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H1 Washington Post Petraeus Dismayed at Political State of Iraq In preview of report to Congress, U.S. commander in region says more time is needed for Iraqi politics to catch up with improving security conditions

A Letter to the Troops: How We're Doing in Iraq - Gen. David Petraeus (PDF)

New York Times Hints of Progress, and Questions, in Iraq Data By MICHAEL R. GORDON

Military statistics show that U.S. forces have made some headway at protecting the Iraqi population, but there are questions over whether the gains can be sustained.

CAP Key Questions on Iraq

Jerusalem Post A strategic assesment of the Middle East former Mossad chief and current ICT chairman Shabtai Shavit

ICT's 7th International Conference: September 8-11, 2007

Ha’aretz – ANALYSIS: Despite IAF incident, Israel less worried about Syria After months of tension, Assad now seen unlikely to start war over reported IAF violation of Syrian airspace.

DEBKAfile Exclusive: The Israeli jets said to have penetrated Syrian airspace Wednesday night escaped by jamming Russian-made Pantsyr-S1 air defense missiles Advanced Russian Air Defense Missile Cannot Protect Syrian and Iranian Skies

Anatomy of Syrian-Israeli Tensions: A Background Analysis - Jerusalem Center Strategic Affairs Unit

Yedioth The Syrians Don't Know What They Saw - Ron Ben-Yishai

Washington Post Brian Katulis: Reading the Petraeus Report

In a New Video, Bin Laden Predicts U.S. Failure in Iraq Al-Qaeda leader, not seen in video since October 2004, urges Americans to convert to Islam. First Glimpse | Elusive Bin Laden | Excerpts

I Want Out -- Now By Bill Richardson, Unlike the other leading Democratic candidates, I have a plan to withdraw all the troops from Iraq quickly.

Greenspan says market turbulence similar to prior crises AFP

ABC New OBL Tape: Iraq, Democratic Control

Despite Iraq Reports, Troops' Future Is Set: No Changes Until April

New York Times Book Review: A Prosecutorial Brief Against Israel and Its Supporters - William Grimes

Arrest of One Turk in Germany Brings New Scrutiny to a Society of 2.7 Million

Bin Laden Releases Video as C.I.A. Issues Warning

The Time Has Come, the General’s Here: Petraeus Preps for Testimony on Iraq

RFE/RL Russia: Beyond The Duma Vote, Presidential Succession Looms

Council Of Europe Raises Rights Concerns In Azerbaijan

Slate Who Disbanded the Iraqi Army? And why was nobody held accountable? Fred Kaplan

The Convert's Zeal Radical Islamism has become a magnet for some of the world's angriest people. Daniel Benjamin

Financial Times Markets plunge on fears of US slowdown

Global stock markets tumbled on fears that the US economy was facing a sharp slowdown as the first monthly fall in employment in four years made an interest rate cut this month all but certain

NYT Unexpected Loss of Jobs Raises Risk of Recession A Labor Department report showed that the economy lost 4,000 jobs in August, the first drop in 4 years, suggesting that turmoil in the financial markets could be spreading.

Asia Times US exercising India's military muscle
Large five-nation naval exercises under way this week and led by the United States and India are sending troubling messages to Beijing and left-wing Indians who fear New Delhi's enormous thirst for US arms and favor could mark the beginning of an "Asian NATO".

Jerusalem Post Column One: The imperatives of war [ CAROLINE GLICK

Review: The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy [ DANNY AYALON

What Happens After the Surge? - Michael Duffy, Time

The Pitfalls of Staying in Iraq--And of Leaving - The Economist

The Times Pentagon fears 'electronic war' with China Chinese military hackers have prepared a detailed plan to disable America's military, according to a Pentagon report

Nasty effects of China syndrome

Why don’t terrorists attack us more? The national throat is open and exposed for the cutting in a hundred places Matthew Parris

Los Angeles Times Bush's shrinking bubble

Rosa Brooks: A an ex-administration official sheds more unflattering light on the White House, especially Cheney.

Daily Telegraph David Cameron: What makes me a Tory The Conservative Party leader spells out why he is a Conservative. It is because of the values that he has believed in all his life: family, responsibility and opportunity.

Interactive Map: Al Qaeda Attacks Around the World

USIP Countering the Financing of Terrorism

US Should Leave Iraq Within a Year, Poll Shows (Update1)

Der Spiegel Interview with Dutch Terror Expert: 'I'm Not All That Worried About Terrorism'

Newsweek Q&A: Gen. Sir Mike Jackson Speaks Out on Iraq

CFR No Beginning of the End in Iraq

A Conversation with Michael V. Hayden (Audio)

Hayden, at CFR, Says Media Should Leave CIA Oversight to Congress

Salon Don't believe the surge hype The Petraeus road show will roll into Washington with dubious claims that troop increases have reduced violence.

H2 NYT Arrest of One Turk in Germany Brings New Scrutiny to a Society of 2.7 Million As Germans struggle to make sense of the terrorist plot foiled this week, they are learning that their good Muslims - the large Turkish immigrant population here - may not be so good after all.

Washington Institute Turkey's Headscarf Dilemma: Is There a Way Out? By Soner Cagaptay

IAI – Tepav Conditionality, Impact and Prejudice in EU-Turkey Relations

National Review Judgment Time Should America recognize an Armenian Genocide? By Barbara Lerner

Muslim Nation Minus 'Idiotic Autocrats' By: Gwynne Dyer | The Japan Times
How come the Turks can manage a predominantly Muslim population, negotiate for EU membership and have a workable democracy?

EDM ANKARA MOVES TO REDUCE DEPENDENCE ON ENERGY IMPORTS

German Marshall Fund Blog » Blog Archive » Add Energy to America’s Relations with Turkey

Harper's Magazine Scott Horton - The Importance of Being Orhan

Christopher De Bellaigue, “There is no east: Reading Orhan Pamuk,” Harper’s, Sept. 2007

US Viewed as Turkey's 'Greatest Threat'

Spin city Guardian They've been outlawed for almost a century, but you can still find whirling Dervishes spinning themselves into a meditative trance in a serene little enclave of Istanbul.

Devlet dinle barıştı
MUSTAFA ZEYN

Güvenlik Konseyi için 50 milyon dolar

GMF diagnoses ‘sour grape syndrome’ affecting the Turks

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Gül ilk yurtiçi gezisini Doğu ve Güneydoğu'ya yapacak

THE END OF "TAK"?
Eurasia Daily Monitor

İlk resmi gezi Güneydoğu'ya

Talabani PKK ve PJAK'a 'Git' dedi

The Economist Kuzey Irak bağımsızlığa hazır değil -

Economist: Kürtlerin bağımsızlık için yolları uzun

AKP, DTP ve seçimler - ORHAN MİROĞLU

Tribes Sabotage Kirkuk Pipelines
Institute for War and Peace Reporting

KRG publishes approved Kurdistan Region Oil and Gas Law in Arabic ...

Talabani: "Saldırılar sürerse sınırdışı ederiz"

Talabani: Iraq will expel PKK if attacks on Turkey continue

Gül confirms he will invite Talabani to Turkey

PKK ve PJAK K. Irak’ı terk etsin

11 DTP’liye gözaltı

PKK'lılara 'şehit' diyen 18 DTP'li gözaltına alındı

Baydemir, DTP, Meclis... Türker Alkan

Öcalan Benden önderlik beklemeyin

PKK davasında zaman aşımı

Mehmet Kamış DTP'nin gerginlik stratejisi

DTP’s tension strategy

RESUL TOSUN DTP'yi takıyye yapmaya zorlamak

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Suriye semaları Türkiye semalarıdır

Turkey expresses concern over Syrian reports of Israeli bombing

Most Turks want US troop withdrawal

AP’den Türkiye’ye TSK ve sınır ötesi operasyon uyarısı

Fas sandık başında
Seçimlerin önemini gazeteci Ali İhsan Aydın'a sorduk

Sami KOHEN Fas'taki benzerlik ve farklar...

Blair to visit Ankara for TOBB’s Palestine project

Genelkurmay'dan 'geçici bölge' uyarısı

Belçika'da yargılanan 17 PKK'lıyı zamanaşımı kurtardı

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Babacan Portekiz'e gitti

'Akil adamlar' toplantısı Perşembe günü

Cengiz Çandar 'Yeni Avrupa'dan anılar Türkiye için AB ufukları

Abdülhamit Bilici İngiliz bakanın Köşk krizi yorumu

British minister visits Turkey

ADL ile ilk temas

Outlook on Sarkozy's Turkish views

The Times: İngiltere'deki camilerin yarısı tarikatların elinde

Yunanistan'da aşırı sağa parlamento yolu

Türkiye sendromu
Rusların tatil dönüşü gerginlikleri ülkede gündemin ön sıralarında

AP raporunda Türkiye'ye övgü

"Mümkün olan en fazla faslı açacağız"

İlnur Çevik Cyprus impasse to continue

Ata Atun Greek Cypriots not keen on a solution

Romanya, Karadeniz'de petrol ve gaz buldu

Beril Dedeoğlu The EU’s Belgium problem

Hollanda'da İslam tartışması

Bickering with Ukraine over fishing in Black Sea ends

Turkey Kazakhstan [BUSINESS BRIDGE]
One-year trade volume targets met in two days

Polis sınavındaki şaibe Meclis'te

Burhan Ayeri Türkiye’yi Doğan Grubu mu yönetiyor?

Atv’nin peşindekilerin ilginç benzerliği

"İyi planlama ile Türkiye'de su sıkıntısı yaşanmaz"

Deniz suyu umut oldu konutlar ve şirketler arıtma tesisi peşinde

Gül, en çok oyu alan kadın adayı atamadı

Cumhurbaşkanı Gül, ilk rektör atamasında oya değil, tecrübeye baktı

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - FICTION: No father-land The Bastard of Istanbul

FT REPORT - HOUSE AND HOME: ON SHOW Rural Architecture in the Eastern Black Sea Region chronicles the traditional homes of the mountains of north-east Turkey

Hamili kurşunların hedefi konuştu

Polisten Festus Okey açıklaması

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Festus Okey nasıl öldü?

ÖZLEM ALBAYRAK Kendine solcu

Türköne ile Çatlı birlikte çalışmış

Tarikatlaşmaya karşı nokta atışı hoca ilanı

Kirada bir günlük gecikme tahliye nedeni

H3 Sivil anayasa için Tüsiad'ın 5 kriteri

Gül: Yetkim kısıtlanabilir
Murat Yetkin

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ Gül'ün ilk gezisi Güneydoğu'ya

İlter Türkmen Yeni hükümetin dış politika gündemi

Yakıt tankları İsrail F-15’lerinden atılmış!

AKP'den TÜSİAD'a yanıt

TÜSİAD: "Program beyannamenin gerisinde"

Gül Yetki kısıtlaması rahatsız etmez

Gül'den jet onay! 42 yaşında en yüksek bürokrat

Diyarbakır'dan bürokrasinin zirvesine

Anayasadan esas beklenen
İsmet Berkan

YAVUZ DONAT Metin'in hikâyesi Metin Yalman, Özal'ı anlatıyor Özal, Özkök'ün telefonunu dinletti

Gül ilk yurtiçi gezisini Doğu ve Güneydoğu'ya yapacak

AK Parti'de yerel seçime hazırlık var

İsrail tepemize ’tank’ bıraktı Suriye’nin, sınır ihlali nedeniyle İsrail savaş uçaklarına ateş açıldığını duyurduğu saatlerde, Hatay’ın sınır bölgelerine iki ’harici yakıt tankı’ düştü. Savaş uçaklarının menzil artırmak için kullandığı, atış altında ya da hafiflemek için bıraktığı tankların İsrail F-15ı’larına ait olduğu anlaşıldı

Uçaktan düşen yakıt tankı incelemede

Türkiye’nin Awacs’ı ilk kez havada

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Türk siyasi kültürü sol siyasete tümüyle kapalı mı?

Güngör URAS Yeni düzene ilk ve sert uyarı bir kadın başkandan geldi

TÜSİAD'dan hükümete sert uyarı

Yalçındağ: Cumhurbaşkanımızın iş dünyamıza ilişkin söylemleri sevindirici

Neo-ittihatçı suçlaması haksızlık YUSUF HALAÇOĞLU

Erdoğan ve Gül M.Ali Kışlalı

74 yıl sonra yeniden sivil anayasa AHMET İNSEL

Şahin Alpay Özlenen sivil ve demokratik anayasa

Engin Ardıç 1961 Anayasası ilerici miydi?

Can Turkey design a new constitution? by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE

Sadi Somuncuoğlu Renksiz ve ideolojik

Ali Bulaç Cumhurbaşkanı nasıl olmalıdır?

Semih İDİZ Sevimsiz olanı kimse sevmez

Mensur Akgün Doğu körleşmesi ve Batılılaşan Doğu'yu görememek

Seyfettin Gürsel AKP'nin 10 bin dolar hedefi yanlış hesap mı yoksa zoru başaracaklarına olan güven mi

Büyükanıt 13 gün sonra Köşk'te

Fikret BİLA Gül: Eşimle katılacağımız toplantılar da olacak

Mitingcilere veto

Cumhurbaşkanlığı davete açıklık getirdi

'Daha dikkatli olmalıyım'

İzmir'de fazla oylar CHP'ye

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

Fehmi Koru

Yalçındağ: Cumhurbaşkanımızın iş dünyamıza ilişkin söylemleri sevindirici

Ertuğrul Özkök Tarihin en büyük vergi kaçakçısı

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand Oh, nihayet resepsiyonlar bitti…

Mehmet Barlas Laik, demokratik, sosyal bir ‘hukuk devleti’ mi yoksa ‘tören devleti’ miyiz?

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu Gül diyorlar yoksa tedirgin oluyorlar

Oktay Ekşi

Tufan Türenç Abdullah Gül’e teşekkürler

Özdemir İnce Sahte ya da Nakşi demokrasi

Ayşe Önal Rejim nerede hata yaptı (3)

Erdoğan: Medya CHP'li

Hiç kimse erişilmez olmasın

[YORUM-Ahmet Kurucan] Ilımlı İslam!

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK YÖK'ten yanıt geldi

ERGUN BABAHAN Kadınların isyanı

EMRE AKÖZ

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Dar omuzda ağır yük

NAZLI ILICAK Demagoji

[YORUM-Prof. Dr. Naci Bostancı] Normalleşme herkes için faydalı

MAHMUT ÖVÜR YÖK'ün trajikomik hatası!

YAVUZ DONAT Metin'in hikâyesi Metin Yalman, Özal'ı anlatıyor Özal, Özkök'ün telefonunu dinletti

The judiciary should be open to criticism

Can Ataklı Abdullah Gül eşini saklamamalı

İsmail Küçükkaya Çankaya Köşkü’nde gördüklerim...

'Üçüncü millet' Murat Belge

Zeynep Göğüş İktidar-basın ilişkisi

Polis devletten hukuk devletine - ÜMİT KARDAŞ

Şükür, 1905 yılına ulaştık
BASKIN ORAN

Merkez sol, yenilenme ve iktidar - TANJU TOSUN

Nuh Gönültaş Senin hayatın biat be!

Toktamış Ateş Kemalizm'in evrensel boyutu

Semih İDİZ Sevimsiz olanı kimse sevmez

CHP, 9 Eylül meydan savaşına hazırlanıyor

Baro Başkanı Yüzde 47 oyla aslan gibi gelene saygı duyarız

Pamuk Türkiye’de aşırı sağcılar laiktir

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam Bağımsız merkez bankası faizleri indirmiyor

Ege Cansen İstikrarsız denge

Şükrü Kızılot DPT’nin bütçe uyarıları sertleşiyor

Yeni bir dönem Taner Berksoy

Seyfettin Gürsel AKP'nin 10 bin dolar hedefi yanlış hesap mı yoksa zoru başaracaklarına olan güven mi

Piyasanın 7 kabus senaryosu

Yaman TÖRÜNER Risk artıyor

MELİHA OKUR Tek kale maç oynanır mı?

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Hükümet kendi çıtasını yükseltebilecek mi?

Memura 2008’de 2+2 zam önerisi çıktı

Turkcell wins 3G license as only bidder

Salih Neftçi En az korkan yatırımcılar...

H4 New York Times Hints of Progress, and Questions, in Iraq Data By MICHAEL R. GORDON

Military statistics show that U.S. forces have made some headway at protecting the Iraqi population, but there are questions over whether the gains can be sustained.

Arrest of One Turk in Germany Brings New Scrutiny to a Society of 2.7 Million

Bin Laden Releases Video as C.I.A. Issues Warning

The Time Has Come, the General’s Here: Petraeus Preps for Testimony on Iraq

7 U.S. Soldiers Killed in 2 Attacks in Sunni Areas of Iraq

As a Report Draws Near, Democrats Ready a Stance

Pakistani Court Orders Arrest of Ex-Premier’s Brother

Gaza Under Hamas: Quiet, Cut Off and Digging In

Nuclear Experts to Inspect Sites in North Korea

Unexpected Loss of Jobs Raises Risk of Recession A Labor Department report showed that the economy lost 4,000 jobs in August, the first drop in 4 years, suggesting that turmoil in the financial markets could be spreading.

Text of the Report

Bad News Puts Political Glare Onto Economy The Federal Reserve could feel more political pressure to cut interest rates than it has since the early 1990s.

Editorial The Employment Tea Leaves If there is any good news in the latest employment report, it is that hardship may prompt a discussion about what needs to be done to fix the economy.

H5 Washington Post Petraeus Dismayed at Political State of Iraq In preview of report to Congress, U.S. commander in region says more time is needed for Iraqi politics to catch up with improving security conditions Letter to Troops (PDF)

Brian Katulis: Reading the Petraeus Report

In a New Video, Bin Laden Predicts U.S. Failure in Iraq Al-Qaeda leader, not seen in video since October 2004, urges Americans to convert to Islam. First Glimpse | Elusive Bin Laden | Excerpts

I Want Out -- Now By Bill Richardson, Unlike the other leading Democratic candidates, I have a plan to withdraw all the troops from Iraq quickly.

'Too Soon' to Call Iraq a Failure, British General Says

Growth in Jobs Ends as Housing Crunch Widens

Teams to Survey N. Korea Facilities

U.S., China, Russia to Send Nuclear Experts; Bush Meets With S. Korean Leader

Japan's Floundering Abe Fights for Floating Gas Station Refueling Operation Is Vulnerable to Domestic Power Plays

Iran Must Pay $2.6 Billion for '83 Attack

Colombia's Military Infiltrated

Officers in U.S.-backed armed forces aiding drug traffickers from nation's largest guerilla group.

H6 Guardian Petraeus tells troops: surge has not worked out as we had hoped

Bin Laden alive and in touch with the news

State inaction on climate is a grave dereliction of duty Julian Glover: Government exists to achieve tasks individuals cannot tackle alone. On the environmental crisis, it has badly failed.

Leader Enter stage right US politics: George Bush cuts a lonely figure in Washington these days. But, in a system where individuals count for more than parties, that need not be a bar on another Republican winning the race to succeed him next year.

Petraeus to resist calls for early withdrawal For months, Bush has deflected Congress, saying: wait for Petraeus's report. Next week that day arrives.

British to step up detainee release after militia talks

Bush offers North Korea peace deal

· South Korea's president forces promise at summit · Kim Jong-il told to give up nuclear programme

The shock doctrine In our first extract from Naomi Klein's new book, she reveals the business of exploiting disaster.

Violence in Gaza as Hamas breaks up demonstrations Hamas arrests four senior Fatah leaders in Gaza after clashes with Fatah supporters who tried to pray outside mosque.

At war with Whitehall

Richard Norton-Taylor General Sir Mike Jackson strikes many blows in his autobiography. But how strongly did he express his concerns about Iraq to his political masters?

The world left the US behind

Tim Watkin If you look at the issues being debated in the wider world, the US is not at the forefront of global debate on any of them - except terror and security

A toxic mix of fact and nonsense

Inayat Bunglawala The Times report on the Deobandi movement smacks of agenda-driven journalism, rather than a serious investigation into extremism in the UK.

Eurosceptics are swimming against the tide

Roland Rudd Don't be fooled: Britain could only lose from a referendum on the EU reform treaty.

H7 Washington Times Nuke watchdog defends Iran deal

The United Nations' top nuclear cop yesterday slammed critics of a new inspection deal with Iran as "back-seat drivers" trying to justify a war with Tehran in the same way they cleared a path for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Eye of the terror storm

Victor Davis Hanson Another anniversary of September 11, 2001, is near. It has been nearly six long years since a catastrophic attack on our shores, and we've understandably turned to infighting and second-guessing — about everything from Guantanamo to wiretaps

Morgan Stanley A Hypothesis on Currency Hedging and ‘Carry Trades’

Middle East/North Africa
Petrodollar Liquidity Oils the Global Economy

Asia Times CHAN AKYA
In gold we trust The global financial system is broken, with banks refusing to lend to one another at any cost, even as central banks attempt to increase system liquidity. As the interbank lending rate surges well past normal levels, usual circuit-breakers such as liquidity facilities have simply failed. In this environment, only the holders of physical assets such as gold and oil appear to have the upper hand. Sell your equities, by the way

Iran spinning centrifuges - and half-truths
Iran claims to have achieved its goal of 3,000 operational centrifuges in its uranium-enrichment program. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which is closely monitoring activities, puts the figure much lower. Iran has good reason to exaggerate as it maneuvers to have its nuclear dossier moved from the United Nations Security Council back to the IAEA and tries to avert a military confrontation with the United States. - Gareth Porter

Are Petraeus and Westmoreland Birds of a Feather? by Ray McGovern

A Weird Way to Wage War By: Adam Brodsky | New York Post
As Americans mark the sixth anniversary of the start of the War on Terror this Tuesday, we can be thankful that our response to the attack, so far, has averted any follow-up on our shores.

U.S. Priorities Threaten EU Work in Lebanon By: Mai Yamani | The Daily Star
It is now almost one year since the European Union committed to stabilize Lebanon. With its decision to send thousands of soldiers to implement a U.N. Security Council Resolution, the EU took its boldest step yet in creating a common foreign and security policy.

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

US Papers Saturday: Osama Bin Laden's Back

Iraq Papers Saturday: Awaiting the "Report"

BBCBin Laden says US should convert Americans should "embrace Islam" to stop the Iraq war, says a video from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Extracts from Bin Laden video

Quick guide: Al-Qaeda

Bin Laden tape

Petraeus says Iraq gains 'uneven'

The top US commander in Iraq says progress in bringing security has been "uneven" and disappointing.

Iraq violence
Monitoring the results of the surge by US troops in Iraq

Conflict fears
An alleged Israeli air incursion into Syria fuels tensions

Up in smoke
Why have Iraqis not yet benefited from reconstruction?

Relief of Basra
UK troops appreciate leaving daily attacks at Basra Palace

AFP: US pullout likely to be long, slow crawl to Kuwait...

US Auditor Doubts DoD Casualty Figures

Petraeus Disputes Reports He Would Accept Early Iraq Withdrawal

Iraq Withdrawal Expenses Tough to Tally: Pentagon

Dark Side to the Iraq Plan as the Sunnis Turn

NBC Transcript of bin Laden Message

Rafsanjani Urges Talks With West

Is Israel Looking for Korean Weapons in Syria?

Syria-Israel Bombing Incident Shrouded in Mystery

Benchmarks: A necessary service -- Part 2

Plight Of Displaced Worsens

Four years after the U.S.-led invasion, the Iraqi refugee crisis has become one of the world's most severe humanitarian issues

Women of Hezbollah: Growing Discontent May Fracture Loyalties By: Tina Wolfe | World Politics Review
Uncertainty about Lebanon's political stability in an atmosphere of increasing sectarian division and rumors that Hezbollah is beefing up for an offensive against Israel are testing the allegiances of women loyal to the paramilitary group. Given the influence of women in Hezbollah, their ambivalence has the potential to spread further and ultimately shake the foundation of its political support among Lebanon's Shiites

Morocco's Islamists: The Way Forward?

Majority of Afghans are hopeful for their future, despite increasing insecurity and slow pace of economic development (PDF; 90 KB)
Source: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (via UN Pulse)

H9 Ha’aretz – ANALYSIS: Despite IAF incident, Israel less worried about Syria After months of tension, Assad now seen unlikely to start war over reported IAF violation of Syrian airspace.

Bradley Burston: The Special Place in Hell awards, 5768

Rosner: Study finds young U.S. Jews alienated from Israel

New Poll: Will the next year be better for Israel?

Arab League: IAF incident discredits Israel peace bid Egypt: Incident heightens Mideast tensions; Syrian state-run paper: We can deter Israeli 'adventures

DEBKAfile Exclusive: The Israeli jets said to have penetrated Syrian airspace Wednesday night escaped by jamming Russian-made Pantsyr-S1 air defense missiles Advanced Russian Air Defense Missile Cannot Protect Syrian and Iranian Skies

DEBKAfile Reports: Alert declared in Israeli Air and Air Defense Forces after Syria claimed Israeli jets penetrated its air space

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

Israeli jets entered Syrian airspace 'in error'...

Jerusalem Post Column One: The imperatives of war [ CAROLINE GLICK

Review: The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy [ DANNY AYALON

Counter Terrorism: 'Iran can be set back' [ AMIR MIZROCH

Sheikh Raed Salah: 'Israel and its occupation will disappear'
Muslim leader says alleged Syrian IAF flyover is "Israeli terror"; calls on Hamas, Fatah to reunite and "save J'lem and the Aksa Mosque."

'It should be clear who wins next war'
Says Ashkenazi in meeting with top reserve officers; Majadle: Alleged Syrian flyover won't spark war

Asia Times No, it's the dog that wags the tail The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John J Mearsheimer and Stephen M Walt This controversial book argues that client state Israel and its allies in the US are leading the US government to engage in policies that are manifestly against its interests - a classic case of the tail wagging the dog. Nothing could be further from the truth. The US has been using Israel to fulfill its policy objectives for decades, and will continue to do so. - Mark LeVine

Outing the 'Israel Lobby'

A Triangle That in Palestine Could Well Lead to Death By: Yossi Alpher | The Daily Star
The status of Fatah-Hamas relations is currently closely intertwined with the course of the two Palestinian movements' interaction with Israel. In the months ahead, that triangular relationship could play itself out in a number of ways.

An Embargo on Gaza: Economic Sanctions Are Permitted by International Law - Dov Weisglass (Ynet News)

Deconstructing Apartheid Accusations Against Israel - Interview with Prof. Gideon Shimoni

New Statesmen Israel's Marva and Gadna programmes

CNN Comes Under Unprecedented Attack

Nathan Guttman | Wed. Sep 05, 2007

A CNN documentary about religious extremists has prompted an unprecedented outcry from the organized Jewish community, including a call to advertisers to pressure the network.

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Record drug seizures on US-Mexico border

More US enforcement is one reason. But shipments from cartels may also be rising.

ASIA

Hudson Institute New Threats from China

Boston Globe For disabled, China has risen to the challenge

(By William P. Alford and Timothy P. Shriver)

THESE ARE not the happiest of times in the US-China relationship. Stories of tainted foods and dangerous products have been news for weeks. Controversies continue over exchange rates, labor conditions, outsourcing, and intellectual property infringement. And long-standing issues regarding human rights, the environment, and foreign policy remain prominent.

Asia Times US exercising India's military muscle
Large five-nation naval exercises under way this week and led by the United States and India are sending troubling messages to Beijing and left-wing Indians who fear New Delhi's enormous thirst for US arms and favor could mark the beginning of an "Asian NATO".

APEC's Purpose Is Missing By: Gregory Clark | The Japan Times
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) is a testament to the way international groupings develop a life of their own long after they have fulfilled their original purpose

India; Learning From What Works By: Mort Rosenblum | International Herald Tribune
This tribal village lost in northern Rajasthan has a few things going for it. For one, no one here has heard of George W. Bush. The name came up as we talked about health, and one man asked: "Is that some kind of disease?"

BBC Why are you here?
Chinese officials thwart BBC reporter's visit to sealed village

Strange climate
Is the Apec summit opening rifts in the climate continuum?

China Sees 'Danger' in Taiwan's U.N. Intent By: Joseph Curl and David R. Sands | The Washington Times
Chinese President Hu Jintao yesterday told President Bush that the next two years will be a time of "high danger" for Taiwan, as the island republic prepares again to apply for a seat in the United Nations.

H11 IHT America's guardian By SUSAN FALUDI
America's response to 9/11 echoes the narratives of the country's early Indian wars.

German officials fail to agree on new police surveillance measures
By JUDY DEMPSEY AND KATRIN BENNHOLD
Three days after the arrests of three people allegedly involved in the plot, the interior ministers from Germany 16 states were divided over plans by Wolfgang Schäuble, the federal interior minister, to use special methods to scrutinize Internet traffic of suspects.

EUROPE European press review

BBC Mardell's Euroblog
Is the Reform Treaty just the constitution in new clothes?

EU Demands Serbian Clarification On Kosovo Threat

Polish MPs choose early election

The Polish parliament votes to dissolve itself and call a general election, two years ahead of schedule.

Daily Telegraph Would we miss Belgium? Three months after the election, there is still no Belgian government, which prompts the question: would it matter if there were never a Belgian government?

H12 RFE/RL Russia: Beyond The Duma Vote, Presidential Succession Looms

Council Of Europe Raises Rights Concerns In Azerbaijan

New Investigative Agency Starts Work In Russia

Google News Azerbaijan

Outside View: Russia killing INF -- Part 2

Russian espionage 'at Cold War level'

Nagorno-Karabakh President Inaugurated

Arctic compromise
Russia lets foreigners in on huge Barents Sea gas project

Does Dushanbe Want to Distance Itself From Russia?
Tajikistan’s decision to cancel a contract with a Russian conglomerate to develop a dam and an aluminum plant may be a signal of Dushanbe’s disenchantment with its close working relationship with Moscow. At the very least, the contract cancellation marks a diplomatic setback for Russia, which has aggressively reasserted its economic and political influence across Central Asia over the past two years

BRIDGEHEAD IN EUROPE: KAZAKHSTAN ACQUIRES ROMANIA’S ROMPETROL
- RUSSIA STRUGGLES TO SETTLE ENVIRONMENTAL DIFFERENCES WITH CHINA
- ANKARA MOVES TO REDUCE DEPENDENCE ON ENERGY IMPORTS
- THE END OF “TAK”?

Ukrainian Crossroads By: Aleksander Kwasniewski | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Ukraine's gradual but sometimes uneven progress toward democracy has shown once again that this path is never easy. Nothing worth fighting for ever is.

CENTRAL ASIA: Migration stabilises but remains high

H13 The Times Pentagon fears 'electronic war' with China Chinese military hackers have prepared a detailed plan to disable America's military, according to a Pentagon report

Nasty effects of China syndrome

Why don’t terrorists attack us more? The national throat is open and exposed for the cutting in a hundred places Matthew Parris

Goodbye Greenpeace

The Government should get on with developing nuclear energy

Banking crisis There is a credit crisis and major central banks are struggling to adjust the flow of credit

Joe Joseph

Exiled leader plans return 8 years after coup

The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, is expected to return to the country on Monday amid rising tension

Wall Street Journal

H14 Financial Times Markets plunge on fears of US slowdown

Global stock markets tumbled on fears that the US economy was facing a sharp slowdown as the first monthly fall in employment in four years made an interest rate cut this month all but certain

Bin Laden says US is vulnerable WORLD NEWS: Bin Laden tape on internet hits at capitalism

Petraeus weighs Iraq troop reduction

4,000 US soldiers could leave early 2008

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - BOOKS ESSAY: Economists of scale Schumpeter and Keynes were both great thinkers but only one influenced the whole world

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Unaccountable generosity Bill Clinton’s new book ignores questions of political legitimacy, says Christopher Caldwell

LEADER: From Wall Street to Main Street If the US consumer stays at home because he feels that a fall in house prices has made him poorer, that will weigh heavily on the US economy – and perhaps the world

LEADER: Tired Thompson Bush’s failures require Republicans to be clear about what will change if they are given another chance. Promising to bring people together is not enough

US moves to reform patent laws

Big US technology companies won an important patent reform victory when the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill that would bring sweeping changes to the way America rewards innovation

Petraeus weighs Iraq troop reduction

General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, would consider withdrawing about 4,000 troops from Iraq early next year to ease concerns of lawmakers on Capitol Hill

N Korea opens up to nuclear inspection

North Korea has invited nuclear experts from the US, China and Russia to survey its nuclear facilities next week, increasing momentum behind efforts to dismantle an atomic weapons programme that has bedevilled north-east Asia for 15 years

Peres warns of Iranian ambitions

Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, accused Iran of seeking to impose ‘religious hegemony’ across the Middle East

Anbar safer but critics query the cost

Sunni Arab tribes’ decision to co-operate with the US against al-Qaeda has allowed George W. Bush to point to some progress in next week’s assessment of his military ‘surge’ strategy in Iraq

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: The biggest threat from cyber warfare lies in the future

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Alone among governors

MARKET NEWS AND COMMENT: Concerns over Opec output drive oil prices

MARKETS NEWS AND COMMENT: Dollar close to low against euro

H15 Los Angeles Times Bush's shrinking bubble

Rosa Brooks: A an ex-administration official sheds more unflattering light on the White House, especially Cheney.

Intercepts 'key factor' in German case A U.S. intelligence intercept of suspicious communications between Pakistan and Stuttgart was the initial break that ultimately led to the arrest this week of three suspected Muslim militants accused of plotting massive car bomb attacks here against Americans, U.S. and German officials said Thursday.

General urges U.S. to reduce Iraq 'footprint'

'Dead Certain' by Robert Draper and ''Takeover' by Charlie Savage

Bush urges openness in China

H16 American Politics

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Money talks
Concerns over donors' power to shape US election outcome

After 6-month, $80 million preseason, GOP race gets real

By Steven Thomma and Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers

Now the race for the Republican presidential nomination begins in earnest. As Fred Thompson jumped in, the rest of the field started taking shots at one another in their first post-Labor Day debate, a sign of the higher stakes as the campaign turns more intense before caucus and primary voting starts in late December or early January

H17 Daily Telegraph David Cameron: What makes me a Tory

The Conservative Party leader spells out why he is a Conservative. It is because of the values that he has believed in all his life: family, responsibility and opportunity.

Who will be Britain's Boris Yeltsin?

Britain is at risk of becoming a "one-establishment" state where both parties are merely different wings of the same political elite committed to the same broad policies, observes John O'Sullivan.

Mortar 'made in Iran' killed British soldier

A British soldier was killed by insurgents in Iraq by a mortar bomb manufactured in Iran, an inquest has been told.

Iran must pay $2.65bn for Beirut bomb

Blair's peace quest doesn't pay bills

Former PM has to tackle a conflict in his finances.

H18 Independent

Musharraf reopens charge against Sharif

Markets dive on fears of US slowdown

Robert Fisk: An urge to smash history into tiny pieces

Russia and the US accused of secret deal to protect Karadzic

Europe to rule on whether police can keep DNA of innocent people

David Petraeus: General Surge

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

US tip-off foiled German bomb plot, reports say
A tip-off from US intelligence helped to foil the terror bomb plot in Germany, it has emerged.

Russian espionage 'at Cold War level'

Boston Globe Editorial An antiterrorism lesson

THE ARREST Tuesday of three suspects in a plot to carry out bombings in Germany offers crucial lessons about preventing terrorism. Some of those lessons have to do with the tactics of law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. But the most beneficial insight Americans could gain from the German example is that war is the wrong metaphor for a nation's defense against ...

Washington Times Editorial In defense of spying

Hayden: CIA Had Fewer Than 100 Prisoners

H20 Slate Who Disbanded the Iraqi Army? And why was nobody held accountable? Fred Kaplan

The Convert's Zeal Radical Islamism has become a magnet for some of the world's angriest people. Daniel Benjamin

The Law According to Jack Bauer

A top Pentagon aide teaches law students about torture by tuning in 24.
Bonnie Goldstein

H21 What luxury means now

Charm me. Surprise me. Fill me with desire. New notions of what is luxurious are not about brands or even money, but about experience, rarity and wonder

The A-Train The US appears to be relying on imported friendliness, writes Gary Silverman. Does this mean it is running out of ‘nice’?

Conversations: John Turturro

Web rivals plot the answer to Wikipedia Citizendium drops the 'wiki' model in bid to overtake Wikipedia as the most reliable and trustworthy source of online information

Three-Day Conference On Rumi Starts In Tajikistan

Tenor of the Times

By DAVID HAJDU More than anything, what Luciano Pavarotti did was bring mass culture — particularly the sensibility of the rock ’n’ roll age — to the world of opera.

Face to faith Intelligent machines may one day challenge humans the way Babel challenged God, says Simon Rocker

Melting ice caps triggering quakes

Scientists fear Greenland ice cap more quickly than expected, and triggering earthquakes.

Concubine culture brings trouble for China's bosses
· Eleven mistresses unite to denounce corrupt cadre
· Post-Mao era sees revival of 'second wives' tradition

What Dawkins makes of Jewish morals

Sacred mysteries by Christopher Howse

Google's MyLibrary Takes On Shelfari And LibraryThing

U.S. Newsman Sees Pros and Cons for “Embedded” Reporters

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