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Juan Cole

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Al Qaida In Iran Iran Has Denied

Al Qaida In Iran Iran Has Denied

Juan Cole

al-Qaida in Iran Iran has denied a Washington Post report that two senior al-Qaida figures are hiding out in far eastern Iran near the Afghan border, saying it has a policy of not giving asylum to al-Qaida members. One thing no one has pointed out is that the southeast of Iran is very rugged and […]

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Bin Ladin Back In Control Al Quds Al

Bin Ladin Back In Control Al Quds Al

Juan Cole

Bin Ladin Back in Control? Al-Quds al-`Arabi, a London newspaper, is reporting that Bin Ladin is firmly back in control of al-Qa’ida and that the organization is digging in for a guerilla war against the US presence in Afghanistan.

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No Security Council Resolution Los

No Security Council Resolution Los

Juan Cole

No Security Council Resolution? The Los Angeles Times reported today that the Bush administration will likely not seek a UN Security Council Resolution authorizing war against Iraq. The report said that Bush fears a veto by Russia or China. Most US European allies, and even some in the Middle East, such as Kuwait, have said […]

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Iraq And Al Qaida Again Attempts To Tie

Iraq And Al Qaida Again Attempts To Tie

Juan Cole

Iraq and al-Qaida (Again) The attempts to tie Baathist Iraq to al-Qaida continue among the hawks in Washington, and they continue to be without logical or evidentiary foundation. Al-Qaida wanted to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It hates him. Bin Ladin was angry at the Saudi government in 1990 for not doing in Kuwait what was done […]

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Whatever Happened To Iraqi Airforce

Whatever Happened To Iraqi Airforce

Juan Cole

Whatever Happened to the Iraqi Airforce (Iran-Iraq relations) Someone asked of the 1990 pilot defections: >1) Were these defections spontaneously carried out by Iraqi pilots, >or were they part of an some kind of official Iraqi policy (perhaps t>o maintain a force-in-being in a neutral country)? Since Iraq had just fought a long and bloody […]

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Iraqi Terrorism And War With Iraq There

Iraqi Terrorism And War With Iraq There

Juan Cole

Iraqi Terrorism and War with Iraq? There is a double standard in Western approaches to Middle Eastern movements. On the whole and by and large, few sane observers suspected the United States government of supporting Communist movements for Machiavellian purposes during the Cold War. I am not speaking of WW II, when the US saw […]

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Guardian Blows Whistle On Ersatz Middle

Guardian Blows Whistle On Ersatz Middle

Juan Cole

The Guardian Blows the Whistle on the Ersatz Middle East Experts http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html: US thinktanks give lessons in foreign policy Brian Whitaker reports on the network of research institutes whose views and TV appearances are supplanting all other experts on Middle Eastern issues See also: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=vest The Nation, September 2 The Men From JINSA and CSP […]

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No Iraq Link To Al Qaida Thanks To M

No Iraq Link To Al Qaida Thanks To M

Juan Cole

No Iraq link to al-Qaida Thanks to M.S. for his further comments. There is also, however, no credible evidence of *indirect* Iraqi, Baathist support for al-Qaida. The US has an enormous number of documents bearing on funding for al-Qaida, gathered from Afghanistan and elsewhere, and no money comes from Iraq. No training of al-Qaida fighters […]

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Iran Has Turned Over 16 Al Qaida

Iran Has Turned Over 16 Al Qaida

Juan Cole

Iran has turned over 16 al-Qaida terrorists to Saudi Arabia, according to Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister. These were Saudi nationals who had escaped from Afghanistan to Iran. This report challenges earlier charges by Pentagon officials that Iran was deliberately giving safe haven to and harboring al-Qaida remnants. This allegation never made much […]

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