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egion." Perhaps including Iraq. The Benghazi committee is organizing as Iraq crumbles, its army disintegrating as the enemy approaches. In January, Fallujah fell to forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, an al-Qaeda affiliate. ISIS's conquest of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city (its population
e inflicted by Moammar Gaddafi. This humanitarian imperialism quickly became an exercise in regime change. But the prolonged attempt to assassinate Gaddafi from the air made no provision for a replacement regime. The Benghazi committee should hear from Alan J. Kuperman of the Lyndon B. Johnson School
6984 the hope of attracting an intervention. This increased the rate of killing there tenfold. And since Gaddafi fell, "sophisticated weapons from Gaddafi's arsenal — including up to 15,000 man-portable, surface-to-air missiles unaccounted for as of 2012 — leaked to radical Islamists throughout the reg
troops and even less time. Instead, it cost the United States $80o billion at least, thousands of lives and nearly nine grueling years ... Today in Fallujah, the site of two of the war's largest and most devastating military campaigns, the very best that can be said is that two years late to the party --
ivities dropped to to%, according to the study abstract. The picture in Libya is significantly different, according to the data. After the death of Gaddafi, in October 2011 and until December of the same year, depending on the language of the tweets, the people were talking about different things. In E
to be false. A more persuasive explanation—get ready for this shocker—is that Iran really wants a bomb. The regime believes, not unreasonably, that Moammar Gadhafi would still be in power had he not given up his nuclear program in 2003. Mr. Khamenei also fears a "velvet revolution" scenario, in which more normal
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027103 →talked about in Washington, like an embarrassing relative. In North Africa, the US military has taken a back seat while the work of toppling Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and driving back the jihadists in Mali has been left to Franco-British forces. Syrian policy is one of drift, where the administration finds all opti
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027110 →more than twice that many days of protest in Irag have gone almost unnoticed in the United States. Iraqi army troops killed five Sunni protesters in Fallujah on Jan. 25, after a month of anti-government protests in Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin provinces and elsewhere for which thousands turned out. Al-Qae
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027116 →to be false. A more persuasive explanation— get ready for this shocker—is that Iran really wants a bomb. The regime believes, not unreasonably, that Moammar Gadhafi would still be in power had he not given up his nuclear program in 2003. Mr. Khamenei also fears a "velvet revolution" scenario, in which more normal
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028729 →talked about in Washington, like an embarrassing relative. In North Africa, the US military has taken a back seat while the work of toppling Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and driving back the jihadists in Mali has been left to Franco-British forces. Syrian policy is one of drift, where the administration finds all opti
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028736 →more than twice that many days of protest in Iraq have gone almost unnoticed in the United States. Iraqi army troops killed five Sunni protesters in Fallujah on Jan. 25, after a month of anti-government protests in Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin provinces and elsewhere for which thousands turned out. Al-Qae
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028742 →Entities connected to both Fallujah and Muammar Gaddafi

Barack Obama
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
George W. Bush
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Tunisia
LOCATION
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Cairo
LOCATION
Yemen
LOCATION
Marc Rich
PERSON
Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Damascus
LOCATION
Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON
Tripoli
LOCATION
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
al-Qaeda
ORGANIZATION