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H1 Stratfor Endgame: American Options in Iraq If the goal of creating a stable, pro-American Iraq no longer is possible, then what is the US national interest?

Iraq Weapons Are a Focus of Criminal Investigations An investigation into the purchasing and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons has already led to several indictments of Americans, with more expected.

A Defender of Bush’s Power, Gonzales Resigns The embattled attorney general offered no clear explanation of the reasons for his departure or its timing.

Christian Science Monitor

As British leave Basra, militias dig in An Iraqi official says a deal was struck with the Mahdi Army to ensure a safe departure.

Jerusalem Post Israel worries Iran may give Russian anti-ship missile to Syria, Hizbullah
Exclusive: Supersonic weapon uses jam-resistant radar to home in on target; defense official: "This is certainly a threat to the Navy."

Ha’aretz Israel's Lieberman: 'Military Option' Not Suitable for Dealing With Iran

Guardian A question of confidence

Dominique Moisi The US has far too much of it; Egypt has too little. How can a country acquire just the right amount of self-confidence?

How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves George Monbiot: A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the economic debate, and now we are dealing with the catastrophic effects.

Leader Fighting Mediterranean flames In Greece, the obsession with the possibility of arson and the readiness to blame politicians suggests that people are still shying away from that fact that the way they collectively want to live has a great deal to do with the problem.

From Iran to US, Sarkozy speech signals French diplomatic shift

Kevin Drum A Surge Report Card

DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive: New Arabian Oil Pipeline Network Will Detour Hormuz

If Iraq Falls By: Josef Joffe | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) "Gulliver Unbound" may have stumbled. But the world with a hobbled United States is scary to contemplate.

Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer New Yorker by David Remnick

Washington Realist A First Look at Mearsheimer/Walt

Khalilzad: Mideast Turmoil Could Cause World

Foreign Policy The List: The Iraq Turning Points That Weren’t

Financial Times Sarkozy in drive to give EU global role France will press for a bolder European Union security strategy when it assumes the rotating presidency next year

Editorial COMMENT: Not Strauss-Kahn Emerging countries no longer see why Europeans should determine who might dictate to them in a crisis, as if their empires still existed

Asia Times Playing politics with (and in) Iraq US politicians, including President George W Bush and Senator Hillary Clinton, are giving Nuri al-Maliki a hard time, pointing out what for many is already obvious - the Iraqi premier is simply not up to the job of stabilizing Iraq. Maliki has hit back sharply at his American critics, while on the domestic front he is trying to score points with disenchanted Sunnis over the death of former president Abdul-Rahman Aref. Meanwhile, record numbers of Iraqis are dying. - Sami Moubayed

Has Bush Boxed Himself In?
by Patrick Buchanan

Al-Qaeda Guards Almost Shot bin Laden to Prevent Capture

Why did Gonzales resign?
Salon By Sidney Blumenthal

Slate Which Iraq War Do You Want To End? We're fighting at least three of them. Christopher Hitchens

FPIF The Dangers of Scolding an Embattled Arab Leader

Ha’aretz Rosner's Mailbox: "No right-winger gives a damn about Walt-Mearsheimer"

Blog & poll: How dangerous is the W/M book?

H2 NYT Candidate Once Doomed as Islamist Is Ascendant

The Times Military fires warning shot before president is chosen

Independent Turkish army warns of 'centres of evil' over Gul

Sarkozy offers a proposal on EU-Turkey talks

Sarkozy Says He's Willing to Back Turkey-EU Talks (Update1) Bloomberg

Washington Times As Turkey's world turns (By Tulin Daloglu)

RFE/RL Turkey: Ankara Seeks Role As East-West 'Energy Bridge'

AP Armed forces issue warning on eve of Turkish presidential vote

Turkey Military: Secularism Under Attack

BBC Turkish army issues new warning Turkey's army chief warns that the nation's secular system is being threatened by "centres of evil".

Reuters Secular Turkey is under threat, military says

Daily Telegraph Warning by Turkish forces on eve of vote

Turkey's Gul Stirs Hope Among Devout Muslims

Fırtınanın gözündeki lady

Türk İslamcıları eleştirmek Batı'ya düşmez MUSİB NAİMİ

Türk kadını Araplara örnek RAKİN EL MECALİ

Bush'un Gül'ü kucaklaması gerek Jackson Diehl/The Washington Post

Türk siyasi kültürü muazzam bir değişim geçiriyor Owen Matthews

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Iran's Kurdish PJAK Denies Being Offshoot of Turkey's PKK Rebels

Osman: 'Petraus-Crocker raporunun Kerkûk referandumunun ertelenmesini talep etme riski var'

İlnur Çevik Gul’s presidency may be good for the Kurds

Maliki Kerkük sözünden dönmek zorunda kalacak ABDUZZEHRA ERREKABİ

Hüsnü Mahalli İran, Türkiye olacak (mı)?

HAKAN ALBAYRAK Büyük bir imkân olarak DTP (2)

DTP’s history chance on bridge between hell and paradiseby M.NACİ BOSTANCI*

Öcalan - Tikko - Asala bağlantısı

DTP'de eğilim 'Gül'e evet'

DTP'li Tuncel: Başörtüsü Müslüman'ın en doğal hakkı

Hakkari'de, PKK'ya karşı hava destekli operasyon

Cudi ve Gabar'da operasyona devam

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 27 Aug 07

Barzani: Maliki hükümetinin alternatifi yok

TSK 2. Ordu Komutanı Orgeneral Iğsız, DTP‘ yi açık hedef gösterdi

Iraqi Kurdish Citizens Protest Against Iranian Shelling, Urge UN Stance

Authorities in Russia's Adygeya Discuss Problem of Kurdish Migrants

[Yorum - Alev Alatlı] 'ADL'nin derdi ne? - 2

Günümüzde 'uluslararası ilişkiler' Murat Belge -

İsrail'e açık mesaj: ABD'deki Yahudileri hizaya getirin

Yahudi kuruluşu ADL, yine çark etti

'ADL'yi ikna etmenin İsrail'in elinde olduğunu biliyoruz'

Violence stalks Iraq's minorities
The recent massive suicide attacks in northern Iraq on the Yazidi minority, most of them ethnic Kurds, shows that people with "pro-Kurdish tendencies", especially those without protective patrons, are increasingly vulnerable to being targeted

Fas'ta AKP'nin adaşı önde

ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ - Kardeşim Mescid-i Aksa'ya niye gelemiyor?

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Türkiye'ye muhalefetini sulandırdı

Sarkozy won’t oppose resumption of EU talks with Turkey

Sarkozy'nin Türkiye dansı

Fransa Cumhurbaşkanı Sarkozy’nin Büyükelçiler Konferansı vesilesiyle yaptığı konuşma

Sarkozy’den Ankara’ya yeşil ışık

Talat: 'The world understands us'

Turkish Cypriots haunted by pessimism

A deafening Turkish silence as Greece burns

Türkiye'den Yunanistan'a yangın desteği

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Turkish-Armenian formal dialogue may ease pressure on Turkey

Armenian Leader Off to Greece on Private Visit

Der Spiegel THE GREEK INFERNO

'Left at the Mercy of God'

400 yıllık soyağacımız Selçuklulara dayanıyor

Sezer'in yaptığı müthiş operasyon

Necip Fazıl, Nazım Hikmet Dostoyevski ve Balzac okurduk

Köşk seçimi için iptal davası açıldı

Metehan Demir'in işine son verildi

İtirafçılığın eski tadı yok! Enflasyonu var zira Perihan Mağden

Türbanlı kadın cipe biner mi ?

7. Camide düğün olur mu?

Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu’nun Garih sırrı

Gülefer Hanım'ın kuşkusu...

8. Yasaklı olduğu Köşk’e ‘first lady’ olarak çıkıyor

Taha AKYOL Şakir Süter'in ardından

Şakir Süter 1950-2007

Mehveş Evin Bana sürtük deme

Milletvekillerinin cebine casus mu girecek?

28 Ağustos 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Genelkurmay Başkanı Orgeneral Yaşar BÜYÜKANIT'ın 30 Ağustos Zafer Bayramı Mesajı

Fransa Cumhurbaşkanı Sarkozy’nin Büyükelçiler Konferansı vesilesiyle yaptığı konuşma

Vatandaş tarafsız cumhurbaşkanı istiyor Tarhan Erdem

Org. Büyükanıt: Sinsi planlar var

Org. Büyükanıt neden 3 gün önce yayınladı

Bildiri gibi mesaj

Çankaya’da Gül dönemi başlıyor

Sarkozy’den Ankara’ya yeşil ışık

Röportaj Cihan Paçacı Pozitif muhalefet yapacağız

Cengiz Çandar Bugün askeri bir darbe olur mu?

AK Parti 'sivil anayasa' için yol haritasını belirledi

Ertuğrul Özkök Bu anayasa sivil mi oluyor

Berat Özipek Anayasa yapımında İspanya örneği

Başkomutana tırpan!

Yeni anayasa, yeni yılda sunulacak

Yüce Divan'a düzenleme

Fırat: Anayasa'da türban olmayacak

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Yanlış zamanın Cumhurbaşkanı

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ

Ahmet Necdet Sezer ve Abdullah Gül Hasan Celal Güzel

M Ali Birand Bu gün yeni bir dönem başlıyor

Ekrem Dumanlı Ne zafer, ne hezimet

Cüneyt Ülsever Değişmeyen Türkiye

Enis Berberoğlu Çankaya değiştirir (2)

Sezer veda ederken İsmet Berkan

Güle güle Sezer Murat Yetkin

Fikret BİLA Sezer'i uğurlarken

Hüsnü Mahalli İran, Türkiye olacak (mı)?

Serdar Turgut Nasıl bir model bu?

Nuray Başaran Hayrünisa Gül’e Olcay Baykal formülü

Ahmet Taşgetiren Kadın ve siyaset: derinden akan sorun

Ali Bayramoğlu Yeni ve ışıklı bir sayfa açılıyor…

Hasan CEMAL Demokrasi içinde çare tükenmez!

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU

Çankaya'da bir “adam”…

Mehmet BARLAS Orada bir köy yok uzakta… O köy artık kente ve iktidara geldi

İlnur Çevik Gul’s presidency may be good for the Kurds

Cengiz Aktar Uyuşmazlık demokrasinin iki temel zemininden biridir

Bilal Çetin Yeni dönem yeni hassasiyetler

Kapkaç yüzde 65 oranında azaldı

Okullar için acı rapor!

İstanbul'da 2 bin okulun depreme karşı elden geçirilmesi gerekiyor. Kamu binalarını güçlendirme çalışmaları için 2 milyar dolara ihtiyaç var

Tarihçiler: Halaçoğlu ırkçı

Madem terörün kaynağı Ermeni dönmeleri açıkla

LEYLA İPEKÇİ - Dönme diye fişlenenleri hain ilan etmek

Güler Kömürcü Gül başlamadan mahkemelik

Kimsiniz Bay Jak? TÜRKÜM bitti o kadar

Çankaya seçimi davalık

MHP, 'İzmir hatası'nda ısrarlı MHP İzmir İl Başkanı Müsavat Dervişoğlu'nun "AKP'ye oy kaydırıldı" iddiası YSK Başkanı Muammer Aydın'ın açıklamalarıyla farklı bir boyut kazandı. Aydın, "Maddi hatalar olmuş olabilir.

YSK: İzmir'deki sandıklarda sorun yok

Gül boosts expectations from the presidency

Sebahattin Önkibar Gül'den Erdoğan'a: "Adaylığımı onaylamazsanız politikayı bırakırım"

A critique of a fellow columnist
Mustafa AKYOL

Sezer ile yedi yıl

Derya Sazak ve Mustafa Karaalioğlu yorumladı

İttifakla geldi, tartışmalarla gidiyor

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Yeni cumhurbaşkanının iş dünyasıyla ilişkileri nasıl olacak?

Mehmet Tezkan Bizim mahallenin yeni havası..

MHP: Demokrasinin önünü açtık, gururluyuz

[Yorum - Herkül Millas] Vatandaş-matandaş ve Anayasa

DSP, AKP ile temasta DSP Genel Sekreteri Masum Türker, Anayasa değişikliği üzerinde çalışan AKP ile temasa geçtiklerini ve kendilerine de gönderilmesi halinde taslağı incelemek istediklerini bildirdi. Milliyet'e konu...

DSP Gül'ün meşruiyet sorunu yok, başörtüsü gündemden çıkmalı

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 Tek tek değil, topluca gelin

Fehmi Koru Şimdi bana yeniden ister misin deseler…

Ahmet Hakan

Oktay Ekşi

ŞAHİN ALPAY - Sezer'in cumhurbaşkanı seçilmesini desteklemiştim

Öteki Sezer, özgürlükçü Sezer

MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - Tarihî dönemeç

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Sezer'i uğurlarken...

ERDAL ŞAFAK

ERGUN BABAHAN Çankaya'da Gül dönemi

EMRE AKÖZ Çok şükür geçti

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Gül'ün cumhurbaşkanlığı...

NAZLI ILICAK Çankaya burcuna başörtü bayrağı!!!

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Güle güle Şakir Ağabey!

YAVUZ DONAT

TAMER KORKMAZ - Sezer: Bir 'proje' idi; geldi geçti...

Mahir Kaynak Biz kimiz?

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Erdoğan bu muhtıradan haberdar mı?

Andrew Finkel Belly scratching vs. rib tickling

Sessiz kalmak sahip çıkmaktır Nuray Mert

Suat Kınıklıoğlu Understanding each other…

CHP artık Alevilerin partisi değil

Mehmet Altan Sezer’den Sezer’e...

Dikenli yolları aştı Gül, Köşk'e çıkıyor

YUSUF KAPLAN Türkiye rotasını bulursa yeni bir dünya kurulur

Can Ataklı Hani ‘Cumhuriyet’e bir şey olmaz’ diyorlar ya işte Cumhuriyet’in çöküşü böyle gerçekleşiyor

Setfettin Gürsel İşsizlikte alarm

Volkan Akı Türkiye’nin bir rekabet haritasına ihtiyacı var

Güven Sak Kriz onların olabilir ama derdi hâlâ bizim

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Merkez Bankası küresel şoka karşı ne istiyor?

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Yeni cumhurbaşkanının iş dünyasıyla ilişkileri nasıl olacak?

Güngör URAS Ayşe Hanım Teyzem: Borsa batmış yabancılar kaçmamış

Asaf Savaş Akat Likidite üstüne

Haluk Bürümcekçi Finans kesiminden beklenmedik direnç

Baturalp Candemir Global kriz ve bizim döviz hesapları

Kötümserler ve iyimserler
Mahfi Eğilmez

Yaman TÖRÜNER Bulutay ve ekonomide yaşananlar (2)

"Eşit işe eşit ücret" benimsendi

Editorial What Looks and Sounds Like a Bailout? Even if the Federal Reserve succeeds in managing the credit crisis, its actions stir questions about the sustainability of the debt-fueled state of the American economy.

DAVID BROOKS The Wise Men, Redux Anti-establishment sentiment once had merit, but it has reached the point of absurdity, and Alberto Gonzales represented many of its failings.

H5 Washington Post Embattled Gonzales Resigns Attorney General Was Criticized for Terrorism Policy, Prosecutor Firings

Analysis In the End, Realities Trumped Loyalty Attorney general's resignation shows damage that can be done when loyalty becomes paramount in presidential decision-making.

Congress's Ill-Timed Iran Bills By Danielle Pletka

It would be a cruel irony if, just as European governments finally begin doing the right thing, Congress deepens the Atlantic rift

Take Some Cues From the Cold War, Mr. President by Philip Gordon

Afghan Opium Trade Hits New Peak

U.N. Report Describes a Scale of Narcotics Production Not Seen in Two Centuries

Russia Arrests 10 in Slaying of Outspoken Journalist Members of Police, Security Services Are Held

Sporadic Raids South Of Baghdad Yield Little

After Tour of Duty in Iraq, Graham Backs 'Surge'

Senator Cautions Against Withdrawal Of Troops This Year

Lugar, Nunn Push Arms Security Program

In Darfur, From Genocide to Anarchy By Alex de Waal and Julie Flint, In Darfur today, knowing who is on which side is not straightforward.

Editorial An Unlamented Exit From the start, Alberto Gonzales was the wrong man for the job.

Bush Loyalist Helped Shape Signature Anti-Terror Policies

Bush's Immovable Man Moves On By Ruth Marcus, It was hardly a vast left-wing conspiracy that did in the attorney general.

A New Agenda for Justice By Jamie S. Gorelick

Here are 10 priorities that would help the next attorney general guide the department back on course.

Calling Ed Levi By E. J. Dionne Jr., The resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is only the beginning of accountability, not the end of it.

H6 Guardian A question of confidence Dominique Moisi The US has far too much of it; Egypt has too little. How can a country acquire just the right amount of self-confidence?

How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves George Monbiot: A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the economic debate, and now we are dealing with the catastrophic effects.

Leader Fighting Mediterranean flames In Greece, the obsession with the possibility of arson and the readiness to blame politicians suggests that people are still shying away from that fact that the way they collectively want to live has a great deal to do with the problem.

From Iran to US, Sarkozy speech signals French diplomatic shift

The partition of Iraq and lessons to be learned from 1947

Brown dismisses pressure to quit Iraq

Prime minister says early timetable for withdrawal would threaten safety of troops on the ground.

Blow to Bush as Gonzales resigns

Attorney general bows to pressure after months of Congressional pressure over series of scandals.

Michael Tomasky: Sinking ship leaves rat Alberto Gonzales lived up to his nickname of Fredo - the sycophantic Mafia sidekick, always trying to please the Don.

Profile: Poor boy who rewrote the American dream

News blog: Reaction in the US

Afghan opium surge horrifies UN

Despite 7,000 UK troops, Taliban-backed production in Helmand up 48%.

How anti-corruption chief once sold heroin in Vegas

Despite public anger, the army still see Afghanistan as a cause worth dying for Max Hastings: Unlike Iraq, the battle against the Taliban carries a flicker of a hope of success, even if it is a misguided one.

City bonuses hit record high with £14bn payout

Executives fuel spiralling demand for luxury goods amid growing inequality.

Leader: The rich and the rest

Poll: more prisons not the answer

Majority of voters think government should find other ways to punish criminals, according to ICM poll.

India and China urged to cut emissions

Developing nations call for large industrial countries to do more to tackle global warming.

Why did Bush do it?

Eric Alterman

The White House stuck with Alberto Gonzales long after his incompetence was exposed and he became a political liability

H7

Daily Star Editorial Sarkozy needs to lay the groundwork to achieve his goals in the Middle East

Morgan Stanley Global
The 2007 Financial Crisis: Inflationary or deflationary?

China ‘Non-linear’ Impact And China-US Decoupling

Boston Globe Editorial Maliki's retort EVEN IF Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki received encouragement from the Bush administration to excoriate Democratic senators Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin for saying he should be replaced, his complaint against American politicians' "ugly interference" in Iraqi affairs was not entirely unjustified.

Lesson from Vietnam: It's time to cut our losses (By H.D.S. Greenway)

The Iranian Threat By: Tom McInerney and Fred Gedrich | The Washington Times Simply waving a diplomatic wand in front of Iran won't make the problems it is causing in Iraq and elsewhere disappear.

Enemy of my enemy (By Struan Stevenson) People's Mujahedeen of Iran

Through the NIE lens

Jim Saxton

Iraq's last best hope? (Ivan Eland)

Divest Iran Michael Barone

What Pakistan Needs to Become a Truly Democratic State By: Rehan Rafay Jamil | The Daily Star
With Pakistan having recently celebrated 60 years of independence, the country finds itself embroiled in yet another seemingly intractable political crisis.

NPQ Benazir Bhutto: WHEN I RETURN TO POWER, I WILL CRACK DOWN ON AL-QAIDA IN PAKISTAN'S TRIBAL AREAS AND END POLICY OF 'STRATEGIC DEPTH' IN AFGHANISTAN

Resurgent Gadhafi Flexing His Muscle By: Bay Feng | The Chicago Tribune The Leader conducts business in a huge Bedouin tent covered with rugs inside a compound where camels roam free. This is where he receives rebel leaders who make individual pilgrimages to the tent in suburban Tripoli, Libya, and often leave with a Samsonite bag filled with cash.

Egypt's Choice By: Nir Boms and Michael Meunier | The Washington Times Egyptian Christians can easily change their religious status to Muslim, which provides incentives ranging from employment and marriage options to custody of their children in divorce cases. Muslims, however, are not permitted to leave their religion for any other faith.

From American Diplomacy, After Iraq: Why conceding defeat would be good for American foreign policy

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

McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Iraqi insurgents taking cut of U.S. rebuilding money

Bush hails Iraq's political deal

The US president welcomes a deal between Iraq's Shia, Sunni and Kurdish leaders aimed at forging unity.

Iraq Press Roundup

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Iranian Press 27 Aug 07

Hezbollah, Syrian Acquisition of Iranian Weapons Likely - UK Arabic Paper

Voting Ends in Syrian Local Council Elections; Minister Comments

Iraqi mosque bombing kills nine

Iran 'resolves' plutonium issue
Iran has resolved questions from the UN's nuclear watchdog about its plutonium experiments, Tehran says.

Iran Resolves Plutonium Issues Under Atom Pact: IAEA

Iran: Environment Takes A Back Seat To Development Plans

Saudi Daily Blames Syria for Assassinations

BBC Drugs tactics
British policy under pressure in war against Afghan opium

Al hayat "Post" Sectarianism? Hazem Saghieh There are some indications that Lebanon may have reached a stage of “post sectarianism”.

Daily Star UNIFIL must break out of its confinement
By Timur Goksel

Conditions deteriorating for tens of thousands of Iraqi children, UN reports Source: UN Children’s Fund (via UN Pulse)

Losing On Democracy Promotion in the Middle East, an American Foreign Policy Challenge

USIP Event: Friends Indeed? The United Nations, Groups of Friends, and the Resolution of Conflict

H9 Ha’aretz – Abbas: Summit pointless if only about 'principles' PA chair implies final-status talks essential at Mideast summit in place of Israeli 'declaration of principles.

Rosner's Mailbox: "No right-winger gives a damn about Walt-Mearsheimer"

Blog & poll: How dangerous is the W/M book?

Who's in charge in the West Bank?

Barak: Hezbollah has 20,000 rockets, more than before war

Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer New Yorker by David Remnick

Sarkozy affirms alliance to Israel

Israel is no burden Ynetnews

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Israel's Hebrew Press 27 Aug 07

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

Jerusalem Post Israel worries Iran may give Russian anti-ship missile to Syria, Hizbullah
Exclusive: Supersonic weapon uses jam-resistant radar to home in on target; defense official: "This is certainly a threat to the Navy."

Hard-hitting critique or deadly lies?
The incendiary debate over the American-Israel relationship.

Our World: ElBaradei's nuclear policy [ CAROLINE GLICK

View from America: CNN's false symmetry By JONATHAN TOBIN
'God's Holy Warriors' asks viewers to pretend Christian, Jewish and Muslim extremists are connected

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Change Iranian leadership' Lieberman says economic sanctions most effective way to deal with rogue Islamic republic

Washington Institute Hamas's Military Capabilities after the Gaza Takeover

H10 Christian Science Monitor

As British leave Basra, militias dig in

An Iraqi official says a deal was struck with the Mahdi Army to ensure a safe departure.

In Lebanon, soldiers win new respect Nearly 150 Lebanese soldiers have died recently in clashes with Al Qaeda-linked militants, but growing public support has lifted the Army's morale.

Attorney General Gonzales exits

Farewell: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave his resignation on Monday and leaves his position Sept. 17.

US suspends vast ADVISE data-sifting system The pilot programs ignored privacy safeguards, says a recent Homeland Security report.

With Pentagon move, a shift in security-privacy balance?

The end of its TALON database on antiwar activists may signal more emphasis on civil liberties.

Hindu-Muslim ties in spotlight in wake of Hyderabad bombings

The city, a center of India's information technology, is a high-profile target.

ASIA

Alliance Can't Hide Its Anti-China Intent By: Gwynne Dyer | The Japan Times Shinzo Abe's visit to India last week is part of a U.S.-initiated push to forge a regional alliance that threatens to set off a new Cold War in Asia.

China Accused of Hacking Into Heart of Merkel Administration By: Roger Boyes | The London Times
China has hacked into the computers of Angela Merkel’s Chancellery and three other German ministries in an extraordinary economic espionage operation that threatens to blight the German leader’s already delicate trip to Beijing this week.

CSM At China's huge malls, high prices and few shoppers

Empty malls are one indicator of the country's overheating economy.

Der Spiegel Carmakers Threaten to Sue over Chinese 'Copies'

Carmakers BMW and DaimlerChrysler are considering suing Chinese rivals to stop them presenting new models at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. The Chinese cars bear a striking resemblance to German designs.

FT WORLD NEWS: Small businesses from China follow in the footsteps of giants

WORLD NEWS: OECD sees obstacles to China's high-tech drive

WORLD NEWS: China overtakes India in drug testing

Malaysia's Axis Mysteriously Shifting By: Ioannis Gatsiounis | Asia Times
On the surface, relations between Washington and Kuala Lumpur are unruffled. But only barely beneath lie a slew of scandals, crimes and international intrigue that raise doubts in Washington, as well as Britain.

India's Nuclear Summer By: P.R. Kumaraswamy | ISN Security Watch
India's woeful mishandling of negotiations over the 123 Agreement leave some to wonder about the government's ability to manage itself on the international stage.

H11 IHT Iran risks attack over atomic push, Sarkozy says The fact that he raised the specter of the use of force is likely to be perceived by Iran as a warning.

U.S. and Romania begin 3-month joint training exercise It is a significant step toward the first long-term U.S. military presence on territory of the former Communist bloc.

A political crisis brews in Greece as fires rage The Greek government, heading for elections next month, is facing a crisis over its handling of deadly forest fires.

EUROPE European press review

Commentary Says Choice Between UN Kosovo Plan or Pan-Albanian State

BBC Greek MPs row over fire response

Opposition MPs in Greece attack the government response to forest fires which have claimed at least 63 lives.

EU mulls 'natural disaster' force

Inside the mind of the fire starter

Walker's World: Sarkozy unveiled

Der Spiegel SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH GERMAN FAMILY MINISTER URSULA VON DER LEYEN 'A Dangerous Breeding Ground for Right- Wing Extremism' The vicious attack on eight Indians in the eastern German town of Mügeln has turned the spotlight on Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen, whose remit includes fighting right-wing extremism. SPIEGEL spoke to the minister about her efforts to combat extremism and build civil society structures in the former East Germany.

OpenDemocracy Greek Tragedy,

H12 RFE/RL UN Report Shows Afghan Opium Production At Record Level

Russian Officers Among Suspects In Politkovskaya Slaying

Bank Investment Booming in Armenia BY HAROUTIUN KHACHATRIAN
Fueled by high economic growth rates, Armenia’s banking sector is rapidly expanding, with several new, large-scale multi-million dollar foreign investments expected in the coming months.

Google News Azerbaijan

Russian Plane Dispute Takes New Twist By: David Holley | Los Angeles Times
The only thing that's clear in the latest spat between Russia and Georgia, a former Soviet republic that aspires to join NATO, is that things are murky indeed. And someone is probably lying.

China's threat to Russia Andrei Piontkovsky Vladimir Putin is worrying too much about relations with the west; he should watch his back in the east.

Geopolitical Diary: The Curious Politkovskaya Case Stratfor

Kashagan Faces Russia-Style Squeeze By: Miriam Elder | The Moscow Times
Kazakhstan appears to be taking a page from Russia's rulebook on energy nationalism, threatening to withdraw the license of an international consortium led by Italy's Eni as it seeks a larger slice of profits from the giant Kashagan oil field.

Kazakhstan suspended a Western consortium's permit for the world's largest oil-development project. The issue shows the increasingly hostile environment energy companies face in pursuit of crude.

H13 The Times Sarkozy talks of bombing if Iran gets nuclear arms

The French leader raised the possibility that the country could be bombed if it persisted in building an atomic weapon

Leader Beyond Basra Britain cannot be seen to ‘fail’ in southern Iraq

Troops, keep your fingers crossed

Little in Basra suggests it is ready to be handed over to Iraqi forces. Iraqi government control is weak

Anthony Loyd

Pandemonium of a forest fire

A fiscal dimension to the Greek forest fires is that land that materially changes can be open to new discussion of ownership

Jonathan Rendall

Army chief predicts a 'generation of conflict' General Dannat has revealed his thoughts about the UK Army's future and the 'deadly Great Game' they face in Afghanistan

Another Bush ally bites the dust Alberto Gonzales, the embattled US Attorney-General and close friend of Bush, quit abruptly after months of controversy

Republicans will heave a sigh of relief The big surprise behind the Alberto Gonzales resignation is that it appears entirely voluntary

Gerard Baker

Chechen ‘hitmen’ and FSB agents held Ten people, five of whom were officers of the FSB, are arrested for the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya

Wall Street Journal After AG Piñata
Two priorities: Presidential power and the war on terror.

WSJ Lame-Duck President Has Fewer Tools

Gonzales's resignation closes a particularly messy phase of Bush's second term, but raises the prospect that a new one is opening: the lame-duck phase.

Can the Financial Markets Make a Comeback? Liquidity will return and securitization will emerge stronger than before -- but not until we make changes.
By ETHAN PENNER

Olympic Torching Greece pays for its lack of emergency preparedness.
By COSTAS SYNOLAKIS

If Iraq Falls By: Josef Joffe | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
"Gulliver Unbound" may have stumbled. But the world with a hobbled United States is scary to contemplate.

H14 Financial Times Sarkozy in drive to give EU global role France will press for a bolder European Union security strategy when it assumes the rotating presidency next year

Editorial COMMENT: Not Strauss-Kahn Emerging countries no longer see why Europeans should determine who might dictate to them in a crisis, as if their empires still existed

WORLD NEWS: Iran's reformists hope to stem shift to right

COMMENT: The Republicans' jockeying on terrorism is terrifying White House hopefuls’ blood and guts rhetoric on security makes the Bush administration sound subtle, writes Edward Luce

Editorial LEADER: EU referendum calls are misguided Those calling for a referendum claim they are acting on principle. But their ultimate goal is either withdrawal or a do-nothing Union. Neither serves the national interest

ANALYSIS: Globalisation's exiles keep the home fires burning In many countries, more money comes from remittances than aid, investment or exports

COMMENT: 'How I did it' books give me a sinking feeling Being good at something and being good at teaching others to do it are completely different, says John Kay

WORLD NEWS: Nato commander warns on rapid response force

NATIONAL NEWS: Brown dispels Iraq pull-out rumours

WORLD NEWS: Sunni leaders to continue Iraqboycott

Iraq's Sunni dash hopes of breakthrough

WORLD NEWS: Foreign student numbers rise in US

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Exeunt private equity's prima donnas

WEALTH: Fannie and Freddie to the rescue? Don't bet on it

ECB keeps world guessing on rates

Trichet keeps options open for September

Kazakhs halt work at Kashagan field

Claims Eni broke environmental rules

WORLD NEWS: Seven charged over Greek blazes

WORLD NEWS: Democrat victory as second Bush ally steps down

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Russia is taking a principled position over leadership of multilateral bodies

H15 Los Angeles Times Afghanistan: A fight we can win

Editorial: Iraq may be hopeless, but Afghanistan is worth defending. Here's why and how.

Which way from sub-prime?

By Lawrence H. Summers Charting a course out of the latest economic disruption.

H16 American Politics

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

After long controversy, Attorney General Gonzales resigns With the resignation Monday of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Bush administration faces its most daunting task: repairing the reputation of a Justice Department reeling from the controversy over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year. After months of damaging disclosures about his competency and congressional scrutiny of his leadership, Gonzales announced that he'd be leaving Sept. 17 but offered little explanation for the timing.

Poll: Young voters disenchanted with Republican party

H17 Daily Telegraph Allied rivalry isn't new The Army needs many more men, without them we will have no strategic choices, and no chance of defeating global insurgency, writes Allan Mallinson.

Labour MPs demand EU referendum

Gordon Brown is facing a party split after it became clear that more than 120 Labour MPs, including several senior ministers, want a referendum on the new EU treaty.

Ten arrests over journalist murder

Berezovsky behind Anna Politkovskaya's murder, hints Russia

Greek fires blamed on 'culture of arson' Prosecutors want to use powers of investigation usually reserved for terrorism cases to track down the arsonists.

Sarkozy warns of nuclear disaster

No action could lead to Iranian bomb, says French PM.

Brown: No Iraq pull-out timetable

Gordon Brown firmly rejected calls to set a "pre-determined exit timetable" for British troops to leave Iraq last night, insisting they would stay as long as necessary.

Allan Mallinson: Allied rivalry is nothing new

H18 Independent Record opium crop helps the Taliban fund its resistance Britain faces a war on two fronts in Afghanistan, following the revelation that the province where British troops are deployed has become the biggest source of illicit drugs in the world.

The teenagers heading for the front line in Afghanistan

Russia suggests Berezovsky was behind journalist's killing

Russian prosecutors have announced a breakthrough in the hunt for the killers of Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading journalist and prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, who was murdered last year.

Attorney General becomes the latest Bush ally to quit

Leading Article: Another nail in the coffin of a moribund presidency

Leading Article: The world is warming before our eyes

Musharraf envoys in London for Bhutto deal

• Mass pilgrimage adds to pressure on beleaguered Maliki

Greece invokes terror laws in hunt for arsonists

'They did everything they could to save Olympia. They chose a monument above human life'

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

SecrecyNews The FBI as an Intelligence Organization

Domestic Use of Spy Satellites Questioned

Army JAG Issues Operational Law Handbook

Outsourcing Intelligence By: James Carroll | The Boston Globe
A signal that the Bush administration is destroying something essential to our democracy was sounded last week when The Washington Post reported that the Defense Intelligence Agency is transferring "core intelligence tasks of analysis and collection" to private contractors -- up to a billion dollars worth.

The United Nations 2005 Disarmament Yearbook
Source: UN Department of Disarmament Affairs (via UN Pulse)

H20 Slate Which Iraq War Do You Want To End? We're fighting at least three of them. Christopher Hitchens

All the President's Flunkies

Why Bush stands by his incompetents.
John Dickerson

International Migration, Economic Development and Policy
Source: World Bank

2007 WTO Annual Report
Source: World Trade Organization (via UN Pulse) Full Document (PDF; 1.97 MB)

2007 Annual Opium Poppy Survey (PDF; 2.04 MB)
Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (via UN Pulse)

H21

Stubble trouble Michael White

They're mocked, discriminated against and persecuted. It's time to defend the rights of men who have moustaches.

Google expert says 'TV is dead' Founding father of the internet has predicted the end of traditional television.

Google evangelist unveils his Web vision Asia now has the most internet users - 398.7 million - followed by Europe with 314.8 million and North America with 233.3 million. While 1.1 billion people are online globally, 5.5 billion are still waiting to be linked up to the Net.

COMMENT: Diana lived and died by the media Hers was a religion without the depth that attends all serious belief, writes John Lloyd

Imagine a world in which all food is organic and local, air is free of industrial pollution, and physical exercise guaranteed. Sound idyllic?... more»

Some scientific theories are beautiful in their elegance. The beauty of others comes from baffling us. Quantum mechanics... more»

Gay unions okay in Medieval Europe Historian: Civil unions between male couples existed 600 years ago.

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