Friday, April 16, 2004

Posted here Friday, April 16, 2004 at 9:58:14 AM     See Juan Cole in Salon http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/16/israel/ April 16, 2004  |  One year after Baghdad fell to victorious U.S. troops, the Americans had to conquer the country all over again. The great rebellion of April 2004 expelled the U.S. from much of the capital, humiliated coalition allies, cut supply and communications lines to the south, and revealed a reservoir of popular hatred for the U.S. among both some Sunni Arabs in Fallujah and some Shiites in their cities. But perhaps the most ominous development for the U.S. was that the events tied together two occupations and two intifadas, or popular uprisings -- Iraq and Palestine. ********