Tag: middle east
member name: Charlie D.
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June 06, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
Subject: Muqtada al-Sadr, Threats and Possibilities ...
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:31:36 -0800
The day before yesterday, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered
his Mahdi army to fight America's . . .
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June 10, 2007 06:19 PM EDT --
As the President moves to veto only his second piece
of legislation in six years because it doesn't give him
(and presumably the generals in Baghdad) a free hand
in the Iraq situation, it would . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:45 PM EDT --
Reading a little book by Zbigniew Brzezinski yesterday
called Second Chance, Three Presidents and the Crisis
of American Superpower and then having a conversation
today with a dear friend who is half Russian . . .
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June 06, 2007 06:25 PM EDT --
Reports in the past couple hours indicate that
"several thousand" Turkish soldiers have
invaded Kurdish Iraq today. An anonymous
Turkish source stated that it wasn't the "tens
of thousands" . . .
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June 06, 2007 09:07 PM EDT --
At present, the US on the ground in Iraq, the
State and Defense Departments are all denying
any Turkish action is occurring in Iraq, as is
the Iraqi government. However, CNN is
reporting that such is occurring, . . .
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June 13, 2007 12:19 AM EDT --
A front page story in the New York Times
today by Michael Gordon from Baghdad
addresses some questions raised in the piece
I wrote earlier today and the idea that we are
not coasting on US military . . .
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January 02, 2008 02:22 PM EST --
Pakistan's "democracy" took a severe blow today with
the killing by suicide bomber (or a shooter AND a suicide
bomber, reports are sketchy still) that brought her DOA
. . .
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January 02, 2008 02:34 PM EST --
Banazir Bhutto's demise at the hands of assassins
can only tip the balance in Pakistan dangerously
away from democracy - the military may well
dispense with both elections (or perhaps . . .
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January 02, 2008 02:44 PM EST --
The confusion that seems to be emanating
from the accounts of Banazir Bhutto's death
does not make President General Musharraf's
government come out looking very solid.
The . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:14 PM EDT --
The AP, in the person of Charles Hanley, reported
yesterday that Turkish troops are massing on the
Iraqi border across from the Iraqi Kurdish area,
and that insurgents/"saboteurs" have blown . . .
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June 19, 2007 12:01 AM EDT --
This is a somewhat murky area for me, as I do
not completely understand why Palestinians are
so bitterly divided, or exactly what the appeal is
for Hamas, given the international community's . . .
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June 20, 2007 07:28 PM EDT --
One of the news sites I get regularly had an article by a
former Assistant Sec. of the Treasury, Paul Roberts,
suggesting that the Bush administration, knowing full
well that a conventional arms attack . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:12 PM EDT --
The full title of the book, brought to
my attention by a thread on Cafe Blue
started by David Graham, is ...
Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep
of Iraqi History, From Genghis Khan's
Mongols to The . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:53 PM EDT --
This was my eightieth completed book of
the year, (on 10 February, after five days
of fairly intensive reading) called The Great
War for Civilization, The Conquest . . .
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June 12, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
NPR had a story on this morning that I had
noticed in recent weeks from other sources,
alleged Al Qaeda in Iraq's increasing attacks
on key bridges throughout the country.
Eight of these have occurred . . .
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August 05, 2007 07:34 PM EDT --
While I can agree that American casualties are down,
and by *some* accounts sectarian murders are down,
there are still some really critical things not working
very well in Iraq besides the malfunctioning . . .
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August 08, 2007 02:03 AM EDT --
I have spent the past day or so meditating
on how it is that some of us can see Iraq
as being a better situation while others of
us are fairly pessimistic - and I think I've
arrived at a partial answer. . . .
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June 19, 2007 02:53 PM EDT --
Iraq is not a morass, swamp or quagmire? Now the
leading Senate Republican (Mitch McConnell) is saying
that the Iraqi government will have to "step up their
own military protections" . . .
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July 14, 2007 02:38 PM EDT --
"- Deaths caused by sectarian violence in Iraq are down
75 percent from January to June" (quote from post on
POLITICS by K. Smant 7/12/07) This assertion was one
of several in a re-copied . . .
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July 14, 2007 04:49 PM EDT --
Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's beleaguered Prime
Minister, announced Saturday that US
troops could leave "at any time" and
Iraq's police and military could maintain
the country's security. . . .
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