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Week in Review (late & lazy edition)
Good god it was a busy week here at the world famous Abu Muqawama. So busy that Charlie can't be bothered to format the Week in Review. Mostly, we talked about Basra. Also,...
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Idle Basra Speculation
Certified smaht guy Colin Kahl writes in to explain events in Basra so Charlie doesn't have to (though, really, AM has done a bang up job on the explanation front so far).The ...
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East Tennessee: Now 100% Anti-Mohammedan
Abu Muqawama was reading his hometown newspaper this afternoon and came across an email sent in from a local reader concerned about the Barack Obama candidacy:The main reason ...
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The next person who emails Charlie...
...and says,1) "The Jayhawks are a lock for the Final Four,"or2) "I'm sure you dissertation will turn out fine" will be kicked in the teeth. Don't you people understand how ji...
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St. Dismas: Radical 1st-Century Insurgent?
Abu Muqawama was reading the religion section of the Washington Post today:When Deacon Ken Finn is counseling prisoners, he often tells the story of Saint Dismas. "He was the...
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"9-11 to the Arsenal!"
Is anyone out there surprised that Osama bin Laden is an Arsenal supporter? It just figures....
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Meeting the Guerrilla
Canada's Globe and Mail has this week released a report on the Taliban entitled "Talking to the Taliban" in which its Kandahar correspondent Graeme Smith interprets interviews...
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Two Conservative Views of McCain's Foreign Policy
Following Abu Muqawama's controversial declaration that Barack Obama's combined plan for Iraq and Afghanistan was more responsible than John McCain's (Obama, alone, has a real...
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"There is nothing preventing Iraq from going right back to October 2006"
Karen DeYoung's article in the Washington Post nicely captures two things: One, how tenuous a situation we have right now in Iraq, and how the gains of 2007 can be wiped out f...
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40 Year Old Ammunition and the Afghan Army (Updated)
Abu Muqawama yesterday posted on the NY Times appropriately damning article on AEY, a supplier of ammunition bought by the United States for the Afghanistan Army. The men at A...
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The Battle for Basra: U.S. Forces Take the Lead
The Washington Post is now reporting that U.S. armored units have taken the lead in Sadr City while the Iraqi units -- surprise! -- hang back and let the Americans do the hard...
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"We either survive this or we are finished."
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has a valuable telephone interview with JAM commanders in Basra up on the Guardian's website: Shiek Ali al-Sauidi, a prominent member of the Moqtada al-Sadr...
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Who the hell does Stephanie McCrummen think she is?
Memo to Stephanie: We here at Abu Muqawama can only focus on one insurgency at a time. Right now, that insurgency is in southern Iraq. The last thing we needed was you popping...
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From the Dept. of Just Wonderin'
Um, sorry to ask, but as events play out in Iraq, Abu Muqawama has a question for CPA alumni Dan Senor and Roman Martinez. Last week, you guys wrote in the Wall Street Journal...
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Conditional Engagement in Iraq
Colin Kahl and Shawn Brimley have a short, smart policy brief up on the CNAS website.President Bush and his successor have only three basic choices on strategy for Iraq: uncon...
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More on Basra (Updated)
Charlie would prefer that Maliki, et al. had picked a different week to launch a major offensive in Basra...she has a chapter to finish goddammit! She'll leave the heavy lift...
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Sweet 16!
It's a Thursday in March, and that means basketball! As mentioned previously, AM has suspended trash-talking on account of having his ass handed to him in the first two round...
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40-year Old Ammunition and the Afghan Army
This is brilliant, damning investigative journalism from C.J. Chivers and the New York Times. Chivers spent several years in the U.S. Marine Corps upon his graduation from Cor...
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Black Saturday and the Blitz
For soldiers and civilians in southeast England, the dominant memory of that night was less the terrible glow in the western sky than the predawn explosions as the British ble...
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Syria and the UN
"There is huge concern bordering on panic in Damascus," said Paul Salem, head of the Carnegie Foundation's office in Beirut. "There is a sense that Syria is drifting into a ve...