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Another US provocation: Iranian officials arrested in Baghdad Thursday, August 30, 2007 :Late on Tuesday night, the US military detained a visiting delegation of Iranian officials at a Baghdad hotel. The men were handcuffed, blindfolded and dragged away under the glare of TV cameras for further interrogation. Following protests in Tehran and appeals by Iraqi government officials, the delegation, which had been formally invited by the Iraqi Electricity Ministry, was finally released on Wednesday morning....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 7:31am PDT
Comment: Conflict Foils Change in Schools and Universities Thursday, August 30, 2007 :Iraq once had one of the best educational systems in the Middle East. Baghdad and Mosul were thriving university and intellectual centres, and school enrolment and literacy rates were high....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:46am PDT
Violence Batters Baghdad Schools Thursday, August 30, 2007 : Kidnappings of students, murders of teachers and chaotic classrooms leave education in the capital close to collapse....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:45am PDT
Sistani Aides Held by JAM Muqtada freezes Paramilitary for 6 months From a Thursday, August 30, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:42am PDT
Cole in Salon: The War on al-Maliki From a Wednesday, August 29, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:17am PDT
Bush, Ahmadinejad Trade Barbs Iranian Delegates Arrested, Released by US From a Wednesday, August 29, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:16am PDT
Bush threatens to militarily "confront" Iran Wednesday, August 29, 2007 :In his second foreign policy speech in less than a week, President Bush Tuesday portrayed the ongoing US military occupation in Iraq as part of a broader regional struggle to defend vital US interests against “radicals and extremists.” Contained in this speech was the explicit threat of widening the US war in the Middle East, directed in the first instance against Iran....
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:16am PDT
Shiite Militia Clashes at Karbala Killl 52, Wound 206. Mahdi Army Rampage against SIIC offices in Baghdad From a Wednesday, August 29, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:14am PDT
War in a Time of Cholera From a Tuesday, August 28, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 7:39am PDT
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visits Baghdad Tuesday, August 28, 2007 :French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner made a surprise three-day trip to Baghdad on August 19-21, visiting top Iraqi politicians and religious figures, including President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The trip marked the first public contact between the French government and the US puppet regime in Baghdad installed after the 2003 US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 7:37am PDT
Potential Designation of Sepah-e Pasdaran as a Terrorist Organization: Reactions from Tehran From a Monday, August 27, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 7:36am PDT
'Many killed' in Iraq fighting Tuesday, August 28, 2007 : Several hundred US and Iraqi troops took part in the Diyala operation....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 7:32am PDT
Sunnis sceptical about Iraq deal Monday, August 27, 2007 : Critics say accord is a stalling tactic to ease pressure from US and will yield little....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 7:30am PDT
U.S. Weapons from Iraq Making Their Way to Turkey Saturday, August 25, 2007 : Turkish police displayed evidence this week of what they say is the growing black-market trade of weapons of U.S. origin being smuggled across the border from neighboring Iraq. In the border town of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, officers unwrapped 18 Austrian-made Glock pistols and laid them on a table....
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2007 8:44am PDT
Who is the US Fighting in Iraq? From a Monday, August 27, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2007 8:43am PDT
Al-Maliki Threatens Journalists. Al-Hashemi Plays Hard to Get From a Monday, August 27, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2007 8:40am PDT
US occupation fuels ethnic cleansing and mass repression in Iraq Monday, August 27, 2007 :Several reports on conditions in Iraq released last week confirm that the US troop surge in 2007 has accelerated the division of the Iraqi population along ethno-religious lines and dramatically increased the number of Iraqis held in barbaric conditions of imprisonment. The Iraqi Red Crescent Organization reported that the number of internally displaced Iraqis has more than doubled, from 499,000 to 1.1 million, since the latest US troop buildup began in February....
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2007 8:37am PDT
US intelligence report points to Iraqi government's removal Monday, August 27, 2007 :The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq released last week reflects a growing consensus not just among the US spy agencies, but in the White House and American ruling elite, that the main obstacle to the US agenda in Iraq is the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Not surprisingly, the four-page unclassified portion of the NIE drawn up by 16 US intelligence agencies backs the Bush administration’s “surge” strategy....
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2007 8:37am PDT
Surge in Deaths. 85 percent in US custoday Are Sunni Arabs From a Sunday, August 26, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sun, Aug 26, 2007 8:42am PDT
US fears of British pullout from Basra raise transatlantic tensions to new pitch Saturday, August 25, 2007 :Military circles in Washington and London are engaged in mutual recriminations over the proposed drawdown of Britain’s troop presence in Basra, with US top brass speaking of the UK’s “Saigon moment” and full withdrawal. The British Army has made clear its anger at such open criticism and the media has responded by accusing the US of scapegoating Britain for the inability of America’s own forces to defeat the Iraq insurgency....
Posted: Sat, Aug 25, 2007 11:07am PDT
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