New Juan Cole: 3 Month Record for US Troops Killed

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Informed Comment
Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion
Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute
Wednesday, February 07, 2007


3 Month Record For US Troops Killed
Da'wa Terror Figure Member of Parliament

More US troops were killed in the past 3 months in Iraq than in any comparable period since the war began.

The kidnapping by guerrillas in Iraqi army uniforms of the second secretary of the Iranian embassy in Baghdad has raised tensions between Iran and the US. Iran blames the US for the abduction, which Washington denies. But the US has arrested several Iranian officials in Iraq recently. George W. Bush recently announced that the US military would kill or capture Iranians in Iraq that it considered intelligence operatives. I said at the time that this announcement and this policy were a big mistake in a chaotic situation like that of Iraq (not to mention that the US "arrests" Iranians invited into Iraq by the Iraqi government or other high officials, which seems rather colonial.) So now Bush's threat is affecting how the Iranians see the kidnapping of their embassy official.

Iraqi police often sell their weapons on the black market. A Sunni Arab guerrilla interviewed in The Guardian admitted that the insurgents buy a lot of their weaponry from the Iraqi government.

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http://www.juancole.com/2007/02/3-month-record-for-us-troops-killed.html

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1. So, who's supposedly making great progress Bush?

(insert sick feeling in stomach now)...

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