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H1 Financial Times Al-Qaeda linked to operations from Iran Used as base for attacks in Iraq

WORLD NEWS: US concerns raised over China arms in Iraq

Washington Post Motivating Iraq's Neighbors to the Table Motivating Iraq's Neighbors to the Table

Middle East Times Commentary: Soft partition of Iraq

Dayan Centr Current Contents June2007

POLL CLAIMS: 45% SUPPORT BUSH IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS...

War Costs Soar by a Third; Total Cost Could Top $1.4 Trillion

Ha’aretz - A Ring of Threats to Israel Emanating from Iran - Aluf Benn and Shmuel Rosner

Unintentional results What has changed in Lebanon and the greater Mideast since the Second Lebanon War?

Bradley Burston: Is terrorism on the way out?

The Jewish people in 2030: Thriving, drifting, defending or dismal?

IHT A fundamental truth By STANLEY A. WEISS Sarkozy's Mediterranean Union could be the world's last best hope for a long-troubled region.

Warming and your wallet An unpleasant and inescapable truth is that any serious effort to fight warming will require everyone to pay more for energy.

Only traditional Islam can do it By PHILLIP BLOND AND ADRIAN PABST The only force that can challenge Islamic terrorism is not liberal progressivism but Islam itself.

Mideast Has an Old Cold War Look - Borzou Daragahi The confrontation between the U.S. and Iran overlays and drives much of the strife afflicting the new Middle East. It is a conflict with many features of the 45-year Cold War, including the use of military and political surrogates, aggressive diplomacy, economic pressure, competing propaganda outlets and a looking-glass war waged by intelligence services. (Los Angeles Times)

PINR "Spain's Counter-Terrorism Policy Under Challenge by Al-Qaeda and E.T.A." Full text of report

Expert: Power in Iraq now fragmented

Negative freedom is freedom from tyranny, while positive freedom is the freedom to realize your desires. The latter poses problems for democracy today, says Francis Fukuyama... more»

WSJ Withdrawing Troops Too Soon

A superpower can lose a war — in Vietnam or in Iraq — without ceasing to be a superpower. But how long can the U.S. hegemony really last?... more»

Washington Post Lessons Unlearned In Iraq By Kiki Munshi, We have forgotten or not bothered to remember what we have done over the past months.

Editorial Airborne Intimidation A missile attack on one of Russia's pro-Western neighbors. Who could be responsible?

American Prospect Iraqi Oil: A Benchmark or a Giveaway?

CNAS A Phased Transition Plan for Iraq James Miller and Shawn Brimley

The Inheritance and the Way Forward Kurt Campbell and Michèle Flournoy

Wall Street Journal Survivor One of Iraq's most controversial politicians offers thoughts on the "surge," Iran and where we go from here. By MELIK KAYLAN

PostGlobal A new bestseller in the U.S. asks: "Are we Rome?" That's our question to end this July 4 week: Is America Rome? -- David Ignatius

The Presidency Doesn't Come with a Manual for Using Power By David Shribman

Asia Times Iraq: A future perfectUnlikely though it may seem, an Iran-Saudi alliance to rebuild Iraq's oil sector following a US withdrawal could stabilize the region and allow political-religious concerns to dissipate. Then imagine a new, fully functional Iraq joining the community of nations. There is historical precedent.

Iraq, the new Israel While Bush fiddles, Baghdad continues to burn, fueled by divide-and-conquer tactics inspired by Israel's occupation of Palestine. - Comment by Pepe Escobar

New York Times Chaotic Lebanon Risks Becoming Militant Haven Lebanon’s troubles are not principally about Islamic militancy, but some fear the country could attract more of it, especially from the Iraq war

Prospect Checkmate Gazprom
Derek BrowerAfter Russia cut supplies to Ukraine in 2006, the EU decided it needed to reduce its dependence on Russian gas. But since then, a series of shrewd moves by Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas monopoly, hasw left the EU's diversification strategy in tatters.

Crisis Group Towards Peace in the Middle East: Lessons for European Policymakers, Gareth Evans

Helena Cobban Republican realists' resurgence grows

Dan Dezner THE REALIST TRADITION IN AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION

Lowy Institute Terrorism fight takes back seat in rise of the Asian century

Middle East Times Commentary: The death of RMA

Guardian Leader The general's juggling act Pakistan: General Musharraf has had to juggle the demands of the west and the need to avoid unduly provoking the Islamist forces that threaten to overwhelm his government.

The Bosnian connection Brendan O'Neill Far from being radicalised by the failure of the west to act, large numbers of Muslims were radicalised by western intervention in the Balkans.

Los Angeles Times Anti-war sentiment builds among Republicans In Times interviews, GOP members voice disappointment and press for change to Bush's war stance.

Heritage Foundation US Policy and Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons: Containing Threats and Encouraging Regional Security

The New EU Reform Treaty: A Threat to the Special Relationship

by Sally McNamara

McClatchy Why do terrorists attack Britain time and again?

FRANCE : The 10 commandments of Competitive Intelligence

Prospect Gordon Brown: intellectual John Lloyd and othersGordon Brown is the first prime minister in decades—possibly in a century—who can be said to be a genuine intellectual. This must be significant—but how? Despite his bookishness, curiously little is known of Brown's worldview. He has roots in Scottish social democracy, but how far has he moved on? What books are most important to him? Why are two of his favourite thinkers right-wing Americans? He is a moralist, but is he also a practising Christian?

Protecting the global poor
Ha-Joon ChangAlmost all rich countries got wealthy by protecting infant industries and limiting foreign investment. But these countries are now denying poor ones the same chance to grow by forcing free-trade rules on them before they are strong enough

'Supporting the Troops' Means Withdrawing Them by Gen. William E. Odom

Blowback From the Iraq-Iran War Ken Silverstein interviews Joost Hiltermann

CFR Countries the Secretary of State Has Designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism

Counterproductive Counterinsurgency

USIP Briefing: No Silver Bullets for Afghanistan’s Drug Crisis

Briefing: The Role of the Media in Conflict

CSIS Understanding Muslim Networks

Outside View: Azeri ABM problems -- Part 2

H2 Upcoming Turkish Elections: Issues and Winners Washington Institute for Near East Policy by Soner Cagaptay

CEPS What exactly is happening in Turkey? On the way to normalisation or breakdown? Senem Aydin Düzgit (pdf)

US troubles in landing Turkish defense contracts set to continue

Eastern Mediterranean Oil Politics: the Emerging Role of Cyprus
Balkanalysis.com,

Zebari: Iraq will act against PKK "when the time comes"

Turkish Govt, Military Agree on Iraq Incursion Plans

Türkmen şehri Tuz Hurmatu kan gölü: 30 ölü

Irak'ta Türkmen kasabasına saldırı: 22 ölü

Türkiye'nin Avrasya Politikası Dışişleri Bakanlığı Müsteşar Yardımcısı Vekili Büyükelçi Ünal Çeviköz, bölgesel gelişmeleri, Türkiye - Rusya ilişkilerini değerlendirdi

New book: The structure of Kurdish society and the struggle for a Kurdish state

Expectations and possibilities in the Caucasus: Turkey’s role Hasan Kanbolat

Analysis: Iraq partition getting a fresh look

Türk F-16'ları ABD seferinde

Al Awsat Hobson's Choice in Turkey Amir Taheri

Turkey and Israel to pacify the Middle East

Turkey and Israel to transform the Orient
American Chronicle

Turkey and Israel: Facing Common Threats and Sharing Great ...
American Chronicle

U.N. Chief Urges Talks on Divided Cyprus

Rizgari Kürdler ve bölgesel sorun

'ÖTEKİ IRAK' Kürtlerle Türkmenler Kerkük için ne istiyor? Kumru Başer

Turkey Eyes Possible Incursion Into Iraq

Askeri müdahale Türkiye'yi çökertir Enver İbrahİm

Anayasa Mahkemesi, yabancı basını bile şaşırttı

Yüksel Söylemez New dimensions of security

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Emre Uslu Mind-boggling questions on the PKK terror

Iraqi Kurds to win oil battle

Kürt köylüler ABD gazetesine PKK katliamını anlattı: Asker 5 dakika geç kalsaydı ölmüştük

Bugün Ankara yürüyecek

Kerkük'te nüfus kayıtları değişiyor

Kerkük’ün nüfus kayıtlarında değişiklik

Turkey draws up plan for possible attack on Kurds in Iraq

Turkey vs. everyone: Who is responsible?

Brown pledges support in fight against terrorism

7 bombacı yakalandı

Vahşet planları ve fotoğraflar bulundu

Kara Kuvvetleri, 'savaşçı' uzman erbaş alacak

Kara kuvvetleri ''Uzman Erbaş'' alacak

'Operasyon için TSK ile anlaştık'

Teröre rağmen okuyan gençler Güneydoğu'nun gururu oldu

Türkmeneli Irak, Kürtler ve Mısır Kongresi

Refugee scenes in Turkey

Armenia doesn't have official stance on independent Kurdistan ...

Ağar: Terörle mücadele ABD’ye ihale edilemez

Alınak: Bir defa daha görüldü ki Türkiye’de Kürdlere zenci muamelesi yapılıyor

DTP'liler neden engelleniyor?

Kurds may reject oil law if amendments were major - Kurdistan PM

Friedman backs Chirol's Plan

Can Ataklı Abdullah Gül’e göre Büyükanıt: Enver Paşa Türk Ordusu: Mahvolur

BBC Bomb kills 20 in northern Iraq A truck bomb in a busy market in northern Iraq kills at least 20 people and injures dozens more, officials say.

Turkish Minister Gives Details of US Loans, Iraq Incursion, Kurds

Iraqi Official Downplays Amendments to Oil Bill; Says PM to Stay

German Police Discover Suspected Kurdish Militants

Iran, Turkey seek stronger trade ties

PKK mermer ocağını bastı, 1 işçiyi kaçırdı

Rizgari MİT ve Genelkurmay, toplumdaki tepkilere rağmen, Öcalan'ın hapiste tutulmasının daha yararlı olacağına karar vermişlerdi

The Vineyard of the Saker: Countdown to Turkish Invasion of Iraq Begins

Analysis: Fog settles over Iraq oil law

Iraq: Kurdish Parties Could Unite, Run In Elections

Iraqi Kurdistan's Universities Need Reform

Iran Strengthens Relations With Kurdistan, Abandons Investments in ...

In The Shadows Of Iraq : Qubad Talabani (Part 7)

Who is Scott Sullivan and why is he lobbying hard for Turkey?

Barzani Must Suppress PKK Now
The Conservative Voice

Turkey Must Take Northern Iraq
The Conservative Voice

'Barzani, Talabani ve Maliki, PKK'nın yanında'

‘Türk askeri doğru davrandı’

Altemur KILIÇ Apo idam edilmeliydi

DTP'li Orhan Miroğlu'na 5 yıl hapis talebi

What Was The Role Of 'Chemical Ali' In al-Anfal?
Global Politician

Iraqi microfinance institution in Kirkuk expands operations

Afganistan'da NATO'nun kanlı operasyonu: 100 ölü

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Semih İDİZ Türkiye AB'de yalnız değil

Rehn rebukes France on Turkey debate plans

EU integration chief criticises France over Turkey

Rehn'den Paris'e sert uyarı

UN chief urges Greek and Turkish Cypriots to show "imagination and ...

Annan plan’s failure not a pardon for Turkey Cyprus Mail

Bir itiraf da Merkel'den: Rumları almak hataydı

Yunanistan’la harita krizi

INTERVIEW-Armenia criticises EU, NATO over Turkish blockade

İtiraf mı mesaj mı?

Yunanistan Türkiye'yi ikiye böldü!

Atina’ya ’rezil harita’ tepkisi

Zeynep Göğüş Fransa’dan yararlanmak

Armenia criticizes EU for not pressuring Turkey

Ermenistan'dan NATO ve AB'ye sınır kapısı eleştirisi

Papadopulos'a sürpriz rakip

ENERGY: TURKEY AND RUSSIA'S PIPELINE TUSSLE ESCALATES

Image of enemy cultivated in Turkey against Russia has disappeared

CDU'dan Türk aday

Two Civilians Killed in Georgia's Breakaway Abkhazia

Azeri Gas to Reach Turkey-Greece-Italy Pipeline (06/07/2007)

Art to promote Turkish - Greek friendship

Yabancı ajansların yerli muhabirleri: Ajan değiliz

The world watches Turkey through their viewfinder

BBC 6 Temmuz 2007 Basın Özeti

Derya SAZAK 1 Numara

'Vatanseverler' ve Danıştay davası aynı savcıda

Çeteler arasında bağlantı mı var

'Vatansever Kuvvetler'e 3 yeni tutuklama daha

Binbir surat vatansever

Başsavcı'ya hapis cezası!

H3 Yeni tartışma: 11. cumhurbaşkanını Meclis mi seçecek, halk mı?

Kafalar karışık

Gül: Referandum öne çekilebilir

Ertuğrul Özkök ’Cumhur’ sinirimi bozuyor

Ruşen Çakır Cumhurbaşkanlığı krizi AKP’yi abad ediyor

Abdülhamit Bilici Batı'nın AK Parti ikilemi!

Cengiz Çandar Vatandaşsız vatan olmaz; Vatandaşını sevmeden vatansever olunmaz...

Gül: Genelkurmay’la planı hazırladık

Çeteler kollanmasaydı etkili olamazdı

Operasyon planı hazır, ama devlet sırrı

Mensur Akgün Amerika- Türkiye ilişkiler dibe vururken

Özkök Paşa'nın 'Başbakan'a bağlıdır' özgeçmişi değiştirildi

Askerden Özgeçmiş ayarı

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ

Derya SAZAK 1 Numara

İlter Türkmen Seçimler ve Irak

Radikal Meğer insan hakları diye bir sorun yokmuş Dört partiden sadece CHP insan hakları başlığı açtı. MHP başlık açmasa da konuyu unutmadı: İnsan hakları temel değerlerimizin süzgecinden geçecek. AKP, MHP ve DP'nin seçim bildirgesine giremedi

[Yorum - Doç. Dr. Mustafa Şentop] Yeni cumhurbaşkanını kim seçecek? Yeni Meclis mi halk mı?

Ahmet Taşgetiren 3 makul çözüm ve en makulü

Son karardan sonra siyaset bulmacası Haluk Şahin

İsmail Küçükkaya
Cumhurbaşkanını kim seçecek?

Arınç: Yeni Meclis referandumu bekler

Köşk denklemi

HASAN ÜNAL Seçimler, senaryolar ve dış politika

AKP nerede? M.Ali Kışlalı

Taha AKYOL Vatansever kuvvetler

Meclis Başkanı Arınç'tan gizli kamera açıklaması

Arınç: Odamda gizli kamera falan yok

Servet Yıldırım İdeal özelleştirme bu olamaz

Privatization sparks nationalist uproar

Metin MÜNİR Petkim'i kimler, neden aldı?

Kim seçecek?
Türk cumhurbaşkanını halkın seçmesinin zor olduğu görüşünde

‘Dink’in vurulacağını Erhan söyledi’

Şahin Alpay Profesör Mardin'e saygı ve şükranla

Ali Bulaç Ağar, başörtüsünü çözer mi?

CHP'den haritalı billboard: Erdoğan Erzurum'u Ermenistan'a verecek

Party officials discuss energy policies

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

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

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

VOA TSİ 06:30 Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Taha Kıvanç Allah muhabbetlerini artırsın

Fehmi Koru Hangi iktidar kazanacak?

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Siyasi bir iflasın tescili...

NAZLI ILICAK Anayasa Mahkemesi'nin kararı

Cumhurbaşkanı Sezer AKP'li Çömez'i kabul etti

"Anayasa Mahkemesi'ne biraz haksızlık etmişim"

Kılıç: Kararımız kriz yaratmaz

Enis Berberoğlu Uzan parasının rengi

MGK için en kuvvetli aday/ Üçüncü Göz

[Yorum - Mücahit Bilici] Neocon ile ulusalcı benzerliği: Leo Strauss'un tavsiyeleri

Özdemir İnce Dubai, 22 Eylül 2003

ERDAL ŞAFAK Ne istiyoruz?

ERGUN BABAHAN 22 Temmuz'un önemi

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Herkese bir anayasa...

Ağustos'ta bambaşka bir Türkiye

İlnur Çevik Erdogan will not have an easy ride this time as PM

MELİHA OKUR Referandum Türkiye'ye uyar mı?

MAHMUT ÖVÜR İstanbul 3. Bölge'de seçimin nabzı

Engin Ardıç Bu bir komedi filmidir

Mahkemenin 2 kararı farklı

’Beyaz imam hatipli’ tartışması

Hadi Uluengin AKP sondajı

Serdar Turgut Halkın bilme hakkı

Rauf Tamer 3 sandık...

Ağar için başörtü geleneksel marka

Melih Gökçek Mumcu ile görüşmesini doğruladı

DSP-MHP-ANAP 22 banka batırdı

Güngör URAS
AKP icraatını iyi satıyor

Faruk Şen High Tension in Turkey

Will MHP pass election threshold?

Morocco's 'AKP' is Moroccan, after all (Mustafa AKYOL )

Tackle social issues, not religious ones (Advena Avis )

Mehmet Barlas Bizim Anayasamız katı mı yumuşak mı pek belli değil…

Mahir Kaynak Siyasetin anlamı

Mehmet Altan Halk mı, askeri bürokrasi mi ?

Günay Baykal demokrasi dışı tüm projelerde yer alabilir

Şakir Süter Mumcu’nun çağrısı ne oldu?

Eskişehir AKP'ye öfkeli

YASİN AKTAY 2 Temmuz'la yüzleşmenin yolu

Çevreden muaf siyaset anlayışı 23 Temmuz için hiç umut vermiyor
NAFİZ GÜDER

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
Fransa bile "silahsız işgal ediliyoruz" diyor bizimkiler zil takıp oynuyor

Murat Çelik 4 Temmuz...ABD’nin bayramı. Ya bizim?..

Civil society ‘uneasy' with CHP, calls for its expulsion from SI

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam Belirsizlik seçim sonrasına da uzadı

Tüketiciye destek lafta kaldı, KDV indirimi yolda eridi

Piyasaya hakim olan yabancı siyasi riski gözardı ediyor

Ege Cansen Ne olacak bu doların hali

Veriler ve ortam Taner Berksoy

Salih Neftçi Dolduruşa gelme tehlikesi ne zaman vardır?

Deniz Gökçe Büyüme gerçek ve ihracat kaynaklı!

Emin Çölaşan Haraç mezat...

Fitch Petkim'i negatif izlemeye aldı

Müsiad Yeni hükümet iyi bir miras devralacak

Güven Sak Muhammed Yunus artık bir holding sahibi

Yiğit Bulut Petkim için '4 milyar' dedik, inandıramadık!

Eskişehir posed to become Turkish Silicon Valley

Number of tourists visiting Turkey on the rise

Yaman TÖRÜNER
Balık tutmayı öğretenleri seçebilmek

H5 Washington Post Lessons Unlearned In Iraq By Kiki Munshi, We have forgotten or not bothered to remember what we have done over the past months.

Editorial Airborne Intimidation A missile attack on one of Russia's pro-Western neighbors. Who could be responsible?

Suit Against Warrantless Surveillance Rejected Federal appeals court removes hurdle to White House's domestic spying program, ruling plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge its constitutionality.

U.N. Decries Neglect of Iraqi Refugees: Increased Support Urged for Leading Host Countries Syria and Jordan

100 Militants Killed in Afghan Fighting

In Morocco's 'Chemist,' A Glimpse of Al-Qaeda

Bombmaker's underground career demonstrates the limits of anti-terrorism cooperation between governments and intelligence agents

Editorial Not in This Court Congress and the FISA judges must oversee government surveillance.

Fear Grows Of Hostage Situation at Red Mosque Hundreds Still Inside, Pakistani Officials Say

PostGlobal A new bestseller in the U.S. asks: "Are we Rome?" That's our question to end this July 4 week: Is America Rome? -- David Ignatius

Alleged Slayings In Fallujah Spur Military Inquiry: No Charges Filed in 2004 Incident

H6 Guardian On terror the rhetoric is different, not the reasoning Martin Kettle: Brown is not about to throw the switch on the inherited essentials of Blair's approach to Washington or Iraq.

Leader The general's juggling act Pakistan: General Musharraf has had to juggle the demands of the west and the need to avoid unduly provoking the Islamist forces that threaten to overwhelm his government.

Musharraf targeted by gunman · Attack comes as siege of Red Mosque intensifies · Suicide bomber kills six soldiers in north-west

The artists formerly known as huge carbon footprints Marina Hyde: Al Gore's vital message has been compromised by the hypocrisy of the celebrities he has chosen to broadcast it through.

Leader The world won't listen Live Earth: Occasionally a noble attempt to galvanise action proves so ineffective that it only entrenches hopelessness. There is a risk that today's Live Earth could fall into that trap.

Only Pinter remains Terry Eagleton: British literature's long and rich tradition of politically engaged writers has come to an end.

A president transformed Terry Jones: It is so moving to see how a willing executioner can soften into a man of compassion - for cronies.

H7 Asia Times Iraq: A future perfectUnlikely though it may seem, an Iran-Saudi alliance to rebuild Iraq's oil sector following a US withdrawal could stabilize the region and allow political-religious concerns to dissipate. Then imagine a new, fully functional Iraq joining the community of nations. There is historical precedent.

Iraq, the new Israel While Bush fiddles, Baghdad continues to burn, fueled by divide-and-conquer tactics inspired by Israel's occupation of Palestine. - Comment by Pepe Escobar

How Syria helped win Johnston's release
Syria's involvement in the recent release of British journalist Alan Johnston is just the latest example of the positive role that Damascus can play in Palestine and the Middle East. The Syrians want to be seen as problem solvers and show the world that they can deliver in Palestine and even Iraq. Washington knows this, but is reluctant to admit it in public. - Sami Moubayed

Iran's moment of nuclear scrutiny
Officials from the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency travel to Iran next week in an attempt to resolve "all outstanding issues" regarding Iran's nuclear dossier. This is not likely, but at least the initiative, from Tehran's point of view, could make the US appear as the odd man out. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

NRO VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: We are in a collective Animal Farm “Virtual War”

Weekly Standard Of Senators and Soldiers The soldiers think they can win. Some Senators lose their nerve.
by William Kristol

Iraq Report V The Real Surge: Preparing for Operation Phantom Thunder. by Kimberly Kagan

The Elser Solution Rethinking the ban on assassinations.
by Gabriel Schoenfeld

New Republic Faith Based
by Irshad Manji For Muslim extremists, religion matters.

Washington Times Musharraf against the wall

National Interest Report and Retort: A World Without the West by Naazneen Barma, Ely Ratner and Steven Weber Developing countries are going their own way, and they're doing it without the West. Weber, Barma and Ratner strike first . Devin Stewart responds here .

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

Bloody Friday: 7 GIs, 73 Iraqis Killed

Analysis: Iraq's 'invisible' 4 million refugees

US Papers Sat: Iraq key to Dems' Prez Hopes

Iraqi Presidency Says "Moderate Front" Being Established Kuwaiti Report

MEMRI Jul 06 SD# 1648 - Possible Eruption of Violent Crisis in Lebanon After July 15

Daily Star Why terrorism instead of chocolates?
By Rami G. Khouri

Iran ends petrol-only car making
Iran is to stop making purely petrol-driven cars and move to dual-fuel vehicles, in a bid to reduce petrol subsidies.

US investigating Falluja claims The US Navy is examining "credible allegations" of wrongdoing by US marines in Falluja, Iraq, in 2004.

Mubarak Party Faces Fraud Allegations

Foreign Policy How is Iraq like Vietnam?

Iraqi Union Leaders Call for an End to the Occupation

Strategic briefing
Al-Qaeda number two calls for Islamic unity and violent upheaval

Sen. Graham returns from Iraq with renewed hopes

While some Republican senators break with President Bush over Iraq, Sen. Lindsey Graham has returned from his seventh wartime visit there with renewed hope that the U.S. troop buildup is producing results. » read more

10-foot-deep trench will protect Iraqi city of Karbala

Democracy Arsenal What we can learn from Israel's mistakes

H9 Ha’aretz - A Ring of Threats to Israel Emanating from Iran - Aluf Benn and Shmuel Rosner

Unintentional results What has changed in Lebanon and the greater Mideast since the Second Lebanon War?

Bradley Burston: Is terrorism on the way out?

The Jewish people in 2030: Thriving, drifting, defending or dismal?

Hamas: Qassams warned Israel over its aggression

Arab Parliament stages Hamas and Fatah reconciliation bid

Lebanese sources: Syria to evacuate citizens, close border

Death of a perfect spyDid the disclosure of Mossad informant Ashraf Marwan's identity lead to his death?

Rosner: Can there be consensus on the future of the Jewish people?

McClatchy Hamas Thrives as U.S. Moves Misfire - Warren P. Strobel and Dion Nissenbaum

LA Times Fatah on Shaky Ground in West Bank

Israel Planning Fence on Egypt Border

WSJ Near Gaza, Unrest in the Sinai - Cam Simpson

Jerusalem Post Column One: Don't worry, be happy!
[ CAROLINE GLICK,

Daily Alert.org – Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel - Palestine

Jul 06 IA# 368 - Antisemitic Cartoons in the Arab and Iranian Press

Boston Herald Time to Set Benchmarks for Abbas - Clifford D. May

Austria's Attitude Toward Israel: Following the European Mainstream - Interview with Anton Pelinka

Ousted Greek Orthodox patriarch blasts Greek gov't

Tony Karon Mark Perry: Why Europe Marches Meekly Behind Washington on Hamas

How the 1967 War Doomed Israel

H10 Christian Science Monitor

ASIA FT WORLD NEWS: Japan feels threat of China's military

WORLD NEWS: US concerns raised over China arms

LEX COLUMN: Chinese cars

WORLD NEWS: Shenzhen citizens urged to stop buying cars

2.5 million people in India living with HIV, according to new estimates

China bans anonymous posts in web crackdown

Chatroom users will be forced to register their real names after internet campaigners mobilised a protest march

A civilizational clash that breaks down in Indonesia
By Ali Noer Zaman

H11 IHT A fundamental truth By STANLEY A. WEISS Sarkozy's Mediterranean Union could be the world's last best hope for a long-troubled region.

Warming and your wallet An unpleasant and inescapable truth is that any serious effort to fight warming will require everyone to pay more for energy.

Only traditional Islam can do it By PHILLIP BLOND AND ADRIAN PABST The only force that can challenge Islamic terrorism is not liberal progressivism but Islam itself.

Doctors who kill By REGINA DWYER Doctors literally get used to death and suffering. If whey don't, they quit or go mad.

Hip marketing for EU, or just sexploitation?
By ALAN RIDING The European Union feels unloved. All too many Europeans consider its governing bureaucracy, the European Commission, to be meddlesome, stuffy and generally out of touch.

French police target former president and prime minister over smear campaign

EUROPE European press review

CEPS Lisbon II, Two Years on: An Assessment of the Partnership for Growth and Jobs

EU to give aid to help developing countries jump on biofuel bandwagon

Wave of Protectionism Gains Force
Wall Street Journal

Taxation trends in the European Union - Data for the EU Member States and Norway Direct to Full Text
454 pages; PDF.

Statistics: EU remains a major player in international travel in 2005

In France, a senior pol dares to question the 9/11 tale

PINR "Spain's Counter-Terrorism Policy Under Challenge by Al-Qaeda and E.T.A." Full text of report

H12 RFE/RL

Prospect Checkmate Gazprom
Derek BrowerAfter Russia cut supplies to Ukraine in 2006, the EU decided it needed to reduce its dependence on Russian gas. But since then, a series of shrewd moves by Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas monopoly, hasw left the EU's diversification strategy in tatters.

Google News Azerbaijan

“Baku will rise, but Yerevan will go down” – Armenian politician on possible Russian-US exploitation of Gabala radar station

Armenian Elections Move Forward with Help from U.S. Group

Rare Virus Threatens Georgian Livestock
BY MOLLY CORSO The Georgian government is scrambling to control the region’s first outbreak of African swine fever, a deadly DNA virus. While international organizations have praised the government’s overall response, the initial slow reaction has already caused thousands of small farmers to lose their entire pig population.

OxAn AZERBAIJAN: High oil prices allow regime consolidation

EDM RUSSIA WARNS OF MISSILE FORWARD-DEPLOYMENT IN KALININGRAD REGION

- UKRAINIAN DEFENSE MINISTER SLASHES EXPENSES WITH EYE TOWARD NATO

- ANGER AGAINST LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND FSB TERROR RISING IN INGUSHETIA

Asia Times For Putin, little but a lobster dinner Russia's President Vladimir Putin was determined to be flexible when he met US President George W Bush last weekend. But Bush was unyielding, and Putin won little of substance. On the US anti-missile shield to be deployed in Europe - the main bone of contention - Putin's ideas fell on deaf ears. He no doubt was fobbed off with an assurance of expanded dialogue - this while deployment of the shield proceeds apace. Thus, a tricky phase of US-Russia relations is about to begin. - M K Bhadrakumar

H13 The Times Evil plotters? More like crackpots The idea of using a Jeep to make a terminal explode was, in the latest lingo, a bit gay Matthew Parris

Unexpected profile of the modern terrorist We expect suicide bombers to be uneducated social outcasts who have been twisted by fanatics. The reality is very different

Leader The New Brown Change and continuity, style and substance

The Ratzinger Effect: more money and pilgrims Seven million people a year now visit St Peter’s, a rise of 20 per cent, while donations from around the world have doubled

Wall Street Journal Survivor
One of Iraq's most controversial politicians offers thoughts on the "surge," Iran and where we go from here.
By MELIK KAYLAN

Why the Trade Talks Collapsed
The U.S. and Europe have to give on agricultural subsidies before they can expect the rest of the world to liberalize further. By JAGDISH BHAGWATI and ARVIND PANAGARIYA

Peace Paradox
Could Iran's meddling help solve the Israeli-Arab conflict?
By SARAH KASS

We Need to Talk
Peggy Noonan explains why America can't afford to lose its common language.
By PEGGY NOONAN

H14 Financial Times Al-Qaeda linked to operations from Iran Used as base for attacks in Iraq

Al-Qaeda: FT series

Interactive map: Al-Qaeda since 1993

WORLD NEWS: US court rejects spying appeal

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: We have much to gain from the 'great Arab doctor' It is naive to think the profession contains people less likely to kill for a cause than those in others, writes Clive Cookson.

WORLD NEWS: Syria and Jordan need help with Iraqi refugee flood, says UN

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - NON-FICTION: Fall and rise After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire

Editorial Putin's piste Sochi is known as "the resort of three seasons" - spring, summer, and autumn. No wonder President Vladimir Putin is one of many influential Russians with holiday homes...

WORLD NEWS: Japan feels threat of China's military

WORLD NEWS: US concerns raised over China arms in Iraq

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Middle East and the Mamelukes

COMMENT: Healthcare as horror movie Most viewers of ‘Sicko’ will leave with less understanding of the US healthcare crisis than when they arrived, writes Christopher Caldwell

COMMENT: How to defeat the jihadis in something other than a war The use of force can be only one dimension. Hearts and minds are critical in the effort to counter terrorism, writes Philip Stephens

Man up, you doves Joel Stein

Sure, now everyone's against the war in Iraq. Next time we'll let the old folks do the deciding.

Shame on Bush -- and us

Rosa Brooks Ignoring the Constitution, lying, hypocrisy? Yes, but it didn't happen in a vacuum.

Editorial

H16 American Politics

Poll: Americans Evenly Divided On Impeachment Of Bush, Majority For Targeting Cheney

Senate to Be Stage for '08 Race Four Democratic senators vying for presidency all seek to have a hand in reshaping Iraq war bill.

New poll shows majority of Americans think Cheney should be impeached

US ready for black president: Poll

POLL CLAIMS: 45% SUPPORT BUSH IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS...

Ron Paul Tops McCain in Cash on Hand —

The end of John McCain?

Eric Alterman Jul 06 07, 06:15pm: Republican presidential candidate John McCain has been rejected by his party's base, and has nothing to show for it.

Immigration and reaction

Garance Franke-Ruta Jul 06 07, 09:00pm: Immigration divides Americans on several fronts: who to let in, who to throw out, and what to do with those already here.

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note – US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Where the evangelical must stay

Federal appeals court dismisses ACLU domestic spying lawsuit

H17 Daily Telegraph Why do I get Mr Nobody from Snodland?

People keep writing that it was our new PM who coined that rather chilling phrase "the nations and regions of Britain", which he uses constantly. Well, it wasn't: he just changed its meaning, explains Vicki Woods.

Where the roots of terrorism in the UK lie

Flying the flag is only the first step to victory Gordon Brown's order that all government buildings should fly the Union flag every day of the year shows how fast things are changing, observes Charles Moore.

Leader We must make Muslims loyal again British values reside, not in words, but in institutions. Respect those, Mr Brown, and there will be no need for flag-waving.

H18 Independent So, Al Gore, what's the one thing we can all do to tackle climate change?

The Live Earth organiser answers your questions, such as 'Isn't carbon offsetting complete nonsense?' and 'Should I buy mange touts from Kenya?'

Leading article: Live Earth's global roar must be heard above the music

French leader foists vision of 'Sarkonomics' on wary EU

Iraqi is first man to be charged over terror attacks

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Middle East Times Commentary: The death of RMA

FRANCE : The 10 commandments of Competitive Intelligence

Understanding & Disrupting Terrorist Financing: Types of Terrorist Groups

Unexpected profile of the modern terrorist We expect suicide bombers to be uneducated social outcasts who have been twisted by fanatics. The reality is very different

Bomb plots ‘carried out with bin Laden’s blessing’

Top foreign intelligence source tells The Times: 'It was an established fact from Day 1 that al-Qaeda was behind this'

2 UK terror suspects had eyes on U.S.

CNAS A Phased Transition Plan for Iraq James Miller and Shawn Brimley

The Inheritance and the Way Forward Kurt Campbell and Michèle Flournoy

Shaping U.S. Ground Forces Michèle Flournoy and Tammy Schultz

Preparing for Bioterrorism Richard Danzig

An Army Advisor Corps John Nagl

Military Advisory & Assistance Groups Robert Killebrew

Jihadists On Defense — On July 4, Zawahiri released a new video tape. The production values are pretty good, and Zawahiri is intercut with other footage, including television clips. What is striking about Zawahiri's message, however, is how defensive it is. And what Zawahiri is defensive about, is events in Iraq.

Security Fears Restrict US Diplomats

National Security Council
The New Nation - Bangladesh

H20 Slate

Clinton vs. Bush:

Was it smart for Bill Clinton to pick a fight with the White House over Scooter Libby?

John Dickerson

Hard Work, Nobility, and Sacrifice:

Three irritating justifications for commuting Libby's sentence.

John Dickerson

Microentrepreneurship and the Business Cycle: Is Self-Employment a Desired Outcome? Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Full Paper (PDF; 837 KB)

Salon: Why has world opinion of the U.S. changed dramatically since 2000?

H21 In praise of... the Tour de France When the greatest two-wheeled race on Earth spins into Britain today, it will not be for the first time.

How We Get Addicted (The Well / Behavior)
Humans have a habit of getting hooked on harmful things. New research reveals why, and opens the door to a cure

Blair 'held secret talks with Diana'

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - LUNCH WITH THE FT: Tina Brown - The princess diarist After being the queen bee on both sides of the Atlantic, the editor of Tatler and The New Yorker writes about another kind of royalty

Robert Fisk: The forgotten art of handwriting

FT A transparent life The past decade has brought a quiet revolution in social interaction caused by new technology. Mobile phones, e-mail and Google have combined to make us - and...

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