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H1 Financial Times Bush silent on Iraq after meeting advisers

NBC: Saddam to be hanged by Sunday - U.S. Preparing for Saddam's Execution

Saddam's Death To Be Videotaped -- But May Not Be Made Public...

IHT The end of the West as we know it? ANATOL LIEVEN If the world suffers radically destructive climate change, then we must recognize that everything that the West now stands for will be rejected by future generations.

Ha’aretz – Itamar Rabinovitch Markers on the route to Damascus

ANALYSIS: Saudi Arabia will offer Hamas Arab 'road map' to peace

Efraim Halevy Lessons for us now

Al Awsat 2007: War Clouds Thicken on the Horizon : Amir Taheri

Daily Star Practical steps for a new Iraq policy By Ellen Laipson

UPI Analysis: Israel's options vs.Iran's bomb

Gates said 'privately against' Iraq buildup

Washington Institute Key Trends to Watch in Iraq The strength of American political will, the maturation of Iraq’s political culture, and six other factors will largely determine whether the U.S. mission in Iraq sees progress in 2007. Jeffrey White writes.

Patrick Clawson Time Is Running Out

Iran's Energy Vulnerability MERIA A 14-page Israeli paper examining Iran's energy balance and its vulnerability to international energy sanctions

Independent The Big Question: With Romania and Bulgaria joining the EU, how much bigger can it get?

Los Angeles Times Posthumous battle plans- Caesar: Diplomacy and power - Washington: The crying game - Genghis Khan: Law and order- Lincoln: Focus on the real foe

Washington Post Walking a Tightrope Into 2007 By David Ignatius,

Editorial A Death Sentence Affirmed Saddam Hussein's trial was imperfect. But a perfect trial would have yielded the same result.

Why We Need More Troops in Iraq By Joseph Lieberman

Ford, Nixon Sustained Friendship for Decades By Bob Woodward

Bush Considers Economic Package for Iraq

Click to download "State of the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq: 2006" from Globalterroralert.com

Syria Poised to Assert Itself - Seth Wikas, Baltimore Sun

Daily Star Only renewed multilateralism can save America
By Joschka Fischer

Al Qaeda in 2007: The Continuing Devolution Stratfor

Geopolitical Diary: Germany's EU Presidential Ambitions Stratfor

CSM As EU gates open, 'paradise' flows East Bulgarians and Romanians, finding better prospects at home, are unlikely to flood westward come Jan. 1

Reconciling the Estimates of Potential Migration into the Enlarged European Union

Washington realist Roundtable: Negotiating with Rogues?

H2 Daily Star Editorial Erdogan's visit offers a chance to defuse tensions in Lebanon

FT OBSERVER: Line in the sand Tehran is closely watching developments over the border with fear that Iraqi Kurdish autonomy is proving an attractive example for Iranian Kurds

Ha’aretz The first lady of Greece

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

The Kurdish national strategy and neighbouring Kurdish policy

A group of PUK cadres drive forward reform KurdishMedia.com The reformists accuse the leadership of nepotism, abuse of power, abuse of public fund, stealing public properties, controlling financial and marketing activities and controlling the political and government institutions.

Nasuhi Güngör Kürtler olmadan asla

Durmuş HOCAOĞLU
Amerika ve K. Iraklı Kürtler İçin Kötü Olan, Türkiye, Bölge ve Umum İnsanlık İçin İyidir

Bunalıma yeni boyut M.Ali Kışlalı

Gülay Göktürk Terör kış uykusundayken

JİTEM davasında 'gizli belge' krizi yaşandı

‘PKK yasal zemin arıyor’

Irak üçe değil, ikiye bölünsün David Apgar

Özdemir İnce İsveç’in pis işleri

[Yorum - Alev Alatlı] İsveç: İmaj her şeydir!

Hizbullah seçime hazırlanıyor

Etyen Mahçupyan Hakkari'yi nasıl bilirdiniz?

Savaş SÜZAL Amerika, Türkiye’yi parçalamak mı istiyor?

German presidency to try Cyprus settlement

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Güngör URAS F-16'ları başkalarına yaptırıyoruz, başkalarına baktırıyoruz

Russia joins Black Sea Harmony

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Türkiye'nin ana sorunu: muhalefet

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Bu yoğun ilginin sebebi ne? Yabancılar Türk medya sektörüne neden bu kadar ilgi gösteriyor?

Islamist Turkish Daily Interview with Former Defense Minister of the Taliban

Iraqi Parliamentarian Ayad Jamal Al-Din: "We Insist on Holding a Conference to Support the Kurds in Turkey"

DNO raises its stake in northern Iraq to 55%

Saddam ve idam Murat Belge

Güler Kömürcü Washington Büyük Locası Türk'e emanet

İşte Türk ailesi Mal erkekte, ev işleri kadında. Görücü usulü hâlâ yaygın. Akraba-komşu ziyareti seviliyor, birlikte sinemaya gidilmiyor. Sigara yaygın, alkolse değil

Yüzümüze tutulan ayna Murat Yetkin

Ahmet Ertegun Knew What Was Good For Turkey: Genocide Recognition

29 Aralık 2006 Basın Özeti

Ercan Kumcu Yıl biterken dünya ekonomileri

Hurşit GÜNEŞ 2006'ya veda ederken...

Faik ÖZTRAK Sosyal devlet ve asgari ücret

Asaf Savaş Akat Düzeltme başladı mı?

Yiğit Bulut Kaos'u bilmeden 'kaos' demek

Çin ve ABD fethedildi Vestel ihracatta, Arçelik ciroda lider

Kadir Dikbaş Gelir uçurumu büyüyor mu?

ERDAL ŞAFAK Rakamların dili

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Bu tablo 'faizi aşağı çekin' baskısını artırır

H3 Faruk Loğoğlu'yla Söyleşi 'ABD'yle İlişkilerde Sorun Yaşanabilir'

İpler kopabilir Hükümetle askerlerin AB'ye alınacak tavır konusunda ilk kez uzlaştığı Milli Güvenlik Kurulu'nda, başka ülkeler için öngörülmeyen yöntemlerin Türkiye'nin önüne konulmaması ve çifte standart uygulanmaması istendi

Time for new 'modus vivendi' between Iraqi Kurds and Turkey
Semih İdiz

Cengiz Çandar 'Yoğun sis' altında, 2007’ye doğru

'İslami sol' kavramını düşünmek: Sosyalizm, İslam'a uyar mı?
MUSTAFA AKYOL

Cevikoz, Sinirlioglu top contenders to head MGK

Dismissing lack of dialogue with Iraqi Kurds, Çelikkol urges ...

Ankara expects Washington to weigh Iraq reports

Bush assured Iraqi Kurds, says Barzani

Iraklı Kürtler, James Baker Raporu'nun uygulanmaması için seferber oldu

Güngör URAS F-16'ları başkalarına yaptırıyoruz, başkalarına baktırıyoruz

EMRE AKÖZ 1 köylü eşittir 3 kentli!

MEHMET BARLAS Cumhurbaşkanı Sezer istifa ederse kriz erken çözülür...

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

MGK, AB’ye ilk defa rest çekti

Ferai Tınç Diyalog emek ister

Sami KOHEN Hareketli, sıkıntılı, zor bir yıl

Birand Erdoğan ve Baykal’ın performansları

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Siyasi liderlerin 2006 performansı

[Yorum - Doç.Dr.Tanju Tosun] Baykal, partisini marjinalleştiriyor

Bülent Korucu MHP nereye?

Oktay Ekşi Bu yol oraya varmaz

Cengiz Çandar Bugün yazıları

Şakir Süter AKP’de ‘açılım’ ve ‘ayıklama!’

[Yorum - Doç.Dr.Mustafa Şentop] Siyasete hukuk kılıfı

Ahmet Hakan Hiç gitmeyecekler için hac notları

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Kafkas dansı...

Taha Kıvanç

Fehmi Koru

NAZLI ILICAK

Ömer Lütfi Mete

FATİH ALTAYLI Diğer raporlar da tebliğ edilmeli

PO: Hukuki haklarımızı kullanacağız

Petrol Ofisi, Sabah gazetesi ve gazetecilik İsmet Berkan

Hasan CEMAL / Hukuka yazık!

Güneri CIVAOĞLU / Bu da geçer

H4 New York Times Up to 20,000 More Troops for Iraq Considered by Bush

H5 Washington Post Walking a Tightrope Into 2007 By David Ignatius,

Editorial A Death Sentence Affirmed Saddam Hussein's trial was imperfect. But a perfect trial would have yielded the same result.

Why We Need More Troops in Iraq By Joseph Lieberman

Ford, Nixon Sustained Friendship for Decades By Bob Woodward

Bush Considers Economic Package for Iraq Officials Describe the Initiatives as Part of a Series of Steps Designed to Counter Insurgency

With Israeli Approval, Egypt Sends Arms to Abbas's Fatah Movement

Bush Is Right -- and Other Lessons By E. J. Dionne Jr.,

The Pardon in History's Hindsight By Richard Ben-Veniste, Did Gerald Ford make the right decision in pardoning his predecessor?

Ethiopians Help Seize Somali Capital

Islamic Fighters Vanish, Flee South

PostGlobal What is your favorite proverb or saying from where you live that you would want to share with the world? What does your proverb tell us about today?

H6 Guardian Iraq's shallow justice
Richard Dicker: Saddam's trial has been a missed opportunity for the government to respect human rights.

Magadishu falls to anti-Islamists
Gunfire and looting returns to the Somali capital as Ethiopian tanks roll in and warlords begin to reclaim their old territories.

H7 McClatchy Increase in combat troops a risky tactic

Syria Poised to Assert Itself - Seth Wikas, Baltimore Sun

Daily Star Only renewed multilateralism can save America
By Joschka Fischer

What the 'poor sots' of the world know about globalization
By Mark Perry

Ahmadinejad Far Weaker Than He Lets On - Victor Davis Hanson, RCP

2006 Review: Iran's influence in Middle East to rise in 2007 Deutsche Presse-Agentur - By By Pakinam Amer

Has 9/11 Introduced a Paradigmatic Shift In the Social Sciences’ Approach to Islam and the West?
Source: Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

AN NRO SYMPOSIUM: Denis Boyles, John Derbyshire, Jonah Goldberg, Kathryn Lopez, Carrie Lukas, Cliff May, John Miller, and Andrew Stuttaford boldly make 2007 predictions. “We Predict”

The Future of Nuclear Power in the United States: Economic and Regulatory
AEI/Brookings

Could 2006 go down as the year Americans began to think outside their political and economic boxes? Maybe, if a recent batch of essays and policy proposals is anything more than straws in the intellectual wind.

From The Economist, democracy defiled: The coup makes a comeback in 2006

The Question They Should Have Asked
TPMCafe

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

Many soldiers say troop surge a bad idea

Terror fears
Why the US is keeping a close eye on the Somali conflict

Analysis: Syria, Iran won Lebanon war

Iranian thought police

The Economist Waiting for the hangman Executing Saddam Hussein is a bad idea

Forward Senators Visit Damascus, Push For Syrian Talks

Assad’s Olive Branch Can Bear No Fruit
Ammar Abdulhamid

Austin Bay Al Qaeda's Egyptian ideological origins

H9 Ha’aretz – Itamar Rabinovitch Markers on the route to Damascus

The PA summit in Jordan / Saudi Arabia will offer Arab 'road map'

U.S. senator: Assad will fight arms transfers to Hezbollah

Editorial Painting a rosier future Instead of handing out carrots in measured quantities, it must make it clear to the Palestinians that the final target is for them to grow their own carrots and not be dependent on Israel.

Knesset intelligence

Yoel Marcus: Heading into 2007, Israel is not exactly fun to live in The year of the zigzag The rivalry between our two intelligence agencies is enough to make you dizzy. But what do they know? Did they predict last year that there would be another war in Lebanon?

Burston Perfidious pilgrim The implication is that Muslims aren't really responsible for their own actions, any more than they would be if they were mischievous children or animals in the wild. No, it's us - the West, Tony Blair, George Bush, Israeli Jews - we are responsible.

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

BBC Palestinian deaths 'rose in 2006' An Israeli rights group says three times more Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army this year than last.

Depressing year Early hopes fade as war and discord grip Middle East

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Arafat behind envoy's death' Document reveals late PLO leader planned attack on US embassy in Sudan 34 years ago

H10 Christian Science Monitor Why Somalia war unsettles the world

As EU gates open, 'paradise' flows East Bulgarians and Romanians, finding better prospects at home, are unlikely to flood westward come Jan. 1.

US economic outlook for 2007: slow growth, but recession-free

Nonetheless, a less vibrant economy would give the Federal Reserve less wriggle room.

Blogs: Curtains for the greenback?

ASIAChina defends its military build-up

How Long For Japan To Build A Deterrent? [5]

H11 IHT The end of the West as we know it? ANATOL LIEVEN If the world suffers radically destructive climate change, then we must recognize that everything that the West now stands for will be rejected by future generations.

With some nervousness, Slovenians are adopting the euro

Russian government gains another concession on Sakhalin-2 project

Pulling back from war in the Horn of Africa

Pakistan's tribal deals aren't working SETH G. JONES If Pakistani border tribes fail to expel Taliban militants and end cross-border attacks, Pakistani forces must do it.

Doing it their own way MARK WEISBROTLatin America has clearly taken a turn in a new economic direction, and it looks to be overwhelmingly positive.

EUROPE Analysis: Europe's 2006

A Fistful of Euros Survey of the Year

Happy Birthday: Next year marks the EU's 50th anniversary.

H12 RFE/RL

Eurasianet From Abroad, Azerbaijani TV Stations Try to Speak Out

Google News Azerbaijan

Belarus, Putin heading towards showdown

Being a woman inKazakhstan

Power Sharing in Ukraine: Government Chaos Dashing Hopes of New Beginning

Moscow Set On Selling More Weapons To Remain a Superpower

The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide
Source: Institute for the Study of Labor

H13 The Times Mogadishu Mayhem Somalia will not be rendered stable by outside intervention

Gerard Baker America is completing a gloomy year, mourning the loss of two rather different national icons

Israel allows Fatah guns across border Weaponry has been sent through Israel into Gaza in a sign that Jerusalem, London and Washington are reinforcing President Abbas

Wall Street Journal Turkmenbashi President Saparmurat Niyazov's sad legacy.
By HAMID ISMAILOV

The Populist Persuasion What do John Edwards and Lula have in common? By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY

Cut-and-Run Is Not in Their Vocabulary The folks at Spirit of America and the Business Council for Peace aren't abandoning Iraq or Afghanistan. By DANIEL HENNINGER

Gaz(less)prom The real threat to Europe. By ALAN RILEY

H14 Financial Times Bush silent on Iraq after meeting advisers

Editorial Time for global action on climate change

LEADER: France's fate is in her own delicate hands

Gulf Arab states ride the petrodollar boom

Spectre of rival clans in Mogadishu

Iraqis split over death penalty for Saddam

Wrestling with democracy in Tehran

COMMENT: On not apologising for supporting British industry

THE AMERICAS: Edwards vows to restore US image in bid for presidency

H15 Los Angeles Times Posthumous battle plans- Caesar: Diplomacy and power - Washington: The crying game - Genghis Khan: Law and order- Lincoln: Focus on the real foe

Hussein may be hanged in a 'day or so'

Editorial Middle East exodus part deux Editorial: The Iraq war has made Christians in the Midddle East less safe. But that's just one side of the story.

H16 American Politics Edwards Formally Joins 2008 Presidential Race Ex-Senator Calls for Drawdown in Iraq

PAUL KRUGMAN A Failed Revolution The ideals of the Republican revolution of 1994 were always based on a lie.

Clinton leads big in new key state polls Sen. tops Obama, Edwards in four states holding early primaries, per survey.

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

H17 Daily Telegraph Tony Blair is going. . . and nine other reasons to be cheerful

World must not ignore the Horn of Africa The outside world has not been indifferent to the dangers that a failed state in the Horn of Africa could pose to the region and beyond. But it has yet to come up with a long-term solution.

H18 Independent The Big Question: With Romania and Bulgaria joining the EU, how much bigger can it get?

Donald Macintyre: Is it time for Israel to start talking to Syria?

Leading article: A conflict with dangerous regional ramifications

Russia threatens to cut off gas to Belarus

Chirac ally may challenge Sarkozy for presidency

Muslims alienated at home find solace at Haj

A massive wave of young British pilgrims are arriving in Mecca, motivated in part by an increasing sense of alienation at home

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Boots on the Ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations (PDF; 3.5 MB) Source: Combat Studies Institute Press; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Secret renditions
The BBC hunts for evidence of a CIA 'black site' in Poland

OSAC’s Top 10 Overseas Security Trends for the US Private Sector in 2006

Preventing Terrorism Using Information Sharing Networks (PDF; 392 KB)
Source: Naval Postgraduate School (thesis)

2006 Year in Review: A Diverse, Challenging Nuclear Agenda (The International Atomic Energy Association)

H20 Slate

Americans defend cultural diversity at home and deny it abroad, says Frédéric Martel. The French want it for the world but refuse it at home... more»

Alexander von Humboldt was in the 19th century a scientific rock star. This is the man who invented the idea of an ecosystem... more»

Brands – in their artful presence as icons, images, and styles – help people oddly to forge personal identities out of mass-produced, mass-distributed goods... more»

H21 Messages to Spies Are Coded but Not Hidden Over Shortwave, Anyone Can Listen It turns out that anybody can tune in to the world's top spy agencies talking to operatives. All you need is a cheap shortwave-radio receiver, the kind available at any drugstore.

Time The Bests of 2006

COMMENT: The hunt for the next web winnerBlogs and social networks made 2006 the year of user-generated content; now the race is on to spot the next trend that will shape how millions operate online, writes Richard Waters.

Composer's genius came later in sublime expression Mozart scholars won't be surprised by the discovery of yet another remarkable piece of music apparently composed by the wünderkind before he was 11

Searching times
How have net rivals Google and Yahoo fared in 2006?

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