31 Killed in Guerrilla Violence Kurdish Situation Angers Turkey AP reports Iraq violence Tues-Weds. There were major car bombings in Baghdad, and some 15 bodies showed up dead there and in Karbala. There were also deaths near Baqubah and in Kirkuk. AP counted 31 dead altogether. Al-Zaman also reports a bombing in Fallujah. The sister […]
Archives for April 2006
Zarqawi Makes Recruitment Tape
Zarqawi Makes Recruitment Tape Crackdown on Mahdi Army in Najaf Reuters reports 18 deaths during a relatively light day of violence in the Iraqi civil war. With regard to American casualties, the Pentagon does not even announce the wounded each day unless a soldier is killed. If you had 7 wounded, we’d never hear abour […]
Blogger David Versus Wsj Goliath This
Blogger David versus WSJ Goliath This is day three since John Fund of the Wall Street Journal did a nationally-read hatchet job on me in which he made up quotes and falsely attributed them to me. He has still not retracted, and has not apologized. Neither has The Wall Street Journal. Hint: I wouldn’t want […]
Nearly 60 Dead 80 Wounded In Bombings
Nearly 60 Dead, 80 Wounded in Bombings, Assassinations 34,000 Shiites Have Fled Guerrilla violence killed 25 in Iraq on Monday, 10 of them in a coordinated set of 7 car bombs in the capital that also wounded 80. Iraqi police discovered 32 bodies of recent recruits to the new security forces at two sites in […]
Dahab Bombings Did Not Involve
Dahab Bombings did Not Involve Kamikazes Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reports that Egyptian police are saying that the Sinai resort bombings on Monday do not appear to be the work of suicide bombers. Rather, the explosives were set off by remote control. The police also do not think it unlikely that the same cell is behind this […]
John Fund Libel Of Juan Cole Still Not
John Fund Libel of Juan Cole Still Not Retracted John Fund of the Wall Street Journal attacked me in a column on Monday in which he alleged that I had called Israel the “most dangerous regime in the Middle East.” This quote is a sheer fabrication. Mr. Fund put it forward as a reason for […]
Breaking News Bombing At Dahab 30_24
Breaking News: Bombing at Dahab 30 appear to be dead, 100 wounded in the bombings of a Red Sea resort. Although Egyptian secret police have for some years controlled the radical fundamentalists in the Nile Valley, the radicals appear to have established some cells in the Sinai, a rugged, desert environment that is like Afghanistan […]
Fund Smears Cole With Barrage Of Lies
Fund Smears Cole with Barrage of Lies John Fund of the Wall Street Journal editorial page has published a large number of falsehoods about me. The most egregious is this: ‘ He calls Israel “the most dangerous regime in the Middle East.” ‘ This a lie. I never said that. Try googling it. (All that […]
Bin Laden Urges Jihad In Sudan In
Bin Laden Urges Jihad in Sudan In another reminder that George W. Bush has still not caught the man responsible for September 11, while he has mired tends of thousands of US troops in an unrelated Iraq quagmire, the murderous lunatic Usamah Bin Laden spoke again on Sunday. I don’t know how Bush lives with […]
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