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	<title><![CDATA[War Deadenders Take Hope: The Surge May Not Be Working, But a US-Allawi Coup May Be On Its Way]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/war-deadenders-take-hope-_b_62005.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>As we all await the Petraeus Report on the state of the surge, we may also need to be anticipating the Allawi Coup.</p>

<p>I'm talking, of course about Ayad Allawi, longtime C.I.A. asset and former interim prime minister of Iraq. He's making quite the PR push to get his old job back, penning <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/17/AR2007081701579.html">an op-ed for the <em>Washington Post</em></a>, hooking up <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/26/le.01.html">with Wolf Blitzer</a> on <em>Late Edition</em> on Sunday, and even <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/08/iraqi-with-cia-.html">putting the high-powered GOP lobbying firm</a> Barbour...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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