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A 24-slide presentation given by Rand Corp. analyst Laurent Murawiec on July 10, 2002, to the Defense Policy Board, a committee of foreign policy wonks and former government officials that advises the Pentagon on defense issues. Murawiec's PowerPoint scenario, which is reproduced for the first time below, makes him sound like an aspiring Dr. Strangelove.
According to Newsday, Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard N. Perle, a former Pentagon official and full-time invade-Iraq hawk, invited Murawiec to brief the group The last slide in the deck, titled "Grand strategy for the Middle East," abandons the outrageous for the incomprehensible. It reads: Iraq is the tactical pivot Saudi Arabia the strategic pivot Egypt the prize Egypt the prize? Laurent Murawiec: George Washington University Elliot School of International Affairs' Web site lists him as a faculty member, but it lists no current or future classes by him. The site's biographical page adds that he's a graduate of the Sorbonne University, that he worked as "A foreign correspondent for a major French business weekly in Germany" He wrote an article titled "The Wacky World of French Intellectuals" in the Middle East Quarterly, co-edited a Rand Corp. book, and made these comments at a Nautilus Institute conference. (-> Zalmay Khalilzad)
On September 7th, 2002 the NY POST reported, that "A Rand Corp. (->) researcher who made critical comments to Pentagon advisers about Saudi Arabia is out of a job. Laurent Murawiec said he had quit the elite think tank but insisted he wasn't fired - despite demands for his ouster. "Saudi Arabia supports our enemies and attacks our friends," Murawiec reportedly told the panel, which includes former senior U.S. officials, in July. He urged the Bush administration to tell Saudi officials that the U.S. would seize their oil fields and overseas financial assets if the Riyadh government didn't join the war on terror..."Source: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21961.htm
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