Middle East and the Gulf
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General Zia in Jordan
Posting a note from Hamid Hussain on General Zia in Jordan, the author adds a first-hand report that the then army chief joined those who forgave Zia, and argues Islamism…
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Mayhem in Mosul – Old Story, New Chapter
A long analysis by Hamid Hussain, posted with a note that the poster will comment later, on ISIS’s rapid capture of Tikrit and Mosul as Iraqi forces folded, placed in…
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SOS!!! (send the boys in, bring our girls home)
Asking why India rules out emergency evacuation of its 18,000 nationals in Iraq, including Kerala nurses, the post argues that a country with one of the world’s most powerful volunteer…
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“Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam”
Quoting a long account of the 1975 US evacuation of Saigon, introduced through Ira Chernus on similarities between Iraq and Vietnam, with the poster asking whether helicopters will again leave…
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“See you in New York”
Quoting a US colonel on al-Baghdadi’s Camp Bucca farewell, ‘see you in New York’, and a report of ISIS boasting of executing 1,700 Iraqi soldiers, the poster doubts most Americans…
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New (Middle-East) states bloom in (Jihadi) Spring
Quoting a report on ISIS’s fighters and its quarrel with al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri over beheadings, the poster suggests the Middle East states carved by Britain and France may now be redrawn…
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From middle-east with love
Posting a map of India’s ties to the Middle East, the poster sees three suitors offering Central Asian access, jobs for Keralites and technology, with a quoted analysis of Iran’s…
