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This is a fascinating al-Jazeera news story about the new "U.S.-Friendly" Sunni alliance in Anbar, the now-dead sheikh supposed to have been in charge of the alliance, and the inevitable money and power game behind that show.

Part I riffs on Apocalypse Now in a very heavy-handed way, appropriately so.

Friday, and we're still in Amman...



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Date: 2007-09-22 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcfnord.livejournal.com
wow. very informative.

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Date: 2007-09-23 10:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threepunchstuff.livejournal.com
"He smoked profusely and drank endless glasses of sweet tea."

Must've been his heart.

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