Foreign Press Review - April 26 2006 0426-2006f
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H1 Washington Post In Iraq's Choice, A Chance For Unity By David Ignatius

Robert E. Hunter: It's Time to Talk to Iran

Editorial Bad Targeting CIA Director Porter Goss has been busy chasing press leaks. It's easier than improving U.S. intelligence.

Behind the Generals' Revolt The Generals' View: To the Micromanager Goes the Blame
By Max Hastings, If commanders are denied the right to manage campaigns as they think right, it is unjust to allow them to accept blame when these go awry

IHT Editorial Talk to Iran, President Bush

NYRB - The Outlaw World By Brian Urquhart "A rule-based international society" may seem a lackluster phrase, but it describes, for those who wish organized life on this planet to survive in a decent form, the most important of all the long-term international objectives mankind can have. That international law has already been formulated to deal with a wide range of human activities is one of the great, if often unappreciated, achievements of the years since World War II. Yet the obstacles to its being effective are enormous.

Economist Intelligence UnitSyria political/economic forecast 2006-07

Financial Times Iraq's pragmatic new leader is ready to compromise

COMMENT: The rich rewards and poor prospects of a new gilded age By Martin Wolf If the US economy is becoming more productive, why have most of its citizens not become better off? The answer is that the normal link between productivity and real earnings is broken

Nato lines up Ukraine as new member

Guardian The problem is: Iran does pose a threat in every way Iraq did not Jonathan Freedland: The G8 leaders can exploit Tehran's fear of international isolation to get a nuclear deal, but only if they are united.

BBC Jihad vs 'long war' Comparing the tactics of the US and Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda

UPI Developing nations challenge U.N. reform plan
Asia Times Iraq's next premier: Spot the difference He looks like, thinks like and acts like his hapless predecessor. He brings to the job all of Jaafari's weaknesses and none of his strengths.

Ha’aretz –Sources: U.S. won't view pullout line as final border Washington sources believe U.S. would want to maintain united European-American front on the issue

Daily Star Better mainstream Islamists than Al-QaedaBy Rami G. Khouri

Los Angeles Times Iraq's Strife Pours Into Saudi Arabia

H2 Christian Science Monitor urds angle for independence Oil revenue could increase Iraqi Kurds' economic distance from Baghdad.

Nuclear lessons for today The legacy of Chernobyl stresses the importance of security and nonproliferation.

Der Spiegel KURDISH INTIFADA? Clashes in Southeastern Turkey on the RiseSpiegel Online

Le Monde Les jeunes Turcs et l'Europe, par Daniel Vernet

LA Times Armenians Remember Genocide

Genocide as History, Legal Flashpoint

Envoy to Iraq Predicts U.S. May Need to Stay in Region for Years
MEMRI Apr 26 SD# 1147 - Turkey's Islamist Dailies Spread Anti-American, Antisemitic Incitement
Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

Syria political/economic forecast 2006-07

Turkey Could Delineate New European Union Angus Reid Global Scan

The United States accepted Turkey’s explanation for why it hosted Hamas.

UPI U.S. to sign Bulgaria military base deal

Iran courts Azerbaijan to hedge against U.S. move

Analysis: Germany courts India

New York Times The Nuclear Option By WILLIAM SWEET The United States should rely more on nuclear power.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Go West, Old Men The next time China's president comes to America, he should skip Washington, D.C., and go to California.

Ext links- Dis Basinda Turkiye - Google News Turkey –Turquie- Türkei - İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası - Kurdish Media - FPR Archive - Quickread - Google News - Iraq -Iran - Syria – Kurdish - Greece - Cyprus – Azerbaijan - Israel - BBC Turkish 0700 -TurcoPundit - Mideastwire.com -
Iraqi&Regional MediaMonitoring

Kurds culture on verge of extinction in democratic Turkey4/26/2006 - Article - KurdishMedia.com - By Hozan Kapri

VOA 'Soykırım İfadesinden Vazgeçmezler' Amerikalı tarihçi Guenter Lewy

Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia: A Triangular Interaction?* -- Part IYuksel Soylemez

RFE/RL Aliyev's U.S. Talks Expected To Focus On Karabakh, Iran

H3 NYT U.S. Will Help Turks Stop Kurdish Inroads From Iraq

Rice, in Greece and Turkey, Holds Talks on Iraq and Iran - Rice warns Turkey to keep out of Iraq
Washington Post Rice Warns Against Russian Gas Monopoly Secretary of state's message to Greece and Turkey bolsters a planned pipeline from Azerbaijian that would weaken Russia's tight grip on European energy.
Cyprus Division "Has Gone On Too Long," Rice Says in Greece

Milliyet Ortaklık belgelenecek

Zaman Türkiye ile ABD arasında ‘stratejik vizyon’ dönemi

New Anatolian PKK prepares in Kandil against military operation

Sabah ABD ile 'yeni vizyon'

Cumhuriyet Türkiye'nin eli kolu bağlanacak

Kandil boşaldı

AKP Rice'a teslim

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş Son anda önlenen silah krizi

Bush Observes Armenian Remembrance Day, Calls for Dialogue

Özdem Sanberk Ortadoğu, İran, Irak ve Condoleezza Rice'ın ziyareti (2)

Abdülhamit Bilici Amerika, AK Parti’ye sırtını döndü (!)

Birand ABD ile nelerin pazarlığı yapılacak ?

Ruşen Çakır İran kime sesleniyor?

Ali Babacan’dan “Beyaz Türk” yorumu: “İnsanları kategorilere ayırmak abesle iştigal”

ABD'den Cüneyd Zapsu'ya destek mektubu

Atina memnun olmadı YORGO KIRBAKİ -

Ahmet Hakan Soru ve cevaplarla Çankaya hesapları

Ege Cansen Mundell neler anlattı

Savaş sırasında 93 bin 88 Rum başka viláyetlere nakledildi

Turkey Demands Compensation From Iraq for Pipeline

Turkey arrests suspected al-Qaida militants

Opening date of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline is not announced yet

Robert Kocharyan: International recognition of the genocide is principal issue for Armenia

ITC head: Turkmens should intensify political struggle

International Monetary Fund Global Monitoring Report 2006 Overview/Full Text Chapter Summaries Statistical Annex (24 pages; PDF)

H4 New York Times The Nuclear Option By WILLIAM SWEET The United States should rely more on nuclear power.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Go West, Old Men The next time China's president comes to America, he should skip Washington, D.C., and go to California.

Senior Iran Cleric Tells Sudan That Nuclear Aid Is Available

Russia Helps Israel Keep an Eye on Iran



Editorial
H5 Washington Post In Iraq's Choice, A Chance For Unity By David Ignatius

Robert E. Hunter: It's Time to Talk to Iran

Editorial Bad Targeting CIA Director Porter Goss has been busy chasing press leaks. It's easier than improving U.S. intelligence.

Behind the Generals' Revolt The Generals' View: To the Micromanager Goes the Blame
By Max Hastings, If commanders are denied the right to manage campaigns as they think right, it is unjust to allow them to accept blame when these go awry
Zarqawi Taunts U.S. In New Video Leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq accuses President Bush of lying to Americans about U.S. military victories and vows to destroy efforts to form a new government.
Iran Renews Threats on Nuclear Program: Atom Technology Exports, Oil Cuts Are Threatened

New Team, Old Plan By Robert J. Samuelson,
The administration's central problem is its policies, not its staff. If you're driving in the wrong direction, changing chauffeurs doesn't help.

Bush Calls for Probe of Rising Gasoline Prices
H6 Guardian The problem is: Iran does pose a threat in every way Iraq did not Jonathan Freedland: The G8 leaders can exploit Tehran's fear of international isolation to get a nuclear deal, but only if they are united.
Not totalitarian - but guilty of creeping authoritarianism Simon Jenkins: Blair has built an entire foreign policy around the kind of glib historical parallel to which Clarke now takes exception.
Fear and speculators driving oil prices too high, says BP chief
Zarqawi shows face for first time since start of Iraq insurgency
Barbed wire and bridges Gyula Hegyi: The Balkans will continue to fragment unless the EU makes cooperation a condition of membership.
A moral stain on football Joseph Harker: The cash that put Chelsea at the top came from the exploitation of Russia's people in the 1990s.
Bombs on the beach Terrorist bombs in sun-kissed holiday resorts have become a grimly familiar phenomenon of the post 9/11 years, but Egypt, hit for the third time in this bloody period, has had more than its share.
H7 BBC Jihad vs 'long war' Comparing the tactics of the US and Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda

UPI Developing nations challenge U.N. reform plan
Asia Times Iraq's next premier: Spot the difference He looks like, thinks like and acts like his hapless predecessor. Still … Maliki, however, brings to the job all of Jaafari's weaknesses and none of his strengths. - Sami Moubayed

What's really happening in Tehran

Fighting talk from Osama and the Taliban Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are focused on sharpening the divide between the West and Islam. Bin Laden's latest tape highlights what he terms the West's grudge against Islam in general. The Taliban, meanwhile, kicked off a major offensive in Afghanistan at the weekend and will let their fighting do the talking. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

CFR Reading Ahmadinejad in Tehran

CFR Chernobyl, Nuclear Power, and Foreign Policy

Profile: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

H8 Iran will Freeze Cooperation if Placed under Sanction: Larijani

Iraqi PM: Militias Could Spark Civil War

What We Know About Iran by David Isenberg

An interview with Michael Rubin,

GAO: 8 Iraqi provinces are unstable

BBC 'Zarqawi' shows face in new video Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, appears unmasked in a rare video believed to be genuine. VIDEO...
Profile: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Can new cabinet rescue Iraq?

Iran 'could share nuclear skills'

Rumsfeld in surprise Iraq visit
KR Sectarian lines divide Iraq's university system, too

Daily Star Lebanon's competitive political process needs a referee

KR Despite arrests, responsibility for Egypt bombings baffles experts

Iran 'Models Nuclear Plan on Pakistan'
Tehran's Trump Card

H9 Ha’aretz –Sources: U.S. won't view pullout line as final border Washington sources believe U.S. would want to maintain united European-American front on the issue

Israeli satellite launched to spy on Iranian nuclear facilities

Poll: Most Palestinians want talks with Israel

Daily Star Israel has nothing to lose by somehow talking to Hamas By Galia Golan

Arab League vows to give Hamas funds

BBC Israel satellite 'to spy on Iran' Israel sends into space a satellite that officials say will enhce its ability to spy on Iran's nuclear programme

Russia helps Israel spy on Iran

UPI BMD Watch: Israel raises Iran alert level

Common Ground: An Israeli-Arab optimist

Politics & Policies: Tourism and terrorism

Jerusalem Post Think Again: First come words By JONATHAN ROSENBLUMJews ignore the way they are spoken about at their own peril
MEMRI Apr 26 SD# 1148 - Iranian President Ahmadinejad Elaborates on His Plan for the Jews to Leave Israel and Return to Germany and Austria


H10 Christian Science Monitor A resurgence of Egypt's militant Islamists The third Sinai blast in 18 months shows the strength of domestic terror groups.

Bush's foreign diplomacy: Handle with care

Nuclear lessons for today The legacy of Chernobyl stresses the importance of security and nonproliferation.

US to release one-third of prisoners at Gitmo Critics of the prison hail the decision as a milestone.

H11 IHT Editorial Talk to Iran, President Bush We call on the U.S. administration to take the bold step of opening a direct dialogue with the Iranian government on the issue of Iran's nuclear program.

Le Monde Les jeunes Turcs et l'Europe, par Daniel Vernet

Der Spiegel EUROPE'S ENERGY WORRIES Currying Favor with the Turkmenbashi

NYRB France: The Children's HourBy William Pfaff
H12 RFE/RL Moscow, Washington Clash Over WTO Membership


EurasiaNet Russian Economic and Strategic Influence in Kyrgyzstan Set to Expand

Islamic Radicals in Central Asia "Not All That Significant" – Expert

EDM BISHKEK WELCOMES EXPANDED RUSSIAN MILITARY PRESENCE IN KYRGYZSTAN

Israeli Diplomats to Break Plans of Kyrgyz Prime Minister

H13 The Times Syrian leader quizzed over Hariri murder

Bush 'janitor' back to mop upThe US President is relying on his father's key ally to find a way out of the Iraq war


Isle on the brink of civil war There were fears that Sri Lanka's ceasefire was unravelling and that ethnic conflict could lead to the sort of war that raged in the 1980s and 1990s

Euston, you don't have lift-offDaniel Finklestein A group of left-wing pundits and intellectuals wants to save the Left from itself - but why bother?

WSJ Our Rotten IntelligenCIA To media partisans, some leaks are more equal than others.
H14 Financial Times Iraq's pragmatic new leader is ready to compromise

COMMENT: The rich rewards and poor prospects of a new gilded age By Martin Wolf If the US economy is becoming more productive, why have most of its citizens not become better off? The answer is that the normal link between productivity and real earnings is broken

Nato lines up Ukraine as new member

Editorial Germany rebounds

COMMENT: When in Germany, it's all right to mention the war By David Marsh

COMMENT: Politics can reunite with ethics in the land of Machiavelli By Paul Ginsborg

COMMENT: Rosneft flotation would spur Putin on An instrument of the state, Rosneft will always serve Russia’s political interests in preference to those of shareholders, writes George Soros, author of The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

Germany reclaims title as Europe’s powerhouse German industry has reclaimed the country’s position as continental Europe’s economic powerhouse, with business confidence surging to a fresh 15-year high.
H15 Los Angeles Times Iraq's Strife Pours Into Saudi Arabia Sunni-Shiite tensions cause some to worry that destabilization could follow there as well.
Gas Problems Are Beyond Presidential Dictate The demand for gas, the oil industry's refining capacity and choices of fuel additives are just a few of the factors driving rising prices.

Editorial Iraqi democracy digs out of the rubble
Bomb blasts can't deter resurgent government, but don't aid hopes of an honorable U.S. pullout.

Financial Times Austria's idea of a two-speed Europe

Gazprom attacks EU gas market plans

Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq breaks cover in video tape

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Both sides must take blame for Bush-Hu summit failings

President accused of doing too little, too late on energy

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Insurgency in India - how the Maoist threat reaches beyond Nepal
H16 A 'Real' Chief of Staff - - Too Late - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times

Newt Gingrich on the five challenges that America must meet.

Can Federalism Solve America's Culture War?

Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec -
H17 Daily Telegraph The dragon in Africa The Chinese view Africa as a vast source of supply and are not concerned about the nature of trading partners' governments, provided they seem reasonably stable.
H18 Independent Insurgency leader Zarqawi appears in video to warn of more Iraq attacks
H19 Army Times poll: Rumsfeld resignMajority in poll think Sec. should resign

Fixing U.S. Intelligence - Peter Brookes, Heritage Foundation

"Fusion Center Guidelines: Developing and Sharing Information and Intelligence in a New World," July 2005 (1.8 MB PDF).
"Israel: Foreign Influence - Foreign Preference Cases, A Review of DOHA Decisions" by Sheldon I. Cohen, March 2006.
"Foreign Influence and Foreign Preference Considerations in National Security Clearance Decisions".


H20 Slate Shooting an Elephant: Why Republicans are screwed.
John Dickerson


Feeding frenzy Salon Main
H21
Ed Glaeser (Harvard): Why Does Democracy Need Education? pdf

Ext links Blogs - memeorandum - Slate's Today's Blogs - Blogometer - Juan Cole - Kevin Drum - Belgravia Dispatch - Thomas P.M. Barnett
Joshua Marshall - Daniel Drezner - Laura Rozen - the washington note - Syria Comment - David Corn - William Arkin - Phil Carter - Helena Cobban - Matt Yglesias - Oxblog - Brad DeLong
winds of change - political theory/
CounterterrorismBlog OutSide the Beltway - InstaPundit - Kausfiles - andrewsullivan.com - Becker Posner-- armscontrolwonk - Registan Arts & Letters Daily/
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