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...Jawbone: Convene a meeting with the most senior members of the U.S. and Iraqi governments to explain that the U.S. is prepared to commit greater forces and resources for a period of one year, ONLY if Iraqis commit to decisive action to quell the insurgency and the civil war (which includes immediately starting to disarm the militias). It will be made crystal clear to Baghdad that without the Iraqi commitment - which will be measured monthly to ensure adherence - U.S. forces would immediately begin their withdrawal. Gen. John Abizaid started to do just that during his meetings in Baghdad this week...
...Strong Arm: In the short term, have the four military services, the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, prepare plans for a one-year surge in Iraq. Commit to destruction of the insurgent forces in Ramadi, Hit and the other Anbar strongholds... whatever it takes. Reinforce key cities like Baghdad and Basra. The best guess is that this will require 20,000 more U.S. troops on the ground. The U.S. military should rapidly increase the number of U.S. advisors for the Iraqi Security Forces - to some 15,000, up from about 7,000. It should also maintain the covert special...
...Khanfar: We think that Tayseer is innocent and did not commit any crime. He was very professional in the way that he dealt with Al Qaeda. We are going to continue the legal battle to prove his innocence. If Tayseer followed the same steps every journalist does to have an interview with Osama bin Laden, I don't think he can be accused of cooperation...
...Wilson steered the puck away from the boards and dished it to Brine, who managed to whip a shot past netminder Elayna Hamashuk from the left face-off circle to give Harvard a 2-1 lead.Early in the third period, it was the Crimson’s turn to commit a game misconduct as Johnston was also whistled for hitting from behind.“You could kind of see it coming,” Stone said. “Once they get one [game misconduct], something is going to happen—that’s the kind...
...Saddam too could be hanged "before the end of the year." For the beleaguered Iraqi government, the practice of executions plays a political role as well as a legal one: amid the inescapable violence on Iraq's streets, the death penalty plays well with Iraqis tired of seeing gangs commit murder with impunity. "From the Iraqi point of view," says al-Maliki's adviser, "they don't like to see a lot of people get killed every day and have a low number of executions...