Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion
Juan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan
Sami al-Askari, advisory to Prime Minister Maliki said,?I personally am not happy with this, especially because they have committed acts of aggression, killed Iraqis, and this has not been resolved yet positively for families of victims.?
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Read Bhasin: Maliki and the Timetable: It's all about Blackwater (Links)
The task force was not trying to fix things in Iraq or create conditions of 'victory' for the U.S. We limited our task to thinking clearly about how the US can exit Iraq in a relatively short timeline while also being responsible to the very real needs of Iraq and its people.
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Read Knight: Out -- without 'Bloodbath' or 'Regional Chaos' (Links)
Read Cole in Salon: FBI Plan to Profile Muslims Unconstitutional (Links)
The intention is now to sign a memorandum of understanding instead of a SOFA, according to Shaikh Jalal al-Din Saghir, an MP, a member of the Policy Council for National Security and a leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, the main pillar of PM Nuri al-Maliki's government.
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Read Saghir: Timetable Demand not a Tactic; 53 Dead, 76 Wounded; (Links)
Read Attack on US Embassy in Istanbul (Links)
It also pointed out that McCain had said in 2004 that if the Iraqi government asked the US to withdraw, "it's obvious we would have to leave." Now McCain has to argue for keeping the troops there even though the Iraqi people and even the pro-American prime minister do not want them there.
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Read 1 GI Killed, 5 Wounded in Iraq; Rubaie's Comments Roil McCain Campaign (Links)
A US observer with experience on the ground in Iraq writes with regard my link on Sunday to a piece about Monsanto and hooking Iraqi farmers on genetically modified seeds: The small report about Bremer dictating that Iraqi farmers cannot use their seed from year to year is utter nonsense.
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Read Genetically Modified Seeds not Used in Iraq (Links)
They wounded the mayor of Kirkuk. One woman killed by unknown gunmen in al-Aheimir village, 10 km to the east of Baquba at 11.30 a.m. Gunmen killed a member of the Sahwa Council, a U.S. backed militia, in al-Hashimiyah neighbourhood, western Baquba at around 10.30 a.m.
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Read Maliki and Timetable for US Withdrawal (Links)
Now, in order to make the most of the recent press as well as to get out the word of the organization, The List Project has created a Netroots program which seeks to bring people together in a social networking experiment (vis a vis Myspace).
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Read Walleser: The List: Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies (Links)
Read NYT: Napoleon's Egypt in Paper (Links)
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