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Tomorrow, June 30th, U.S. combat troops will withdraw from urban areas in Iraq: An update on the process and challenges ahead for Iraqi security forces.
Paul Pillar, is a visiting professor at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. and a former CIA National Intelligence officer.
Kenneth Pollack, director of research at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution; author of "The Persian Puzzle: the Conflict between Iran and America;" former director for Persian Gulf Affairs and former director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council; former Iran-Iraq military analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
Gina Chon, reporter, Wall Street Journal
Elise Labott, producer covering the State Department for CNN
On a summer day in 1974 New Yorkers looked up to see an acrobat walking on a wire between the tops of the twin towers. In a new novel, Colum McCann imagines what was going on in the lives of the people on the streets below.
Colum McCann, author of the novels "Zoli," "Dancer," "This Side of Brightness," and "Songdogs."
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