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Iraq Beyond Sectarianism

By | 07.21.09 | 8:57 am

In advance of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s audience with President Obama tomorrow, Meghan O’Sullivan, the Bush White House’s Iraq director from 2004 to 2007, has some advice to the Obama administration: stop talking about Iraq’s political difficulties in sectarian terms.

A lot was made — both in Iraq More…

More Big Attacks, in Iraq This Time

By | 02.11.09 | 12:59 pm

As if this day wasn’t bloody enough already: twin car bombs detonating in a west Baghdad bus station have killed 26 people at least. If I’m not mistaken, that teeming bus station is close to the Green Zone.

Every year at this time, Sunni terrorists attempt mass murder More…