Word: massimo
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...State. Advisers also say Kerry's commitment to intelligence reform would require picking a Republican Secretary of Defense to win Capitol Hill's support in the inevitable battle with the Pentagon, which controls 90% of the spy budget. They have floated John McCain's name as a contender. --By Massimo Calabresi. With reporting by Douglas Waller/Washington
...land and let democracy work. Gesturing his cigarette at the procession of Kurds mourning the death of a fallen leader, he says, "We've walked in too many of these." Iraq's only hope is that many more of his countrymen feel the same. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington, Andrew Purvis/Vienna, Philip Smucker/Mosul and Vivienne Walt/Najaf
...intelligence official: "Sistani can prove to be one of the bigger forces for stability." A State Department official, on the other hand, says: "I am skeptical that anyone really understands what Sistani's about." The world may be about to find out. --Reported by Brian Bennett and Hassan Fattah/Baghdad, Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Scott MacLeod/Cairo, Nahid Siamdoust/Qum, Philip Smucker/Karbala, Phil Zabriskie/Najaf
...wide." On the run now, these groups may be more dangerous than ever. Says an ex-commander of one of them in Lahore: "The boys aren't listening to anyone. They're desperate. They don't accept that the days of jihad are over." --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington and Ghulam Hasnain/Lahore
...guns, saying some compromise on the election issue is still possible. But privately, U.S. officials predict Washington will blink first. With time running out to get a handover started in Baghdad, a State Department source says, "they're going to realize the game's up and cave." --By Massimo Calabresi and Hassan Fatah