MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Exclusive: Leaked Syria observers' report details failings of mission
By artappraiser on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 4:37pm |By Column Lynch, Turtle Bay column @ Foreignpolicy.com, Jan 31, 2012
[...] the findings have become the focus of a diplomatic feud between Russia and the Security Council's main European powers -- which are set to debate taking more forceful position on Syria today [....]
My note: For those of you that don't check out Lynch's PDF of the leaked 18-page doc, I can't let you miss out on the starting invocation:
ln the Name of God Most Compassionate Most Merciful:
Lo! We offered the trust unto the heavens and the earth and the hills' but they
shrank from hearing it and were afraid of it' And man assumed it' Lo! He hath
proved a tyrant and a fool'
URL:
http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/31/exclusive_leaked_syria_observers_report_details_failings_of_mission
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Juan Cole has posted a news roundup on topic today
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by artappraiser on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 4:51pm