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H1 Geopolitical Diary: The Iranian Goal of Sunni-Shiite Relations in Iraq
Stratfor

Salon The Iran hawks Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton think a tough line on Tehran will sell politically. They could be right. By Juan Cole

The Times Putin - We will complete Iranian nuclear reactor President Putin has also forged an alliance with Iran against military action by the West at a summit of Caspian Sea nations

Comment: Putin visit kills off sanctions drive

India calls off nuclear deal with America India has officially informed the United States that it has frozen a nuclear deal because of opposition from communist allies

CFR Gelb: Federalism Is Most Promising Way to End Civil War in Iraq

Guardian Putin warns US against Iran action Ahmadinejad welcomes Russian support as statement backs Tehran's right to nuclear power.

From Russia with pragmatism

Simon Tisdall: Putin's apparent show of friendship in Tehran is far from altruistic - and he wouldn't be the first Russian to play power games in Iran.

Asia Times Iran riven by nuclear diplomacy row
Iran is being riven by growing polarization between the government of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and other factions who disagree with the president's nuclear and non-nuclear diplomacy. Leading figures are pitted against each other in this political minefield. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

It's the resistance, stupid
Coalitions Washington didn't count on are growing in Iraq with formerly unlikely alliances between Sunnis and Shi'ites being made, and all are opposed to US super-bases, a federalized Iraq and oil thirsty occupiers in general. - Pepe Escobar

Debka Putin and Ahmadinejad lead Caspian Sea Tehran summit in reciprocal non-aggression pledge, but disappoints Iran on Bushehr

Daily Star Can the Democrats repair the damage that Bush has done in the Middle East?

12 former Army captains: Bring back the draft or get out of Iraq

Difficult, But Not Impossible Q&A: ZALMAY KHALILZAD
National Journal

FT COMMENT: We are living in a brave new world of state capitalism Consider the emergence of sovereign wealth funds as part of the integration of countries that accept a bigger role of the state in markets than western countries do today, writes Martin Wolf

LEADER: Oil price soars but no sense of crisis Although oil prices nudged $88 a barrel, apart from stock markets trading lower, it was difficult to detect any great sense of foreboding

LEX COLUMN: Record oil's reasons

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Beware the fruitless search for 'sharp prediction' by John Kay

BBC Words or deeds?
What lies behind new US efforts to foster Middle-East peace

Ha’aretz –Editorial Putin appeases Tehran

Rosner: Three ways the summit may be doomed Rice failed by demonstrating the arrogance of the mediator - the absurd assumption that all that is lacking in order to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict is the charismatic presence of an experienced diplomat.

IHT Is Nicolas Sarkozy's honeymoon over? Five months into Sarkozy's presidency, a sense of unease and discontent is surfacing - not just among his opponents but even within the corridors of the French government and Sarkozy's party.

CAP Pursuing the Global Common Good

Forward Clinton Steps Away From Pro-Israel Lobby on Measure to Rein in President Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has built a reputation for strictly adhering to the pro-Israel line, but she now appears, for the first time, to be supporting legislation that is opposed by pro-Israel lobbyists

"What Do You Tell the President in Three Minutes about Iraq?"

2007 Weinberg Founders Conference

H2 NYT Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote New York Times

Turkey’s Man in the Lobbies of Capitol Hill

Erdogan Plays Down Threat to Iraq

McClatchy Armenian genocide resolution losing sponsors

Juan Cole Guest Op-Ed: PKK Terrorism Undermines US Policy in Middle East

VOA Ermeni Tasarısına Destek Azalıyor

The Times An odd time to stir up the past There is plenty for Congress to do. The 1915 massacre would be better left to historians Bronwen Maddox

Armenians 1915: who's who...
in academic debate. Inside Higher Ed.

Case for Kurdistan Michael Totten, Azure.

Commentary Hunting the PKK by Max Boot

FT WORLD NEWS: US alarm over Turkey's Iraq incursion plan Peter Rodman, a former senior Bush administration Pentagon official, argued that from the US standpoint it would be preferable that Turkey sent troops into northern Iraq rather than cut off crucial military supply lines because of the Armenian genocide resolution. "Maybe that is the only solution," said Mr Rodman, now at the Brookings Institution. "If the US is unable to deal with it [the PKK], and the Iraqis are unwilling to deal with them, what else do you tell the Turks? There may be ways to go after the PKK and accomplish something, whereas strangling our logistical lifeline doesn't help them with the PKK and it just creates a monumental problem."

WORLD NEWS: Kurds bank on stability to stave off army attacks

'Operasyon PKK'yı bitirmez'

ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı, Türkiye'nin Kuzey Irak'a olası sınır ötesi operasyonunun PKK'yı bitiremeyeceğini ve örgütün eylemlerinin devam edeceğini ileri sürdü. ABD, Ermeni tasarının geçmesi halinde ise, Türkiye'nin, Irak'taki ABD birliklerine yapılan sevkıyatı engelleme olasılığına karşı alternatif arayışında.

Guardian No way to treat a friend
Chris Patten: Europe has just as much to lose as Turkey if the doubters prevail in the membership battle.

Led astray Stephen Kinzer: Pushing the Armenian genocide resolution through Congress is a reckless act that reflects the corruption of the American political system.

Why they hate us Patricia Weitsman The fraying strategic partnership between Turkey and the United States goes deeper than the tiff over the Armenian genocide resolution.

WSJ Military action by Turkey in the Kurdish area of Iraq is unlikely to disrupt oil supplies. But the outlook for improving Iraqi output remains troubled.

For Turks, Risks Abound

'Genocide' Bill Loses House Support

Neighbors / Turkish bombs? Trouble for America - Ha'aretz by Zvi bar’el

CSM Editorial US can calm a ruffled Turkey

Salon Genocide: An inconvenient truth The Armenian genocide bill has been attacked by both the right and the left -- and it may make matters worse. But it's necessary.
By Gary Kamiya

TheHill.com - Democrats split on genocide resolution

Washington Post Armenians Win, Kurds Pay the Price Falah Mustafa Bakir | I fear we will bear the brunt of a conflict that has nothing to do with us.

Leading Iraqi Urges Caution Toward Kurds Vice President Hashimi Takes Message to Turkey

Konstandaras: Turkey's Haunting Past

Bakshi: World to America: Listen to Us

Washington Times Armenian folly (Helle Dale)

Ap Bill to Condemn Genocide in Jeopardy

Reuters Key Democrats Oppose Armenian Bill

Resolution 106 Joshua W. WALKER

The Times Turkey warns Iraq to rein in Kurds Turkish Government tells Baghdad that it has to control rebel Kurds if it wants to avoid a military incursion

Iraq incursion not inevitable - Erdogan

Ms. Speaker, What Are You Doing?
Kansas City

Not much oil at risk from Turkey/Iraq tension

Reuters US genocide move reopens old wounds in Turkey

Iraq Papers Wed: Awaiting the Invasion

Reuters Turkey to OK Troops to Iraq, Defying US

NYT Iraq Moves to Dissuade Turkey From Raids

Bloomberg Turkey's Erdogan Says Parliament to Approve Iraq Raid

BBC Iraq fears action 'may escalate' An alarmed Iraq warns a cross-border raid by Turkey could trigger intervention by other neighbouring states

LA Times Armenians, join the club

Matt Welch: The current controversy isn't the first in which Congress has passed historical judgment.

Wall Street Journal: Ermeni tasarısı ABD dış politikasına ait değil

Ermeni tasarısının amacı tribünleri kazanmak
Michael Rubin –

STUNG BY ARMENIAN RESOLUTION, TURKEY MULLS OPTIONS
Eurasia Daily Monitor

Soykırım inkârı katmerli cinayetle eşdeğer

7 vekil desteğini çekti, Ermeni tasarısının geçme ihtimali düştü

Siyaset tarihi arka plana itti
Vincent Boland

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

AK Parti bölge milletvekillerinden ret sinyali

Ban sınır ötesi operasyonuna sıcak bakmıyor

'Eğer terör bitecekse Habur kapatılsın'

Irak üst düzey heyet gönderecek

New strategy for counterterrorism will be adopted

Terörle Mücadele Kahramanlarına Destek Kampanyası

TimeBlog Putin in Tehran, Turks in Kurdistan & Armenian Genocide

Türk: Bize karşı linç politikası

Kuzey Irak’ta Kürt İslami Cephesi

Bahçeli: PKK çizgisinde AKP'li

Barzani'den 'Söz bitmesin' mesajı

Erdoğan: PKK ile arana kalın duvar ör

Kürt aydınlardan DTP'ye uyarı: Terör örgütüne tavır alın

Erdoğan DTP'yi hedef gösteriyor

Özel Tim yeniden yapılandırılıyor

DTP: Operasyon Türkiye'yi Ortadoğu bataklığına çeker

Suriye Devlet Başkanı Esad Türkiye'de

Aman girmeyin konuşalım

Esad, kayınvalidesiyle geldi

Esad yaklaşık 4 yıl sonra Ankara'da

Turkey plays down talk of imminent Iraq incursion

Washington Times Texas oil firm warned on Kurdish deal (By Nicholas Kralev)

EDM POSSIBLE TURKISH MILITARY STRIKE INCREASES PRESSURE ON DTP

Iraq urges Turkey against cross-border military raids

‘Bir şans daha verin’

Osman Öcalan'dan şok sözler!

Turkey to defy US, send troops to Iraq

Talabani ve Barzani'den 'Konuşalım' mesajı geldi

Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence

Assad Visits Turkey, May Push for Help Reviving Talks With Israel

Assad talking in Turkey

Kurds Say Turkey Has Had Iraq Bases 'For a Decade'

CNN Iraq Calls for Urgent Turkey Talks

Dünya basını da sıfır noktasında

Turkey may cut U.S. access to key air base - CNN.com

'Talabani ve Barzani için de tasarı getirsinler'

'Diyarbakır kale' için 4.5 yıl hapis istendi

Maliki: Askeri çözümü kabul etmeyeceğiz

75,000 Displaced Iraqi Arabs in Kurdish North

israelinsider: Views: How the Turks saved the Jews from genocide

Workers at İncirlik base to defy US - Turkish Daily News Oct 16, 2007

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

"Yaptırımlar Ermenistan'ı da kapsamalı"

MHP "Ermeni tasarısı Meclis'te konuşulsun"

EDITORIAL: Why pick a fight with the Turks?

Yalçın Doğan Merkel: Uyum Yasası’nı gözden geçirebiliriz

Talat'tan BM'ye yeni güven artırıcı paket

Mensur Akgün Çözüm umudunu yitirmiş bir Kıbrıs

Papadopulos, Ban'a mektup gönderdi

FT A Europe of exclusion clauses

Diyasporaya ters köşe

Ruijten: Accepting Armenian claims no precondition for EU bid

Adalet Bakanlığı'nın "301" harekâtı

Article 301 tales
Cengiz AKTAR

The Newshoggers: Behind The Armenian Genocide Vote.

[LETTERS TO THE EDITOR]
I apologize, Turkey!

Armenian patriarch calls Congress resolution ‘domestic policy’ tool

EU calls for Turkish cooperation with Iraq over PKK attacks - Middle East

7 milletvekili tasarıdan desteğini çekti

Belge zehirli bir meyvedir
LEVENT YILMAZ

Tarih Türk yetkililerin tekelinde değil
Richard Cohen

Ege Cansen Sigarayı bıraktım

Güngör URAS Avrupa ülkeleri sigarayı yasaklıyor

Ankara büromuz ihtilal şubesi gibiydi: Bir medya patronunun ibretlik hikâyesi

“Kaz Dağı’nın üstü altından daha değerli!”

Kaz Dağı'na inceleme

Yargıçlar kuşatıldı!

İlk kadın cezaevi müdürü ideallerini anlattı

Kenan Evren hastaneye kaldırıldı

Yargıtay arkadaşlık teklifini taciz saymadı

Şehit Aileleri Derneği: Yardım bize verilsin

İtinayla MİT belgesi düzenlenir!

17 Ekim 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 İşte Irak'a sınır ötesi tezkeresinin şifreleri

Washington'da 'garip' basın toplantısı! "Sınır ötesi operasyon halinde Irak egemenliğini savunacaktır"

Irak'tan yeşil ışık, operasyonun önü açılıyor

New strategy for counterterrorism will be adopted

Türkiye'nin kızgınlığını anlıyoruz; ama diplomasiye fırsat verilmeli

ABD: Sınır ötesi harekat sonuç getirmez

K.Irak'ta operasyon PKK'yı bitiremez

Dışişleri tasarıya karşı eylem planını Gül'e anlattı

MHP's Aktan: Shut down İncirlik base

Ruşen Çakır Ya tezkere geri teperse!

PKK'ya nokta harekât seçeneği
Murat Yetkin

Bilal Çetin Sınır ötesi operasyonu ne durdurur?

Bülent Keneş Three codes for a cross-border operation: Target, scope, duration

İnceldiği yerden kopma M.Ali Kışlalı

Fireye karşı açık oturum... AKP'de ''gün boyu markaj''

Doğu Ergil ''Kuzey Irak'a operasyon gaz alma Operasyonu''

Baykal: "Milli terör politikası oluşturulmalı"

Baykal: Bıçak kemiğe dayandı

Baykal: PKK yetmez

RADIKAL| Savaş tamtamları

Yapamazsanız biz yapacağız

Dünyanın gözü bugün TBMM’de

ABD'de Başkan adayı senatörden Türkiye'ye sınır ötesi destek...

Gül'ü rahatlatan yasa kabul edildi

Referandumda bir ihtimal daha

Ertelense de iptal etmeyiz Meclis’te dün kabul edilen Anayasa değişikliğinin Resmi Gazete’de yayınlanmasından sonra YSK derhal toplanıp referandumun ertelenmesini görüşecek. Başbakan Erdoğan erteleme için "Sanmıyorum" derken, AKP’liler, "İptal aklımızın ucundan geçmiyor. Ertelenirse 120 gün sonra yapılır" dediler

Meclis, değişikliği onayladı referandumda son söz YSK'nın

Fikret BİLA Etnik fay hattı

Taha AKYOL Soykırım, 1923!

MUHARREM SARIKAYA "Taktik" tezkeresi...

Ali Bayramoğlu Çift kapanlı tuzak: Terör ve Irak bataklığı

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Bin yıllık tarihin sonu, kardeşliğin bittiği an!

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

“Beni affet ve benden af dile”

PKK'yı köşeye sıkıştırmak
İsmet Berkan

Amerika'ya raporlu uyarı: Sınır ötesi, Irak'ın birliğini pekiştirebilir

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Türkler, Kürtler, bizler...

Operation prospects generate shockwaves across Iraq

Ahmet Taşgetiren Beyin fırtınası

Operasyon tezkeresi

Tezkereye Irak'tan tepkiler

Sami KOHEN Yeni rol ortakları

M. Ali BİRAND " Yeni bir dünya kurulur..."

ERDAL ŞAFAK Tehlikeli söylemler

ERGUN BABAHAN Amerika gibi mi olmalıyız?

Osman Öcalan'dan şok sözler!

Türkiye, tasarı konusunda inandırıcılığını ortaya koyacak

Barzani ve peşmergeler niye hedef alınmıyorlar

Komutanlar Şırnak'ta

Komutanlar sınırda

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU

Kürt sorunu nasıl çözülür?

Abdülhamit Bilici ABD'nin hesabı?

Nuray Başaran Tezkere metni eksik mi

Mustafa Ünal Tezkere günü

Köşk’te Dışişleri zirvesi

Çitlioğlu "Çatlı'yı kullandık ve başarılı oldu"

İsmail Küçükkaya
Tezkerenin işlevi...

Serdar Akinan
Gizli ellere dikkat!

Mehmet Tezkan

Tezkere, Başbakan’ın pişmanlık yaralarını sarabilecek mi?

Cengiz Çandar Dicle’nin Ölümsüz Sesi...

Tezkere bugün Meclis’e geliyor

Tasarıya destek eriyor

Çatlak seslere şeffaf tezkere

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri -

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

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

Taha Kıvanç Yağdır Mevlâm su!..

Fehmi Koru Basirete dayalı bir sağduyu

KÜRŞAT BUMİN “Yüzde 47”nin gerektirdikleri

As the cross-border motion is being voted on Cüneyt ÜLSEVER

Tufan Türenç Türkiye kartlarını zamanında kullanmalı

Ertuğrul Özkök Kırmızı karanfilliler günü

Ahmet Hakan Sadelik

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever Hafta sonu referandum var, benden hatırlatması

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi Anıtsal beceriksizlik

Bekir Coşkun Dış politikanın içi...

Sadi Somuncuoğlu Ermeni yalanı mı? 1915 olayları mı?

Ali Bulaç Yaratıcı kaos

Yavuz Baydar Cornered

Beril Dedeoğlu What does terror make people do?

Amanda AKçakoca Turkey should not fall into the PKK’s trap

Şehitler ne zaman ölür? Avni Özgürel

Sebahattin Önkibar Muhtıra ve tezkere!

Metin MÜNİR Ya sev ya terk et mi? Peki, gidiyorum

Can Ataklı AKP Susurluk sendromunda

Ece TEMELKURAN Hrant kaç kere ölür?

'Bize düşmanlık eden iflah olmaz'

Eser Karakaş PKK’yı anladık da bunlara ne oluyor?

Nasuhi Güngör Irak’a operasyon ve Fatih Terim

Şamil Tayyar Mahallenin anketi

CSIS, Türkiye'nin ABD'ye destek listesini çıkardı

Bize bir yapan on bulur

Sınır ötesi olumlu bile olur

'Barzani de hedef alınsın ve bağımsız Kürt devleti önlensin'

Erdoğan: Nefsi müdafaa olunca hukuki kural geçmez

MHP'den teklife evet referanduma 'hayır'

Anayasa değişikliği paketindeki değişiklik Resmi Gazete'de yayınlandı

Anayasa değişikliği paketine Meclis'ten rötuş

Doğan Uluç Şantajcı ve tehditkar olmayalım

Yusuf KANLI Responsibility is with the government

İlnur Çevik Mrs. Pelosi should also look at the map

EMRE AKÖZ Cin gibidir Emre Kongar

Umur Talu Kızaktaki müdür ne düşünüyor?

Nagehan Alçı
Ilımlı İslam’ın sonu mu geldi?

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK Yeter artık indirin!

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT Görünen köy kılavuz istemez

Merkez Bankası, 'şok indirime' kulak asmadı; faizleri yarım puan düşürdü

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Faiz kılığına girmiş kur isyanı

Salih Neftçi Bu ne bu?

Ercan Kumcu Artıramıyorsak serbest bırakalım

Erdal Sağlam

‘İkinci emekliliğe’ yeni düzenleme

Türk Telekom: Elimizden geleni yapıyoruz

Meral TAMER Yabancı sermaye girişinin % 15'i özelleştirmeye

Petkim ihalesinde Ermeni vetosu

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Nobel ödülünü tasarımcılar paylaştı

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Bizde de büyümeyi sürdürmek önemli hale geldi

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Faiz dışı fazlada fedakârlık yapılıyor

Tribünlere oynayanlar!
Uğur Gürses

Ekonomide son çeyrek (2)
Mustafa Aysan

Türkiye'nin dış yatırımları
Metin Ercan

Ermeni ortak Kazakları yaktı, Petkim Azeri şirkete veriliyor

Turkey ranked 16th in FDI inflow

İbrahim Öztürk Evaluating the quality of the AK Party’s new action plan

Doğu Ergil Is there an Islamic economy?

H4 New York Times Pentagon Sees One Authority Over Contractors Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is pressing for the armed security contractors in Iraq to fall under a single authority, most likely the American military.

Editorial

Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote

Sarkozy, Ever Blunt, Confounds Both Friend and Foe

When Troops Need More Than Knowledge of War

In Iran, Putin Warns Against Military Action

No Deal at Caspian Summit on Sharing Sea

Record Price of Oil Raises New Fears

An Ex-Leader in Congress Is Now Turkey’s Man in the Lobbies of Capitol Hill

Iraq Moves to Dissuade Turkey From Raids

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Libya and Vietnam to Sit on Security Council

Truck Bomb Kills Up to 16 Iraqis in Mosul

Olmert Defends Deal With Hezbollah

Egypt Helps Bolster Prospect of Peace Talks

With One Eye on China, Bush Receives Dalai Lama

Global Warming Starts to Divide G.O.P. Contenders The Republican presidential candidates are divided over the policy solutions to global warming

MAUREEN DOWD Rudy Roughs Up Arabs Rudy Giuliani seems out of the Republican mainstream on even giving lip-service to Palestinian aspirations.

H5 Washington Post Neighbors Join Call Against Attack on Iran

Putin, at Tehran Talks, Cites Caspian Solidarity

Leading Iraqi Urges Caution Toward Kurds Vice President Hashimi Takes Message to Turkey

William Arkin The Hillary Doctrine

Editorial

The Real Iraq We Knew 12 former Army captains

House Passes Bill to Protect Confidentiality of Reporters' Sources

U.S. Missile Goes Astray in Qatar

By Thomas E. Ricks, Page A08

A U.S. Army unit mistakenly launched a Patriot PAC-3 antiaircraft missile from an American base in the Persian Gulf country of Qatar, U.S. military officials said.

Dalai Lama Meets With Bushes

Exiled Leader, in U.S. to Receive Medal, Shrugs Off Chinese Anger Over Visit

After Guantanamo, An Empty Freedom

Ethnic Uighurs Frustrated in Albania

The Biggest Cheney Mystery

H6 Guardian Putin warns US against Iran action Ahmadinejad welcomes Russian support as statement backs Tehran's right to nuclear power.

From Russia with pragmatism

Simon Tisdall: Putin's apparent show of friendship in Tehran is far from altruistic - and he wouldn't be the first Russian to play power games in Iran.

Record oil prices nudge $88 a barrel

Iraq tension and weakness of dollar fuel price rise as Opec curbs supplies and squeezes US refiners.

A good treaty for Britain
European Union: Whisper it who dares, but this is a week of genuinely exciting opportunity for the modernising and effectiveness of the European Union.

Benefits of dialogue Russia: It could be that after years of cold peace rhetoric in which Russia has re-established its image abroad as a power Mr Putin is rediscovering the international benefits of dialogue.

No military solution David Shariatmadari Hillary Clinton is making a mistake if she imagines the US is capable of destroying Iran's nuclear programme.

The case for clarity Josh Freedman Berthoud Ehud Olmert must go to the Annapolis summit with a clear vision for an agreement if he is to be seen as taking the talks seriously.

The exit poll: why Ming failed the Big Brother test Simon Jenkins: Politicians have allowed the buffers of democracy to atrophy, and now they are all vulnerable to the tyranny of opinion.

Britain to claim more than 1m sq km of Antarctica
Move would extend UK oil, gas and mineral rights.

H7 Asia Times Iran riven by nuclear diplomacy row
Iran is being riven by growing polarization between the government of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and other factions who disagree with the president's nuclear and non-nuclear diplomacy. Leading figures are pitted against each other in this political minefield. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

It's the resistance, stupid
Coalitions Washington didn't count on are growing in Iraq with formerly unlikely alliances between Sunnis and Shi'ites being made, and all are opposed to US super-bases, a federalized Iraq and oil thirsty occupiers in general. - Pepe Escobar

AL Hayat Character and Mechanism of The Iranian Institutions Holding the Nuclear Decision Mustafa al-Labbad

Debka Putin and Ahmadinejad lead Caspian Sea Tehran summit in reciprocal non-aggression pledge, but disappoints Iran on Bushehr

Daily Star Can the Democrats repair the damage that Bush has done in the Middle East?

A US peace rabbit that is likely to fail
By Rami G. Khouri

Weekly Standard The Guldimann Memorandum
The Iranian "roadmap" wasn't a roadmap and wasn't Iranian.
by Michael Rubin

Djerejian Enough Denial, Please

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

BBC Words or deeds?
What lies behind new US efforts to foster Middle-East peace

Russia backs Iran nuclear rights

President Putin offers guarded support for Iran's divisive nuclear programme after talks in Tehran.

US Papers Wed: Turkey, US easing tensions?

Political Parties 'Failing' To Work Together Kamran al-Karadaghi, a former chief of staff for President Jalal Talabani, says that Iraq's political climate will not improve until the country's leaders find the political determination to make "very hard decisions."

USIP Report: The Dynamics of Iraq's Media

US works on alternative supply route to Iraq...

Commentary: How to win the war in Iraq Claude Salhani, Middle East Times

U.S. commander shifts air tactics in Iraq A U.S. military official in Iraq says a recent tactical shift in flight patterns has resulted in greater success on the ground

H9 Ha’aretz –Editorial Putin appeases Tehran

Rosner: Three ways the summit may be doomed Rice failed by demonstrating the arrogance of the mediator - the absurd assumption that all that is lacking in order to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict is the charismatic presence of an experienced diplomat.

ANALYSIS: Hezbollah chief sets his sights on 'the big deal' One may conclude that Nasrallah has received a solid Israeli commitment that prisoners will be released

Guest: The greatest threat to the future of Israel is the status quo

Arens No free ride Let's stop for a moment and ask ourselves whether the concessions being offered to Abbas make any sense - if we were even to assume that he has the authority to make commitments and meet them in return for Israeli concessions.

Report: Syria confirms target of IAF attack was nuclear facility Army Radio: Syrian UN delegate told disarmament panel that September 6 raid targeted nuclear plant

Envisioning a divided Jerusalem We have discriminated, in terms of both infrastructure and services, against the residents of East Jerusalem. We have ignored many parts of the city?s eastern half. The question is whether one fatal folly justifies another

Giuliani, McCain: US Should Prepare to Attack Iran

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

Jerusalem Post Iran's al-Qaida dilemma
[ MEIR JAVEDANFAR & ALEX VATANKA

In praise of Pakistani Pervez Musharraf
[ JACK ROSEN

LA Times Rice Seeks to Marginalize Hamas

Iran Deeply Involved in 2006 Lebanon-Israel War (MEMRI)

Rethinking the Core Issues - Dan Diker

CSM Hamas softening throws twist in talks Secretary of State Rice, in the Middle East ahead of next month's peace talks, says Hamas has no role

'Positive progress in talks'

Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah says major exchange deal with Israel is in the works

Israel's dilemma/ Nahum Barnea

Israeli-Hizbullah swap sparks speculation about further exchanges

Political Dynamics Shifted During 2006 Israel-Hezbollah Conflict

Commentary's Transition
New York Sun

Tony Karon Rice-Olmert-Abbas: End of the Affair

DEBKAfile reports: Tehran is choreographing all swap deals with Israel after Nasrallah’s authority wanes in Hizballah

Berlin-Tehran Ties Are Key to Prisoner Deals – at a Heavy Security Price for Israel

DEBKAfile: US sources dwarf peril of Syrian nuclear target bombed by Israel last month. They aim to clear way for resumed Washington-Syrian dialogue

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Surge in exports buoys US economy Biggest export last year? Nuclear reactors. Sales of boats and harvesters surge, too

ASIA

FT WORLD NEWS: Singh admits US nuclear deal is in danger

WORLD NEWS: Beijing anger over Dalai Lama award

INSIGHT - ANDY XIE: China's bubble may burst but the impact will be limited

Independent Hamish McRae: China thinks red but starts to talk green

Bush to attend Dalai Lama ceremony President defies US tradition and Chinese anger by joining spiritual leader as he receives civilian honour.

BBC Deal demolished?
Will the India-US nuclear accord go up in smoke?

Exclusive Bhutto interview By Harlan Ullman Islamabad must end terrorist 'appeasement'

Asia Times How bourses bring democracy to China
As Chinese Communist Party deputies meet at the 17th National Congress this week, the nation's two stock exchanges are booming and the two seemingly diverse events are linked. President Hu Jintao has called for cautious political reform, but the real lessons in democracy are being learned by investors now emboldened to make personal financial decisions - and vote at shareholder meetings. - Wu Zhong

The geopolitical stakes
of the 'Saffron Revolution'
The Myanmar military junta is on the hit list of the Bush administration for its repressive ways, we are told. Or does Washington have a more opaque agenda? Some not-so-publicized facts indicate that behind the latest US-orchestrated, color-coordinated effort at regime change (this one is called the "Saffron Revolution", after the marching monks' robes), a battle of major geopolitical consequence is under way. - F William Engdahl

Washington Realist What's Happening with the US-India Nuclear Deal?

H11 IHT Is Nicolas Sarkozy's honeymoon over? Five months into Sarkozy's presidency, a sense of unease and discontent is surfacing - not just among his opponents but even within the corridors of the French government and Sarkozy's party.

EUROPE European press review

CSM Europe tightens immigration rules France expected to pays DNA testing law for new immigrant families. In Switzerland, a conservative party wants to cast out 'black sheep.'

FT Analysis: A Europe of exclusion clauses The 27 leaders who gather in Lisbon this week will seek to put the EU back on track after the most difficult period in its 50-year history

Daily Star Reform the EU by pretending to forget the last 50 years
By Jacques Delors

In the name of harmony Kat Christofer Could the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia finally be on the brink of settling a 15-year naming dispute with Greece?

"October 21 Polls Fast Approaching in Poland" Full text of report

H12 RFE/RLCaspian: Summit Fails To Resolve Key Question

Ukraine: 'Orange' Coalition Deal Initialed, But Have Lessons Of Past Been Learned?

Russia And Iran: Odd Couple In Tehran?

Billionaire With A Presidential Bid? He's one of Russia’s richest men, a controversial oligarch whose empire stretches from steel to soccer. But to many observers, Uzbek-born Alisher Usmanov's future may lie in Tashkent, as successor to authoritarian President Islam Karimov

Der Spiegel Caspian Hospitality: Putin Sends Strong Messages On Day 1 of Tehran Conference

Google News Azerbaijan

The Russia Problem Stratfor

Independent Leading article: A betrayal of principle (Uzbekistan)

Kiev welcomes move by Gazprom Yulia Tymoshenko’s vow to remove intermediary companies from the region’s multi-billion-dollar gas trade may be gaining support in Moscow

GvosdevGeorgian Dilemma?

EDM VORONIN PROPOSES FULL DEMILITARIZATION OF MOLDOVA
- ROSNEFT SKEPTICAL ABOUT VIABILITY OF SAKHALIN-5
- CSTO: SAFE CHOICE IN CENTRAL ASIA

H13 The Times Putin - We will complete Iranian nuclear reactor President Putin has also forged an alliance with Iran against military action by the West at a summit of Caspian Sea nations

Comment: Putin visit kills off sanctions drive

India calls off nuclear deal with America

India has officially informed the United States that it has frozen a nuclear deal because of opposition from communist allies

Nato ‘lacking resources to fight Taleban'

A Chatham House paper says the shortage of troops is becoming a 'particularly sensitive' issue in southern Afghanistan

Libya wins seat on UN Security Council The Libyan Government was elected as the uncontested African candidate for a term at the top table of international diplomacy

Wall Street Journal See No Proliferation Reality can't interfere with "diplomacy."

Chinese Leaders Adapt to Sustain Power Chinese leaders are adapting their authoritarian rule to changing economic realities while toughening controls on political dissent.

Iran's al Qaeda If the Revolutionary Guards aren't terrorists, who is?
By BRET STEPHENS

McClatchy Friction over weak dollar expected at G-7 meeting When the finance ministers of six leading developed nations come to Washington later this week, they'll bend Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's ear about the weak dollar and gripe that it’s hurting their exports. They won’t find much sympathy.

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: We are living in a brave new world of state capitalism Consider the emergence of sovereign wealth funds as part of the integration of countries that accept a bigger role of the state in markets than western countries do today, writes Martin Wolf

FT REPORT - WORLD ECONOMY 2007: Big test for the 'great convergence'

LEADER: Oil price soars but no sense of crisis Although oil prices nudged $88 a barrel, apart from stock markets trading lower, it was difficult to detect any great sense of foreboding

LEX COLUMN: Record oil's reasons

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Beware the fruitless search for 'sharp prediction' by John Kay

Paulson warns of damage to come Hank Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, warned that the downturn in the nation’s mortgage market would burden the economy “for some time”

FT REPORT - WORLD ECONOMY 2007: Bank tactics converge to ease impact on growth

FT REPORT - WORLD ECONOMY 2007: Risk remains of a 'disorderly adjustment'

FT REPORT - WORLD ECONOMY 2007: A unique animal in the world economy

NATIONAL NEWS: Iran leader invited to Moscow for talks

WORLD NEWS: Economies adjust to an oil price heading for $90 a barrel

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: I see pesky EU states rather than a steamroller

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: A crucial catch in the banks' 'super fund'

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Does Britain want to be in or out? Decide on Europe, urges Peter Sutherland

MARKETS & INVESTING: Upgrades to rise for emerging markets

MARKETS & INVESTING: Fear of Kurdish conflict pushes crude above $88

Third party risk The third party of British politics has been lost almost without trace over recent months as Labour and Conservatives squared up to each other in the altered landscape of Gordon Brown’s premiership

Egypt cautious on Mideast talks

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial

Expand or scrap missile ban

By Kevin Ryan A Cold War treaty has opened a gap in U.S. and Russian security.

Putin warns against attacks on Iran

Reluctantly pro-life Jonah Goldberg: If you're unsure of whether human life begins at conception, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt?

H16 American Politics

Weekly Standard The Stupid Party
by James W. Ceaser

WP Big Republican Donors Slow to Open Wallets

More than a third of President Bush's fundraisers have not given to a 2008 presidential candidate, adding to Democrats' fundraising advantage

Obama's Message a Hard Sell Illinois senator champions bipartisanship while campaigning for votes of angry Democrats.

The Unforgotten Man By George F. Will,

Can you remember a time when you weren't hearing about the 'the forgotten middle class'?

Republicans at a LossBy Harold Meyerson,

Note to the GOP field: 'Anything But Clinton' is not an economic policy.

Experts Weigh Value of Endorsements for Presidential Candidates

Retirement season hits GOP hard

'Frontline' explores the influence of Dick Cheney

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Clinton disappointed as Obama closes funding gap

H17 Daily Telegraph Vladimir Putin in Teheran

Vladimir Putin may come to regret the games he is at present glad to play on the question of Iran's nuclear ambitions with a serious source of instability on his southern flank

Looser EU ties can only help UK economy

Norman Lamont believes Britain has nothing to fear from opting out of a political union and having a looser trading relationship with the EU.

Questioning the BBC's role in digital age

The development of the internet and other technologies has been a challenge to the BBC, and one to which it has responded with an avalanche of licence-payers' money.

Migrant workers earn more than British

Reliable immigrant workers are higher paid than their British counterparts, contributing £6bn to economic growth last year.

The Home Office report on migration (pdf)

H18 Independent Putin uses nuclear talks in Tehran to warn US against attacking Iran

IMF and World Bank gather for talk-fest

Legal Opinion: Has Britain been complicit in a US torture programme?

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Draft or withdrawal, US has to choose: ex-Army captains

The Pentagon's Virtual World Of 'Military Transformation'
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)

“Integration” of the Intelligence Community

'Human terrain'
Anthropologists uneasy over job offers from Pentagon

Blackwater won't allow arrests

By Sharon Behn

A defiant Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince told editors and reporters at The Washington Times yesterday he will not allow Iraqi authorities to arrest his contractors and try them in Iraq's faulty justice system.

Constitutional scholar: 9/11 was 'highly convenient'

Newsweek talks to Blackwater's founder.

Bush's Justice Dept. Shifts Focus

U.S. prosecutes more immigration and terrorism cases, fewer mobsters and white-collar criminals

Top Spy Asked to Explain Pre-9/11 Spying Allegations

CAP The Government, Not Blackwater, Should Have the Monopoly of Force

Homeland Security's Use of Contractors Is Questioned

Pandemic Influenza: An Analysis of State Preparedness and Response Plans
CRS

Geographic Bureaucracies and National Security
UNC Chapell Hill

The CIA's inspector general must be free to do his job.
Patrick Radden Keefe

America is Somehow to Blame: German Public Television on 9/11
World Politics Review

The Blotter What Does Uncle Sam Pay to Read Your E-Mail?

Weekly Standard A License to Leak
The unhappy consequences of a shield law for journalists.
by Gabriel Schoenfeld

The List: World’s Healthiest Countries

H21 Plenty of shouting but no knockout

It should be a classic confrontation but both Amis and Eagleton have lost track of the argument Magnus Linklater

Africans less intelligent than Westerners, says DNA pioneer

Fury at James Watson's theory: "All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really"

The controversy of intelligence theories

Portals: Can Linux replace Windows as the PC mainstay?

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