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...schools and universities are all part of the mix. Just as Washington backs Iraqi news outlets like al-Hurra television station, Tehran has funded broadcast and print outlets in Iraq. A 2003 Supreme National Security Council memo, smuggled out of Iran, suggests even the Iranian Red Crescent society, akin to the Red Cross, has coordinated its activities through the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The memo instructs officials that "the immediate needs of the Iraqi people should be determined" by the Guard's al-Quds Force...
...should be used to keep the U.S. forces engaged in Iraq." Secret British military-intelligence documents show that British forces are tracking several paramilitary outfits in Southern Iraq that are backed by the Revolutionary Guard. Coalition and Iraqi intelligence agencies track Iranian officers' visits to Iraq on inspection tours akin to those of their American counterparts. "We know they come, but often not until after they've left," says a British intelligence officer...
...plenty of blame to go around. At various times over the past three months, CNOOC, the Chinese government (which owns 70% of the company), and the company's gold-plated U.S. advisers?investment banks Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, as well as high-powered Washington, D.C., law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld LLP?all made bewildering, tone-deaf mistakes that hurt CNOOC's case. The oil company's Washington team, sources close to the deal say, consistently reassured management that the politics were manageable?even as the political climate deteriorated throughout the summer...
...stated, "Deep in our guts, we know that a President's phoning an election official when votes are being counted?as [President Gloria Macapagal] Arroyo has admitted doing?is most likely not unusual." A President's wish or desire, to a common person or especially an election official, is akin to a direct order. And to say that a phone call during vote counting is not unusual is to condone wrongdoing. Siva Ravindran Bombay...
...TIME's decision to turn over Cooper's reporting notes is akin to negotiating with terrorists. It only emboldens enemies of the First Amendment. The issue is not about TIME magazine. It is about the public trust that you hold. Or at least held. Valarie S. Zeeck Tacoma, Washington...