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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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Abroad Im Going To Be Out Of Town For

Abroad Im Going To Be Out Of Town For

Abroad I’m going to be out of town for a few days. I think I will be able to do some posting, but just a […]

Juan Cole

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Carbomb Targets Green Zone Again

Carbomb Targets Green Zone Again

Carbomb targets Green Zone Again Electricity Outage in All Iraqi Cities for Second Straight Day A car bomber struck the same Green Zone checkpoint again […]

Juan Cole

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Access Problems For Mysterious Reasons

Access Problems For Mysterious Reasons

Access Problems For mysterious reasons, some readers in the past week have been experiencing difficulty in accessing Informed Comment. For others, the problem has cleared […]

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Have Arabs Or Muslims Always Hated

Have Arabs Or Muslims Always Hated

Have Arabs or Muslims always Hated Jews? I said a couple of days ago that I regretted that the actions of Israeli hawks in the […]

Juan Cole

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7 Marines Killed In Anbar Huge

7 Marines Killed In Anbar Huge

7 Marines Killed in Anbar Huge Explosion in Baghdad Leaves Dozens Dead, Wounded Sunni Arab guerrillas killed 7 US troops on Sunday in separate incidents […]

Juan Cole

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Assassination By Poisoning Chancy

Assassination By Poisoning Chancy

Assassination by Poisoning a Chancy Matter The confirmation that Ukraine presidential candidate Victor Yushchenko has been the victim of a poisoning by dioxyn shows that […]

Juan Cole

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Manipulation Of Blogging World On Iraq

Manipulation Of Blogging World On Iraq

Manipulation of the Blogging World on Iraq? [Addendum 12/27/2004: This posting contains errors and is superceded by this later statement. Joseph Mailander of the Martini […]

Juan Cole

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Press Roundup For Sunday Guerrillas In

Press Roundup For Sunday Guerrillas In

Press Roundup for Sunday Guerrillas in al-Anbar province killed a US serviceman on Saturday. Anthony Shadid reports that Abdullah al-Janabi, fundamentalist Sunni leader of the […]

Juan Cole

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70 Parties Register To Contest

70 Parties Register To Contest

70 Parties Register to Contest the Elections Al-Hayat reports that the Iraqi Islamic Party has registered a full party list of 275 candidates. The party, […]

Juan Cole

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