extra-judicial killing outside the framework of conventional war between […]

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Us Hq Receives Rocket Fire Elsewhere Us

Us Hq Receives Rocket Fire Elsewhere Us

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US HQ Receives Rocket Fire; Elsewhere US soldiers Killed, Wounded Wire services report that the US headquarters in Iraq was targeted by rocket fire Sunday morning, with other explosives landing elsewhere in downtown Baghdad. The attack was remarkable for being launched during the day, and that it could be pulled off at that time is […]

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