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The Action Plan hits the big time press.
The <a href="http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-action-plan-it-worked-so-well.htm">Action Plan</a> hits the <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804">Big Time Press</a><blockquote>After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.</blockquote> I linked to Badger's account 8 months ago or more on the old site. It was a bombshell then but no one noticed
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