Real History and the Future of Occupied Iraq. The Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) Eric Mueller comments: THIS is a translation of a story from the Jordanian Daily “al-Arab al-Yawm” of November 19. The newspaper’s Baghdad correspondent has learned that US “Pro-Consul” L.
Paul Bremer brought back from Washington to Baghdad not only a timetable for handing over power to Iraqis (of course, those hand picked in Washington: such is Bush’s version of “democracy”) but also a secret arrangement that would give the US and Britain six permanent bases in Iraq, strategically located so that the United States can project their power throughout the whole region.
Arabist Eric Mueller is this website’s expert on Middle Eastern affairs. al-Arab al-Yawm Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, 19 November 2003. Al-Arab Al-Yawm ‘s correspondent Ahmad Sabri reports from Baghdad that sources close to the Interim Governing Council of Iraq have told al-Arab al-Yawm in Baghdad that the new US strategy in Iraq which Paul Bremer brought