Juan Cole - August 18, 2005

Fear Stalks Iraq as "Truce" Ends
US Diplomat in Baghdad Implicated in Israel Spy Scandal

Al-Hayat: The one-day total for deaths related to the guerrilla war in Wednesday ended up being about 55, with dozens injured (probably over a hundred). Iraqis perceived the massive bombings as the end of a "truce" of the past few days, when bombings in the capital had become rarer. The deputy minister of Interior for Intelligence Affairs, Hussein Ali Kamal, confessed that the abilities of the ministry were still