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http://www.juancole.com/ - Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute
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William R. Polk writes in a guest editorial for IC, which he wishes someone would pass on to President Obama, quickly: In its war in Afghanistan, the United States has come to a crossroads. President Obama will be forced to choose one of four ways ahead. The choices are cruel, expensive and ...
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Afghanistan
Reuters reports that Iraq's parliament failed on Saturday to resolve the crisis produced by the veto of the election bill it had passed by vice president Tariq al-Hashemi , a Sunni Arab who wanted better representation for Iraqi refugees abroad, many of whom are Sunni Arabs. Parliament could ...
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Foreclosure Crisis
Iraq
Afghan insurgents greeted the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as president for another 5 years with a string of attacks and bombings that left 23 dead and dozens wounded on Friday. A motorcycle-driving suicide bomber in the southwestern province of Farah struck near a truck depot, killing 15 and ...
World
Afghanistan
Two bombs rocked the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday . The first, in the morning, targeted the city's courthouse. The suicide bomber, wearing a vest, was stopped by security before he could get into the building. He detonated his payload outside, killing 20 persons and wounding ...
World
Afghanistan
India
Brian Cloughley writes in a guest editorial for IC When the Taliban insurrection in Pakistan began in earnest, in 2005, the Pakistan army did not have enough troops in North-West Frontier Province to combat the growing menace. It was not possible for the army and the paramilitary Frontier ...
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Pakistan
India
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who is a Sunni Arab , has vetoed the election law recently passed by parliament. Iraq has a president (currently a Kurd, Jalal Talabani) and two vice presidents (the other is Adil Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite from the Islamic ...
World
Iraq
Since both the US and China have traditionally been allies of Pakistan, any joint US-China call for better relations between the two major countries in South Asia would likely irk New Delhi. > It did. > > Given that the current Minister of External Affairs, S. M. Krishna, had a long ...
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China
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** Africa population tops a billion ** The number of people in Africa has passed the one billion mark, the UN Population Fund says in a report. < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/8366591.stm >
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David Kilcullen's bizarre prediction last spring that the Pakistani government could fall to the Taliban or al-Qaeda within six months was always downright looney, but recent events have underlined the extent of its daftness. The 650,000-strong Pakistani army has made mincemeat of the ...
World
Afghanistan
Since she's back, so am I. Below is a reprint edition of my essay from September 2008 comparing Sarah Palin to Muslim fundamentalists on select issues. Also check out Going Rouge: An American Nightmare from OR books, in which another of my Salon pieces on Palin is reprinted: Salon.com ...
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Sarah Palin
Iran's PressTV says it has caught Israel forging documents in an attempt to implicate Iran in arms smuggling. The Israelis have been maintaining that a ship, the Francop , that their forces boarded near Cyprus originated in Iran and was bringing arms to Hizbullah and Hamas. Many US news ...
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Israel
The Times of London reports that French commanders meeting with local Afghan leaders northeast of Kabul were targeted by insurgents with rockets , which killed 12 Afghan civilians and wounded about 38. No French personnel appear to have come to harm, though the French Gen. Marcel Druart was in ...
World
Afghanistan
Daniel Luban shows that the assault on the National Iranian-American Council by the rightwing Israel lobbies and their allies in the People's Jihadi Organization [Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO)], a Marxist-Islamist political cult is actually an attempt to mortally wound the Obama ...
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The Palestinian leadership is making medium-term preparations to go to the United Nations to ask for a declaration of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders (i.e. in the West Bank and Gaza). The move comes because the Obama administration's attempts to kickstart the peace process have crashed ...
World
The Taliban Movement of Pakistan launched another bombing in Peshawar on Saturday, killing 12 and wounding 30. The bomb-laden vehicle was stopped at a checkpoint by a vigilant policeman intent on stopping it from approaching sensitive sites, and the driver then detonated his payload. The ...
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Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that some
top al-Qaeda 9/11 conspirators will be tried by jury
in New York not far from the scenes of devastation that they had wrought. This decision by the Obama administration demonstrates faith in ...
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AfPak continued to generate headlines and concerns on Friday morning. In Peshawar, insurgents set off a huge bomb near the regional HQ of Inter-Services Intelligence. Early reports say that the death toll was above 15, and that dozens were wounded. In Afghanistan itself, Aljazeera English ...
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Deepak Tripathi writes in a guest editorial for IC News that the US ambassador to Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, has sent classified messages to Washington in the last few days, advising President Obama not to send more troops to Afghanistan, is dramatic both in its timing and substance. It came just ...
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Afghanistan
AP is reporting that President Barack Obama is declining to be rushed into committing to the Afghanistan War as an open-ended project , and wants a timetable for turning security duties over to the Afghanistan National Army. AP says that the key intervention here came from US ambassador in ...
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Afghanistan
Barack Obama
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The most patriotic way to honor future veterans
of foreign wars is not to create any unnecessarily.
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