wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 11/25/2008
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Speaking to Hugh Hewitt on Monday, surge architect Fred Kagan — who just last year wrote that “ setting hard-and-fast timelines for the withdrawal of U.S. forces… is equivalent to accepting failure in Iraq” — explained how the new security agreement — which ...
codepinkdc.blogspot.com - 11/23/2008
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Medea Benjamin November 22, 2008 DAY ONE in
Tehran What an extraordinary day! After arriving at our...
hotel in the middle of the night, I woke up early raring to go. Our hotel is in a great location downtown, and I took some time before our meetings ...
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Medea's Blog Day #1 Iran Citizen Diplomacy
latimes.com - 11/24/2008
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Whatever the reality, the quick release of a
man whom the United States had described as a...
major catch suggests the ability of Iran to push buttons here, just as the U.S. prepares to diminish its role. Qorbani was detained at the Baghdad airport, but ...
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Release of Iranian raises questions in Iraq - Los ...
mcclatchydc.com - 11/26/2008
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Iraqi legal jurisdiction over U.S. troops or military
contractors who kill Iraqis on operations. The agreement calls...
for Iraq to prosecute U.S. troops according to court procedures that have yet to be worked out. Those negotiations, administration ...
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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/25/2008 | U.S. staying ...
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Reality Bites
Obsidian Wings —
... by Eric Martin
Despite efforts by the likes of Fred Kagan to portray the potential ratification of the SOFA as a great defeat for Iran (it isn't), reality is stubborn, uncoopearative and has a liberal bias: Was he an Iranian arms smuggler or did he restore religious sites? Was that white powder he had on him cocaine or salt? Who arrested him, and why was he freed? Those questions surround the detention of an Iranian man, Nader Qorbani, accused by U.S. officials of being a senior officer of Iran's Quds Force paramilitary ...
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