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Juan Cole

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Role Of United Nations In Dispute Az

Role Of United Nations In Dispute Az

Juan Cole

Role of the United Nations in dispute az-Zaman has been reporting that 12 of the Shiite members of the Interim Governing Council, including expatriate Ahmad Chalabi, are opposed to the return to Iraq of special UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. They are angry that he certified that open, direct elections could not be held before June […]

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Did Al Qaeda Win Spanish Elections This

Did Al Qaeda Win Spanish Elections This

Juan Cole

Did al-Qaeda Win the Spanish Elections? This silly question is being asked by billionnaire Rupert Murdoch’s and Conrad Black’s media outlets all over the world in blazing headlines. For some strange reason, the billionnaires aren’t happy that the Socialist Workers’ Party won the elections in Spain, and are trying to portray the outcome as cowardice […]

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Sunnis Of Iraq Apprehensive Defiant

Sunnis Of Iraq Apprehensive Defiant

Juan Cole

Sunnis of Iraq “Apprehensive, Defiant” A British reporter recently in Baghdad kindly sent me the following impressions: “1. I didn’t get out of the city at all because of the security situation, and I concentrated mainly on talking to Sunnis. The ones I met were both apprehensive and defiant: apprehensive about “what the Americans are […]

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Shiite Account Of Visitation Pilgrimage

Shiite Account Of Visitation Pilgrimage

Juan Cole

Shiite Account of Visitation (‘pilgrimage’) to Holy Shrines of Iraq This is a fascinating account of an expatriate Shiite’s return to Iraq for religious visitation to the shrines. The narrative of bribing his way past the guards at the Syrian border for $200; the images of chaotic, heavy traffic and drivers driving on the wrong […]

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Assassination Attempt On Head Of Iraqi

Assassination Attempt On Head Of Iraqi

Juan Cole

Assassination attempt on head of Iraqi Turkmen Front This just came in: “IRAQI TURKMEN FRONT WASHINGTON REPRESENTATION On Sunday, March 14,th, 2004, there has an assasination attempt on the president of the Iraqi Turkmen Front Dr. Farouk Abdullah at Khalis, 50 Km north of Baghdad while on his way to Kirkuk. A remotely controlled roadside […]

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6 Us Soldiers Killed Over Weekend

6 Us Soldiers Killed Over Weekend

Juan Cole

6 US Soldiers Killed over Weekend, Shiites Protest Killing of Qazwini The Associated Press reports that 6 US soldiers were killed in Iraq in roadside bombings over the past weekend. Guerrillas also detonated a bomb on the Khalis – Kirkuk road that killed two Iraqi civilians. Nine US servicemen have been killed in the past […]

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Heydemann Slams Big Brother Committee

Heydemann Slams Big Brother Committee

Juan Cole

Heydemann Slams “Big Brother” Committee for Middle East Studies Steve Heydemann writes in the Chicago Tribune against “Warping Middle East Judgments,” referring to the Neocon campaign to get Congress to set up a Big Brother Committee to monitor professors of Middle East and International Studies. (Registration required). Heydemann writes, ‘The threatening intent of critics is […]

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British Muslims Abandoning Labor In

British Muslims Abandoning Labor In

Juan Cole

British Muslims Abandoning Labor; In Poll Show Mainstream European Attitudes The Guardian reports that British Muslims are turning against the Labor Party, which they traditionally supported, presumably over the Iraq War. How hard it is to interpret statistics in a vacuum is demonstrated by James Lyons’s story about the new poll of British Muslims (who […]

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Blix Iraq War Strengthened Terrorism

Blix Iraq War Strengthened Terrorism

Juan Cole

Blix: Iraq War Strengthened Terrorism Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix told the Italian newspaper La Stampa, “The fact is that the war on Iraq, sought by the United States following (the) September 11 (2001 attacks), has not put an end to terrorism in the world . . . On the contrary, the result of […]

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