Archive for July, 2007
Behind the Mansour Hotel bombing
From our Baghdad correspondent, August 1, 2007
The noontime bombing that killed a dozen Iraqis at Baghdad’s Mansour Melia Hotel on June 25 continues to reverberate through Iraq — and through the American military high command. This was not a “typical” bombing (if there is such a thing in Iraq): it was well-planned and executed and […]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under Al Qaeda in Iraq, Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Iraq, War in Iraq.
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Talking to terrorists - part two (audio)
BBC News, July 22, 2007
In Part Two of “Talking to Terrorists” (see below for part one), the BBC’s Diplomatic Editor, Brian Hanrahan, explores the debate over Alastair Crooke’s thesis with experts on political Islam and those who believe there should be no talking to groups they see as advocating terror.
Listen to Part Two of Talking […]
Posted: July 29th, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah.
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Selling the Iraqi resistance
From our Baghdad correspondent, July 23, 2007
One of the more interesting — and quiet — visits to Washington was made recently by Sunni parliamentary leader Mohammed al-Dayni, who visited Capitol Hill during May to meet with Congressional leaders and administration officials. A Sunni member of the Iraqi parliament and head of the Sunni Iraqi National […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2007 under Al Qaeda, Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Iraq, War in Iraq.
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Talking to terrorists (audio)
BBC News, July 15, 2007
In Part One of a new two-part series, Alastair Crooke, a veteran of secret negotiations in many parts of the world, sets out his personal view that the policy of dialogue with armed groups, that proved successful in the Northern Ireland peace process, should now be used to help resolve conflict […]
Posted: July 19th, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah.
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Hamas briefing
On security in Gaza, Palestinian democracy, the National Unity Government, and the kidnapping of Alan Johnston
The following is an edited and annotated transcript of a discussion between Hamas’s representative in Lebanon, Usamah Hamdan 1, the British Member of Parliament, Rt Hon Michael Ancram QC 2, the Director of London’s Global Strategy Forum, Jonathan Lehrle 3, […]
Posted: July 8th, 2007 under CF REPORTS, Fatah, Hamas, Mark Perry, Mecca Agreement, Palestinians.
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CNN’s image fetish
By Mark Perry, Conflicts Forum, July 6, 2007
Thursday, July 5, 2007 was a fairly typical day for the world. In Iraq, two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb, while the U.S. military reported killing an al-Qaeda member in a military raid west of Baghdad. Seventeen people were killed in Dora — a neighborhood […]
Posted: July 6th, 2007 under CF NEWSVIEW, Hamas, Mark Perry, Media.
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