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| − | '''Reuel Marc Gerecht''' is the director of the [[Project for the New American Century]]'s Middle East Initiative. He is a resident fellow at the [[American Enterprise Institute]] and a former Middle East specialist at the CIA. Fluent in Farsi, he is presently working for the Pentagon's [[Iranian Directorate]] in its campaign for regime change in Iran.
| + | Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, is a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies<ref>Reuel Marc Gerecht, [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/opinion/14gerecht.html Out of Sight], ''New York Times'', Accessed 13-March-2009</ref> |
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| − | ==Iraq War== | + | ==Resources== |
| − | Gerecht was a vocal proponent of War on Iraq, Iran and Syria well before September 11. He is a frequent guest on news shows defending Bush Administration Policies. He is a proponent of a more aggressive 'war on terror'.
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| − | ==Trivializing Abu Ghraib==
| + | Neocon Europe, [http://www.neoconeurope.eu/index.php/Reuel_Marc_Gerecht Reuel Marc Gerecht], Accessed 13-March-2009 |
| − | In an article published in The Weekly Standard on May 24, 2004, Gerecht trivialised the horrors of Abughraib and mused,"Have the chances of democracy in the Middle East really been set back because sexually sensitive Muslims are so revolted that they won't embrace representative government?"
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| − | ==Affiliations== | + | ==References== |
| − | *[[Iranian Directorate]]
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| − | *[[Project for the New American Century]] - Director of the Middle East Initiative
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| − | *[[American Enterprise Institute]] - Resident Fellow
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| − | *[[Weekly Standard]] - Contributing editor
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| − | ==Education==
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| − | *M.A., Islamic history, Princeton University
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| − | *The American University of Cairo and Cairo University
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| − | *University of Edinburgh, The Muir Institute of Islamic Studies
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| − | *B.A., History, Johns Hopkins University
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| − | ==Career==
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| − | *Consultant on Afghanistan, CBS News, 1999-2000
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| − | *Political and consular officer, U.S. Department of State, 1985-1994
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| − | *Middle Eastern specialist, Central Intelligence Agency,1985-1994
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| − | Gerecht is a frequent author of content for periodicals including Zionist mouthpieces, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic and Frontpage Magazine. He also writes for Playboy and the neoconservative The Weekly Standard.
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | *[http://www.newamericancentury.org/reuelmarcgerechtbio.htm ''Project for the New American Century profile]
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| − | *[http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.19/scholar.asp American Enterprise Institute profile]
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| − | ===Writings===
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| − | *Reuel Marc Gerecht, [http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraq-20010514.htm Liberate Iraq], ''Weekly Standard'', 14 May 2001
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| − | *Reuel Marc Gerecht, [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/096uutti.asp Who's Afraid of Abu Ghraib?], ''Weekly Standard'', 24 May 2004
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