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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?

08/13/2025 By Juan Cole

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Shopping In Iraq Informed Observer

Shopping In Iraq Informed Observer

Shopping in Iraq An informed observer writes: ” The thrust of the Farnaz Fassihi email, now, if not before, in the mainstream, and Dexter Filkins’ […]

Juan Cole

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Bombs In Taba Multan Baghdad Signal

Bombs In Taba Multan Baghdad Signal

Bombs in Taba, Multan, Baghdad Signal Failure of War on Terror Three major bombs went off between the Nile and the Indus rivers on Thursday. […]

Juan Cole

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Conditions In Iraq Zaid Al Ali Iraqi

Conditions In Iraq Zaid Al Ali Iraqi

Conditions in Iraq Zaid al-Ali, an Iraqi attorney who has practiced in New York and Paris, returned to his native land recently and wrote about […]

Juan Cole

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At Least 19 Killed In Violence Over 2

At Least 19 Killed In Violence Over 2

At Least 19 Killed in Violence, over 2 Dozen Wounded Reuters reports that guerrillas detonated a car bomb at Anah near the Syrian border, targeting […]

Juan Cole

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Wmd Myth Meant To Deter Iran First Cia

Wmd Myth Meant To Deter Iran First Cia

WMD Myth Meant to Deter Iran First, the CIA comes out and says it can’t find any convincing evidence that Saddam Hussein harbored Abu Musab […]

Juan Cole

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Cheney Rumsfeld And Bremer Deserting

Cheney Rumsfeld And Bremer Deserting

Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bremer: Deserting a Sinking Ship How to understand the sudden outbreak of candor among Bush administration officials (or former officials) about Iraq […]

Juan Cole

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Kerry On Iraq Guest Editorial By

Kerry On Iraq Guest Editorial By

Kerry on Iraq: Guest Editorial by Joseph White Professor Joseph White, Director of the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University, has kindly […]

Juan Cole

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Sistanis Threat January Elections Are

Sistanis Threat January Elections Are

Sistani’s Threat: January Elections are a Must Al-Zaman/DPA: The office of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has issued a demand that free and clean elections be […]

Juan Cole

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41 Dead Over 100 Wounded 2 Us Soldiers

41 Dead Over 100 Wounded 2 Us Soldiers

41 Dead, over 100 Wounded 2 US soldiers Killed Sunday Al-Jazeerah is reporting heavy fighting in the Shiite slums of East Baghdad between US forces […]

Juan Cole

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