The report's author,Daniel Brumberg, acting director of the institute's Muslim World Initiative, says supporting democracy is actually crucial to U.S.security.

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The group's director,Ajmal Samadi, says that the report is based on some 15 interviews with villagers where the NATO strike occurred.

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Comments on the tree-ring section of the IPCC's latest report by John Mitchell, director of climate science at Britain's Met Office, raise issues very like those highlighted by perhaps the most prominent critic of the hockey stick, Steve McIntyre, who runs a blog called Climate Audit.

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Ahead of the document's release, CIA Director Leon Panetta wrote on the agency's website that the report was "in many ways an old story" and that he would make "no judgments on the accuracy of the report or the various views expressed about it".

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Speaking on the BBC's World Business Report, Richard Curtin, director of the University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers, said he doubted they would provide an instant cure.

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