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Opinion: To Those Celebrating the Chilcot Report

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 8, 2016 | Opinion

One can pick out what one wants to from the Chilcot report that took nearly seven years to complete and comprises of more than one a half million words. However, the huge report does not contain a single accusation of criminality against the then British Prime...

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Late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (REUTERS/Dylan Martinez)

Saudi Arabia was against War on Iraq, Chiclot’s Report

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 8, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

London – A report by a British committee on the Iraq War said that Saudi Arabia had warned at early stages from launching a military invasion of the Arab Gulf country. The report issued earlier this week was the result of a seven-year inquiry, led by retired civil...

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A Syrian soldier takes aim at rebel fighters positioned in the mountains of the Christian town of Maalula on September 13, 2013. (AFP)

Opinion: Opportunistic Ultra-Nationalism

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Sep 19, 2013 | Opinion

In 2003 when the drums of the Iraq War were beating, I remember well how the term Qawmajiyya, alluding to ultra-nationalism, spread like wildfire. The word–in a derisive context–and its derivatives were reiterated by many among the supporters of the invasion of Iraq...

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A U.S. Marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Opinion: Iraq overshadowing Syria’s cries for help

by Diana Moukalled | Sep 4, 2013 | Opinion

The consequences of the Iraqi experience are what they are. Since day one of the Syrian revolution, images of Syrians defacing statues of Hafez and Bashar Al-Assad immediately brought to mind the toppling of Saddam Hussein and scenes of Iraqis pulling down statues of...

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An Iraqi man walks past a billboard depicting the fall of executed dictator Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad on April 9, 2013. Source: AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE

Opinion: A Broken System

by Kanan Makiya | Apr 15, 2013 | Opinion

If the 1991 war was about a restoration of the Arab state system, the 2003 war, coming in the wake of the shock of 9/11, called its very legitimacy into question. However much it bungled the first year of the American occupation of Iraq, the Bush administration by its...