The Americans Won’t Withdraw

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(Update: From AP: “Although the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the document was found in al-Zarqawi’s hideout following a June 7 airstrike that killed him, U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the document had in fact been found in a previous raid as part of an ongoing three-week operation to track al-Zarqawi. ‘We can verify that this information did come off some kind of computer asset that was at a safe location,’ he said. ‘This was prior to the al-Zarqawi safe house.'”) Iraq’s national security advisor has released the purported text of a document, found in the Zarqawi safe house that was blasted by the U.S. Air Force, calling for a review of the “current bleak situation” in Iraq. In it, al Qaeda in Iraq views the continued presence of American forces as “harmful to the resistance.”

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