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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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Lame Pr Letters Supposedly From Us

Lame PR Letters supposedly from US Soldiers Backfire on Bush Administration LEDYARD KING GANNETT NEWS SERVICE The Olympian Online WASHINGTON — Letters from hometown soldiers […]

Juan Cole

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Baghdads Homeless Orphans Justin

Baghdads Homeless Orphans Justin

Baghdad’s Homeless Orphans Justin Alexander, who is in Baghdad on a trip for Jubilee Iraq, discusses a problem I haven’t seen others mention, which is […]

Juan Cole

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4 Iraqi Policemen Wounded In Baqubah

4 Iraqi Policemen Wounded In Baqubah

4 Iraqi Policemen Wounded in Baqubah; Attacks in Karbala kill one; Pipeline, employees attacked In Falluja, a guerrilla threw a grenade on a passing U.S. […]

Juan Cole

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Army Of Mahdi On Move 10000 Demonstrate

Army Of Mahdi On Move 10000 Demonstrate

Army of the Mahdi on the Move; 10,000 Demonstrate Militiamen of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Army of the Mahdi spread through the slums of East Baghdad Friday, […]

Juan Cole

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Northern Clergy Condemn Plan To Bring

Northern Clergy Condemn Plan To Bring

Northern Clergy Condemn Plan to bring Turkish troops into Iraq The “Union of Muslim Clerics” in nothern Iraq warned Turkey not to become entangled with […]

Juan Cole

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Weblog On Situation Of Women In Iraq

Weblog On Situation Of Women In Iraq

Weblog on Situation of Women in Iraq Thierry Robin, a French freelancer, is posting on the situation in Iraq from Baghdad Oct. 8 – 22, […]

Juan Cole

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Spanish Intelligence Officer

Spanish Intelligence Officer

Spanish Intelligence Officer Assassinated in Baghdad Insurgents assassinated a Spanish diplomat in Baghdad, José Antonio Bernal Gómez, the Information attaché at the Spanish embassy.. They […]

Juan Cole

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Day Of Rage In Iraq 3 Us Soldiers Dead

Day Of Rage In Iraq 3 Us Soldiers Dead

Day of Rage in Iraq: 3 US Soldiers Dead, 5 Wounded, 9 Police killed in Truck Bombing Guerrillas ambushed a routine US patrol in the […]

Juan Cole

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World Bank Iraqi Reconstruction Will Be

World Bank: Iraqi Reconstruction will be Delayed by Lack of Security The World Bank and the UN say that the rebuilding of Iraq may take […]

Juan Cole

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