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Shiite Militia Clashes at Karbala Killl 52, Wound 206 Mahdi Army Rampage against SIIC offices in Baghdad
Clashes between rival militias in the Shiite holy city of Karbala left some 52 dead and 206 wounded on Tuesday, according to late reports from […]
Bush, Ahmadinejad Trade Barbs Iranian Delegates Arrested, Released by US
First Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran was read to step into the vacuum when the US was forced out of Iraq. He oddly […]
Cole in Salon: The War on al-Maliki
My Salon column for Wednesday is now available: “The war against Iraq’s prime minister:” Sens. Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin are calling for Nouri al-Maliki’s […]
Rubin: Proposal on Narcotics in Afghanistan
Barnett Rubin has just posted another entry in his brilliant series on counter-narcotics in Afghanistan.
Gonzales Gone for Wrong Reasons
The great shame of it all is that Alberto Gonzales was confirmed as Attorney General despite it being widely known that he had played a […]
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Terrorism
At the Global Affairs group blog, Farideh Farhi tells us how Tehran is reacting to the Bush adminstration’s threat to declare sections of the Iranian […]
War in a Time of Cholera
Violence at Karbala, Baghdad, Falluja dogged the al-Maliki government on Monday, while the significance of the agreements reached by the presidential council on national reconciliation […]
Churchill on When to Throw in the Towel on Iraq
Glenn Greenwald once remarked that “the highest achievement to which one can aspire in the neocon universe it to be compared to Winston Churchill.” So […]
Williams Guest Op-ed: W. and Graham Greene
John S. Williams writes: “One of the most curious comments in Incurious Boy George’s recent speech before the Veterans of Foreign War in Kansas City […]
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