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The Battles Ahead

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Anthony Cordesman about the next focus of the military campaign in Iraq: Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit prominent among them. Mr. Cordesman is a senior fellow and co-director of Middle East Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.