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Pajamas Media: David Adesnik @ Oxblog examines Douglas Feith’s claims that a prewar CIA assessment wrongly believed the Iraqi police to be capable — and finds everyone discomfited regardless of whether Feith was lying or telling the truth. (via Cosmos)
Truthdig - Ear to the Ground: Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit to figure out how to curb the violence in Iraq. The invite is being regarded as another example of the newly empowered Iran upstaging potential U.S. efforts toward the same end. (via Cosmos)
Tailrank - Top News for Today: Rumsfeld said he did not know what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was talking about when she said last week that the United States had made thousands of "tactical errors" in handling the war in Iraq, a statement she later said was meant figuratively. Rumsfeld defended his war plan for Iraq but added that such plans inevitably do not survive first contact with the enemy (via Cosmos)
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines: Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread through the region, four key lawmakers told The Associated Press on Monday. (via Cosmos)
“Okie” on the Lam: The Iranian diplomatic gambit appeared designed to upstage expected moves from Washington to include Syria and Iran in a wider regional effort to clamp off violence in Iraq, where more civilians have been killed in the first 20 days of November than in any other month since the AP began tallying the figures in April 2005. (via Cosmos)
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines: Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit to figure out how to curb the violence in Iraq. The invite is being regarded as another example of the newly empowered Iran upstaging potential U.S. efforts toward the same end. (via Cosmos)
[Riverbendblog.blogspot.com] Baghdad Burning: There’s a saying in Iraq which people are using right and left lately, and that I've used before in the blog, “Ili ishuf il mout, yirdha bil iskhuna.” He who sees death, is content with a fever. Allawi et al.
[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: He also accused the United States of training "an Iraqi military force loyal to it, which does not submit to the authority of the Iraqi government." He said that the recent US and British escalation of military action against the Sadr Bloc is "unjustified." He also criticized the remarks of Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa about the Arab role in Iraq.
[Back-to-iraq.com] Back to Iraq: Although it’s legal for foreign investors to own up to 49 percent of an Iraqi company, it’s not yet been implemented because of technical hurdles, which means the flood of foreign investment predicted when the market reopened hasn’t happened yet. What local investment there is also sidelined because of a steady exodus of wealthy Iraqis and their money to neighboring countries drives a vicious cycle of violence, insecurity and poor economic performance that might lessen the violence.
[Stuhughes.co.uk] Beyond Northern Iraq weblog: Beyond Northern Iraq weblog.
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