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HARDtalk: Ali Khedery

21/08/2014 GMT

BBC News - HARDtalk, Ali Khedery

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ali Khedery, a former adviser to American ambassadors in Baghdad.

HARDtalk speaks to Ali Khedery, a former adviser to American ambassadors in Baghdad. Does sending American warplanes to attack targets in Iraq, point to an incoherence in strategy?

American warplanes are once again attacking targets in Iraq. Ordered into action by a President who made it his business to end US military involvement in Iraq. To his critics it's one more piece of evidence pointing to an incoherence of Barack Obama's strategy in a region becoming ever more unstable and dangerous. HARDtalk speaks to Ali Khedery, a former adviser to a string of American ambassadors in Baghdad. 

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