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Iraqi Officials and Representatives

* Jalal Talabani—President

* Tariq al-Hashimi—Vice President

* Adil Abd al-Mahdi—Vice President

* Nouri Kamal al-Maliki—Prime Minister

* Salaam al-Zawbai—Deputy Prime Minister

* Barham Salih—Deputy Prime Minister

* Mahmoud al-Mashhadani—Speaker of the Parliament

* Mowaffak al-Rubaie—National Security Advisor

* Jawad Kadem al-Bolani—Minister of Interior

* Abdul Qader Al-Obeidi—Minister of Defense

* Hoshyar Zebari—Minister of Foreign Affairs

* Bayan Jabr—Minister of Finance

* Hussein al-Shahristani—Minster of Oil

* Karim Waheed—Minister of Electricity

* Akram al-Hakim—Minister of State for National Reconciliation Affairs

* Mithal al-Alusi—Member, High Commission on National Reconciliation

* Ayad Jamal al-Din—Member, High Commission on National Reconciliation

* Ali Khalifa al-Duleimi—Member, High Commission on National Reconciliation

* Sami al-Ma’ajoon—Member, High Commission on National Reconciliation

* Muhammad Ahmed Mahmoud—Member, Commission on National Reconciliation

* Wijdan Mikhael—Member, High Commission on National Reconciliation

Lt. General Nasir Abadi—Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Joint Forces

* Adnan al-Dulaimi—Head of the Tawafuq list

Ali Allawi—Former Minister of Finance

* Sheik Najeh al-Fetlawi—representative of Moqtada al-Sadr

* Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim—Shia Coalition Leader

* Sheik Maher al-Hamraa—Ayat Allah Said Sussein Al Sadar

* Hajim al-Hassani—Member of the Parliament on the Iraqiya list

* Hunain Mahmood Ahmed Al-Kaddo—President of the Iraqi Minorities Council

* Abid al-Gufhoor Abid al-Razaq al-Kaisi—Dean of the Islamic University of the Imam Al-Atham

* Ali Neema Mohammed Aifan al-Mahawili—Rafiday Al-Iraq Al-Jaded Foundation

* Saleh al-Mutlaq—Leader of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue

* Ayyad al-Sammara’l—Member of the Parliament

* Yonadim Kenna—Member of the Parliament and Secretary General of Assyrian Movement

* Shahla Wali Mohammed—Iraqi Counterpart International

* Hamid Majid Musa—Secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party

* Raid Khyutab Muhemeed—Humanitarian, Cultural, and Social Foundation

Sinan Shabibi—Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq

Samir Shakir M. Sumaidaie—Ambassador of Iraq to the United States

Current U.S. Administration Officials

Senior Administration Officials

George W. Bush—President

Richard B. Cheney—Vice President

Condoleezza Rice—Secretary of State

Donald H. Rumsfeld—Secretary of Defense

Stephen J. Hadley—National Security Advisor

Joshua B. Bolten—White House Chief of Staff

Department of Defense/Military

CIVILIAN:

Gordon England—Deputy Secretary of Defense

Stephen Cambone—Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Eric Edelman—Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

MILITARY:

General Peter Pace—Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Admiral Edmund Giambastiani—Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

General John Abizaid—Commander, United States Central Command

* General George W. Casey, Jr.—Commanding General, Multi-National Forces–Iraq

Lt. General James T. Conway—Director of Operations, J-3, on the Joint Staff

* Lt. General Peter Chiarelli—Commander, Multi-National Forces–Iraq

Lt. General David H. Petraeus—Commanding General, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth

* Lt. General Martin Dempsey—Commander Multi-National Security Transition Command–Iraq

* Maj. General Joseph Peterson—Coalition Police Assistance Training Team

* Maj. General Richard Zilmer—Commander, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force

Colonel Derek Harvey—Senior Intelligence Officer for Iraq, Defense Intelligence Agency

Lt. Colonel Richard Bowyer—National War College (recently served in Iraq)

Lt. Colonel Justin Gubler—National War College (recently served in Iraq)

Lt. Colonel David Haight—National War College (recently served in Iraq)

Lt. Colonel Russell Smith—National War College (recently served in Iraq)

Department of State/Civilian Embassy Personnel

R. Nicholas Burns—Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Philip Zelikow—Counselor to the Department of State

C. David Welch—Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs

James Jeffrey—Senior Advisor to Secretary Rice and Coordinator for Iraq Policy

David Satterfield—Senior Advisor to Secretary Rice and Coordinator for Iraq Policy

Zalmay Khalilzad—U.S. Ambassador to Iraq

* Dan Speckhard—Charge D’Affaires, U.S. Embassy in Iraq

* Joseph Saloom—Director, Iraq Reconstruction and Management Office

* Hilda Arellano—U.S. Agency for International Development Director in Iraq

* Terrance Kelly—Director, Office of Strategic Plans and Assessments

* Randall Bennett—Regional Security Officer of the U.S. Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq

Intelligence Community

John D. Negroponte—Director of National Intelligence

General Michael V. Hayden—Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Thomas Fingar—Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council

John Sherman—Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Military Issues

Steve Ward—Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Middle East

Jeff Wickham—Iraq Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency

Other Senior Officials

David Walker—Comptroller General of the United States

* Stuart Bowen—Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction

Members of Congress

United States Senate

Senator William Frist (R-TN)—Majority Leader

Senators Harry Reid (D-NV)—Minority Leader

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)—Majority Whip

Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL)—Minority Whip

Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN)—Chair, Foreign Relations Committee

Senators John Warner (R-VA)—Chair, Armed Services Committee

Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE)—Ranking Member, Foreign Relations Committee

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI)—Ranking Member, Armed Services Committee

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)—Ranking Member, Energy and Resources Committee

Senator Kit Bond (R-MO)—Member, Intelligence Committee

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK)—Member, Armed Services Committee

Senator John Kerry (D-MA)—Member, Foreign Relations Committee

Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT)—Member, Armed Services Committee

Senator John McCain (R-AZ)—Member, Armed Services Committee

Senator Jack Reed (D-RI)—Member, Armed Services Committee

United States House of Representatives

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)—Minority Leader

Representative Tom Davis (R-VA)—Chair, Government Reform Committee

Representative Jane Harman (D-CA)—Ranking Member, Intelligence Committee

Representative Ike Skelton (D-MO)—Ranking Member, Armed Services Committee

Representative John Murtha (D-PA)—Ranking Member, Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense

Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN)—Member, Armed Services Committee

Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX)—Member, International Relations Committee

Representative Alan Mollohan (D-WV)—Member, Appropriations Committee

Representative Christopher Shays (R-CT)—Member, Government Reform Committee

Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA)—Member, Appropriations Committee

Foreign Officials

Sheikh Salem al-Abdullah al-Sabah—Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States

Michael Ambuhl—Secretary of State of Switzerland

Kofi Annan—Secretary-General of the United Nations

* Dominic Asquith—British Ambassador to Iraq

Tony Blair—Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Prince Turki al-Faisal—Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States

Nabil Fahmy—Ambassador of Egypt to the United States

Karim Kawar—Ambassador of Jordan to the United States

Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa—Ambassador of Qatar to the United States

* Mukhtar Lamani—Arab League envoy to Iraq

Sir David Manning—British Ambassador to the United States

Imad Moustapha—Ambassador of Syria to the United States

Walid Muallem—Foreign Minister of Syria

Romano Prodi—Prime Minister of Italy

* Ashraf Qazi—Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq

Anders Fogh Rasmussen—Prime Minister of Denmark

Nabi Sensoy—Ambassador of Turkey to the United States

Ephraim Sneh—Deputy Minister of Defense of the State of Israel

Javad Zarif—Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayad—Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates

Former Officials and Experts

William J. Clinton—former President of the United States

Walter Mondale—former Vice President of the United States

Madeleine K. Albright—former United States Secretary of State

Warren Christopher—former United States Secretary of State

Henry Kissinger—former United States Secretary of State

Colin Powell—former United States Secretary of State

George P. Schultz—former United States Secretary of State

Samuel R. Berger—former United States National Security Advisor

Zbigniew Brzezinski—former United States National Security Advisor

Anthony Lake—former United States National Security Advisor

General Brent Scowcroft—former United States National Security Advisor

General Eric Shinseki—former Chief of Staff of the United States Army

General Anthony Zinni—former Commander, United States Central Command

General John Keane—former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army

Admiral Jim Ellis—former Commander of United States Strategic Command

General Joe Ralston—former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO

Lt. General Roger C. Schultz—former Director of the United States Army National Guard

Douglas Feith—former United States Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Mark Danner—The New York Review of Books

Larry Diamond—Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Thomas Friedman—New York Times

Leslie Gelb—President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations

Richard Hill—Director, Office of Strategic Initiatives and Analysis, CHF International

Richard C. Holbrooke—former Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations

Martin S. Indyk—Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution

Ronald Johnson—Executive Vice President for International Development, RTI International

Frederick Kagan—The American Enterprise Institute

Arthur Keys, Jr.—President and CEO, International Relief and Development

William Kristol—The Weekly Standard

* Guy Laboa—Kellogg, Brown & Root

Nancy Lindborg—President, Mercy Corps

Michael O’Hanlon—Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

George Packer—The New Yorker

Carlos Pascual—Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

Robert Perito—Senior Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace

* Col. Jack Petri, USA (Ret.)—advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Interior

Kenneth Pollack—Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution

Thomas Ricks—The Washington Post

Zainab Salbi—Founder and CEO, Women for Women International

Matt Sherman—former Deputy Senior Advisor and Director of Policy, Iraqi Ministry of Interior

Strobe Talbott—President, The Brookings Institution

Rabih Torbay—Vice President for International Operations, International Medical Corps

George Will—The Washington Post

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