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U.S. Agrees to Meeting with Iran and Syria writes David Ignatius – or sort of. This is how it has been explained: The Bush administration has agreed to sit around a negotiating table with official representatives of Iran and Syria next month — as part of a planned regional conference in Baghdad to discuss ways [...]
A Lebanon analyst sent this note on the Hersh and Saab articles copied in the previous two posts. He prefers not to use his name. The following is his:_____ Allow me to add a number of comments to the fine discussion initiated by Bilal Saab on Seymour Hersh's New Yorker piece. Lebanese Sunnis Deeply Divided over Relations with [...]
Bilal Saab, an analyst who specilaizes in Middle East security and terrorism at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, has recently published :Expanding the "Jihad": Hizb'allah's Sunni Islamist Network" with Bruce Riedel, a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center. Saab has provided the following comments of Hersh's New Yorker article copied in [...]
Seymour Hersh's new article is copied below. It is followed by an interview of his with Wolf Blitzer on CNN and a "Telegraph" article, claiming US support for terrorist operations in Iran. (Thanks T-Desco). I will post the remarks of Bilal Saab on Hersh's Lebanon allegations in a separate post to follow. The Redirection Is [...]
A number of articles on the Syrian Opposition are due to come out soon. One, written by Joe Pace and myself, appeared in this December's issue of the Washington Quarterly: 1. Joshua Landis & Joe Pace, “The Syrian Opposition,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 30, pp. 45-68. 2. Seth Wikas of WINEP is finishing up an article soon. [...]
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