Author: Patrick Lang

“Better no Constitution…,” Part 2

by W. Patrick Lang “According to Kurdish and Sunni negotiators, the US ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, proposed that Islam be named “a primary source” and supported a wording which would give clerics authority in...

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Able Danger and Al-Qa’ida, maybe..

By Col. Patrick Lang (Ret.) There is some thing strange about the case of Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer (USAR) and “Able Danger.” His story, accepted thus far by the media, is that he was working in some Army or joint...

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Ten Days? We’ll see…

"The major sticking points [for completing a draft of Iraq’s new constitution] — the role of Islam in determining Iraqi law, issues of self-rule and regional autonomy, and the sharing of oil revenue in a federal...

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