This guy usually has a pretty good handle on what's really happening in Iraq. He's not painting a pretty picture...
Juan Cole: Violence in Iraq ‘has not subsided.’
Appearing on the PBS News Hour last night, University of Michigan professor Juan Cole — who runs the blog Informed Comment — discussed the recent bombings in northern Iraq. Cole explained that such violence “is unstoppable by military means,” and “the only way” to quell it is for there to be political reconciliation between Sunni [...]
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Just stunning. Officials said Wednesday that as many as 500 people probably died in a series of coordinated truck bombings that devastated two northern Iraqi villages Tuesday and set a record for mass carnage in war-torn Iraq. Residents and rescue workers in Tal al Azizziyah and Sheikh Khadar, two villages near the Syrian border in Nineveh province, [...]
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