100,000 Sadrists March Against Constitution Reuters reports that Muqtada al-Sadr’s supporters rallied in 8 cities on Friday, totaling a hundred thousand demonstrators in all. They […]

Constitution’s Fate Unclear Al-Jazeera early Saturday morning is reporting that some sort of deal has been reached with the Sunni Arabs on the constitution, but […]

The Iraqi Constitution and the Sunni Arabs My article in Salon.com is “The Iraqi constitution: DOA?” Angry and marginalized, Sunnis are threatening to torpedo Iraq’s […]

Death Toll of 52 as Constitution Talks Fizzle The Iraqi Parliament did not actually meet Thursday to vote on the draft constitution. Edmund Sanders of […]

At Least 34 Dead, Dozens Wounded Guerilla Platoon Attacks Police in Baghdad Bloody Shiite on Shiite Clashes in the South Forty guerrillas in Baghdad launched […]

Steven Vincent Case I am reposting here with commentary my comments of 8 August about Colin Freeman’s story in the Telegraph concerning the murder of […]

23 Dead in Violence Sunni Arabs Threaten Popular Uprising over Constitution Al-Hayat: Guerrilla violence left 23 Iraqis dead on Tuesday, among them 16 policemen. In […]

Coup in Baghdad Unfinished Constitution Presented, vote Delayed According to the interim constitution, the permanent constitution should have been presented to parliament and passed by […]

Achcar on Cole Proposals for Withdrawal of US Ground Troops ‘ Dear Juan, As a regular reader and occasional contributor to your blog, which I […]