• Iraq
    A Conversation with Hoshyar Zebari
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    Watch Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq Hoshyar Zebari discuss the future of Iraq with Fareed Zakaria.
  • Iraq
    A Conversation with Hoshyar Zebari
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  • Democracy
    Marr: Sectarian Violence Has Iraq ’Teetering on the Brink’
    Phebe Marr, a prominent historian of modern Iraq, has just returned from Baghdad, and finds the situation there has deteriorated. She says the sectarian rift is the top problem facing the new government, which she calls "eroded."
  • Wars and Conflict
    Daalder: Democrats Struggling with Iraq Policy
    Ivo H. Daalder, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, says he sees no end to the heavy violence within Iraq following last week’s death of insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "To argue that Zarqawi’s death is going to make much of a difference I think is quite mistaken," says Daalder. He says President Bush’s visit only underscored the lack of security in Iraq when it was revealed Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki only learned Bush was in Baghdad five minutes before their meeting.
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism
    Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Zarqawi’s Mysterious Successor (aka Abu Ayub al-Masri)
    Five days after U.S. forces killed al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the group announced his successor, the unknown Abu Hamza al-Muhajir. Speculation abounds about the man and the significance of his appointment.
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism
    Iraq’s Insurgency After Zarqawi
    The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq’s most wanted man, is an important event but one unlikely to affect the insurgency greatly.
  • Iraq
    Weaver: Zarqawi’s Death ’Significant’ But Not ’Decisive’ in Ending Iraqi Insurgency
    Mary Anne Weaver, a veteran Middle East correspondent whose biographical article on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly, says the killing of Zarqawi "is significant, but I don’t think it’s decisive." Weaver says Zarqawi’s organization was only responsible for 10 percent of the insurgent attacks in Iraq.
  • Iraq
    Bremer: Zarqawi’s Death a ’Very Important Moment’ in War on Terrorism
    L. Paul Bremer, who headed the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq after Saddam’s ouster, says the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is a " very important moment" in the war on terrorism and the effort to secure Iraq. Bremer says it may temporarily "put a crimp" in al-Qaeda activities in Iraq but does not mean an end to the insurgency.
  • Iraq
    Simon: After Zarqawi Death, Iraq Violence Likely to Continue at High Levels
    Steven Simon, CFR’s top expert on Middle East terrorism, says although the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by U.S. forces may give President Bush "a boost" in political standing at home, he does not foresee any significant slackening in the Iraqi insurgency. Simon says "the level of violence will continue at destabilizing levels for the foreseeable future."