University of Michigan professor and blogger Juan Cole reviews recent news from the Middle East and discusses Hugo Chavez’s “devil” comment at the United Nations.

University of Michigan professor and blogger Juan Cole reviews recent news from the Middle East and discusses Hugo Chavez’s “devil” comment at the United Nations.
Juan Cole Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He runs an analytical website called "Informed Comment" where he provides a daily round-up of news and events in Iraq and elsewhere in the Arab world.

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AMY GOODMAN: Right now, we're going to turn back to an interview I did on Friday, when we stopped in Ann Arbor and we broadcast from the University of Michigan. There, we spoke to Juan Cole. He is professor of Middle Eastern history. I asked him about the situation in Iraq.
JUAN COLE: -- a United Nations report on Iraq, which was extremely disturbing. There was a 15% increase in deaths reported in Baghdad in July and August, nearly 7,000 dead between the two months, up from May and June, which were already horrible. 90% of these deaths seem to be death squad killings. People show up dead in the streets in the morning. The United Nations talked about torture. The bodies show signs of acid, chemicals, drills into joints, into the head. It's horrible. Read more