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...fact that Bush is holding talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not in Baghdad, but in the comparatively tranquil Jordanian capital of Amman, has not gone unnoticed."One hundred and fifty thousand U.S. soldiers cannot secure protection for their president," mocked a Jordanian columnist, who called the choice of venue "an open admission of gross failure for Washington and its allies' project in Iraq...
Jetting into Jordan for a mini-summit on Wednesday, President George W. Bush will have dinner with King Abdullah II, then breakfast the next morning with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki before holding a news conference and flying home to Washington. White House officials say there will be no big announcement after those meetings...
Harith al-Dari is a wanted man - and the warrant for his arrest is the best thing that could have happened to him. By issuing the warrant Thursday, the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has turned the dimunitive Iraqi cleric into a Sunni hero and a symbol of his community's angst and anger...
...government to have any real chance at tamping down the insurgency through a political accommodation of the Sunnis. And the government tried to stem the controversy Friday by clarifying that it had only issued an investigation warrant, not an arrest warrant; one official insisted that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki didn't know that any warrant was going to be issued. But the damage has already been done. It didn't help matters that the announcement had been made in a dramatic late-night television appearance by the Interior Minister, who warned that "this is the government's policy against...
...create an image of conflict, but we had a very smooth passage.”This is not to say that the whole of the operation has gone quite so smoothly. One notable bump occurred when the Syrian government put a hold on the participation of Osama al Nouri, a member of the Abraham Path’s initial leadership team.This setback appears to have been more than purely administrative. According to an online list of Path Initiative leaders, al Nouri’s “knowledge of languages and logistics [made] him central to the implementation...