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Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute

Monday, August 27, 2007

Lessons from Past Western Incursions in the Middle East

The video of my appearance at the New America Foundation is now online. Many thanks again to kind host Steve Clemons. The short version, covering some of the same points, can be read at Tomdispatch.com, which is carrying my essay on Bonaparte and Bush.

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At 2:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This just in on Iraq:

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Mossad increasing its presence in western Iraq

Original in Arabic

Machine translation

- Policy : clan leader reveals spread extensively by the Mossad western Iraq

By aliraqnews2 in 26/08/2007

Iraqi clan leader revealed the existence of intense Mossad elements in the province of Anbar in western Iraq about two months ago under the protection of American.

He said Sheikh, "Ahmed Stiletto", the president of the clans in the west of Iraq, which includes 13 Iraqi tribe and clan : The cars 4x4 "Falcon GMC" located in areas of : modern Haglanih and Pube based meal and other villages months ago to protect American.

He said Dagger : that those elements wearing civilian clothes and non-military, patrolling areas maximum protection of American western Iraq, pointing out that some of them wearing hats Jews.

A clan leader, that the Mossad sleep in the American headquarters in the old customs building and the headquarters of the former Iraqi army in the Baghdad suburb and compound phosphate mines.

He added : now taken their own premises as the American headquarters, where the stamp Hafsa Primary School located in the town of existing projects and building roads, bridges and break travelers large western Iraq, surrounded by barbed wire and fortifications major security can not penetrate, and they set up communication towers over such a tour might leave daily at three rounds at them outside the city escorted by American mechanisms for their protection.
He killed those elements that carries out espionage and gathering information, revealing that they were on July 17 in the past, an attack by the resistance, led to the destruction of one car and killing four of the occupants after the attack and found the papers and documents found near the scene of the attack, they
Service Mossad "Israeli"


And a US soldier's take (expletive alert) on his recent deployment in Iraq is quite revealing of what the surge means outside of Baghdad.

 

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