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“So what if the guy threw his shoes at me?” questioned President Bush in the wake of an attempted assault in Baghdad. In the midst of a surprise final visit to Iraq, an intrepid Iraqi reporter, later identified as “Shoeless” Muntadar al-Zeidi, abandoned his objective journalistic stance and let his unconventional footwork do the talking [...]
After heated debate, the Iraqi Parliament passed the Status of Forces Agreement by a vote of 149-49. President George Bush praised the agreement that requires all US forces to be out of Iraq by the end of 2011. Perhaps the operative phrase here, though, is “by,” meaning it could occur before then, specially noted with [...]
The U.S. Senate’s approval of Gene Cretz as the new ambassador to Libya, late Thursday, November 20, marks the first time in 36 years that the United States will have an ambassador in Libya, concluding the long road to diplomat relations between the two countries. However, throughout the Arab world, there are mixed and cautious [...]
I commented in an earlier post about the United States providing weapons to Lebanon as a part of the US-Lebanon Joint Military Commission that culminated in multiple diplomatic visits between the US and Lebanon this past month and was meant to establish a bilateral military relationship between the two countries. The US is set to [...]
