Archives for April 2008

My column, “Why al-Maliki Attacked Basra,” is now available at Salon.com John McCain said he was surprised that Nuri al-Maliki would abruptly launch an operation against Basra. It seems to me that there are only two possibilities here. Either McCain really did not know and did not anticipate the trouble in Basra, in which case […]

The USG Open Source Center translates a discussion by Iraqis about Muqtada al-Sadr’s ceasefire with the government of PM Nuri al-Maliki, carried in Arabic on the Iranian al-Alam satellite channel. ‘Iran: Al-Alam TV’s ‘With the Event’ Program on Iraq, Al-Sadr TrendAl-Alam TelevisionMonday, March 31, 2008 Document Type: OSC Translated Text Tehran Al-Alam Television in Arabic […]