News Sources: Petraeus Reports on the Surge

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq, are set to deliver their much-anticipated assessment of progress in Iraq since the beginning of the U.S. troop "surge" there, which President Bush ordered last winter. The two men will deliver their report to Congress in testimony beginning Sept. 10. And while much has already been reported about what they are expected to say, no one knows for sure. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find the online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Guilain P. Denoeux - Associate Professor of Government, Colby College - Studies democratization in the Arab world, Arab-Israeli conflict, Middle East and North African governments. Author of "Urban Unrest in the Middle East" and chapters about Iraq and Lebanon. Worked in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Israel. Was charge de mission of the French Cultural Service in Baghdad.

Alex Roberto Hybel - Professor of Government, Connecticut College - Hybel was the author of Power Over Rationality: The Bush Administration and the Gulf Crisis in which he criticized decision-making processes of former President George H.W. Bush's administration. In 2003, he presented series of lectures on U.S. policy toward Iraq in which he said the U.S. should move forcefully, even if unilaterally.

Bob Snyder - Professor of Political Science, Southwestern University - Professor Snyder is the author of Hating America: Bin Laden as a Civilized Revolutionary and The Myth of Preemption: More than a War Against Iraq. He can discuss Middle East politics, U.S. foreign policy and Islamist terrorism.