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http://www.newamerica.net/publications/books/in_the_belly_of_the_green_bird
“In the Belly of the Green Bird”
By Nir Rosen, New America Foundation
Free Press | May 2006
288 pp. | ISSN: 0743277031
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In the Belly of the Green Bird is a searing report, unlike any other book about the American experience in Iraq. Almost everything covered in the Western media has been at least one or two steps removed from the minds and acts of the people who will determine the future of Iraq. Some of them are peaceful, some are violent. Some of them hate one another with the intensity of ancient enemies. The depth of discord between Sunnis and Shias is difficult to fathom without listening to them. Their anti-Americanism is much more recent, but not much less intense. The divisions within this cobbled-together country, much like those within Yugoslavia after Tito, are simply too intense to contain.
Selected reviews of In the Belly of the Green Bird are available below:”
Publishers Weekly
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=stuckonstupid
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“John Edwards seeks help from Iran, Syria in stabilizing Iraq”
IHT ^ | 7/14/07 | IHT
Posted on 07/14/2007 11:15:38 PM PDT by freedom44
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12854&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070715-03
July 15, 2007
“Operation Eagle Ares brings 46 into custody”
2nd BCT, 10th Mountain Division (LI) PAO MND-C
PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: “FORWARD OPERATING BASE MAHMUDIYAH, Iraq — Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers nabbed 46 men suspected of involvement with al Qaeda affiliated terror networks July 12 under the cover of darkness, east of Lutifiyah, Iraq.
Troops of the 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division and Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., air assaulted in the area, and then began searching reeds along canals for weapons caches.
The combined air assault detained 29 men on the Iraqi army’s list of persons of interest, and 14 others who were identified by sources as terrorists. Three other men detained were taken for questioning on suspicion of terrorist activity.”