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...successful mission would have generated for the Hilton the kind of lurid publicity that another upscale Mayfair hotel recently garnered. It was in the nearby Millennium Hotel, last November, that Berezovsky's former employee Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian-born British citizen, drank tea contaminated with the radioactive isotope polonium-210, which killed him. British investigators identified as their prime suspect Andrei Lugovoi, like Litvinenko, a former kgb man. Moscow has turned down London's request for Lugovoi's extradition...
...good that we can still achieve and minimizes the damage that will inevitably occur? The best strategic minds in both parties have argued for months that the answer is essentially to muddle our way out, cut our losses carefully and try to salvage what we can from a mission gone bad. Even under the rosiest scenarios, the U.S. will suffer a humbling blow to its prestige as it leaves Iraq and the Sunni-Shi'ite civil war intensifies. But with the debacle would come some dividends. Done judiciously, a pullback from the war would start restoring America's ability...
...neither will the broader jihadist threat in Iraq or elsewhere vanish when we leave. Most plans for a reduced U.S. mission in Iraq - including the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, headed by James Baker III and Lee Hamilton - call for retaining a small counterterrorism force there. "No one is going to complain about going after an al-Qaeda target," says Anthony Zinni, former head of U.S. Central Command, who advocates a gradual disengagement from the sectarian conflict. Even so, the U.S. needs to be realistic about what 75,000 U.S. troops can achieve. "I want to blow...
...secretary for the Foundation For the Future, a newly-formed, Beirut-based grant-making organization with a mission to support democracy in the Middle East...
...thought the second mission would be easy: there's nothing I like more than some good modern technology and it bode poorly that my mother had insisted on bringing our own toilet paper...