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Mar 16, 2006 1:35 pm US/Eastern
Giuliani Joins Bipartisan Iraq Policy Review Panel
NEW YORK (AP) ―
Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and nine other prominent Americans are forming a bipartisan group to assess the Bush administration's policies in Iraq and political and economic developments in the troubled country.
"The mayor looks forward to working with the group," Giuliani spokeswoman Sunny Mindel said.
The study was requested by Congress in order to provide a fresh look at Iraq. Former Secretary of State James A. Baker and Lee H. Hamilton, director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, vice chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and a former member of Congress from Indiana, announced the study in Washington.
Other members of the panel include former CIA Director Robert Gates; former Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan; former Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta; former Clinton administration Defense Secretary William Perry; former Democratic Sen. Chuck Robb of Virginia; and former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming.
The Congressionally-financed U.S. Institute of Peace and three private think tanks are supporting the inquiry. Four working groups will be assigned to measure the strategic situation in Iraq, formation of a government in Baghdad, political development and the Iraqi economy.
Outside experts will be consulted and the working groups are planning to make several trips to Iraq.
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