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US spies, not 'surge', reduced Iraq violence: book
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3f7dc07c-80e3-4517-b0f4-1102dcca2754/85066BA5-06CF-4E6B-893B-C1AB52AB2C69/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-spies-not-surge-reduced-iraq-violence-book-20080905-4app.html" href="http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-spies-not-surge-reduced-iraq-violence-book-20080905-4app.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theage.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-spies-not-surge-reduced-iraq-violence-book-20080905-4app.html"><P>THE 2007 troop "surge", in which President George Bush sent nearly 30,000 additional US combat forces to Iraq, was not the primary factor behind the steep drop in violence there, according to a book by <I>Washington Post</I> associate editor Bob Woodward.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-spies-not-surge-reduced-iraq-violence-book-20080905-4app.html"><P>Rather, Woodward reports, "groundbreaking" new covert techniques enabled US military and intelligence officials to locate and kill insurgent leaders and key individuals in extremist groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-spies-not-surge-reduced-iraq-violence-book-20080905-4app.html"><P><I>The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008</I> also says the Bush Administration has run an extensive spying operation on Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, his staff and others in the Iraqi Government.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-spies-not-surge-reduced-iraq-violence-book-20080905-4app.html"><P>"We know everything he says," says one of multiple sources Woodward cites about the practice in the book, which is scheduled for release on Monday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-spies-not-surge-reduced-iraq-violence-book-20080905-4app.html"><P>The book is Woodward's fourth to examine the inner debates of the Bush Administration and its handling of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/85066BA5-06CF-4E6B-893B-C1AB52AB2C69/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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