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Friday, January 4, 2008

Giuliani Will Back a 'Surge' in Afghanistan


To Refocus Campaign With New War Strategy

ELI LAKE
Staff Reporter of the Sun
January 2, 2008

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Mayor Giuliani meets with his supporters and staff at his Iowa campaign headquarters on December 29 in Clive. On Thursday January 3, Guiliani ekes out 4 percent of vote




WASHINGTON — Mayor Giuliani will announce a new four-point war strategy in New Hampshire today, an effort to refocus a primary campaign season for Republicans that has centered in recent weeks less on foreign affairs and more on immigration and domestic issues.

Specifically, Mr. Giuliani will call for a new military surge in Afghanistan, a change in the way America's spies are promoted so that officers are rewarded for finding actionable intelligence and not just the number of agents they recruit, and a new war on Al Qaeda's intricate network of Web sites, sites used both to communicate with its agents in the field and to recruit new jihadis. ( read more )



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