Juan Cole Round-up: A Link for Every Thing Iraq this Weekend

[Inland]

http://www.juancole.com/

Juan Cole's blog over the last couple days links the following subjects. Go to the blog and click:

Over 50 Iraqis were killed and 47 wounded in separate attacks on Thursday.

Former National Security Council staffer Daniel Benjamin, among the more knowledgeable observers of al-Qaeda in the US, argues that VP Richard Bruce Cheney's nightmare of an al-Qaeda-dominated Sunni Arab heartland in Iraq is just not plausible.

Cheney's hard line speeches are no longer playing well in the hustings, in any case.

The Guardian explains more of the background of Bush's plot to bomb the Aljazeera offices in Doha.

With kidnappings and killings of foreign workers in Afghanistan on the rise, some observers are worried about it going the way of Iraq

Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV has charged that UK PM Tony Blair was duped by the war party in Washington.

White Phosphorus Round-up

Bush as Press Assassin?
Baathist in a Mirror

There is a detailed and very valuable timeline of Bush administration- Aljazeera relations at Booman Tribune.


AP reports that in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, guerrillas lured police to their deaths on Tuesday.

Big Oil is attempting to lock in highly favorable contracts on the development of new Iraqi fields that would have the effect of robbing the Iraqi public of billions.

Iran will export power to Iraq.

AP reports on the results of the Cairo national reconciliation conference, attended by the major Iraqi political factions, including Sunni Arabs.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. thank you & thanks to Juan Cole. I'm surprised he remains w/out accident

If we embed journalists with Condi, if we bomb newsies, if we shoot italian journalists, what keeps our government from attacking Juan? By accident, of course.

[Inland]

4. One reason.

nobody in the MSM picks him up as an expert. He's a pretty lonely voice of reason. I don't check in as often as I should to his blog.

[enigma000]

2. Isn't there an election going on or something? n/t

[Inland]

3. So they say.

Of course, "They" also said flowers and sweets would greet our troops, too.