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H1 Iraq Study Group Full Report: Text | Appendices - executive summary - Recommendations summarized

Christian Science Monitor Iraq Study Group: Shift mission, go regional The panel's report recommended engaging Syria, Iran, and others in stabilizing Iraq.

CFR Haass: Iraq Report Gives Bush ‘Best Chance That Exists’ For Progress

Seventy-Nine Ways to Fix Iraq

Washington Post Editorial The Study Group Reports There's a one-year plan for Iraq with bipartisan support -- and no fallback if it doesn't work.

Report May Fail to Grasp Nation's Complex Issues

NYT A Blueprint for Iraq: Will It Work in the White House?

Military Analysis: Will It Work on the Battlefield? Options Are Based on Hope

WP Baker-Hamilton Does Its Job By David Ignatius

A Report Overtaken by Reality By George F. Will

White House Rules Out Talks With Iran

FT Editorial Baker report's whiff of realism on Iraq

Rights and wrongs of fixing IraqUS policy in Iraq must come to grips with two realities: Iraq is in a civil war, and Iraq is a failed state. The Baker-Hamilton report issued Wednesday moves the debate on Iraq in a constructive direction, write Carlos Pascual and Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution.

IRAQ STUDY GROUP: President can take his pick from shower of suggestions

A Losing War, a Failed President, a Weak Dollar: We've Been Here Before by Leon Hadar

Der Spiegel Realpolitik Returns to the Middle East The era of American unilateralism is over

Butcher, Baker: The neo-cons' new villain Asia Times By Jim Lobe

PBS Baker, Hamilton Discuss "New Way Forward" Proposal for Iraq

Dealing with Tehran: Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options Toward Iran
Source: The Century Foundation - Flynt Leverett Full Report (PDF; 355 KB)

Raidar Visser The Iraq Study Group Regionalisation Not Balkanisation

Slate The false premise of the Iraq Study Group Report. This Is What We've Been Waiting For?

Israeli Military Calculations Towards Iran: A Looming Showdown? IISS

Baker-Hamilton Group Seeks Israel’s Return of Golan for a Secure Peace with Syria Print

Dickey: Baker's Iraq Plan Not So Grand

David Corn This report comes close to being a vote of no confidence from the Republican elite.

Guardian Leader If not now, when? With a lot of luck and even more resolve, yesterday's report of the Iraq Study Group may eventually be seen as a pivotal moment in the reassertion of a realistic American role in Iraq and the world, and not remembered as the well-intentioned but failed political rescue mission that it risks becoming, given the all too seriously worsening situation in Iraq.

Baker's predictable plan is what Bush is already doing
Jonathan Steele: Given the reasons for its creation, no wonder the Iraq Study Group failed to properly consider the one way to end this war.

Kevin Drum PRO FORMA REMARKS ON THE BAKER COMMISSION REPORT.....

McClatchy Report leaves Bush more politically isolated

WSJ The Iraq Muddle Group
Bush and Hakim count for more than Baker-Hamilton

Independent Apocalypse now: 79 recommendations and a President forced into a corner

Rupert Cornwell: A bombshell that intensifies the pressure on Bush

Patrick Cockburn: Cautious words conceal true savagery of life in Iraq

Robert Fisk: The Roman Empire is falling - so it turns to Iran and Syria

Leading article: A damning indictment of a President and his policy

World Security Institute - Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni: Realities and Requirements for the Future of Iraq here.

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Facing a different reality' Will Baker report change US view of Israel? Former UN Ambassador Dore Gold says 'willingness of report's author to talk to Iran, Syria is an alarming development'. Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan: Israel shouldn't worry about report

The Huffington Post Gary Hart Iraq: Now We Own It

Pajamas Media: The Baker Report: Speak Loudly and Carry a Small Stick

Der Spiegel The US no longer qualifies, if it ever did, as a “hyper power,” though it is still far from being a “normal” power.

International Crisis Group Iraq and the New Sectarianism in the Middle East

Israeli Military Calculations Towards Iran: A Looming Showdown? IISS

H2 IHT What happened when I criticized Ataturk What is the defining line between a civilized and uncivilized country? In my own experience in Turkey, it is freedom of expression

Boston Globe 'Pie in the sky' report won't fix Iraq (By Peter W. Galbraith)

Talabani's Son Critical of Iraq Study Suggestions

Der Spiegel Talking Tough with Turkey Turkish accession talks seem to be going nowhere in a hurry. Now, ahead of its European Union presidency, Germany is trying to send a strong message without completely derailing the talks

A Vital Bridge Between West and East - Leon Krauze - PostGlobal

Turkey's economic future looks bright - Europe - International Herald Tribune

MISSION CONSTANTINOPLE A Diary of a Prickly Papal Visit Benedict XVI learned that every gesture is important, especially if you are carrying the weight of 2,000 years of history and an unfortunate statement on your shoulders. And he learned something else: the difference between being a pope and a professor.

'AB ilişkileri beni üzüyor'
Pamuk'a basın yoğun ilgi gösterdi.

Orhan Pamuk, Nobel laureate, 'sad' about Turkish-EU relations

Din-siyaset ilişkisi ve sosyal bilimleri tartışmak-2 ALİ ÇARKOĞLU

Irak raporunda Kerkük ayrıntısı

IRAQ: KURDISTAN 'MUST ANNOUNCE INDEPENDENCE' Iraqi Kurdistan's culture minister has said his region must declare its independence from Iraq on 21 March 2007 - the date of Nawruz

Öcalan’a ‘terörist’ dersek halkın karşısına çıkamayız

İyiBilgi Karineler ABD’nin Kuzey Irak’a yerleşme yolları aradığını gösteriyor.

UK considering to move Kirkuk consulate to Erbil

İran'da PKK'ya karşı ortak harekât iddiası

Barzani, Irak Çalışma Grubu raporundan memnun değil

Başer ve Joseph buluşacak

Kurds and central government fail to solve ‘disagreements’

Ekrem Dumanlı Kimse yok mu? Kısa bir süre önce Güneydoğu'da bir sel felaketi yaşandı. Gelen ilk haberlere göre 20 insanımız hayatını kaybetmişti. Ölü sayısının artması bekleniyordu. Sel altında kalan evler, tarlalar vardı.

Mümtazer Türköne Zorunlu göç

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

The KDPI has split The KDPI has spilt into the wing of Mustafa Hijri as a majority and the wing of Mala Abdualla Hasanzada as the minority

Dışişleri'nden Kürt üniversitesine onay

Kurdish course at SOAS university-UK

Baydemir Öcalan posterli salonda konuştu

Başer: Bölgesel Kürd yönetiminin bizimle masaya oturamayacağını söyledik

Elçi, Kürdler öz yönetim hakkına sahip olması gereken bir halktır

Google News Greece - Cyprus

7 Aralık 2006 Basın Özeti

BBC Isolation island
Mark Mardell meets the other Cypriots, in their hinterland home

Rumlar ve Atina düş kırıklığı yaşıyor

AİHM'de 'Arestis' günü

Bin 400 Rum davasının kaderi belli oluyor

Cyprus: time for reflection
Robert Ellis

Turkey and the European Union: An Issue Is Cyprus (1 Letter

Eurasianet Security, Energy and Democracy: US Interests in Central Asia BY ARIEL COHEN US interests in Central Asia can be summarized in three simple words: security, energy, and democracy. Washington needs to refine its regional policy in a way that allows for the continued diversification of US energy supplies, the effective defense of its security interests and the promotion of democratic and free-market values.

Bride of Aliyev: James Baker and the Protector of Baby House 1
Harper's Magazine

Elçilikte trafik zirvesi

CHP ile TOBB jestleşmesi

Eruygur AB fonu kullandı ADD karıştı

An American Among the Orientals

by James E. P Boulden · 1855

An American Physician in Turkey

by Clarence Douglas Ussher · 1917

Merkezi yönetim borç stoku
Mahfi Eğilmez

Ercan Kumcu Bankacılık nereden nereye geldi

Bankalar özvarlığını verimli kullanıyor mu?
Korkmaz İlkorur

2007'yi kaybedecek miyiz? Fatih Özatay

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Merkez Bankası'nın tüketim kaygısı

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Durgunluğun nedeni hızlı borç artışı olmasın?

Erdal Sağlam Sermaye çıkışına karşı önlem hazırlığı

H3 Türkiye'den 'şartlı' öneri Ankara, KKTC'deki Ercan Havaalanı'nın uluslararası trafiğe ve Maraş (Magosa?) limanının doğrudan ticarete açılması karşılığında, Türkiye'den de bir havaalanı ve limanın Rumlara açılabileceğini AB'ye bildirdi.

Sabah CHP'nin 4 aşamalı Köşk harekâtı

Irak için Türkiye senaryoları
Hasan Celal Güzel

IRAQ: KURDISTAN 'MUST ANNOUNCE INDEPENDENCE' Iraqi Kurdistan's culture minister has said his region must declare its independence from Iraq on 21 March 2007 - the date of Nawruz

Ruşen Çakır ABD sarılacak yılan arıyor

SOLİ ÖZEL Ortadoğu

Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları Washington'un Irak açmazı ve Türkiye terazisinde AB-Ortadoğu

Irak Çalışma Grubu'ndan 'Kerkük' vurgusu

Türkiye, K.Irak'a üssü engelledi

Gates 'Türkiye yeterince takdir edilmedi'

"Irak'ta çözüme Türkiye de katılmalı"

Reuters Türkiye bir limanı ile bir havaalanını Kıbrıs'a açacak.

"Limanlar Rumlara açılacak" iddiası

Bir politikanın iflası Gündüz Aktan

ABD, AB için devrede Murat Yetkin

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ Almanya'dan geri adım

Büyükelçi’nin partiler turu

Kıbrıs için bir öneri İsmet Berkan

AB ile nereye? Nuray Mert

Cüneyt Ülsever 2007’de Türkiye! Öneriler

İsrail-Türk askeri arasında hat

AB sertleşebilir - Üst düzey bir AB yetkilisi, "Sadece Ek Protokol'ün uygulanıp uygulanmaması değil, Türkiye'nin Avrupa perspektifi de AB'de yeniden tartışmaya açılabilir" yorumunu yaptı ... Haberin Devamı>>>

[Yorum - Naci Bostancı] AB treni nereye gidiyor?

Avrupalı dev şirketler Türkiye için lobi atağında

Baykal ne demek istedi?.. Wilson’la görüşen CHP lideri, bu sözleriyle kafaları karıştırdı.

'15 Aralık'ı görelim'

Başmüzakereci Slovakya'da konuştu!

Dışişleri AB'ye karşı anlayışlı

AB'ye Rum kıskacı

Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları Kemal Karpat’tan Tayyip Erdoğan’a Türkiye için “tarihi fırsat önerisi” üzerine...

Cengiz Çandar With the EU: Preparing for the day after

Erdoğan: AB için B ve C planlarımız olacak

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni - Dış Basında Türkiye - Google News Turkey - Turquie- Türkei - - TurcoPundit - BBC Turkish 0700

Ambassador Ross Wilson, Remarks at Dinner in Honor of His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Istanbul (December 1, 2006)

TAHA KIVANÇ Pardon

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Türkiye Batılı mı?

FEHMİ KORU Takoz

Şahin Alpay Aleviler, İslam ve AKP

Ahmet Taşgetiren İran'ı kıskanmalı mıyız?

Sorumluluk uyarısı Erdoğan Esad’a "Sorunun değil çözümün parçası olmalıyız" diyerek "ortak sorumluluk" uyarısında bulundu.

Sami KOHEN "Geri adım" geriye götürüyor!

Fikret BİLA Baykal: AB asli hata yaptı

Yusuf KANLI We don't deserve this

Asaf Savaş Akat AB’ye alternatif tartışması

M. Ali BİRAND Avrupa, "cüce"likten kurtulabilecek mi?

Semih İDİZ Merkel aslında ne dedi?

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Oyun sürüyor

Derya SAZAK 2009 takvimi

Bu 'tren kazası'nın enkazını kaldırmak zor
Quentin Peel

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Vatikan-neocon ittifakı ve Sultanahmet kıyamı!

Fehmi Koru 28 Şubat haklı olabilir mi?

NAZLI ILICAK 28 Şubat iyi mi oldu?

Ahmet Hakan Sezer’in marjinali ile Erdoğan’ın marjinali

Ömer Lütfi Mete Kahrolası mandacı ruh

Hadi Özışık Ağar’ın kurmayları Ağar’ı anlıyor mu?

Deniz Ülke Arıboğan
Tilkiler sofrası

MEHMET BARLAS Biz de bir zamanlar süper devlet değil miydik?

H4 New York Times nytcolumns

Panel Urges Basic Shift in U.S. Policy in Iraq The blueprint for a different approach includes the pullback of all American combat brigades over the next 15 months.

A Blueprint for Iraq: Will It Work in the White House?

Editorial Welcome Political Cover If President Bush has the capacity to seriously reassess his Iraq strategy, he will need exactly the kind of political cover that the Iraq Study Group was meant to provide.

Military Analysis: Will It Work on the Battlefield? Options Are Based on Hope

H5 Washington Post Editorial The Study Group Reports There's a one-year plan for Iraq with bipartisan support -- and no fallback if it doesn't work.

Iraq Panel Proposes Major Strategy Shift

Study Group Calls for New Diplomacy, Greater Advisory Role for U.S. Military

Report May Fail to Grasp Nation's Complex Issues
Iraqis express fear that the study group's plans could weaken their already besieged government as country teeters on the edge of civil war.

Baker-Hamilton Does Its Job By David Ignatius

A Report Overtaken by Reality By George F. Will

Go Long? Go Big? Go Back To Congress By Michael J. Glennon, Congress did not, as many believe, write the president a blank check in 2002 with regard to the use of force in Iraq

In Theater of War, It's Iraq Study Group's Turn to Take the Stage

Bringing Down Bolton By Robert D. Novak

Footnote to History: Rituals Of Delivering the Iraq Report

post.blog: New 'Global Power Barometer' The Global Power Barometer, a tool that measures and displays the success of nations, ideologies and movements at influencing world events, is now live on PostGlobal, washingtonpost.com and Newsweek's panel blog on international issues.

The Realists' Repudiation of Policies for a War, Region

Report May Fail to Grasp Nation's Complex Issues

How Israel Lost to the Iranians
Washington Post

Carter Book on Israel 'Apartheid' Sparks Bitter Debate

H6 Guardian Bush told to alter Iraq policy Iraq Study Group calls for US combat troops to be pulled out by early 2008

Situation is grave, deteriorating and threatens wider war, says Baker report

Leader If not now, when? With a lot of luck and even more resolve, yesterday's report of the Iraq Study Group may eventually be seen as a pivotal moment in the reassertion of a realistic American role in Iraq and the world, and not remembered as the well-intentioned but failed political rescue mission that it risks becoming, given the all too seriously worsening situation in Iraq.

Baker's predictable plan is what Bush is already doing
Jonathan Steele: Given the reasons for its creation, no wonder the Iraq Study Group failed to properly consider the one way to end this war.

Bush left battered and bruised
World briefing: The US president's instinct is to hang tough, gambling that "a last big push" will bring victory of sorts. "We're going to stay in Iraq to get the job done," he said last week. Amid great uncertainty, one thing is sure: George Bush does not do graceful exits

Stability not democracy Peter Khalil Dec 06 06, 08:17pm: The Iraq Study Group's report has none of the lofty rhetoric once favoured by the Bush administration.

Rewriting the rulesBrian Brivati Dec 06 06, 06:15pm: The Iraq Study Group recommends a renewed engagement with Iran and Syria, but what difference can Bush make there?

The BBC is worth every penny, but this elephant must tread carefully
Timothy Garton Ash: The imposition of a punitive licence fee settlement would be a miserable way for Brown to begin his premiership.

Arms and the middlemen
David Leigh: It is not in Britain's national interest to maintain this corrupt liaison with Saudi Arabia.

Here we go again Eric Alterman Dec 06 06, 08:45pm: Jimmy Carter is coming under fire for departing from the accepted narrative about Israel.

Extra firepower called for to rescue Nato from quagmire
News of a possible fresh injection of US combat troops for Afghanistan comes as sweet relief to Nato commanders.

Former army head says government is failing soldiers in time of war

Blair seizes chance for progress on Palestinian crisis
PM will press George Bush to be more positive towards formation of a national unity government in Palestine involving Hamas.

Seselj 'two weeks from dying'
UN war crimes tribunal ordered to force-feed a Serbian warlord.

H7 White House Rules Out Talks With Iran

A Losing War, a Failed President, a Weak Dollar: We've Been Here Before by Leon Hadar

Butcher, Baker: The neo-cons' new villain Asia Times By Jim Lobe In the weeks preceding the release of the Iraq Study Group's report, the neo-conservative media in the US have been busy vilifying the group's co-chairman, former US secretary of state James Baker, as a defeatist and appeaser. The goal has been to discredit the ISG's conclusions even before they are published

Raidar Visser The Iraq Study Group Regionalisation Not Balkanisation

Federalism from Below in Iraq – Some Historical and Comparative Reflections.

Der Spiegel Realpolitik Returns to the Middle East The era of American unilateralism is over. The Iraq Study Group's report has arrived with a plan of action for Iraq. The Bush Administration will soon change course, but what can it really do?

Unrealistic Here, Entirely Reasonable There - Andrew McCarthy, NRO


Too Bad There's No Arabic Word For 'Duh!' - Aparisim Ghosh, Time

Washington Times A bipartisan path to surrender?

Will the Bush Administration Listen? - Jordan Tama, The Atlantic

Time The Baker Report: Pulling No Punches


Options for the Long War - Austin Bay, RealClearPolitics

We Need More Than a Minor Course Correction on Iraq by Christopher Preble

Closer to the Abyss by Christopher Dickey

PBS Baker, Hamilton Discuss "New Way Forward" Proposal for Iraq

Panel: Send US Bureaucrats to Iraq

Panel: US Deliberately Underreported Iraq Violence

This Is Unfair' Say Iraqis on US Panel Threat

Iraq Group Co-Chair: War Cost Could Top $1 Trillion

From Der Spiegel, bye, bye, blockheads: It would be interesting to know how Bolton, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld feel today about what they have done in the Middle East.

The US no longer qualifies, if it ever did, as a “hyper power,” though it is still far from being a “normal” power.

Which Country Will 'Supplant' America? Watching America

McClatchy Some study recommendations run counter to Iraq's political reality

Tom barnett Where's Gates on China?

H8 Google News Iraq Iran - Syria Mideastwire.com -NPR Iraq

Daily Star Iraq report gives Bush a last chance to salvage his reputation

Washington Times Iran, Syria wary of proposed U.S. diplomacy on Iraq

Geopolitical Diary: Al-Hakim and the US-Iranian Dance Stratfor

Despite report, Iraqi military still not ready
BY TIMOTHY M. PHELPS

BBC Iraq panel demands urgent change

Iraqis await shift
Iraq's leaders pleased with the findings of the report on US policy

Part of the solution?
Syria would welcome dialogue with the US over Iraq

'Contaminated'
Are coalition troops making Iraq safer for foreign firms?

Kevin Drum Will Withdrawals Begin Next Month?

Washington Realist Reflections on the Iraq Study Group report

Asia Times Bush given stark choices on Iraq

Al Hayat The International Community and Iran's Nuclear File Randa Takieddin

UPI Analysis: Gates and Iran

Analysis: ISG urges return to diplomacy

Outside View: Bush backstabbed on Iraq

Syria Welcomes Chance to Participate

Daily Star The myriad circles of Lebanon's crisis By Rami G. Khouri

Hizbullah has overplayed its hand By Michael Young

MEMRI Dec 06 SD# 1378 - Top Iranian Military Commanders: In Case of Attack on Iran, We'll Target U.S. Troops in Gulf; U.S. Warships 'Have No Maneuverability and Are Easily Sunk'; Iranian Suicide Squad Commander: We'll Carry Out Suicide Operations in Gulf Countries

Dec 06 IA# 305 - Human Rights in Iran (2): Persecution of Intellectuals

Dec 05 SD# 1377 - Lebanese Daily: The Opposition's Street Actions are a Syrian-Iranian Coup

Saudi Arabia Urges US Not to Leave Iraq Quickly

Saudi Arabia Fires Security Consultant for Iraq Remarks

Asia Times Odd bedfellows: Bush woos Shi'ite leader It would be hard to find a stranger couple than President George W Bush and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Their meeting comes as Washington seems poised to end its efforts to appease Sunnis and throw in its lot with Iraqi Shi'ites, of whom Hakim is the paramount leader. But that may mean dealing with Hakim's backer, Iran. - Sami Moubayed

The Syrian-Iranian Agenda for Lebanon
Stratfor

VP Farouq al-Sharaa on the Baker Report & Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine

Saving Afghanistan By: Barnett R. Rubin | Foreign Affairs

FPIF The United States and Lebanon’s Civil Strife

H9 Ha’aretz - Print Edition PMO: Iraq report unlikely to change Bush's Mideast policy Report urges Madrid-style summit for Israel, Syria and PA, as part of recommendations for U.S. in Iraq

Baker report urges Madrid-style summit with Israel, Syria and PA

The Israel Factor: The panel sees dwindling chance of forceful president on Iran

The Arab Nations / Iraq will solve Iraq's problems

How Israel lost to the Iranians

Daily Alert.org - EJC Israeli Press Review Google News Israel

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Facing a different reality' Will Baker report change US view of Israel? Former UN Ambassador Dore Gold says 'willingness of report's author to talk to Iran, Syria is an alarming development'. Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan: Israel shouldn't worry about report

'Hamas met US, EU officials'

Source says PA ministers met with European officials, senior members of Democratic

Insight: Baker wants Israel excluded from regional conference

Panel's mention of Palestinian 'right of return' raises eyebrows...

Israeli Military Calculations Towards Iran: A Looming Showdown? IISS

Debka Baker-Hamilton Group Seeks Israel’s Return of Golan for a Secure Peace with Syria Print

Jerusalem Post Mubarak says deal for Shalit's release in final stages

Perspective: The US political pendulum swing Despite American hubris, the war in Iraq demonstrates what happens when you go too far.

Recycled Trash Makes Poor Policy
Jewish Press

Rattling the Cage: The hype that failed
Jerusalem Post - By LARRY DERFNER. Nobody and nothing in the world has an army of advocates, defenders, PR people, marketers, spin-meisters and image-polishers like Israel has.

Daily Star Abandon the notion of a binational state in Palestine
By Raafat Dajani

Gaza security must involve both Israel and Egypt By Gamal A. G. Soltan

Internet Tycoon Offers $1 Billion for Middle East Peace

DEBKAfile: Robert Gates’ reference to an Israeli nuclear weapon was synchronized with Baker’s exclusion of Israel from a Mid East conference. The Senate confirms Gates in defense by 95-2 vote More...

Sheetrit retains control over intelligence agencies Jerusalem Post

H10 Christian Science Monitor Iraq Study Group: Shift mission, go regional

The panel's report recommended engaging Syria, Iran, and others in stabilizing Iraq.

Quiet US bid to talk to Iraqi insurgents

Israeli study: Hizbullah used Lebanese civilians as human shields

Declassified military intelligence in the report addresses accusations Israel endangered civilians during recent conflict.

At swearing in, congressman wants to carry Koran. Outrage ensues.

The Constitution doesn't require an oath on the Bible in any case, but some say the proposed act goes against US Christian values.

Washington Times Time for closer U.S.- India ties

Asia Times Bush, OPEC and Chavez of Arabia The "Bolivarian revolution" of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, recently re-elected in a landslide, is all about building an egalitarian society - and snubbing a nose at the US. No wonder Washington is apprehensive: Chavez is seducing the global South with his attempt to prove another world system is possible. - Pepe Escobar

H11 IHT So much for the 'special relationship'

Blair was always doomed to failure in pursuing his longed-for legacy, because his relationship with the United States was "special" on only one side of the Atlantic.

Major powers split over sanctions on Iran

Economic Cooperation and Investment Promotion in Southeast Europe
Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies Full Paper (PDF; 636 KB)

Italian Prosecutor Aims at CIA Agents

H12 RFE/RL

Azerbaijan: Energy Independence from Russia Stratfor

Daily Star 'Resisting America' does not make Russia great
By Andrei Piontkovsky

Google News Azerbaijan

US, Russia Stay Divided Over Targeting Iranian Officials

EDM THE POLONIUM TRAIL LEADS TO MOSCOW


- LUKASHENKA OPTS FOR NUCLEAR POWER


- YUSHCHENKO LOSING KEY MINISTERS

H13 The Times Leader Quick Study A practical approach is offered by Baker and his colleagues

Gerard Baker The much anticipated Iraq Study Group report will provide little relief in Washington

Wise men tell Bush he must change tack in Iraq or be doomed to failure

There's no guarantee, no magic formula

'I'll flee the country as soon as the US leaves' Concerns abound that Iraq’s Defence Ministry is being manipulated to serve the interests of powerful Sunni and Shia political parties

Key issue of Iran's nuclear ambition is ignored

Rosemary Righter
More speculation has surrounded
the ISG report than is justified by
its pallid list of recommendations

Beyond Brown The long-term prosperity of Britain depends on removing obstacles to enterprise

Anatole Kaletsky It is as if Gordon Brown, having won his battle to become PM, has begun to lose interest in this ultimate prize

WSJ The Iraq Muddle Group
Bush and Hakim count for more than Baker-Hamilton.

Iraq Study Group Finds Options Are Limited
Wall Street Journal

H14 Financial Times Iraq panel calls for radical policy change The Iraq Study Group called for a radical change of course in US policy, saying conditions in Iraq were “grave and deteriorating”.

Editorial Baker report's whiff of realism on Iraq

Rights and wrongs of fixing IraqUS policy in Iraq must come to grips with two realities: Iraq is in a civil war, and Iraq is a failed state. The Baker-Hamilton report issued Wednesday moves the debate on Iraq in a constructive direction, write Carlos Pascual and Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution.

IRAQ STUDY GROUP: President can take his pick from shower of suggestions

NATIONAL NEWS: Britain's lack of influence highlighted

MIDDLE EAST: Israel predicts no switch of US policy on Palestinians

IRAQ STUDY GROUP: Sceptics fear recipe is too radical for the White House

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Shia-Kurd coalition is not the way to go

Gideon Rachman: Slouching toward an Iraq exit

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Maliki under pressure to deliver results

COMMENT: Why leaks can be good, even for the presidentThe amazing thing about the Bush administration is not that it is leaking so heartily but that until recently it hardly leaked at all. Now various officials are trying to extricate themselves from the train wreck and advance their post-Bush careers, writes Jacob Weisberg.

COMMENT: How China can make Paulson's mission worthwhileHank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, arrives in Beijing next week heading the biggest US government delegation yet to visit China. But will the exercise turn out, as the Chinese saying goes, to be “big thunder, little rain”?, writes Guy de Jonquières

COMMENT: How I was poisoned and why Russia's political enemies were surely behind it On November 24, I found myself involved in a succession of events that resembled a political thriller, writes Yegor Gaidar, former prime minister of the Russian Federation.

H15 Los Angeles Times Panel: Bush policies set off 'slide toward chaos' In uncompromising terms, bipartisan group finds that continuing deterioration in Iraq may inflame entire region in deadly war. | VIDEO EXCERPTS: Iraq Study Group's key findings

- Baker delivers high-profile presence

Blunt talk for an audience of one

ANALYSIS: Report makes it hard for Bush to paint a rosy picture, but recommendations give him leeway

What would happen if the U.S. left Iraq?

Don't play dead for Putin Max Boot

What the West can do help stop the authoritarian Russian president from garnering too much influence in the world

A puzzling run for president in Lebanon By Tony Badran

Christian Michel Aoun is alienating his traditional backers and violating Lebanon's unwritten rules.

Editorial

Out in the cold

Protectionists on both sides of the Pacific have stalled a trade pact between the U.S. and South Korea.

FT

Cautious Fed adopts wait-and-see policy The Federal Reserve is keeping a watchful eye on volatile markets, as it seeks to understand why the dollar and interest rate futures reacted so dramatically to a spate of weak economic data

Editorial Brown - the master and micro-manager of UK plc

PRE-BUDGET REPORT: The relentless interventionist strikes again

COMMENT: Giving a wrong signal The European Central Bank seems to have learnt something from across the Atlantic. Its approach to policy communication has

EUROPE: Kiev battle over which Viktor is in charge

H16 American Politics realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

President Bloomberg?

The GOP's Southern Exposure

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From TAP, a look at why political consensus isn’t going to solve America’s Iraq problem

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Tony Snow battles reporters on Iraq Study Group report

H17 Daily Telegraph Leader Leaving Baghdad
Messrs Baker and Hamilton may have shown America and its allies a light of disengagement at the end of the tunnel. But there is as yet scant evidence that the democratically elected government in Baghdad is capable of fulfilling its side of the bargain.

General's broadside at 'immoral' Iraq policy

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Economic storm brewing in America
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H18 Independent Apocalypse now: 79 recommendations and a President forced into a corner A gauntlet was thrown at George Bush's feet yesterday when a long-awaited report on Iraq recommended that he seek the help of Iran and Syria

Rupert Cornwell: A bombshell that intensifies the pressure on Bush

Patrick Cockburn: Cautious words conceal true savagery of life in Iraq

Robert Fisk: The Roman Empire is falling - so it turns to Iran and Syria

Leading article: A damning indictment of a President and his policy

Adrian Hamilton: The advice Blair should offer Bush today

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Memo to Congressman Rangel: Yes, let’s bring back the draft . . . but a better one.

Foreign Policy What to Expect from Bob Gates

Senators Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy yesterday introduced the "Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2006," which would reinstate federal court jurisdiction over Guantanamo detainees and other suspected enemy combatants

U.S. Air Force doctrine on space operations is elaborated in a new publication. See "Space Operations" (pdf), Air Force Doctrine Document AFDD 2-2, November 27, 2006.

CRS "Iraqi Police and Security Forces Casualty Estimates," November 16, 2006

Israeli Military Calculations Towards Iran: A Looming Showdown?
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'Goodbye' weapon okayed for Iraq use Air Force insists crowd control device doesn't cause eye damage or cancer.

H20 Slate The false premise of the Iraq Study Group Report. This Is What We've Been Waiting For?

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Can Global Imbalances Continue?: Policies for the U.S. Economy
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Three New Country Analysis Briefs Source: Energy Information Administration + Japan: “Japan is the third largest oil consumer in the world behind the United States and China, and the second largest net importer of oil.” Country Analysis Brief: Germany Source: Energy Information Administration + Pakistan: “Pakistan has seen minimal growth in its energy sector, but the country’s economy has experienced vital growth, in spite of the earthquake in 2005.”

H21 At the End of the Book And if a novel ends with a bibliography, is it pomposity or an effort to come clean about one’s sources?

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