Word: communiqués
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...Zubaie is one of two Sunni leaders serving immediately under Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and had been recently singled out in an al-Qaeda communiqu? as a stooge for "the crusader occupiers." Al-Zubaie oversees important security matters for al-Maliki's government, and had been tapped to step in temporarily to run the Ministry of Interior when accusations of harboring death squads pushed Bayan Jabr from that post. But the Sunni leader had repeatedly complained that he was being sidelined by the prime minister and his top aides. He recently told an interviewer that his authority...
...investigation into the Haditha tragedy started with a simple Google search. I checked back to see what the U.S. Marines said had happened on Nov.19th. In a three-paragraph communiqu?, the Marines claimed that a roadside bomb on a convoy of Humvees had killed one Marine, wounded two others and had also killed 15 Iraqi civilians...
...Secretary of State William Rogers out of the loop. The State Department didn't know in advance of Kissinger's first secret trip to the mainland. And it was Kissinger, not Rogers, who was present for the one-hour meeting between Nixon and Mao. But in reviewing the final communiqu?, which failed to include a reference to a defense treaty with Taiwan, the State Department insisted on revision-and thus got revenge...
...hardly an undeserved rep, one he started building by overseeing the summary execution of scores of soldiers loyal to former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista after Fidel overthrew Batista in 1959. But as Raul, 75, takes control of that government this week - at least, according to an official communiqu?, until Fidel recuperates from major surgery to stop intestinal bleeding - Washington may be straining for more signs of his lesser-known side...
...really is still alive, he would so uncharacteristically let aides make such an important announcement rather than do it himself, reliable official sources in Havana insist that convalescence from his intestinal surgery requires that he do absolutely nothing but lie still in the following days, not even read a communiqu?...