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Bring the pane (II): The sequel

Today my friend and former cubicle-mate Joby Warrick reports that the killing of a Jordanian intelligence official in last week’s Khost bombing is "offering a rare window" (on page one!) into the assistance the government of Jordan provides the U.S. government in the Middle East. We are offering Joby Wan Kanobi a free "get out ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Today my friend and former cubicle-mate Joby Warrick reports that the killing of a Jordanian intelligence official in last week's Khost bombing is "offering a rare window" (on page one!) into the assistance the government of Jordan provides the U.S. government in the Middle East.

Today my friend and former cubicle-mate Joby Warrick reports that the killing of a Jordanian intelligence official in last week’s Khost bombing is "offering a rare window" (on page one!) into the assistance the government of Jordan provides the U.S. government in the Middle East.

We are offering Joby Wan Kanobi a free "get out of cliché jail" card because it must be hard to write a story about intelligence in the Middle East while suffering a screaming hangover.   

(HT to Father Andrew Sullivan for weird Star Wars stuff)  

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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