December 13, 2007

Cole's "three wars inside Iraq" analysis

I went to a talk that Juan Cole gave at the Middle East Institute here in Washington DC, this morning. The talk was along the lines that there are currently...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:29 PM | Fulltext link (22 comments)

December 09, 2007

Death in Babylon

Brig. Gen. Qais al-Ma'muri, chief of the Iraqi Police in Babil (Babylon) province south of Baghdad was killed along with two of his bodyguards by a roadside bomb today, the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:17 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

December 07, 2007

Moqtada (and Petraeus) repositioning?

A lot has been going on in Moqtada Sadr's movement in Iraq recently. The WaPo's Ann Scott Tyson is reporting from Baghdad in today's paper that Gen. Petraeus, said Thursday...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:45 AM | Fulltext link (25 comments)