ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan experts can discuss the implications of the new Iraq Study Group report that recommends that the United States withdraw its troops from the Middle East.

The study’s committee members said the situation in Iraq is ” grave and deteriorating,” costing the United States billions of dollars and the lives of more than 2,800 U.S. troops. U-M experts include:

Juan Cole, professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian history, history department, has written about modern Iraq’s history, and Muslim movements against the West. He can be reached at (734) 747-8211, (734) 763-1599 or [email protected].

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Raymond Tanter, political science professor emeritus, is a noted authority on American foreign policy, national security affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict and politics of the Middle East. He is available at (202) 320-8434 or (202) 333-7346 (home).

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Ron Stockton, researcher for the Center for Arab-American Studies and principal investigator for the Detroit Arab-American Study, is the author of many guides to teaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at high school and college levels, conflicts in the Middle East and the life of Arabs in America.

He can be reached at (313) 593-5384, (313) 581-5284 (home) or [email protected].

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