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On Saturday, the current President stopped at the 3rd Army's Camp Arifjan in Kuwait to get a briefing on the war from Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, and to do some morale-boosting with the troops. He made the most the timing: his visit...
The extent to which forces have aligned against AQI was evident from General David Petraeus's comments at a year-end briefing for reporters in Baghdad's Green Zone. AQI has been the primary target of the American reinforcements brought to Iraq by the surge, and of the coordinated counter...
In a briefing Friday, the Pakistani government emphasized that al-Qaeda had Bhutto in its sights. "As you all know, Benazir Bhutto had been on the hit list of terrorists ever since she had come to Pakistan," said Javed Iqbal Cheema, the Interior Ministry spokesman. "She was on the hit...
Perhaps more disturbing is the recent revelation that members of Congress, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), voiced no objections to these techniques, including waterboarding, in a secret briefing with CIA officials in September 2002. The complicity of both Democrats and Republicans can be understood best by...
Setting The Record Straight The Dec. 3 Briefing story on Cyclone Sidr mistakenly included a picture of Bangladesh's President, Iajuddin Ahmed, instead of the country's chief adviser to the caretaker government - or de facto Prime Minister - Fakhruddin Ahmed, pictured here.