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The Atlantic Monthly | December 2004 : Will Iran Be Next? by James Fallows

emmineb — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:41:33 GMT

Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results

The day I almost led the Iraqi army - Salon

emmineb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:38:10 GMT

Right after the fall of Baghdad, hundreds of desperate disbanded troops asked me -- a middle-aged journalist -- to give them jobs. That's when I knew everything was going terribly wrong. When people ask me what went so wrong in Iraq, as they frequently do after learning that I reported from there early in the war, I offer a glib reply: "Let me tell you about the day I almost led the Iraqi army." Then I commence my very strange story, one that never fails to amuse, bewilder and ultimately dishearten anyone who has ever wondered why combat that was supposed to end on May 1, 2003 -- you know, "Mission Accomplis

Ties to GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

emmineb — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:10:32 GMT

Adapted from "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," by Rajiv Chandrasekaran After the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in April 2003, the opportunity to participate in the U.S.-led effort to reconstruct Iraq attracted all manner of Americans - restless professionals, Arabic-speaking academics, development specialists and war-zone adventurers. But before they could go to Baghdad, they had to [...] To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political [...] What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration. [...] Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade .

BBC NEWS: UK | Lawrence of Arabia's Mid-East map on show

emmineb — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:52:15 GMT

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emmineb — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:19:04 GMT

Los Angeles Times - No One Dares to Help

emmineb — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:05:17 GMT

BAGHDAD — On a recent Sunday, I was buying groceries in my beloved Amariya neighborhood in western Baghdad when I heard the sound of an AK-47 for about three seconds. It was close but not very close, so I continued shopping. As I took a right turn on Munadhama Street, I saw a man lying on the ground in a small pool of blood. He wasn't dead. The idea of stopping to help or to take him to a hospital crossed my mind, but I didn't dare. Cars passed without stopping. Pedestrians and shop owners kept doing what they were doing, pretending nothing had happened.

One Iraq or Three? Other People's Maps by Reidar Visser

emmineb — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:26:50 GMT

Over the past year, increasing numbers of American commentators have suggested various “territorial” solutions designed to extricate U.S. forces from Iraq. These proposals have come in several guises, involving different degrees of decentralization and compartmentalization: “Soft partition,” “controlled devolution,” and “Dayton-style détente” (a reference to the 1995 Bosnian settlement)

Export.gov

emmineb — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:29:49 GMT

The European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection went into effect in October, 1998, and would prohibit the transfer of personal data to non-European Union nations that do not meet the European “adequacy” standard for privacy protection. While the United States and the European Union share the goal of enhancing privacy protection for their citizens, the United States takes a different approach to privacy from that taken by the European Union. In order to bridge these different privacy approaches and provide a streamlined means for U.S. organizations to comply with the Directive, the U.S. Department of Commerce in consultation with the European Commission developed a "Safe Harbor" framework and this Web site to provide the informatio

The New York Review of Books: The Berlusconi Show

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:34:21 GMT

An essay on il Buffone

When North Korea Fails by Robert D. Kaplan

emmineb — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:55:40 GMT