U.S. troop presence is not fueling the insurgency in Iraq, Middle East policy expert Kenneth Pollack says.
Pollack, Director of Research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, says at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that the increase in insurgent attacks is an indication that the insurgents’ desire an Iraqi civil war. (:37)
July 18, 2005
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