Foreign Press Review - April 29 2006 0429-2006f
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H1 Weekly Standard "Iran Is Not Iraq" Much of the U.S. government no longer believes in, and is no longer acting to enforce, the Bush Doctrine.by William Kristol

Los Angeles Times War clouds Russia's dangerous double game with Israel and Iran could easily spark a Middle East conflict, with dire consequences for the U.S.
The New Republic. THE IGNORANCE AT THE HEART OF AN INNUENDO. And Now For Some Facts by Benny Morris
WSJ Father of the Bush Doctrine George Shultz on pre-emption and the Revolt of the Generals. By DANIEL HENNINGER
TPMCafe - America's Security Trap, Part II By G. John Ikenberry
"Intelligence for a New Era in American Foreign Policy" (1.3 MB pdf) is the report of a conference convened by the Center for the Study of Intelligence, published in January 2004.
Der Spiegel How We Can Work Together By John McCain The United States and Europe may have their differences but we still have common political interests. Working together, we can help keep Iran from building a nuclear bomb, we can foster true democracy in Russia, Belarus and China and we can stop mass killings in Africa. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
"The Russian Option Is the Only One" The United Nations Security Council ultimatum demanding that Iran terminate its efforts to enrich uranium expires on Friday. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, Ulrich Ladurner, author of the book "The Iranian Bomb," discusses Tehran's path toward becoming a nuclear power and possible scenarios and possibilities for solving the crisis.
Jerusalem Post 'It'll get worse before it gets better' Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy on the future of global terrorism.
OpenDemocracy Man in the shadows: an interview with Efraim Halevy
UPI Interview: U.S: Relations with Syria worse U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs David Welsh said Washington's relations with Syria are not only bad but getting worse.
FT Editorial US Fed hints at pause Managing interest rate expectations is one of the most difficult tasks for any central bank governor.

NSA - Israel Crossesthe Threshold Senior Nixon Administration Officials Considered Confronting Israel over Nuclear Weapons in 1969

The IAEA report on Iran and an analysis





H2 The IAEA report on the Iranian nuclear program--- The full text of Rice's statement --- the transcript of Bolton's comments --- The full text of the presidential statement is available on the United Nations Web site.

Financial Times IAEA confirms Iran’s uranium claim

US seeks to limit Gazprom hold on Europe The Bush administration is seeking to curb Moscow’s influence in the Caucasus and central Asia and weaken Gazprom’s growing hold over gas supplies to Europe with an effort to promote new oil and gas corridors that would bypass Russia and exclude Iran.

New Activities at the Esfahan and Natanz Nuclear Sites in IranInstitute for Science and International Security

State Department’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2005. Table of Contents Full report pdf file. -- Special Briefing releasing the reports.

LA Times U.S. Reports a Surge in Global Terrorism

Washington Post Efforts to Train Iraqi Forces Pose Perils U.S. soldiers harbor deep distrust of volunteer troops in northern town of Hawijah amid signs they may be working in cahoots with insurgents

U.N. Body Set to Act on Iran
Nuclear agency report paves way for Security Council debate on possible punitive measures.

Terrorist Attacks Spike in 2005
Strikes in Iraq make up 30 percent of four-fold increase worldwide, State Dept. statistics show

Center for European Reform Enlargement two years on: Economic success or political failure? by Katinka Barysch

The Amnesty report (Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq)

CSIS Transatlantic Security: Notes & Comment Experts from two CSIS programs have launched a newsletter that provides a forum for dialogue, analysis, and exchange concerning transatlantic security.READ MORE

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Asia Times Cool in Ankara: A partnership under strainThe US wants to talk Iran and "terrorism" with Iraq's neighbors. But other issues keep intruding. During a recent visit to Ankara, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice got an earful about the Kurdish problem and a disintegrating Iraq. America's allies are Turkey's sworn enemy. - M K Bhadrakumar

LA Times Bush Praises Muslim Ally (Aliyev)

Washington Times Progress in Azerbaijan (S. Rob Sobhani)

Stratfor: “Azerbaijan’s attempts to liberate its occupied ...

IAEA Daily Press Review

BBC Balkan launchpad Bulgaria offers military sites as tactical bases for US troops

H3 LA Times Turks, Kurds Keep Ties Businesslike in New Iraq

Radikal Murat Yetkin Rice ile gelen mesaj Parris: Rice'ın ziyaretindeki mesaj, ziyaretin kendisiydi. Bunun önemi iyi anlaşılsın

TMY tasarısı skandal Hukuki 'silahlı örgüt' ile 'terör örgütü' ayrımını karıştıran tasarı, sistemi altüst edecek nitelikte

CNNTürk 'Stratejik ortaklık' tanımı belli oldu

Türkiye ABD'den akıllı füze alacak

"MGK'da askerlerin itirazı olmadı"

Ertuğrul Özkök Filistin davası bizim davamız mıdır

Şahin Alpay AB sürecinin neresindeyiz?

Fikret BİLA Sınırdaki yığınak

Semih İDİZ Irak protesto notası vermedi, bilgi istedi

Why don't we try to understand Barzani? Ilnur Cevik

Alternative energy route for Europe or Turkey's new strategic paradigm Cengiz Candar

Knot of strategic vision and Erdogan's responsibility Faruk Demir

Tempo Güneydoğu'ya istihbaratçı yığınağı ve demokratik güvenlik konseptinin sonu

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu 1 MART TEZKERESİNİN ARTÇI SARSINTILARI SÜRÜYOR...

TSK, PKK'nin planlarını vuruyor MEHMET FARAÇ ŞIRNAK

Türkiye, ABD'den akıllı füze alıyor

BBC haberleri Hürriyet’te

Turkish Muslims in Germany: At the centre or at the periphery? The Muslim News, UK - By Talip Küçükcan

Kurds, safety valve of new Iraq By Barham Salih

Tigris dam project stirs hopes, fears in Turkey By Gareth Jones

Barzani: Leyla Zana is the "symbolic hyacinth of the Kurds"

Iranian Kurds and Kurds By Sirvan Kaveh Persian identity based upon Persian culture, values and the Persian language. The “Iranian” has therefore left no room for the Kurd.

Kurdistan buzzes as other parts of Iraq burn

Secret Interior Ministry report: 'Barzani will be worse trouble ... New Anatolian

Prime Minister to present Cabinet and Address the People of ... Kurdistan Regional Government

FT Court intervenes in Turkcell dispute

CSIS Azerbaijan and U.S. Foreign Policy READ MORE
EurasiaNet Aliyev in Washington: No Change on Iran Position
Washington Seeks to Steer Central Asian States Toward South Asian Allies The United States is pushing to open up trade and relations between Central and South Asia
RFE/RL Nato - Clear Signal On Afghanistan, Hope For Ukraine An informal gathering of NATO foreign ministers kept the alliance's Afghanistan plans on track and did not douse Ukrainian hopes for fast-track enlargement. But one topic that was much on ministers' minds is off the alliance's official agenda -- Iran.

Central Asia: Uyghurs Hit By Autocratic States' Cooperation With Beijing

H4 New York Times U.N. Agency Says Iran Falls Short on Nuclear Data Iran has drastically curtailed cooperation with inspectors as it has sped forward with its nuclear enrichment, the I.A.E.A. said.

Trading Frenzy Adding to Rise in Price of Oil Hedge funds and other investors have helped propel crude oil prices from around $50 a barrel to a record of $75.17.

Editorial Where America Leads ... It is incumbent on China and the Arab world to join the Bush administration in pressuring the Sudanese government to sign onto a peace deal and allow in U.N. troops.

Net Gains By JEFFREY D. SACHS By helping to save millions of children who are at risk of death from disease we have the best chance to defeat the ideologies of hate.

Gas Pump Geopolitics By Thomas L. Friedman - Friedman blames the Bush Administration for doing nothing to halt America's dependence on petroleum, which he calls the primary strategic issue of our time. He writes that US dependence on oil funds Islamic radicals, speeds global warming, supports authoritarian states, thus hindering the spread of democracy. He backs legislation to promote alternative fuels and the use of hybrid vehicles. Link to full text in primary source.

MAUREEN DOWD Say Uncle, Rummy Rummy was ordered to go to Iraq by the president, but he clearly has no stomach for nation-building, or letting Condi run the show.

JOHN TIERNEY Fiddling While Fuel Burns A gas tax is a far better way to encourage conservation and combat global warming than more fuel-efficient cars.
Bush, Aliyev Talk About Iran, Democracy, Iraq

Putin-Merkel Summit Produces Deal but No Breakthrough on Markets

The Saturday Profile: Hostage-Taker, Reformer, Pessimist: An Iranian Life

Third World Bloc Thwarts U.N. Reform Plan

Qaeda No. 2 Says U.S. Fails in Iraq

Insurgent Attacks on Iraqis Soared, Report Says

Death Toll for Americans in Iraq Is Highest in 5 Months
H5 Washington Post Efforts to Train Iraqi Forces Pose Perils U.S. soldiers harbor deep distrust of volunteer troops in northern town of Hawijah amid signs they may be working in cahoots with insurgents

U.N. Body Set to Act on Iran
Nuclear agency report paves way for Security Council debate on possible punitive measures.

Terrorist Attacks Spike in 2005
Strikes in Iraq make up 30 percent of four-fold increase worldwide, State Dept. statistics show

Dedication and Danger in Iraq By Joseph E. Robert Jr., Across Iraq, military personnel are managing local reconstruction and development projects for which they lack the proper training or tools

German Leader Rides a Wave Of Popularity Into Washington: Avoiding a Major Misstep Is Key to Merkel's Support

Developing Nations Thwart Annan's Plan for Reform at U.N.

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CFR Ill Trade Winds Blowing

Levi: More Pessimistic About Negotiated Settlement With Iran on Nuclear Issues

Iran Continues Its Defiance

Terrorism’s Dubious ‘A’ List

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics: A Conversation with Allan Hubbard [Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]

World Trade Talks in Peril

Country Reports on Terrorism, 2005

Shrinking US Clout in Central Asia

The Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan

H6 Guardian Leader The IAEA and Iran There can be a nuclear bargainMohamed ElBaradei had no choice but to find Iran in breach of its obligations to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Cool heads required Martin Woollacott: My own starting point on the big question, of how dangerous a nuclear armed Iran would be, is that weapons don't make wars.

Scathing nuclear report as US brands Iran enemy No 1Tehran says it 'doesn't give a damn' about nuclear inspectors.

Iraq 'could become haven for terror' US state department acknowledges risk of Iraq becoming safe haven for terrorists.

Does Zarqawi read the Washington Post ? Sami Ramadani If he's still alive, he'll read that the US military has been trying to magnify his role in Iraq in order to justify their assault on Iraqi cities.

In Zarqawi's home town, family talk with pride about their heroic cousin

The best help Jonathan Steele: An American pull out is more likely to get Iraq's new government to work together than anything Rice and Rumsfeld said in Baghdad.

Gulag outcast turns Kremlin apologist

The art of war Colm Tóibín: Next year marks the 70th anniversary of the destruction of Guernica. It's about time Madrid heeded the Basque demands for that painting.

A radical, short-lived and violent experiment: the origins of democracy Mary Beard: The glorious myth of ancient Athens is a poor model for re-creating the virtues of government in the 21st century

Votes cast cloud over ProdiTwo crucial votes in parliament highlight difficulties for Italy's new government.
H7 TPMCafe - America's Security Trap, Part II By G. John Ikenberry

European Opinion and Iran's 'New' Missile Stratfor

My TV Comments on Nukes Were Wrong - Joe Klein, Time

U.N.: World bears collective responsibility to prevent genocide The United Nations Security Council on Friday passed a landmark resolution making world leaders responsible to protect civilians from genocide and war crimes.

Der Spiegel IAEA Report May Open Path to Sanctions Iran is in defiance of the UN Security Council, a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday. Sanctions may be next. But Iran says "no one" can make the country give up its nuclear activity.

Spies and Lies - Ralph Peters, New York Post

The Shadow of the Bomb, 2006 - Sidney D. Drell

China: Banking on Shifting Growth to the Interior Stratfor

Europe: a surging, alienated Muslim population with strong beliefs set against older groups unable to change or defend their ways... more»
H8 New Activities at the Esfahan and Natanz Nuclear Sites in IranInstitute for Science and International Security

BBC West urges tougher line on Iran Western powers say they will push for a legally binding UN resolution to force Iran to cease uranium enrichment.

Al-Qaeda number two in new video Ayman al-Zawahiri says in a new video that Iraqi insurgents have "broken the back" of the US military.

Iran in maps Find out more about the people, land and infrastructure

US charges ex-Abu Ghraib officer
The US army charges the head of the interrogation centre at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison over detainee abuse.
Q&A: Iraq prison abuse scandal

UPI Analysis: U.N. readies Iran nuke resolution

Jawad: Iraq's New LeaderAsharq Alawsat

Iraqi paper reveals details about Saddam spy network...

Iraq Oil Outpust Lowest Since Invasion

NPR Is Iran's Nuclear Status Inevitable?

MEMRI Apr 28 SD# 1151 - Iranian Nuclear Energy Organization Head Reveals Details About Iran's Nuclear Project

US SpecOps Unit Nearly Nabs Zarqawi
H9 Ha’aretz – PFLP-GC leader warns Israel, U.S. against attacking Iran

U.S. State Department: Al-Qaida core leaders losing control

Yedioth Ahronoth Pakistan test-fires long-range missile

NSA - Israel Crossesthe Threshold Senior Nixon Administration Officials Considered Confronting Israel over Nuclear Weapons in 1969

Washington Times Terrorist axis targets Jordan In the wake of Jordanian security forces' discovery of a plot by Hamas to smuggle weapons into the country from Syria, Amman has received yet another grim reminder that it is a terrorist target

Touching the third rail By Arnaud de Borchgrave AIPAC has maneuvered to make Israel the third rail of American foreign policy.

UPI ? Analysis: U.N. resolution seeks to assure Lebanon's independence

CFR Israel in NATO? Some Say It Should Happen
H10 SyriaComment Syria Eagerly Seeking to Improve Relations with Iraqi Leaders

Spreading Democracy? Why the US must tell the truth, By EHSANI2

H11 IHT Why Europe should reject U.S. market capitalism WILLIAM PFAFF The specter of Anglo-American market capitalism dominated France's student unrest in March and April, and motivated popular rejection in France a year ago of the proposed new European Union constitution.

Once again, for Muslims, it's 'us versus us' MONA ELTAHAWY If anyone is on a crusade against Muslims it is Al Qaeda itself.

Globalist: Bold but peaceful step is needed on Iran crisis ROGER COHEN "Europe and the United States must work together, with unity and resolve." In other words, they must avoid the Iraq trap.

A plot to sully Sarkozy?

EU Enlargement: Bulgaria and Rumania - Migration Implications for the UKInstitute for Public Policy Research A 38-page factfile analyzing the likely impact of Bulgarian and Romanian accession to the EU on immigration to the UK
H12 RFE/RL Nato - Clear Signal On Afghanistan, Hope For Ukraine An informal gathering of NATO foreign ministers kept the alliance's Afghanistan plans on track and did not douse Ukrainian hopes for fast-track enlargement. But one topic that was much on ministers' minds is off the alliance's official agenda -- Iran.

Press Freedom In Former Soviet Union Under Assault Independent media in the countries of the former Soviet Union, already operating under extreme duress, came under further assault over the course of the last year.
Former Premier Warns Of Possible 'Catastrophe


EDM KREMLIN TRIES TO CONVINCE WARY WEST THAT STRONG GAZPROM IS GOOD FOR IT

Human Trafficking in the Russian Federation - Institute of Urban Economics This 137-page report provides a comprehensive analysis of information and responses to the trafficking of human beings in the Russian Federation
H13 The Times West to seek UN action on Iranian bomb threat Britain and its allies will ask the 15-nation Security Council to order Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme

Watchdog says Iran still enriching uranium

An invisible army of workers strikes for the right to be seen America's reliance on illegal immigrant labour — to keep the economy buzzing — is the worst-kept secret in the US economy

Inside Guantanamo: the world hears defendants speak for the first time

WSJ How Much Oil Is Really Down There? The SEC's "proved reserves" won't tell us. By DANIEL YERGIN The current system for reporting proved oil reserves is antiquated, the information it provides investors diverges from the actual resource position of many companies, and it does not further energy security. Yergin says the current rules for reporting reserves require 1970s technology and methodologies, which have not kept up with globalization. He urges reforming the system for disclosing proved reserves to benefit investors, consumers, and future energy security.

The Dollar at Home--and Abroad By Martin Feldstein - America needs a strong dollar at home and a competitive dollar abroad, including an exchange rate that will make American goods more attractive to foreign buyers and compel Americans to choose American-made goods and services. Feldstein says this is important if we want to correct the trade imbalance and limit the rise in our deficit. He says these two goals are compatible in practice and details how that would work. This goal will also help achieve price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth. Link to full text in primary source.
H14 Financial Times US seeks to limit Gazprom hold on Europe The Bush administration is seeking to curb Moscow’s influence in the Caucasus and central Asia and weaken Gazprom’s growing hold over gas supplies to Europe with an effort to promote new oil and gas corridors that would bypass Russia and exclude Iran.

Editorial US Fed hints at pause Managing interest rate expectations is one of the most difficult tasks for any central bank governor.

Job creation tops US diplomat's Iraq agenda

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Slow-motion collision course remains for China and the US

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Deft diplomacy and economic contacts alone not enough to keep US-China links on track

Chirac embroiled in smear allegations French president Jacques Chirac denied any involvement in an alleged smear campaign against Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister and his potential successor, in a scandal that risks undermining the government.

Leader The sirens learn a seductive new melody Many of us, it seems, yearn for a firm hand from government. If a recent international survey of 21,000 people in 20 countries is to be believed, we would rather be...


H15 Los Angeles Times War clouds Russia's dangerous double game with Israel and Iran could easily spark a Middle East conflict, with dire consequences for the U.S.

Iraqis' Optimism Low, Poll Shows

Contractor's Plans Lie Among Ruins of Iraq

Shiite Bloc Ready to Forgo Interior Post

FT COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Russia's shy man of energy The man running Gazprom does not fit the image of the swashbuckling energy executive, still less the head of a company with the bullying reputation Gazprom has acquired. Mr Miller is shy, slightly nervy and softly spoken. His appointment to the post five years ago caught almost everyone unawares.

Leader Soft in wood and head North America is often thought of as the home of free market ideology, and the US and Canada are also supposed to be part of the North American Free Trade Area...

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: The razing of half-baked ideas By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL It is rare that a single work can turn the tables on a widespread form of intellectual corruption. But Jane Jacobs, the American social theorist who died last week at 89, did just that.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Old media confront a new world that puts users in charge Online communities are just one part of the phenomenon dubbed Web 2.0, a second internet wave that is proving immensely attractive to younger people.It involves innovative technology that puts users in control of the material in cyberspace, rather than passively accepting content distributed by traditional media groups
H16 FBI Sought Info on thousands -- without Court OK...

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

Bush To Allow Dubai Company's Purchase of US Defense Supplier

White House press corps demands to watch CNN instead of FoxNews on Air Force One...

Questions still linger on United Flight 93 As film launches, paper questions official account
H17 Daily TelegraphPressuring TeheranDespite the high oil price, Iran's economy is its Achilles' heel. According to World Bank figures, per capita income has more than halved since the 1979 revolution. Unemployment, especially among the young, and inflation are high, and the government remains wedded to an outdated model of import substitution.
H18 Independent The real cost of a bag of salad: You pay 99p. Africa pays 50 litres of fresh water The world is running out of water and British supermarket shoppers are contributing to global drought, according to environmental groups.

Iran 'stepping up its nuclear programme' Iran has been accused by the world's nuclear agency of stepping up its controversial programme in defiance of UN demands.
'Professor Crocodile' eyes the leadership Qom, the spiritual capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, feels like the centre of some vast, international conglomerate, administered entirely by clerics in the corporate uniform of turban and long robe.
Robert Fisk: Beating about the Bush? Not with Hersh
H19 Commercial Security in Humanitarian and Post-Conflict Settings: An Exploratory StudyInternational Peace AcademyThis 82-page study describes the decentralized, ad hoc use of commercial security organizations in humanitarian and post-conflict settings

UPI Outside View: Rumsfeld's responsibility By WILLIAM S. LIND

H20 Slate Barnes & Noble Goes to Baghdad: A brilliant plan to send American books to the Middle East.
Fred Kaplan


Congressional Research Service "The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11" (pdf), April 24, 2006.
"Arab League Boycott of Israel" (pdf), April 19, 2006. "U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress" (pdf), updated April 17, 2006.
"Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and U.S. Policy" (pdf), updated April 12, 2006.
"Nonproliferation and Threat Reduction Assistance: U.S. Programs in the Former Soviet Union" (pdf), updated April 6, 2006.
"Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy" (pdf), updated April 6, 2006.
"China-Southeast Asia Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications for the United States" (pdf), updated April 4, 2006.
H21 The BBC has laid out its vision of a brave new media world Emily Bell: If you work outside the media, my prediction is that the launch of the BBC's "Creative Futures" review last week will not have dented your world much. But in online media, people can talk of little else.

Preliminary Report on Foreign Holdings of US Securities as of 6/30/2005

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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