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U.S. soldiers secure the area after a car bomb attack in Baghdad today. (Hadi Mizban / AP)

Syria, Saudi Arabia, N. Korea: Here We Come! by Pepe Escobar

Iran is very much in the US spotlight at present over concerns that it is developing nuclear weapons, with much talk of "regime change". Over the next four years of the second George W Bush term, any of a number of countries could come into the crosshairs - Syria, Saudi Arabia and "axis of evil" original North Korea.

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