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Can Iraq’s military hold it together?

CNN’s Candy Crowley talks with Gen. Myers, Adm. Fallon, and Amb. Khalilzad about whether Iraq’s military is ready.

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US Braces for Blowback Over Afghan War Disclosures – ABC News

msnbc.comUS Braces for Blowback Over Afghan War DisclosuresABC NewsAP By KIMBERLY DOZIER AP Writer Adm. Mike Mullen, the top US military officer, gestures during a press conference in Baghdad,… Operatives inside Afghanistan and Pakistan who have work…

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US Braces for Blowback Over Afghan War Disclosures – ABC News

msnbc.comUS Braces for Blowback Over Afghan War DisclosuresABC NewsAP By KIMBERLY DOZIER AP Writer Adm. Mike Mullen, the top US military officer, gestures during a press conference in Baghdad,… Operatives inside Afghanistan and Pakistan who have work…

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Top kill stops oil and gas leak in Gulf of Mexico from BP well

Source: latimes.com

Engineers have stopped the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government’s top oil-spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning.

The “top kill” effort, launched Wednesday afternoon by industry and government engineers, had pumped enough drilling fluid to block oil and [...]

The Utility of Assassination

By George Friedman

The apparent Israeli assassination of a Hamas operative in the United Arab Emirates turned into a bizarre event replete with numerous fraudulent passports, alleged Israeli operatives caught on videotape and international outrage (much of it feigned), more over the use of fraudulent passports than over the operative’s death. If we are to believe the [...]