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H1 Guardian Facing disaster in Iran, Europe must finally make the hard choices Timothy Garton Ash: The EU waffles while Washington and Tehran move towards war. Yet Europe has a big stick if it is willing to use it.

McClatchy Experts: Fiscal crisis threatens U.S. future As presidential candidates largely ignore the issue, looming fiscal challenges threaten to swamp the U.S. economy and erode America's superpower status, several of the nation's foremost experts on the federal budget warned Wednesday

Washington Post The Empty Chair at the Iraq Hearings By John B. Taylor, Policy often falters in practice because the economic or financial aspect is overlooked.

From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . . In Sometimes-Brusque 'Snowflakes,' He Shared Worldview, Shaped Policy By Robin Wright

Dollar's Fall a Good Thing Bill Emmott | The bad news would be if the dollar were not to fall.

Editorial Democracy Disinvited What might Russian President Putin have to hide from election monitors

Life in Budget Limbo By David Ignatius, How do you innovate if you don't know how much money you've got?

Financial Times COMMENT & ANALYSIS: A mis-step on the path to Middle East peace Conference is not only too little, too late. It is also the wrong thing to do, says Jon Alterman

Christian Science Monitor Middle East racing toward nuclear power Shiite Iran’s ambitions have spurred 13 Sunni states to declare atomic energy aims this year

Iran's Hezbollah Card Stratfor

Asia Times Plan B (for 'bombs') after Iran fantasy fails
Neo-conservatives driving the George W Bush administration firmly believed that a successful display of US military force in Iraq would destroy the foundations of the Iranian government. They clung to this illusion until late 2005, when it finally dawned on them that the Iraqi adventure was having the opposite effect. The pressure on Iran now to back down on its nuclear program stems from their realization that military force will have to be used against Iran to accomplish the original goal of regime change. - Gareth Porter

How to Try a Terrorist By JOHN C. COUGHENOUR

Consistency, Proportionality and Hypocisy By: Gwynne Dyer | The Japan Times With their talk of attacking Iran, Bush and Cheney are painting themselves into a corner. The delayed action might indicate a military reticence to go along with their latest scheme.

Guardian What role did al-Qaida play? Jason Burke: It didn't fund the Madrid bombings or provide the training; but its scant links to the bombers tells us a lot about the nature of modern Islamist militancy.

In praise of Putin Edward Pearce: For too long the west has rested on an assumption of superiority. The Russian president should be praised for exposing this old fallacy

Post-Islamism Ali Eteraz: The future of Islamic reform lies with post-Islamism - a recognition that politics rather than religion provides for welfare in this life

Ha’aretz – Benn You can learn it in a negotiations course Anyone given something termed a 'final proposal' will think that it benefits his rival and will reject it out of hand

Clinton would cream Giuliani, poll finds (David Paul Kuhn/The Politico)

Israel and Western peace mediators are discussing the possibility of deploying an international security force in territory the Palestinians want for a state.

Private Note to Bush from Hagel Calls For Direct, Unconditional, Comprehensive Talks with Iran

Geopolitical Diary: Iran's Intense Foreign Policy Debate
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Geopolitical Diary: The Lead-up to a Diplomatic Orgy Stratfor

Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Iraq Policy Floating on a Sea of Oil

Report: Strategic air base being readied for war on Iran

No Good Military Options Against Iran

Commentary: The great illusion By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep, Saul Bellow once said. The illusion, yet again, is a Middle Eastern peace conference in November or December that would produce the final outlines and contents of an independent state of Palestine. Seldom has such a vision appeared more chimera than reality, and yet seldom pursued more vigorously, this time by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has logged eight trips to the region in ten months, in the elusive pursuit of a legacy other than Iraq.

H2 Brookings - Last Chance for U.S.-Turkish Relations? Mark R. Parris The irony is that neither Turkey’s political nor military leadership – for different reasons – wants to pull the trigger.

CSIS Turkey Resources Secretary Rice in Ankara: Mission Impossible? --- Turkey and the West ---- Turkey’s Military Options for Dealing with the PKK a Preliminary Assessment

Boston Globe Turkey's Iraq problem (By David L. Phillips)

From the Archive - CIA THE KURDS: RISING EXPECTATIONS, OLD FRUSTRATIONS

IRAQ-TURKEY-IRAN: THE KURDISH INSURGENCIES1

Jamestown Foundation Tactical and Strategic Problems of a Turkish Winter Campaign in Northern Iraq By Andrew McGregor

Washington Post Turkey Crisis Could Threaten Meeting on Iraq Nation's Broader Security Issues Should Be Priority, Officials Say

Gvosdev Rice Visit To Turkey

KIRKUK, IRAQ. 15 Nov 2007. Fateful referendum on future of Kirkuk ...

Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence by Aliza Marcus

Where is the PKK? Soner Cagaptay maps 'em, NYT. (repeat)

FT Iraq to reinforce Turkey border Baghdad said it would set up checkpoints along the border to prevent Kurdish rebels from receiving supplies, a proposal aimed at forestalling a Turkish military incursion

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Turkey will never be allowed to forget the events of 1915

Washington Post For Kurds In N. Iraq, A Familiar Foreboding Shelling by Turkey Leads Many to Flee

CSM Why Turks no longer love the US US Secretary Rice arrives Friday in what surveys show to be the world's most anti-American nation.

Asia Times Winter weighs on Turkey's options As a hard winter looms in northern Iraq, Turkish troops are massed at the border awaiting almost certain orders to crush Kurdish militants. But their military options are declining as quickly as the temperature. Political heat from Iraq, and some directly contradictory comments from the US, are complicating an already sticky situation

Iraq Fears Border Crises Overtaking Agenda

NYT Iraq Asks for Iran’s Help in Calming Kurdish Crisis

Tension With Turkey Shaking Iraq

Editorial: US must realize Turkey serious about Iraq offensive
Middle East Times

Armenian Genocide: the Lobbying Behind the Congressional Resolution By: Guy Taylor | World Politics Review Much of the controversy surrounding a congressional committee's approval of a resolution condemning as genocide the massacre of Armenians during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire has focused on the action's geopolitical ramifications. But a key question remains unanswered: How did the world's most powerful body of lawmakers come to feel compelled to register a position on an event that happened almost a century ago?

Türkiye'nin yanlış hesabı Kuzey Irak'ı İsrail'e bıraktı.

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

U.S. giving Turkey intelligence on PKK in Iraq | U.S. | Reuters

ABD casus uçakları PKK’yı izliyor

‘Biz de Kürdüz vatanı bölemezler’

US Fuelling Tensions Between Turkey and PKK - Iran TV

Iran Urges Turkey to Exercise Restraint

A Turkey-Iraq war can be postponed, but not cancelled

BBC US giving Turkey PKK intelligence

Anti Kürd senaryolar tutmayacak

Zap Vadisi'nde sessizlik hakim

"Türkiye'ye PKK'ya dair istihbarat veriyoruz"

'PKK Konusu İstanbul Görüşmesini Tıkamasın'

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 31 October 2007

Iraq Kurdish Writer Urges PKK to Change Policy; Says Turkish Invasion Unlikely

Militarism in the Kurdish Diaspora: PKK Circumverts Ban in Germany - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

A look at diplomatic negotiations amid crisis in Turkey - International Herald Tribune

Le Monde: Eski PKK şefi peşmerge albayı oldu

KYB Ankara Temsilcisi'nden Özkök'e mektubun tam metni ve orjinali

Anti Kürd senaryolar tutmayacak

Zebari: PKK'ya karşı daha fazla kontrol noktası oluşturuldu

Turkey Expects US to Destroy Kurdish Bases in Iraq

Kuzeyde güneyde acı
Şırnak'ta şehit düşen üç asker on binlerce kişinin katıldığı törenlerle toprağa verildi. Şehit ağabeyi Kemal Çiçek: Biz de Kürt'üz. Bunların derdi başka...

ABD üçlü mekanizmadan yana

Russia urges Turkish restraint on rebels (

DTP ve Zana için jet soruşturma

Bakkalda satılan Kürdistan haritası

Rights and wrongs in the fight against the PKK (Today's Zaman)

"Turkish" Helicopter Hovers Over Iraqi Kurdistan Border Area

Turkish TV Programme Views State Policy on Northern Iraq, Barzani's Remarks

Iraq Kurdish Leader Barzani Urges PKK to "Renounce Violence"

Iraqi President Urges PKK to Disarm in Interview With Turkish Paper

Turkish President Criticizes Iraq's Kurdish Leaders, USA for Not Tackling PKK

Hadi Özışık DTP Kürtler’den uzaklaşıyor!

Çiçek: Önlemlerin hedefi doğrudan PKK'dır

Gemlik'te Öcalan'ın avukatlarına tepki

’Terörist kardeşimiz’e 2 yıl istendi

'Öcalan Kürt halkının önderi' sözü Zana'nın

"Barışçı çözümlerden faydalanmalıyız"

3 şehit verilen Cudi'de 15 PKK'lı öldürüldü

'PKK suikastçısı'ndan itiraf

PKK'nın mayın tuzağı son anda fark edildi

ABD müttefikten müttefike değişiyor
MUHAMMED ESSEMMAK

British MEA trade delegation announces Kurdistan-UK Business Forum

Tension With Turkey Shaking Iraq
New York Times

Iraq's oil: the plot thickens
Seattle Times

Ercüment Okçu ile Söyleşi

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Avrupa'nın Ankara'ya PKK'ya karşı destek verme zamanı geldi
Christian Ultsch

German Agencies Fear Adverse Effects of Turkish-Kurdish Conflict

Demiralp: 'Turks increasingly distrustful of EU membership process'

AB, üyesinin atmadığı imzayı istiyor

DTP'lilerin son çıkışı Avrupa'yı da kızdırdı

Köln'de PKK'lılar Türk lokaline saldırdı

Militarism in the Kurdish Diaspora: PKK Circumverts Ban in Germany - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

"PKK yasağı sıkı bir şekilde uygulanıyor"

Talabani korktu gelmiyor

Maliki: Türkiye ile krizi İran çözsün

War and Peace Scenarios in Kurdistan

Russia urges Turkish restraint on Kurdish rebels

Dağlıca'da eğitim, öğretmenlerin fedakârlıklarıyla sürüyor

DoD Giving Turkey Intel on Kurd Rebels

Çocuklar 'asker ağabeylere' emanet

Rus gemisi Türkiye için Karadeniz'de

Suspected PKK leader goes on trial in Germany | International | Reuters

Gulfnews: Kurdish problem takes toll on Turkey's tourism

Turkey: Economic Action Vs Kurd Rebels

Rice Will Offer Turkey More Intelligence on PKK, Milliyet Says

Turkey's prime minister accuses Iraqi Kurds of turning blind eye to rebel Kurds - International Herald Tribune

AKP’li vekilin satanist örneği tartışma yarattı

Başbakanlık, MİT ve MGK bütçeleri komisyonda

The 56-year story of the unmade Atatürk film - Turkish Daily News Oct 31, 2007

Turkish statesman, scientist Erdal Inonu dies at 81 - Culture - Middle East Times

American University in Turkey Says It Will Not Enforce Head-Scarf Ban - Chronicle.com

Irak ve Afganistan yüzlerce intihar getirdi

Sami Hostan’a zaman aşımı

Hüseyin Gülerce Londra'da Gülen toplantısı

[MUSLIM WORLD IN TRANSITION: CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE GÜLEN MOVEMENT-3] Gülen’s prospects for inter-religious dialogue

Robustness and civility: Themes from Fethullah Gülen by PAUL WELLER*

Dışişlerinden, sahte sicil raporu düzenleyen diplomat için yargılama izni istedi

Serpil YILMAZ atv-Sabah maçında Özyeğin yedek kulübeye Zorlu sahaya

1. Yeni Şafak yazarına ağır yanıt

Oray Eğin
Hasan Cemal ve emeklilik yaşı

1 Kasım 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 ABD-Peşmerge-PKK üçgeninde Türkiye (1) Hasan Celal Güzel

[NEWS ANALYSIS] If PM returns empty handed from US, operation to be in Nov.

Erdoğan Bush'u 11 Eylül ile vuracak

Ekonomik abluka

SOLİ ÖZEL Hareket

Hasan CEMAL Türkiye küçük bir kapı açsın

Şahin Alpay ABD ve PKK

Ertuğrul Özkök Ana uçağında sivil-asker kol kola

Paşalarla gidiyor

Iraq moves to curb PKK movements, supply lines

Rice, üçlü mekanizme için geliyor

M Ali Birand Bush’a önce teşekkür, sonra ise…

İstanbul'da Irak toplantısı

ABD'nin eğittiği peşmergeler sınıra kaydırıldı

Beyaz Saray’da ipler kopabilir

ABD: 'Türkiye'ye İstihbarat Sağlıyoruz'

İşte PKK’nın Kerkük ofisi!

Cüneyt Ülsever Başbakan, ABD’ye giderken

Jo Vally's story and the Western media on Turkey
C. Cem OĞUZ

Cevdet Aşkın Barzani tanınmak ABD tanıtmak peşinde

Cengiz Çandar Ankara havaları

Where are we at in the crisis? (Cengiz ÇANDAR )

Kurdish gambit (IV) Burak BEKDİL

İnönü'nün bıraktığı boşluk Tarhan Erdem

Ardan Zentürk K. Irak-Ermenistan hattı... Biz kiminle savaşıyoruz...

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Tanrı'yı kıyamete, Türkiye'yi bölgesel savaşa zorlamak!..

YASİN DOĞAN PKK, niçin "ihanet" içinde?

Kritik 4 gün

En kritik 5 gün

Halk zarar görmeyecek

'Özerklik üniter yapıyı güçlendirir'

63 Kürt aşireti: Türkiye'ye bağlanalım

Türk ordusu seferberliğe hazırlanıyor...

Sami KOHEN İstanbul zirvesi için öncelikler değişti

MELİHA OKUR Barzani'nin Türkiye'de kaç parası var?

Semih İDİZ Ermeni tasarısının önümüzdeki yıl gündeme gelmesi zor

Fethullah Gülen hareketi ve yeni Soğuk Savaş Nuray Mert

Erdoğan sends signals of N. Iraq embargo

Rice's hands are tied in meeting Ankara's demands

Sebahattin Kibaroğlu Erdoğan, Bush'a rest çekebilir mi?

İsrafil Kumbasar Apo'yu Türkiye'ye paketlemelerinin nedeni şimdi anlaşıldı mı?

İhsan Dağı Rights and wrongs in the fight against the PKK

Serdar Turgut Bush’a tavır yanlış

İbrahim Kalın Turkey's war on terror could be an opportunity for the Kurdish problem

AKP'li Özbayrak: Bugün Alevilere verirseniz, yarin satanistlerde ister

ABD U-2’leri gönderdi

Komandoya karşı ABD eğitimli peşmerge

Ambargo var açıklama yok

Neması kesilecek

MGK sonrası Habur

Barzani’nin 'petrol' korkusu

ABD'den ilk somut adım; PKK'yı takip için Türkiye-Irak sınırına casus uçak

'PKK suikastçısı'ndan şok itiraflar

Şehitlerin kanı yerde kalmadı

Bilal Çetin Geri sayım...

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

Fehmi Koru Muska yerine

Divided we stand

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Emekli generaller!

Serdar Turgut Planlanmış kaos

Güler Kömürcü
Görünmeyenler ve ortadakiler

Mustafa Erdoğan Amerika bu işin içinde

Ekrem Dumanlı Bazı 'emekli askerler' en çok kime zarar veriyor?

Ahmet Hakan ’Meydanlarda neden türbanlılar yok’a dair

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Bir müdahale daha var

Medyada Son Balon Perihan Mağden

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi Erdal İnönü bir değer idi

Erdal İnönü için... İsmet Berkan

İnönü herkesten farklı bir siyasiydi Murat Yetkin

Hurşit GÜNEŞ İnceden Erdal İnönü

Fikret BİLA Erdal İnönü'nün ardından

Taha AKYOL Erdal İnönü'ye saygı

Yalçın Doğan Gel benim komşum oluver şimdi

Mümtazer Türköne Birbirimize düşmek

Gül’ün görev süresi kaç yıl?

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Turkey’s critical dance with democracy

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK İnönü'nün ardından

ERGUN BABAHAN Erdal Bey

EMRE AKÖZ Orası Alemdağ değil!

Umur Talu Hakikat, sadakat

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Erdal İnönü dünyası

NAZLI ILICAK Bugün, güldürmedi... ağlattı

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Siyasetin 'platonik' aktörü!

YAVUZ DONAT

Mehmet Tezkan Aşağılık senaryo!

Eyüp Can İçişleri Bakanı'na sorduğum ‘o meşum soru’

Hadi Uluengin Üç zum ve kuzene bum

Mehmet Barlas Bağdat’taki iktidar Bağdat’a mı barış getirebiliyor ki?

Mehmet Altan . Hükümet Dün...

İsmail Küçükkaya
Çankaya Köşkü’nde yaşananlar...

Tuğçe Baran Güney Doğu mu dediniz?

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Domates, biber apartmanlarını da görür müyüz?

Yalnız GSMH ile yaşanmaz
Mahfi Eğilmez

Yiğit Bulut Bu kitabı yeni okuyanlar 'neler olmuş' diyorlar

Ercan Kumcu Ortalama enflasyon üzerinden hesap kesilir

Erdal Sağlam 2008’de dış şartlar büyümeye destek değil

'Hazine arazisi kullanan bedelini öder'

Değişen şartları tasarladık mı?
Fatih Özatay

Seyfettin Gürsel Hükümet ve Merkez Bankası’ndan büyümeye farklı bakış

'Benim bildiğim Başbakan sözünde durur'
Funda Özkan

Turkey climbs up 6 spots in competitiveness

İhracatın şampiyonları Tüpraş, Toyota ve Ford

Yiğit Bulut “Kendini yok ederek” büyüyen tek ekonomiyiz...

Metin MÜNİR ABD artık dünya ekonomisinin lokomotifi değil mi?

Murat Turan Türkiye karar aşamasında!

Iraq Asks for Iran’s Help in Calming Kurdish Crisis

Veteran Bush Aide Resigns as Envoy to Return to Texas

H5 Washington Post The Empty Chair at the Iraq Hearings By John B. Taylor, Policy often falters in practice because the economic or financial aspect is overlooked.

From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . . In Sometimes-Brusque 'Snowflakes,' He Shared Worldview, Shaped Policy By Robin Wright, In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly...

Dollar's Fall a Good Thing Bill Emmott | The bad news would be if the dollar were not to fall.

Editorial Democracy Disinvited What might Russian President Putin have to hide from election monitors

Life in Budget Limbo By David Ignatius, How do you innovate if you don't know how much money you've got?

Committee of One By Robert D. Novak, Nancy Pelosi is the most powerful speaker of the House in 50 years

Envoys Resist Forced Iraq Duty Top State Dept. Officials Face Angry Questions

Hughes to Leave State Dept. After Mixed Results in Outreach Post

Clinton Regroups As Rivals Pounce

21 Convicted in Madrid Bombings

Acquittals for Some Defendants, Including Lead Suspect, Draw Outcry From Families

Partners in the War on Terror By: U.S. Senator John D. Rockefeller IV In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, the Bush administration had a choice: Aggressively pursue potential terrorists using existing laws or devise new, secret intelligence programs in uncharted legal waters. Unfortunately, President Bush often chose the latter, and the legitimacy and effectiveness of our efforts to fight terrorism were dramatically undermined.

William Arkin Enough About Iran's Nukes

H6 Guardian Facing disaster in Iran, Europe must finally make the hard choices Timothy Garton Ash: The EU waffles while Washington and Tehran move towards war. Yet Europe has a big stick if it is willing to use it.

Spain's 9/11: verdicts delivered
21 found guilty, seven cleared.

What role did al-Qaida play?

Jason Burke: It didn't fund the Madrid bombings or provide the training; but its scant links to the bombers tells us a lot about the nature of modern Islamist militancy.

In praise of Putin Edward Pearce: For too long the west has rested on an assumption of superiority. The Russian president should be praised for exposing this old fallacy

Post-Islamism Ali Eteraz: The future of Islamic reform lies with post-Islamism - a recognition that politics rather than religion provides for welfare in this life

Iraq war: too much weight on intelligence, says ex-MI6 chief

US troop fatalities plunge following 'surge strategy' Pentagon claims the downward trend shows that its 'surge' strategy in Iraq is working.

Facing defeat in Afghanistan

Simon Tisdall As the allies squabble about burden-sharing, the situation on the ground is becoming increasingly grim

If you can't stand the hate... Inayat Bunglawala: Many religious books contain unpleasant ideas. But a robust democracy shouldn't be too troubled by them.

The withering rightroots Armando Llorens: With the Republican party in disarray, America's conservative blogosphere is experiencing an identity crisis.

Spanish lessons for Britain
Anti-terrorism laws: After the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq war, it fell to Spain and then Britain to be Europe's frontline targets for Islamist terrorism's fanatics. In both cases, ordinary citizens of the two countries' capital cities were slaughtered without warning or compunction while they journeyed into work.

CCTV is no silver bullet - it risks making life less safe Libby Brooks: It's not only about civil liberties. The cameras produce fallible images, encourage detachment, and corrode civic values.

The siege of Gaza is going to lead to a violent escalation
Seumas Milne: Far from helping settle the Middle East conflict, the US and Europe are fuelling it with their contempt for democracy.

They have us over a barrel

Faisal al Yafai If Britain wasn't so dependent on Saudi Arabia's oil it might have a more equitable platform from which to criticise its government.

H7

Commentary: The great illusion By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep, Saul Bellow once said. The illusion, yet again, is a Middle Eastern peace conference in November or December that would produce the final outlines and contents of an independent state of Palestine. Seldom has such a vision appeared more chimera than reality, and yet seldom pursued more vigorously, this time by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has logged eight trips to the region in ten months, in the elusive pursuit of a legacy other than Iraq.

Commentary: Inexorable march toward war with Iran?

Debate good for the system (Lee H. Hamilton)

BBC 'They run away'
Pakistan militants taunt military in latest confrontation

UK PM in talks with Saudi king

UPI Analysis: Countering religious extremism By SHAUN WATERMAN To a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail, so it is perhaps not surprising that U.S. lawmakers should seek to legislate victory in the ideological conflict with violent Islamic extremists.

Asia Times An attempt to douse the flames of war It's 28 years since the US cut off diplomatic ties with Iran, and their relationship has never been worse, teetering on the brink of war. A group of high-level panelists in Washington tried to make some sense of what is going on. They believe the tensions underscore Washington's continued inability to understand Iran and are the result of the US's ill-fated policies over the years.

Outside View: Tehran opts for the hard way By PYOTR GONCHAROV Tehran's tough new stance in its dialogue with the UN Security Council over its nuclear program, heralded by the sudden resignation of Ali Larijani as chief negotiator earlier this month, is the product of generational shift in Iran's political elite

Structures of Power and National Security
Dissident Voice

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

BBC Iraq rejects Mosul Dam warnings Iraq dismisses a US warning that the Mosul Dam is at risk of collapse and threatens thousands of lives.

Analysis: US ok's Saddam law oil deals

Diplomats hostile to forced Iraq service (By Matthew Lee)

Daily Star Regression in the Muslim Brotherhood's platform?
By Amr Hamzawy

From payer to player in the Middle East
By El - Hassan Bin Talal

Petraeus Personally Introduces Disgraced Ahmed Chalabi To U.S. Troops In Iraq

Lute fights bureaucracy on Iraq war (AP)

Number of Displaced Iraqis Is Soaring By: Shirouk Alabayachi and Robert Lowe | The Japan Times
U.S. officials report a drop in killings in Iraq. If the country is becoming safer, why do the numbers of refugees continue to escalate?

Yemen's Truce With Al Qaeda By: Jane Novak | The Weekly Standard
The American attempts to rehabilitate the Yemeni regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh have not succeeded. Yemeni authorities recently pardoned Jamal Al-Badawi, convicted mastermind of the 2000 USS Cole bombing. All the terrorists who bombed the American warship and killed 17 American sailors are free, except those dead or in U.S. custody

The Execution Debate in Kurdish Iraq By: Matthias Gebauer | Der Spiegel
Three of Saddam Hussein's military leaders were sentenced to death for their complicity in the March 1988 massacre of more than 5,000 Iraqi Kurds in Halabja. But now a fierce debate has erupted as to whether they should be hanged.

An Update on Iran's Parliamentary Elections

H9 Ha’aretz – Benn You can learn it in a negotiations course Anyone given something termed a 'final proposal' will think that it benefits his rival and will reject it out of hand.

Israel: Hezbollah has tripled its land-to-sea missile arsenal

Shmuel Rosner: Annapolis is the summit of all fears

Israel assessing security needs ahead of summit Team examining areas whose defense is considered vital to Israel's security, mainly in the West Bank.

Jerusalem Post Rice won't bring Annapolis invitations

Officials say date for conference not set, Saudi participation unclear, removal of outposts a must.

'IDF can destroy Iran's nuclear program'

Israel Says Hezbollah Can Hit Tel Aviv...

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

Washington Times Fuel cuts to Gaza seen as no solution Israel's dilemma over using fuel and gas supplies to punish Gazans for rocket fire came into sharp focus this week when a salvo of five mortars slammed down on this farming cooperative abutting the Gaza border.

Israel considers citizenship changes

Knesset move angers Israeli Arabs The early passage of Israeli legislation seeking to ban lawmakers from visiting "enemies" sparks a row.

H10 Christian Science Monitor Middle East racing toward nuclear power Shiite Iran’s ambitions have spurred 13 Sunni states to declare atomic energy aims this year

Within Democratic field, Iran is the new Iraq During Tuesday's debate, '08 contenders pounded Clinton for her recent vote on Iran resolution.

Rules change for security contractors in Iraq

The Pentagon and State Department agree on more military oversight.

ASIA

Let a Hundred Investments Bloom By: Jing Ulrich | International Herald Tribune China is now, for the first time, permitting its citizens to invest overseas. This is a momentous development, for two reasons. First, the Chinese are prodigious savers with some $2.25 trillion in household savings. The financial impact of some of this money flowing to markets around the world should not be underestimated.

China: the ladder to power, Li Datong

UPI Walker's World: The Indo-Pakistan hyphen By MARTIN WALKER UPI Editor Emeritus -- Although India claims that its economic growth makes the world view it as a coming great power independent of the traditional Indo-Pakistan perspective, that stubborn hyphen retains its relevance

CSM Opinion: China: Keep your Olympic promise To host the Games, Beijing pledged press freedom. It's time to deliver.

Building a Framework for Peace and Security in Northeast Asia

WT Nuclear India By Richard Halloran A nuclear agreement that was to have been emblematic of new strategic relations between the United Stares and India appears to be falling apart, with serious consequence all around.

Chinese rocket raises concerns of space arms race
China details plans to build a new rocket with enough power to put a space station into orbit.

DT Beijing Olympics feels the heat Despite immense Chinese pride at capturing the world's greatest sporting event, Beijing is finding that the path to Olympic glory is strewn with obstacles.

China's Africa Dream Is Looking Less Nightmarish By: William Pesek | Bloomberg
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.'s move to buy 20 percent of Africa's largest bank is such a transaction. It's the biggest overseas investment by a Chinese company, in this case the world's No. 1 bank by market value.

FT WORLD NEWS: Delhi hopes rise on reviving US nuclear deal

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Latest Developments CRS

China embarks on a new cultural revolution with celebration of digital arts

China Raises Price of Fuel Amid Shortage

China raised gasoline and diesel prices by 10% in a move to curb demand as fuel shortages spread. Crude rose $4.15 to a record $94.53 a barrel

H11 IHT Roger Cohen: Afghanistan at the tipping point By ROGER COHEN The International Force has to be in Afghanistan for at least a decade.

Prickly relations on display as Saudi king visits Britain Abdullah met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown for talks that centered on terrorism and Middle East peace issues, but not on human rights. The talks followed a series of a series of criticisms for all concerned with the state visit.

EUROPE European press review

Nicolas Sarkozy: The Hyperpresident
Source: The Brookings Institution Full Paper (PDF; 180 KB)

Philippe Askenazy, Françoise Gaspard, Nancy L. Green, and Jean-Baptiste Soufron consider how the election of Nicholas Sarkozy reflects a dramatically different France

Alessandro Figus (Malta): Italian Politics at the Crossroads: Nationalism, Separatism or Federalism?

Beauty and the feast: With its history as a nation, it is easier to understand modern Italy through its food and women.

From L'Espill, in order to understand modern Catalan nationalism, it is necessary to examine the emergence of "anti-Catalanism" in Castilian Spain during the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Madrid victims fury at 'leniency' Victims of the Madrid train bombs are angry at what they see as the court's lenient treatment of some accused.

EU to Delay Launch of Membership Talks With Macedonia By: Elitsa Vucheva | EU Observer
The EU will not give the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia the green light for starting accession talks next week as the Balkan country had hoped, with the European Commission citing political shortcomings for the delay.

BND, 2003'ten beri dört büyük skandalla sarsıldı

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Did murdered ex-spy Litvinenko work for British intelligence?

Securing Russian Nuclear Missiles? U.S. Is Set to Say ‘Done’ By: C.J. Chivers | The New York Times
With a final inspection planned for Wednesday at a secret nuclear missile base in the Ural Mountains, the United States expects to complete a program of security improvements for Russia’s network of strategic nuclear rocket forces, according to two American officials involved in the effort

Anger as Putin blocks vote observers

'Unprecedented' curbs follow criticism by OSCE amid fears that Kremlin will manipulate duma vote.

Russia moves to cut elections oversight in ex-Soviet states

Georgian TV chief turns to Rupert Murdoch Badri Patarkatsishvili, who is financing public opposition to the president, will allow News Corp to control TV station Imeldi in an effort to protect its editorial independence

FT BOOK REVIEW: Grandmaster plays on the wrong board

H13 The Times The Supreme Court will seal Musharraf’s fate

In this year’s turmoil in Pakistan the court has been a reassuring pillar in an otherwise disintegrating country Bronwen Maddox

Cometh the new time zone . . .

The economic and political arguments for joining the European time zone are compelling

Anatole Kaletsky

Old rivals team up for Middle East peace Gordon Brown and Tony Blair try to salvage a Middle East peace conference in the US by clinching Saudi Arabia’s attendance

Wall Street Journal The Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point to 4.5%, but strongly discouraged expectations of further reductions, saying the risks of weaker growth and higher inflation were roughly balanced.

BBC Fed delivers second US rate cut The US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates from 4.75% to 4.5% to help kick start housing and credit markets. Q&A: US interest rate decision

Washington diary
Matt Frei on whether the US is heading for a nasty oil shock

H14 Financial Times COMMENT & ANALYSIS: A mis-step on the path to Middle East peace Conference is not only too little, too late. It is also the wrong thing to do, says Jon Alterman

Fed succumbs to a demand it created If it takes too many risks with inflation investors will lose confidence in the dollar. That is not a risk it can take. The Fed should now pause for breath

UN talks to consider fresh Iran measures The permanent five members of the United Nations Security Council together with Germany will meet in London to begin discussing the terms of a new resolution that might trigger fresh sanctions against Iran

Total chief warns on oil output The world’s capacity to produce oil will fall well short of official forecasts, Christophe de Margerie has said. It would be difficult to reach even 100m barrels a day

Democratic rivals attack Clinton

US economy shrugs off subprime fallout

US growth in the third quarter was at its strongest since the beginning of last year, suggesting that a deepening housing recession and turmoil in the credit markets have yet to seriously upset other parts of the economy

WORLD NEWS: Georgian TV chief calls on Murdoch for protection

How mighty Google is ringing the changes In the world of mobile phones, Google is an upstart with an agenda that could not only help the company itself but the public as a whole, writes John Gapper

Inequality threatens India’s economic boom

Naxalite groups could disrupt the country’s growth story, says Jo Johnson

H15 Los Angeles Times Justice in Iraq Questionable offers of immunity to Blackwater guards may hinder a U.S. inquiry into the deaths of 17 Iraqis.

Alleged Madrid train bombings mastermind acquitted as other defendants found guilty

Editorial

H16 American Politics

Debate sees Clinton suffer setback

Hillary Clinton had the worst 24 hours of her White House bid after a debate in which rivals accused her of dishonesty

Clinton would cream Giuliani, poll finds (David Paul Kuhn/The Politico)

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

H17 Daily Telegraph French accused of Diana 'subterfuge'

The inquest into the death the Princess of Wales has sparked an international row after the French government was accused of using "subterfuge" to protect key witnesses

If Belgium can't survive, how can EU? Belgium has now gone for 144 days without a government and, guess what, everything seems normal, notes Daniel Hannan.

Astonishingly, I want Hillary to be president

Much to his surprise, Boris Johnson feels that with Bill Clinton at the president's side, America is less likely to do something rash and counter-productive.

H18 Independent Khaled Hosseini: Afghans are disenchanted and fear being forgotten

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Networked Forces in Stability Operations: 101st Airborne Division, 3/2 and 1/25 Stryker Brigades in Northern Iraq Source: RAND Corporation Summary (PDF; 265 KB)
+ Full Document (PDF; 2.5 MB)

Terrorism Risk Modeling for Intelligence Analysis and Infrastructure Protection
Source: RAND Corporation Summary (PDF; 148 KB)
+ Full Document (PDF; 785 KB)

A Dangerous Opportunity? American Defense Policy at a Crossroads AEI

U.S. reluctantly reveals spy budget

Women and Human Security: The Case of Post Conflict Afghanistan
Source: WIIS Words (via RAND Corporation) Full Document (PDF; 2.8 MB)

A review of Suicide Bombers: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom by Mohammed M. Hafez; A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja by Joost R. Hiltermann; and Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun.

The new Taliban: In a swath of territory across Afghanistan and Pakistan, a wild and lawless new state is being born, and warlords struggle for control as Islamic militants pour in.

Five books on terrorism you aren't allowed to read: A review of Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and the Failed Search for bin Laden by Jean-Charles Brisard, Guillaume Dasquie and Lucy Rounds; Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World by J Millard Burr and Robert O Collins; Unknown Soldiers: How Terrorism Transformed the Modern World by Matthew Carr; Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It by Rachel Ehrenfeld; and Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan by Michael Griffin.

Chalmers Johnson reviews The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror by Stephen Holmes.

Army Needs More Contracting Personnel

General: Army Has Record Low Level of Recruits...

Salon The war on whistle-blowers

H20 Slate

Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada

US halts lethal injections
Supreme court judges consider legality of death sentences

Publish and Perish

The mysterious death of Lyndon Larouche’s printer.

By Avi Klein

American journalism: back at ground zero, Sidney Blumenthal

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From The Scientist, an excerpt from Science Without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives; and an essay on the future of public engagement: The facts never speak for themselves, which is why scientists need to "frame" their messages to the public

Red meat and alcohol are cancer causes

Millions of people are at risk of getting cancer unless they slash levels of alcohol and red meat in their diets, medical experts have warned in a landmark study.

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