Foreign Press Review - February 6 2006 0206-2006f
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H1 Sunday Times SIMON JENKINS: These cartoons don't defend free speech

Newsweek Islam and Power - Fareed Zakaria

Will Israel Strike Iran?

New York Times News Analysis: Behind the Urgent Diplomacy: A Sense Iran Will Get the Bomb

As Iraqi Shiites Police Sunnis, Rough Justice Feeds Bitterness

Nuclear Panel Votes to Report Tehran to U.N. The resolution could change the course of diplomacy toward Iran and open the door to international punishment of the country. Text: Final I.A.E.A. Resolution on Iran (pdf)

Christian Science Monitor Sunni tribes turn against jihadis To fight foreign terrorists, US and Iraqi forces are looking to the home-grown Sunni Arab resistance.

The Times New roles take centre stage but old divisions lurk in the wings By Gerard Baker, Sabre-rattling Europe and emollient US will soon settle down to business as usual

Los Angeles Times Iraq's Lessons Slowed U.S. on Iran ANALYSIS: Diplomatic scars made the administration move gingerly to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
H2 IHT A call for respect and calm RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN AND JOSÉ LUIS RODRÍGUEZ ZAPATERO With growing concern, we are witnessing the escalation in disturbing tensions provoked by the publication, in European newspapers, of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

Financial Times Leader There is just a chance to avoid Iran conflict There is probably, at best, no more than a one-in-five chance of the stand-off between Iran and the international community being resolved without conflict.

Der Spiegel European Arrogance Versus Muslim Fanaticism The cartoon battle touches on one of the most important questions of our time -- freedom of expression, Ibn Warraq wrote Friday on SPIEGEL ONLINE. Jürgen Gottschlich, a journalist living in Istanbul offers his rebuttal: Many Muslims are sick and tired of being unfairly labeled as bin Laden sympathizers.

SlateToday's Papers - antiwar.com / Wikipedia / technorati

Daily Star A 'bad' U.S. Iraqi retreat spells regional mayhem By David Hirst

NYT Magazine Islam on the Outskirts of the Welfare State By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL Sweden is discovering that it has a Muslim-immigrant issue. Go to Article

H3 Turkey and Europe

Turkey and the U.S.

Greek press on Cyprus and Turkey

Turkey and the Middle East

Turkey, Russia, Caucasus, C. Asia

FT Russia to discuss Gazprom role in Aegean pipeline

Time A Turkish Rambo takes on the US -- and moviegoers are loving it

BBC Shooting kills priest in Turkey A Italian Catholic priest is shot dead outside his church in the northern Turkish port of Trabzon, police say.

UPI Less H5N1 virulence in Turkey?
NYT Turkey Balks on Widening Rights for Gays
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H4 New York Times News Analysis: Behind the Urgent Diplomacy: A Sense Iran Will Get the Bomb

Nuclear Panel Votes to Report Tehran to U.N. The resolution could change the course of diplomacy toward Iran and open the door to international punishment of the country. Text: Final I.A.E.A. Resolution on Iran (pdf)

Iran the Great Unifier? The Arab World Is Wary Iran, the world's only Shiite Islamic government, is reaching across the divide, hoping to unite Arab Muslims, the vast majority of whom are Sunni.

As Iraqi Shiites Police Sunnis, Rough Justice Feeds Bitterness Shiites are taking on more policing duties and using tough tactics to restore order, which risks fueling the Sunni-led insurgency.

Beirut Mob Burns Danish Mission Over Cartoons
Invoking Islam's Heritage, Iranians Chafe at 'Oppression' by the West
Spain's Chief Tries to Keep Risky Pledge to Catalonia
Editorial Next Steps on Energy
The biggest shortcoming of President Bush's plan to wean the U.S. from foreign oil is the absence of a program that will deliver new technologies to the marketplace.

Wrong Fix for Foreign Aid
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's proposed solution to reform foreign aid programs could end up cutting programs that fight disease or provide clean water.

Where the Shadows Have Shadows By DEXTER FILKINSOn many days in Iraq, it's the shadowy figure in the background that seems to matter most.

Pentagon Widens Program to Foil Bombings in Iraq The Pentagon is tripling its spending on an effort to combat homemade bombs that are the No. 1 killer of American troops in Iraq

Adding Newsprint to the Fire A fracas over a dozen Danish cartoons grew out of a war of polemics between Europe's anti-immigrant nationalists and the fundamentalist Muslims among its immigrants.

Oil Graft Fuels the Insurgency, Iraq and U.S. Say Officials see a pattern of corruption enabling the flow of oil money to the insurgency that threatens to undermine Iraq's economy.
Protesters Set Fire to Danish Embassy in Beirut
Fighting Rages as U.S. and Afghans Hunt Taliban
Palestinians Set Meeting of Parliament
Pentagon Hones Its Strategy on Terrorism
Embassies in Syria Are Burned in Furor Over Prophet Cartoon
Nuclear Dispute Arouses Patriotism Among Iranians
Germany's Chancellor Emphasizes Urgent Need for Action to Quash Nuclear Program in Iran
Displaced Gypsies at Risk From Lead in Kosovo Camps
For a General, a Tough Mission: Building the Army
In the Magazine: Islam on the Outskirts of the Welfare State
Questions for Dennis Ross: Handling Hamas
H5Washington Post Nuclear Inspections Are Curbed by IranRussian Plan Still Negotiable, Aide Says

Iran to Face U.N. Security Council Tehran Defiant On IAEA Vote

Editorial Alliance Without Muscle

Freshly Elected Hamas Comes Out From the Shadows Outlook Shaped by Years in Exile, Prison

Give Hamas Nothing for Free By Dennis Ross

You Get What You Vote For. What Does Hamas Get Us? By Abdallah Alsalmi,

The Fake Science Threat By Sebastian Mallaby, In the race to turn scientific ideas into businesses, the U.S. is hard to beat -- and the science lobby should stop pretending otherwise.

2007 Budget Favors Defense Medicare Takes Biggest Hit in $2.7 Trillion Plan

Graft Alleged in Iraq Oil Protection Effort Lawmaker Stole From a Program Meant to Safeguard Pipelines, Report Says

Don't Downsize The Guard Funding Shortages Risk Creating a Second-Rate Army By Melvin R. Laird,

Lebanon Protesters Set Embassy Afire
Anger Over Caricatures of Muhammad Targets Denmark, Christian Neighborhood

Most Spying Targets No Longer Suspects NSA's Hunt for Terrorists Scrutinizes Thousands of Americans, but Most Are Later Cleared

A Global Reach, but a Local Focus By Deborah Howell, One of the big surprises for me in becoming ombudsman is that most e-mail focuses on national issues, not local news.


The Goal Of The Post's Opinion Pages
By Fred Hiatt In an era when the Web allows readers to read only commentary that they agree with, we continue to think there's value in an opinion page that offers a wide range of commentary.

A Long-Awaited Reckoning Beginning today, families of the 9/11 victims will finally see the sentencing trial of "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui.




NYT Remaking the Epic of America By David Brooks The core myth that animates the US has come to be the sports movie, Brooks says. The theme is always the same: a tough, no-nonsense coach with a shadow-filled past takes over an underfunded team. He forces his players to work hard and sacrfice, which leads them to glory over stronger and richer rivals. These movies are instilling the values of deference to authority, strong masculinity, group-think over individualism, workaholism, and ambition. He says these movies prove that the values of the 1960s are dead in America. Link to full text in primary source.

PAUL KRUGMAN The Effectiveness Thing Given the Bush administration's evident inability to govern, Democratic electoral victories should be a sure thing. But they aren't. Why?

H6 Guardian Freedoms in the balance James Buchan: The west and orthodox Islam must step back from absolutist beliefs to be able to live together.

Leader Threats that must be countered White racists are rightly arrested and charged for their hate campaigns. Muslim fanatics have to face similar severity for their no less repulsive actions. Ours is a tolerant way of life; we must be robust in defending it against its enemies.

Iran vows to defy the west · Tehran prohibits surprise inspections of atomic sites · President: 'Our enemies cannot do a damn thing' A society not ready for sanctions

Iraqi troop withdrawal could begin in May, but minister remains coy

Worlds apart Parallels have been drawn between Israeli society and apartheid South Africa. Chris McGreal investigates.

The gullibility that led us into the last war could yet bring us a new conflict Gary Younge: Our leaders were never trustworthy, yet many people were only too willing to believe them - and they may do so again.
A Berlusconi victory would be as damaging as was Bush's Tristram Hunt: The Italian leader is not fit to hold high office, and activists worldwide should join to ensure his election defeat.


The Observer Protesters set fire to embassies Damascus crowds attack Danish target in Syria, whilst UK police probe London 'hate' protesters.Focus: How the storm brokeTimeline: a history of free speechComment: Henry PorterLeader: This bitterness must end
H7 Newsweek - Will Israel Strike Iran?

Europe Awakes? - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics

Boston Globe A Vote for Islam - The conventional wisdom has it that Palestinians chose Hamas despite its Islamist platform. Conversations with voters in the West Bank, however, reveal that many chose Hamas because of it. Thanassis Cambanis,

Iran Showdown Is The Fuse For A Global Monetary ExplosionExecutive Intelligence Review (EIR)

Rumsfeld: Attacking Iran 'An Option'

US General Says UK May Withdraw Some Troops From Iraq
H8 Time A Right to Offend? Why the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad is deepening the divide between Islam and the West

Your Taboo, Not Mine The furor over cartoons of Muhammad reveals the zealot's double standard By Andrew Sullivan

Newsweek Devoted and Defiant
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he doesn't want nuclear weapons. The world is suspicious. How dangerous is he?

Daily Star A 'bad' U.S. Iraqi retreat spells regional mayhem By David Hirst

The Americans must stay, so Al-Qaeda cannot inherit Iraq By Frederick W. Kagan

BBC Lebanon minister quits over riot

SyriaComment Syria's Opposition Dilemma

Washington Times Iran and the Hitler analogy

Interviews: Michael Hayden on Spying Dennis Ross on Hamas John Bolton on Iran
H9 Ha’aretz – The Muslim protest It is impossible not to understand the feelings of insult among Muslims worldwide, including in the territories and in Israel.

Analysis: Did patience pay off, or is it a case of too little, too late?

Hamas to boost financial and political ties with Iran, Syria

Analysis: New clause to Iran resolution surprises Israel

New Republic Hamas's long-term strategy What the movement needs most is time. by Ehud Yaari

Jerusalem Post The Region: Hamas's Fatah problem
Debka Israel’s Nuclear Policy Fiasco after Its Hamas Contretemps
Lessening Israel's power over AmericaArab American News


H10 Christian Science Monitor Sunni tribes turn against jihadis To fight foreign terrorists, US and Iraqi forces are looking to the home-grown Sunni Arab resistance.

Conservatives are asking:Is Bush still one of us? Some of his State of the Union proposals are raising the eyebrows of right-wing constituents.

America warms up to nuclear power It is seen more favorably in the US than in any other country but South Korea.

Why did the Egyptian ferry go under?
Friday's tragedy in the Red Sea has sparked calls for stricter safety standards and better crew training.

Democracy's 'special forces' face heat
US democracy-building efforts are facing scrutiny as a diplomatic row with Venezuela escalates.

H11 IHT Free speech and civic responsibility TARIQ RAMADAN Things we have to bear in mind about the controversy over the cartoons published in the European media depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

BBC Tackling corruption Romania's determined effort to prepare for EU membership
NYT Magazine Islam on the Outskirts of the Welfare State By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL Sweden is discovering that it has a Muslim-immigrant issue. Go to Article
H12 RFE/RL

China's Internal Problems Haunt US
H13 The Times New roles take centre stage but old divisions lurk in the wings By Gerard Baker, Sabre-rattling Europe and emollient US will soon settle down to business as usual

Tolerating the intolerable Liberalism itself does not work as an absolute or authoritarian doctrine William Rees-Mogg

Danes in despair as protesters set fire to consulate in Beirut Lebanese security forces cannot stop 20,000 demonstrators from ransacking Danish mission after attacks on embassy in Syria

Defiant Iran steps closer to brink as it pulls out of inspection deal

Sunday Times SIMON JENKINS: These cartoons don't defend free speech

Focus: Freedom v faith: the firestorm

MICHAEL PORTILLO: To spread democracy we have to let the bad guys win

WSJ Middle Eastern Repression Comes to the Continent - Daniel Schwammenthal,


America Expects Surveillance Monitoring the enemy is necessary and appropriate. By ALBERTO R. GONZALES
H14 Financial Times Leader There is just a chance to avoid Iran conflict There is probably, at best, no more than a one-in-five chance of the stand-off between Iran and the international community being resolved without conflict.

US and Iran adjust to role in next act of UN drama

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Calling Iran's bluff over nuclear weapons

Merkel leads calls for Nato to redefine strategy Leading European members of the North Atlantic alliance warned the US that Nato could not become a global policeman, but must be used by both sides as a political forum to debate and agree on significant security issues

Radical forces in Mid East exploit cartoon backlash

Leader Time to tear down the EU's eastern barriersIf you have to take medicine, it is best to take it sooner rather than later - delay will make it no easier. If the medicine is guaranteed to improve your health,...

Tokyo sees troop pull-out from Iraq 'in months'

COMMENT: Divergence from the values of the west is not deviance We have entered an age when conflict is primarily about culture. But if the frontline is now cultural, who decides on the right valuesBy Patrick Chabal

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Licence to listen in? How Bush is testing the limits of surveillance on American soil

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: New technology makes tapping easier than ever

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Republicans play to public fears

Budget set to highlight the heavy strain on US public finances
H15 Los Angeles Times Iraq's Lessons Slowed U.S. on Iran ANALYSIS: Diplomatic scars made the administration move gingerly to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

A Nation Addicted to Oil -- and Debt

EditorialNATO's new threatBecause there's not much danger of the Red Army marching on Paris anymore, the alliance's mission has understandably changed over time. It's unfortunate that some European members now seem to be retreating from their commitment to a re-energized NATO.

A manifesto for murder By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen MUCH HAS been said about the Hamas charter's call for the destruction of Israel and the need for Hamas to renounce this goal as the condition for being granted international legitimacy, economic aid and diplomatic recognition.

USS Cole Mastermind Escapes Jail The suspected mastermind of the 2000 USS Cole bombing that killed 17 escapes from a Yemen prison.

H16 NYT Magazine Deliberation Nation By NOAH FELDMAN Congress can't say whether the N.S.A.'s spying program is illegal. But it can start a debate.

Washington Times Oil and the dollar

Are We Really Addicted to Oil? - Joe Barnes and Ronald Soligo, Houston Chronicle

Newsweek MAG: Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil?...

'Sensitivity' Can Have Brutal Consequences - Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times
A Bush Without Boldness - Joe Klein, Time

Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec -

Newsweek: Plame still covert in 2003
Time Are We Losing Our Edge? The U.S. still leads the world in scientific innovation. But years of declining investment and fresh competition from abroad threaten to end our supremacy
Viewpoint Joe Klein A Bush Without Boldness Analysis of the State of the Union
Newsweek: Can Pres. order killing in U.S.?

Sen. Specter: Surveillance Program Violated Law

Dan Drezner How strong is the US economy?
H17 Daily Telegraph Al-Qa'eda loses allies Iraqi insurgent groups are turning against their former al-Qa'eda allies, amid a succession of tit-for-tat assassinations and bombings.

Why extremists treat us with contempt When Islamist protesters dress up as suicide bombers and revel in the "magnificent" attacks of 9/11, they are not engaging in a harmless daydream: they are encouraging murder.

Iran bans inspections Iran has defiantly halted snap inspections of its nuclear facilities in retaliation for being reported to the UN for possible sanctions.

Sunday Telegraph The Oracle speaks, and it's not good news They really are the Odd Couple of economic policy, writes Niall Ferguson. On one side of the Atlantic is Alan Greenspan, who stepped down as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. On the other is Gordon Brown, who last week was still Chancellor of the Exchequer after nearly one decade of wishing he was Prime Minister.

Democracy has a gun held to its head At a time when reasonable dialogue is most needed, the supposed custodians of our democracy are allowing a gun to be held to its head.
H18 Independent Robert Fisk: The Fury
Britain could start pulling out of Iraq in May, US general reveals British troops could start withdrawing from Iraq within months, a senior American general has suggested.

Independent on Sunday Home by May: 2,000 troops to withdraw from Iraq Britain plans to begin withdrawing 2,000 troops from Iraq, starting this spring, according to a secret blueprint agreed with allies
Generals call for faster Iraq pull-out
Hamish McRae: Western companies must keep the faith in the Middle East, whatever the tensions
H19 Book Review 'STATE OF WAR: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION,' BY JAMES RISEN Spies and Spymasters Review by WALTER ISAACSON The N.S.A.'s wiretapping program is among the government secrets uncovered in James Risen's book.
H20 Slate Introducing Washington Week in Preview: What's really happening in politics next week.
Dana Milbank

The Ph.D. Glut Revisited

BBC Telegrams. Stop How the age of e-mail has ended the era of the US telegram

Guardian Internet giants plan to charge for speedier emails The egalitarian world of the internet faces a major new challenge.

Rupert Murdoch’s New Groove: Digital Media A conversation with the News Corp. chairman, who's emerged as a leader in digital media after some smart bets.
H21 NYT Magazine Looking for the Lie By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIGScientists are using brain imaging and other tools as new kinds of lie detectors. But trickier even than finding the source of deception might be navigating a world without it. Go to Article

Searching for the Person in the Brain

The Observer From Caché to Clooney, this is a golden age of cinema It is routine in these islands to lament that the glory days of poetry, Routemasters or telegrams are behind us. But habitual sentimentality can blind us to the cultural abundance of the here and now. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of film.
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