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Bahraini Massacre Met with Little More than “Concern” From US
Siun already gave the report on the middle-of-the-night assault on protesters in Bahrain, which killed at least four. Because we don’t have tourists who go over to Bahrain to see pyramids, US media may...
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Bahrain/Libya Update
Let’s play a little catchup on the two most deadly flashpoints in the Arab uprising right now. In Bahrain, scene of a dastardly attack on protesters while they slept in Pearl Square, the attempt at...
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State of Emergency Declared in Bahrain
You can’t tell the crises apart without a scorecard. So Bahrain has gotten lost in the shuffle a bit. But as we saw yesterday, Saudi troops have been dispatched to help put down a largely sectarian...
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Extended US Presence in Iraq Would Cause Mass Popular Unrest, Military Deaths
Lawrence Korb summarizes the arguments for a responsible exit from Iraq at the end of the year, contrary to the wishes of the military establishment in the Obama Administration. if US troops remain,...
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Iraq’s Maliki Takes Syrian Government’s Side in Uprising
A series of bombs tore through Iraq today, killing at least 74 and wounding another 247. For some reason, the response to this violence in the United States always tends toward the proposition that we...
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Iraqi Politics in Chaos After US Withdrawal
The war ended in Iraq last night, and within moments, it seems, chaos has reigned in the Iraqi Parliament. But while this is almost sure to be used as evidence that the military should never have left...
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Maliki Accused of “Acting Like Saddam” in Iraq
Sunni lawmakers criticized Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for seeking the arrest of one of the country’s Vice Presidents on terrorism charges. And that VP, Tareq al-Hashemi, escalated the dispute...
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Iraqi Political Crisis Continues as Maliki Threatens Majority Government
The row between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi has grown. Maliki issued a warrant for Hashemi’s arrest on terrorism charges, accusing him of operating...
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Slap on Wrist in Haditha Massacre Resonates in Iraq
The sad chapter of the Haditha massacre may have been put to bed in a legal sense when Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich received an incomparably light sentence, walking away with no jail time, for...
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Iraq Violence Claims Nearly 100 Lives as Insurgency Pulls Off Multiple Attacks
As Americans mourn the tragic shooting that left 12 dead in Colorado, consider that nearly ten times as many Iraqis died, in a country 1/10th the size, in a wave of attacks from presumably Sunni...
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