General Muneer is playing a very different tune, optics, text and the accompanying outreach as part of the much-needed recalibration
It is the regressive effect of religiosity that the politicos are in no position to take a stand against religious extremism and if anything, they have to
He took them captive in Iraq 30 years ago. Now, they’re fighting for his citizenship Harm Venhuizen
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Former Navy pilots Bob Wetzel (left) and Jeff Zaun (right) meet with former Iraqi Air Force Maj. Gen. Layth Muneer for the first time since he captured them in Iraq in 1991. (Photo courtesy Bob Wetzel) On Nov. 15, 2012, five men sat down for dinner at Ted’s Montana Grill in Crystal City, Virginia. Dressed in shirts and ties, they could’ve easily passed for old friends or business partners, reminiscing on days past. Their friendly conversation gave no hint to the fact that just two decades earlier, three of these men were enemies in the first Gulf War.