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onal playing field. A fourth car bomb rocked south Beirut on January 2" —another symbolic blow to Hezbollah, whose support of the Alawite regime in Damascus continues to disgruntle Sunni elements in the region as a whole. The streets of southern Beirut have been bolstered with more checkpoints in an atte
sts with links to al-Qaida and fighters in Syria—in particular, members of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)—have moved into Fallujah and Ramadi in Anbar province in Iraq. This is the first time militants have retained such flagrant control in major cities since the peak of the vio
ssion, as do reports that the White House blocked Pentagon and CIA plans to arm the opposition that's fighting to overthrow Iran's client regime in Damascus. An America that won't help proxies in a proxy war isn't likely to take the fight directly to Iran's nuclear facilities. In rejecting Mr. Biden's
that many days of protest in Iraq have gone EFTA00683494 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-Q
ression, as do reports that the White House blocked Pentagon and CIA plans to arm the opposition that's fighting to overthrow Iran's client regime in Damascus. An America that won't help proxies in a proxy war isn't likely to take the fight directly to Iran's nuclear facilities. In rejecting Mr. Biden's of
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027104 →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 →ression, as do reports that the White House blocked Pentagon and CIA plans to arm the opposition that's fighting to overthrow Iran's client regime in Damascus. An America that won't help proxies in a proxy war isn't likely to take the fight directly to Iran's nuclear facilities. In rejecting Mr. Biden's off
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028730 →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 Damascus and Fallujah

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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United States
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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Tunisia
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Hosni Mubarak
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Cairo
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Hillary Clinton
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Saddam Hussein
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Yemen
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Middle East
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Marc Rich
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Fatah
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Joe Biden
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Department of Justice
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