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2.2 Million Internally Displaced Iraqis; Sadrists Warn US on Basra; 37 Killed in Bombings, Shootings Saturday
The Sadr Movement in Basra is warning the US military not to try to come into the province to replace the departing British troops. Suspected […]
Sadrists Reject Moves to Unseat al-Maliki 7 US Troops Killed Bush was Told Iraq Had no WMD
7 US troops were killed 4 of them in al-Anbar profince and the other 3 in Ninevah proince. Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that Sadrist spokesman […]
Bin Laden Brandishes Jihadi Threat against US in Iraq
I don’t know why so many press commentaries keep saying that the new videotape from Usama Bin Laden does not contain any threats. It contains […]
French Fear Guerilla War in Egypt, 1798
Note: My talk on Napoleon’s Egypt will be shown in the US on CSPAN-2 at 10 pm EDT on Sunday evening, September 9. At the […]
David Enders on Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria
Via Fareed Zakaria’s “Foreign Exchange,” an interview with David Enders, a journalist just back from Iraq with an unvarnished view of the situation. As I […]
The Nation Review of Napoleon’s Egypt
Roger Owen’s review of my new book, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East is now online at The Nation. Owen, who teaches at Harvard, is […]
Fears of Sunni Arab Tribal Feuding in Diyala Cheney, Rumsfeld blamed by Blunkett for Dissolving Iraqi Army
With regard to the recent dust-up in the pages of the NYT between Bush and Bremer over the dismantling of the Iraqi Army, Ward Harkavy […]
What would the founding fathers have thought of George W. Bush?
Just promoting a book I just found out about. You all know about my thing for the Founding Generation of Americans.
Helman: Bush’s Stage-Managed Photo Op with Sunni Sheikhs May Spell Trouble in Future
Ambassador Gerald B. Helman writes: Perhaps the most telling commentary on the situation today in Iraq is the choice of a remote, heavily fortified US […]
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