By: Emilian Papadopoulos
A roundup of the day’s national and international security news: Lieberman hawkish on Iran; new strategy against Al-Qaeda in Iraq; Powell: close Guantanamo; British PM visits Iraq; profile on U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker; Israel launches satellite; Iraqi Parliament ousts speaker.
[NYT, The Hill, J-Post] Sen. Lieberman advocates possible military strike against Iran: “I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq. … I’m not talking about a massive ground invasion of Iran.”
[NYT] U.S. looks at supporting Sunnis against their former Al-Qaeda allies.
[WaPo] Iraqi Parliament votes to remove its speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani. Another Sunni Arab is to be named within the week as his replacement.
[WaPo, Reuters, Al-Jazeera] British PM-elect Brown on assessment and fact-finding mission to Iraq.
[Reuters, Al-Jazeera] Former Secretary of State Powell advocates closing Guantanamo: “Guantanamo has become a major, major problem … if it were up to me I would close Guantanamo not tomorrow but this afternoon … and I would not let any of those people go. I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our federal legal system.”
[Newsweek/MSNBC] Profile: Ryan Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq.
[J-Post] Israel asserts new operational capabilities after successful satellite launch.
Tags: al-qaeda, brown, bush, guantanamo, iran, iraq, israel, lieberman, nuclear, parliament, pm, powerll, ryan crocker, speaker, sunni
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I’m glad a ground invasion isn’t in Mr. Lieberman’s plans. I think I’ve heard the forces are a wee bit overstretched, but maybe that’s just hearsay.
Posted 11 Jun 2025 at 10:01 am ¶I’m going to be posting later today with a quick look at Lieberman’s statement and what it means, but just thought I’d mention this now: from the articles I’ve read, it sounds like he only said “no major ground invasion” after he was pushed about it, on this weekend’s Face the Nation. In late May, Lieberman strongly supported the supplemental appropriations for Iraq fighting.. so I think the question you’re pointing to is critical: where is the priority, and how do you distribute military and financial resources?
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