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Ned Parker
Ned Parker is Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters.
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Our Man in Baghdad
How America empowered Nouri al-Maliki—and then failed to keep that power in check.
David Rohde
,
Warren Strobel
,
Missy Ryan
, and
Ned Parker
July 1, 2014
