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Category: Shi’a

Latest IraqSlogger: Chalabi’s back

Posted on July 7, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton

My latest for IraqSlogger is up, and there’s a howler of an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. As I wrote for the Slogger: Melik Kaylan writes a fawning piece on Ahmad Chalabi for the Wall Street Journal‘s op-ed page, calling him the “nearest thing Iraqis currently possess to a genuine walk-and-talk democratic politician.” For …

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Escape from Iraq

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton

A story I wrote appeared Monday in the Newark Star-Ledger, a great smaller paper that cares about foreign news. The story dealt with the plight of the Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Lives suspended by war AMMAN, Jordan — Rana crosses her legs on the threadbare carpet in her living room in this poor Palestinian section …

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Two buses blown up in Christian area

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton

Bombs destroyed two commuter buses today in the small Christian community of Ain Alaq, in the mountains north of Beirut. Was this Syria? Hezbollah? CIA? (A Hezbollah spokesman said it was the latter.) Was it a warning to the March 14 coalition not to attend the big rally planned for downtown tomorrow to mark the two-year anniversary of Hariri’s death?

Beirut in flames

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton

An opposition member cradles the head of an exhausted comrade as they take a break from blocking roads in Beirut on Tuesday (c) 2007 Christopher Allbritton BEIRUT — If there was any question whether Hezbollah was in control of the situation here following the violence of Tuesday, the fighting today should convince those that it …

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“The blood of the Shi’ites is boiling”

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Christopher Allbritton

Here’s the latest I filed from Lebanon. “A much shorter version”:http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-10/116556152129650.xml&coll=1 appeared in the _Newark Star-Ledger_, but here’s the full account: BEIRUT — Lebanon’s capital is once again a tinderbox, ready to blow because of political rivalries exacerbated by sectarian tensions. Increasingly, the political disputes — which are ostensibly over international tribunals, presidential terms and …

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