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		<title>Guatemala&#8217;s Cycles of Crime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Guatemala and its majority Mayan population time is repeating itself. A former military commander and intelligence chief with a bloody past promises to bring law and order to the Central American nation. Worried about rising crime and the increasingly violent penetration by Mexican drug cartels, voters elected Otto Pérez Molina...]]></description>
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		<title>Journalist security: An evolving field</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The garden city between the mountains and the sea founded by Vikings in 871 cast an historic hue over the discussion. Journalists from nearly every continent gathered this past weekend to discuss journalist security issues in a hotel in Tønsberg, Norway, outside of which a replica of a Viking ship was being constructed.

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		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/journalist-security-an-evolving-field/</link>
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		<title>Murdering with Impunity: The Rise in Terror Tactics Against News Reporters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More journalists were killed last year than ever before. No doubt the world has become a more dangerous...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/home-right-selected-feature/murdering-with-impunity-the-rise-in-terror-tactics-against-news-reporters/</link>
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		<title>In U.S., Dangerous Misconceptions from TSA Poster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2004, Iraqi gunmen loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr abducted U.S. freelance photographer Paul Taggert because, as they later told The Associated Press, they thought he was a spy. Now, a new poster from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration reinforces dangerous...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/in-u-s-dangerous-misconceptions-from-tsa-poster/</link>
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		<title>Coming soon&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest version of FrankSmyth.com went up in October 2010. The Secret Documents section is taking longer to put up than expected. But it will eventually list documents obtained by Frank in the course of investigating stories and others such as the private, Washington, D.C.-based National Security Archive with full attribution in every case. The documents<div align="right"><a class="ReadMore" href="http://www.franksmyth.com/franksmyth-com/coming-soon/">...read more »</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/franksmyth-com/coming-soon/</link>
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		<title>Thomas Long</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Long has been a photojournalist, correspondent, editor, documentary producer and analyst for diverse media over three decades.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/thomas-long/</link>
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		<title>Neill Le Roux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neill Le Roux is an art, model, event and news photographer based in South Africa.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/neill-le-roux/</link>
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		<title>Scott Wallace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Wallace's assignments have taken him from the remotest corners of the Amazon to the clandestine arms markets of Russia, from the North Slope of Alaska to the sweltering rice paddies of southern Bangladesh. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/scott-wallace/</link>
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		<title>Kevin McKiernan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin McKiernan's career as a journalist and filmmaker has taken him to some of the world's most troubled regions, from Nicaragua to Iraq to West Africa.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/kevin-mckiernan/</link>
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		<title>Hector Emanuel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hector Emanuel is a Peruvian-born photojournalist with a Master's degree in physics. His photos focus mainly on social and political issues in Latin America and the United States.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/hector-emanuel/</link>
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		<title>Jonathan Moller</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Each moment captured by Jonathan Moller’s camera...sets an example for future generations, so that they may know the past, which is filled with darkness but also contains hope, struggle and optimism."    Rigoberta Menchú Tum
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		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/jonathan-moller/</link>
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		<title>Bill Gentile</title>
		<description><![CDATA["I began my career in the golden days of journalism when the craft still was about information as opposed to entertainment, and when the men and women who practiced the craft believed that information can make a difference."
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		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/bill-gentile/</link>
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		<title>Zoriah Miller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zoriah is an award-winning photojournalist whose work has been featured in some of the world’s most prestigious galleries, museums and publications.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/zoriah/</link>
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		<title>David Handschuh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A three time Pulitzer nominee, David Handschuh has been working his magic behind the lens for more than 30 years.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/david-handschuh/</link>
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		<title>Drew Brown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drew Brown, a former U.S. airborne infantryman, has covered military affairs almost exclusively for more than a decade.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/drew-brown/</link>
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		<title>Eros Hoagland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As well as documenting the political climate and social impact of conflict, Eros looks for an emotional narrative when approaching reportage projects.
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		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/eros-hoagland/</link>
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		<title>Dan Connell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Connell is a world-renown expert on the Horn of Africa, and especially Eritrea, where spent many years reporting.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/dan-connell/</link>
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		<title>Mick Stern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mick Stern is an accomplished poet, political cartoonist, playwrite and screenplay writer who co-write with Director Lenn Dell'Amico the 2009 film, "Everything Must Go."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/mick-stern/</link>
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		<title>Donna De Cesare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Donna DeCesare is widely known for her groundbreaking coverage of the spread of Los Angeles gangs to Central America.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/donna-de-cesare/</link>
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		<title>Corinne Dufka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dufka, now a Human Rights Watch senior researcher, was an award-winning photojournalist for the Reuters news agency, covering conflicts in Central America, Europe and Africa.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/corrine-dufka/</link>
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		<title>Martin Lueders</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Marty focuses on people --victims-- from Bosnia to Rwanda, from Guatemala to India, from Liberia to Sierra Leone. The scenes are painfully intimate."   FS]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/martin-lueders/</link>
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		<title>Jeremy Bigwood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Bigwood is a frequently quoted investigative journalist, as well as a photojournalist whose images from the Central America wars from 1984 through 1994 were published worldwide.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/jeremy-bigwood/</link>
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		<title>Jean-Marie Simon</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Jean-Marie Simon's Guatemala is a country in which history, cultural diversity, exotic beauty and cruelty are reflected on the faces of its Indian peasants, its soliders, its politicians, its protesters and its mourners."   Aryeh Neier]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/colleagues-corner/jean-marie-simon-2/</link>
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		<title>Jammeh &#8216;Award&#8217; Coverage Reflects Chill in Gambian Press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The claims are false. Regarding "your query asking for confirmation of Gambian reporting on the Gambian president receiving awards and a letter from President Obama," White House National Security Council...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/jammeh-award-coverage-reflects-chill-in-gambian-press/</link>
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		<title>Hollman Morris, Labeled &#8216;Terrorist,&#8217; Finally Harvard-bound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a month, U.S. officials in Bogotá told Colombian journalist Hollman Morris that his request for a U.S. visa to study at Harvard as a prestigious Nieman Fellow had been denied on grounds relating to terrorist activities as defined by the U.S. Patriot Act, and that the decision was permanent and that there were no grounds for appeal.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/hollman-morris-labeled-terrorist-finally-harvard-bound/</link>
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		<title>Global Media Forum Cites Risks of Environmental Reporting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He's young, unemployed and carries himself with the innocence of a man who hasn't spent much time outside his own village. But Egyptian blogger Tamer Mabrouk is the real deal. Appearing at an international media conference in Bonn, Mabrouk's description of chemical dumping into a brackish lagoon...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/global-media-forum-cites-risks-of-environmental-reporting/</link>
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		<title>‘Crude’ Filmmaker’s Raw Footage Subject to Subpoena</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A filmmaker’s raw footage is much like a photographer’s unedited images or a reporter’s notebooks—a private record of their reporting that is rarely disclosed to others. On Thursday, a federal judge in New York ruled... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/%e2%80%98crude%e2%80%99-filmmaker%e2%80%99s-raw-footage-subject-to-subpoena/</link>
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		<title>Painting the Maya Red: Military Doctrine and Speech in Guatemala&#8217;s Genocidal Acts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bloodshed woven through the fabric of Guatemalan society remains a rarely told story. One reason for the ongoing lack of attention is the impunity that has long...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/home-left-selected-feature/painting-the-maya-red-military-doctrine-and-speech-in-guatemalas-genocidal-acts/</link>
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		<title>FOIA Needs New Muscle Behind It, Not Just Promises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are busy days for Freedom of Information. On April 5, the watchdog Web site that knows no borders, WikiLeaks, posted a classified U.S. military video showing U.S. forces firing on Iraqi civilians, killing many, including two Reuters journalists, as well as wounding children. Two days later, the Pentagon posted a redacted U.S. military assessment...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/foia-needs-new-muscle-behind-it-not-just-promises/</link>
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		<title>El Salvador&#8217;s Cold War Martyrs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The curfew broke after dawn. But the massacre took place in the middle of the night. The high command of the Salvadoran armed forces, who were receiving a million dollars a day in U.S. aid, made their decision near midnight. They had been on the defensive over the past...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/home-right-selected-feature/el-salvadors-cold-war-martyrs/</link>
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		<title>Uribe, Courts Hold Critical Journalists in Contempt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Original story ran on the Committee to Protect Journalists blog Daniel Coronell's name didn't come up in a hearing this week on Capitol Hill, even though CPJ had just learned that a Colombian court had ordered the arrest of the respected Canal Uno TV reporter and Semana magazine columnist over his work. Coronell is one<div align="right"><a class="ReadMore" href="http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/uribe-courts-hold-critical-journalists-in-contempt/">...read more »</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/uribe-courts-hold-critical-journalists-in-contempt/</link>
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		<title>In Oakland, Progress in Bailey Murder Prosecution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The killers of journalists in many less developed nations often work in collusion with corrupt government officials, CPJ research has long shown. For more than a year irregularities in the Oakland police investigation into...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/in-oakland-progress-in-bailey-murder-prosecution/</link>
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		<title>Tunisia Caucus Co-Chair Calls Despot Moderate and Wise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Betty McCollum told her constituents she was going to honor the dead. “Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) will spend the Fourth of July holiday visiting the North African Cemetery and Memorial in Tunisia to pay tribute to American troops, including 138 Minnesotans, who lost their lives in World War II,” reads a July 1 statement on her website...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/thehill-com-blog/tunisia-caucus-co-chair-calls-despot-moderate-and-wise/</link>
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		<title>The Local Newsman &#8211; A CPJ Special Report By Frank Smyth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The newsman was hard to forget. He carried a handheld camera to record interviews. While on the cell phone, he scribbled notes on yellow Post-its, sticking them one by one up his arm. He asked not only the first, but often the toughest question at many press conferences. He invariably wore a collared shirt and tie...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-comittee-to-protect-journalists/the-local-newsman-a-cpj-special-report-by-frank-smyth/</link>
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		<title>Bush’s Brush with Latin America’s Drug Lords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[George W. Bush has embarked on the longest trip of his presidency to Latin America this week, a junket to Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico that purports to advance social justice. His journey comes at a time when oil-rich Venezuela, under the radical populist...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-nation/bushs-brush-with-latin-americas-drug-lords/</link>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s future could be on the line in Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For all the talk about Iraq and whether we should send more troops, one subject seems almost too delicate to bring up: Israel. What happens to America's closest ally in the Middle East if the Bush administration loses Iraq to a wider war marked by more anarchy and violence?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/newsday/israels-future-could-be-on-the-line-in-iraq/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Is Weller&#8217;s Beach an Ethics Breach?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JERRY WELLER, THE 11th District representative who's up for reelection in November, has some explaining to do. As I wrote in an August 25 cover story, "The Congressman and the Dictator's Daughter," he's already raised questions about whether he has a conflict of interest...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/chicago-reader/is-wellers-beach-an-ethics-breach/</link>
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		<title>El congresista y la hija del dictador</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Weller buscaba por sexta vez una silla en el congreso por el estado de Illinois, cuando en Julio del 2004 anunció que estaba comprometido con Zury Ríos Sosa, una dura diputada del congreso guatemalteco e hija del conocido dictador, (general) Efraín Ríos Montt. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/raices/el-congresista-y-la-hija-del-dictador/</link>
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		<title>The Congressman and the Dictator&#8217;s Daughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JERRY WELLER WAS running for his sixth term as congressman from Illinois’ 11th District in July 2004 when he announced that he was engaged to Zury Rios Sosa, an outspoken third-term legislator in Guatemala’s congress and the daughter of former dictator General Efrain...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/chicago-reader/the-congressman-and-the-dictators-daughter/</link>
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		<title>Time for Hard Choices on Leaving Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the unexpected crisis involving Israel and Lebanon rages on with no end in sight, the United States needs to stay focused on the Iraqi crisis of its own making. Lately, even the most articulate supporters of that war have finally declared that our efforts there are... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/newsday/time-for-hard-choices-on-leaving-iraq/</link>
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		<title>A war &#8216;shock and awe&#8217; didn&#8217;t win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember when the Bush administration launched its "shock and awe" campaign across Iraq? Even hardened critics were left starstruck watching the bombs rain down on Baghdad and other targets three years ago this week. It was as if the United States were flaunting its firepower while saying to hostile states and forces around the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/newsday/a-war-shock-and-awe-didnt-win/</link>
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		<title>El narco-Estado intocable: Militares guatemaltecos desafían a la DEA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[La alerta atravesó el estado en julio. Un analista de la FBI ubicado en McAllen escribió un informe clasificado que el Departamento de Seguridad Interna envió a agentes... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-texas-observer/el-narco-estado-intocable-militares-guatemaltecos-desafian-a-la-dea/</link>
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		<title>The Untouchable Narco-State: Guatemala&#8217;s Army defies DEA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The alert went out across the state this past July. A McAllen-based FBI analyst wrote a classified report that the Department of Homeland Security sent to U.S. Border Patrol agents throughout Texas. About 30 suspects who were once part of an elite unit of the Guatemalan special forces were training drug traffickers in paramilitary tactics ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-texas-observer/the-untouchable-narco-state-guatemalas-army-defies-dea/</link>
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		<title>Iraq: No Consensus, No Constitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iraqi negotiators are as likely to agree on a constitution by Monday's new deadline as American troops are likely to leave Iraq anytime soon. If leaders ultimately fail to reach a consensus, however, we could end up occupying Iraq for years...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/newsday/iraq-no-consensus-no-constitution/</link>
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		<title>U.S. Sends Wrong Message to the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Restrictive regimes around the world came out ahead when the U.S. Supreme Court announced this week that it would not hear an appeal by two journalists in a case involving the leak of a CIA officer's name. The...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/international-herald-tribune/us-sends-wrong-message-to-the-world/</link>
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		<title>U.S. Arms for Terrorists?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Colombian police heard in early May that a big deal was going down inside a gated luxury community southwest of Bogotá. On May 3 they followed Colombian suspects, two of whom turned out to be retired Colombian Army officers, to a house filled with twenty-nine metal crates of arms and 32,000 rounds...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/the-nation/us-arms-for-terrorists/</link>
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		<title>After Iraq&#8217;s Wartime Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Fisk is the award-winning journalist of the London-based Independent newspaper, and he has long been a consistent critic of American imperial policies in the Middle East. "But it was the sight of those thousands of Shi'ites, the women mostly in black hejab covering, the men in leather jackets or long robes, the children..."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/foreign-policy-in-focus/after-iraqs-wartime-elections/</link>
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		<title>Next test: insurgents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration looks like it has finally scored a ringing success in Iraq. But, if one objective of Sunday's elections was to help defeat Iraq's ongoing insurgencies, then the exercise failed.

The question now is how Iraq's next government will handle the insurgents. Before Sunday, they threatened voters. But U.S. troops led the effort to secure polling stations, while more than half of Iraq's eligible voters defied insurgent threats and exercised their first real chance for self-empowerment in history.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/newsday/iraqs-new-regime-needs-to-show-it-will-not-ignite-a-civil-war/</link>
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		<title>Kven er dei progressive i Irak?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ei hending i Irak denne månaden (september 2004, red.anm) vart ikkje nemnd i verken mainstream media eller i den alternative pressa, dette til trass for at hendinga gjev signal om at amerikansk kontroll over Irak si politiske framtid allereie...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/dilettant/kven-er-dei-progressive-i-irak/</link>
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		<title>Chi sono i progressisti in Iraq?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sia la stampa "alternativa" che quella ufficiale hanno dimenticato di riportare un evento che dimostra come il controllo americano sul futuro dell'Iraq sta forse tramontando.

Ad agosto, la Casa Bianca ha sostenuto la nascita di un Consiglio Nazionale Iracheno, formato da oltre cento gruppi tribali, etnici, religiosi, nella speranza di influenzare la composizione di un corpo elettorale. Durante il mese scorso, due grandi partiti politici, entrambi guardati da sempre con sospetto a Washington, hanno guadagnato terreno.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franksmyth.com/amisnet/chi-sono-i-progressisti-in-iraq/</link>
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