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RFE/RL in the Media
# FP Passport on the perils of being named Saddam Hussein
Int'l Press Review
Afghanistan
# Karzai's brother has been on the CIA payroll for 8 years
# Peter Galbraith on the UN's dithering in Afghanistan
# Thomas Friedman doesn't think more troops are the answer
# Paul Fishstein searches for an Afghan democracy
# The US has a population-centric Afghan strategy
Iraq
# John Hannah (tentatively) praises Obama's Iraq focus
# Simon Tisdall on elusive peace in Iraq
Russia
# Anders Aslund on the sorry state of the CIS
# Russia & Georgia spar over the OSCE's press freedom ombudsman
Of Interest
# The Onion is bearish on Afghanistan
# The pitchfork story of the day
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan for 3 days
RFE/RL in the Media
# FP Passport on the perils of being named Saddam Hussein
Int'l Press Review
Afghanistan
# Karzai's brother has been on the CIA payroll for 8 years
# Peter Galbraith on the UN's dithering in Afghanistan
# Thomas Friedman doesn't think more troops are the answer
# Paul Fishstein searches for an Afghan democracy
# The US has a population-centric Afghan strategy
Iraq
# John Hannah (tentatively) praises Obama's Iraq focus
# Simon Tisdall on elusive peace in Iraq
Russia
# Anders Aslund on the sorry state of the CIS
# Russia & Georgia spar over the OSCE's press freedom ombudsman
Of Interest
# The Onion is bearish on Afghanistan
# The pitchfork story of the day
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan for 3 days