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Abu Khalil vs. Myers on Inside Iraq
This isn't the most intelligent debate you'll watch on Iraq, but it is one of the most amusing. The contrast between Gen. Richard Myers and As'ad "The Angry Arab" Abu Khalil i...
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Brian Keenan's Return to Beirut
Brian Keenan was kidnapped in Beirut in 1986 by Islamic Jihad, a shadowy civil war-era organization often linked to Hizbollah.* He was released in 1990. The Sunday Times featu...
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Nicholson Baker's Scummy Little Book
Abu Muqawama has a question: why have both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times enlisted two radical leftists -- Mark Kurlansky and Colm Toibin, respectively -- to rev...
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Opium, Insurgency, and Afghanistan's National Development Strategy
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) releases regular reporting on the opium trade in Afghanistan. They have done excellent work in analyzing the extent of the opium prob...
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Veterans Grill Obama and Clinton
Abu Muqawama would have loved to have seen this Q&A session between eight Iraq War veterans and Senators Obama and Clinton, but because he lives outside the U.S., MTV will...
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Allez Sarko!
Read this entire article. Some good stuff on NATO, France, and Afghanistan. President Sarkozy of France will tell Gordon Brown next week that France plans to send an extra 1...
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How to beat an insurgency...
Abu Muqawama mentioned the excellent briefing on Colombia and the FARC presented by Colombian Vice-Minister of Defense Juan Carlos Pinzón last weekend. Embarrassingly for a st...
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Speaking of Engaging With the Enemy...
Faced with a sharp escalation of suicide bombings in urban areas, the leaders of Pakistan’s new coalition government say they will negotiate with the militants believed to be ...
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Saddam and the Terrorists
Several of this blog's right-of-center readers were offended we linked to the left-of-center journalist Spencer Ackerman's hatchet job on Stephen F. Hayes and Jeffrey Goldberg...
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Shadi Hamid on Obama and Muslims
Globe-trotting citizen of the world (and friend of this blogger) Shadi Hamid has an op-ed in the Washington Post on what Barack Obama's speech and rhetoric might mean to Arabs...
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Abu Muqawama was short-listed, we hear
Peter F. Dorman, an Egyptologist, has been named the new president of the American University of Beirut....
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Lebanon Job Opening with ICG
This strikes Abu Muqawama as a great job. He's not applying, but he'll be interested in who they hire....
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Engaging Hamas
It's Good Friday, and that means Abu Muqawama is off to church in a minute. But it also means the 10-year anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland (which w...
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Happy Nowruz
To my Persian and Afghan friends (particularly my interpreters), happy Nowruz. It seems far more sensible to mark your New Year celebration during springtime rather in the de...
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MiTTs in Mosul
A long article in today's NY Times discusses the US and Iraqi Army on operations in Mosul. For those of us who believe that conflict among the people can only be resolved from...
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Iraq, and the Women of COIN
Nice of Charlie to emerge from her hole to post on ... basketball. Charlie might have instead posted on something from the cold-blooded world of counter-insurgency warfare, wh...
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March Madness: Day 1
The first two days of March Madness are the two greatest days in all of sports. Charlie brokers no dissent on this issue. Though to be fair, Charlie isn't inclined to tolerate...
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And Ackerman Calls Out Stephen F. Hayes and Jeff Goldberg...
...as well he should. (This is a devastating must-read.)...
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The WaPo Calls Out Clinton and Obama Campaign Rhetoric on Iraq...
...as well they should....
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Clinton Praises Petraeus...
...as well she should....