Horowitz vs. Horowitz

Have you heard the one about the phony bomb detector in Iraq? An Al-Qaeda operative drives up to a checkpoint and an Iraqi policeman scans the car with the device. The car is cleared for passage, goes on down the street, and explodes, killing scores of people.

(pause, let it build, let it build)

You see, the device doesn't really work!

Patrick Cockburn works his magic at Counter Punch.

I've recently been reading Cockburn's 2008 history (pictured) of the Sadrist legacy in Iraq. Highly informative material, it should be required reading at the university level, if only to piss off this guy, not to be confused with the author of this.

The latter Horowitz teaches history at Portland State, and he's cool.

TS