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By Arianna Huffington

As we all await the Petraeus Report on the state of the surge, we may also need to be anticipating the Allawi Coup.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18277.htm



Behind Allawi's Bid for Power

By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball

Over time, CIA officials pushed Allawi as a more acceptable and reliable potential successor to Saddam than Ahmed Chalabi, a rival Iraqi exile (and Allawi relative) whose ambitions to succeed Saddam were heavily promoted by neoconservative intellectuals and civilian Pentagon aides to former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18281.htm



Some see 'coup' as Iraq's best hope

In the lobbies of luxury hotels and the apartments of exiles, an assortment of Iraqi politicians has been spending the summer vacation plotting a new Iraqi coup.

http://tinyurl.com/24u64w


From Information Clearing House



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