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Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard
Abbasid Empire

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Northeastern England fell to the Vikings in 865, and they held it for several decades. They not only had what […]

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

08/13/2025 By Human Rights Watch

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

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Split Among Shiites On Elections 9

Split Among Shiites On Elections 9

Split among Shiites on Elections 9 Iraqis Killed in Bombings, Shootings A suicide bomber killed 7 persons at Siniyah near Baiji, five of them national […]

Juan Cole

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Bush Responds To Criticism On Tsunami

Bush Responds To Criticism On Tsunami

Bush Responds to Criticism on Tsunami The Bush administration scrambled to repair the diplomatic damage done by the relative insouciance with which it had confronted […]

Juan Cole

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Tsunami Toll Rises Above 125000 On

Tsunami Toll Rises Above 125000 On

Tsunami toll rises above 125,000 On very early Friday morning, Reuters was reporting that the death toll in Sunday’s tsunami had now climbed to 125,000. […]

Juan Cole

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Death And Death Threats In Iraq Some

Death And Death Threats In Iraq Some

Death and Death Threats in Iraq Some 15 Iraqis were killed in various violent incidents on Thursday, and two Lebanese businessmen were kidnapped. Dawn reports: […]

Juan Cole

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Pipes Favors Concentration Camps That

Pipes Favors Concentration Camps That

Pipes Favors Concentration Camps That the Revisionist-Zionist extremist Daniel Pipes has fond visions of rounding up Muslim Americans and putting them in concentration camps isn’t […]

Juan Cole

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Platform Of United Iraqi Alliance

Platform Of United Iraqi Alliance

Platform of the United Iraqi Alliance The Iraqi newspaper “al-Adalah” published on Dec. 23 the platform of the United Iraqi Alliance, the mainly Shiite coalition […]

Juan Cole

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Christian Muslim Violence In Egypt In

Christian Muslim Violence In Egypt In

Christian-Muslim Violence in Egypt In upper Egypt, a Muslim young man is dead after clashes between Muslims and Christians in a village in Minya province. […]

Juan Cole

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Clashes In Mosul Samarra Massive Bomb

Clashes In Mosul Samarra Massive Bomb

Clashes in Mosul, Samarra The massive bomb in Baghdad that killed 30 persons and wounded 25 the night of Tuesday- Wednesday turns out to have […]

Juan Cole

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Bush And Tsunami Transcript Of

Bush and the Tsunami The transcript of President George W. Bush’s remarks on the Tsunami is now available. After days of silence and invisibility, Bush […]

Juan Cole

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