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April 2006 |
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| April 30 |
| Editorial: Make the system work |
| The Untold Story of Israel's Bomb - Avner Cohen and William Burr |
| Analysis: Iranians present new nuclear reality, say
observers |
| Analysis: Time Runs Out for Iran at the U.N. Now What? |
| Opinion: We may have to bomb Iran |
| Samantha Shapiro: Ministering to the Upwardly Mobile
Muslim |
| Joseph Robert Jr.: Dedication and Danger in Iraq |
| Iran Strategy: Cold War Echo |
| Analysis: Turmoil surrounds Aqaba meeting |
| Jonathan Tobin: The limits of sympathy |
| Rich Bard: It seemed so peaceful . . . before the attack |
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| April 29 |
| Leader: Terrorist axis targets Jordan |
| Analysis: Major powers tread tightrope in Iran nuclear
standoff |
| Analysis: European
Opinion and Iran's 'New' Missile |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Rice-Rumsfeld Visit To Baghdad |
| Feature: Yemeni president a shoo-in despite political
'suspense |
| A Place for 'Hirabah' in the Lexicon on Terrorism |
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| April 28 |
| Ilene Prusher: Israel raises profile in Iran fray |
| Bush's misbegotten Iran plan - Sarah Chayes and Amir Soltani Sheikholeslami |
| Bart Mongoven: Gaming
out an Iran divestment campaign |
| Feature: Qatari woman imprisoned by family for marrying
foreigner |
| 'Jihadist' Defined |
| Zarqawi: the man, the image, the video star |
| Jonathan Steele: Beware the hypocrisy of international
allegiances |
| Brendan Hoffman: Why White House woos Azerbaijan |
| Howard LaFranchi: Why the CIA's secret flights irk
Europeans |
| Ori Nir: Hamas Poses Dilemma for Egypt, Jordan |
| Jonah Goldberg: Radical Islam -- globalization for
losers |
| Egypt: Sophisticated Jihadist Operations |
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| April 27 |
| Ori Nir: Hamas Poses Dilemma for Egypt, Jordan |
| Jonah Goldberg: Radical Islam -- globalization for
losers |
| Egypt: Sophisticated Jihadist Operations |
| Bahrain: An Explosion in Manama |
| Geopolitical Diary: Al-Zarqawi On The Small Screen |
| Israel, Palestinian Territories: The Back Channel to
Hamas |
| Howard LaFranchi: A defiant Iran banks on a split at UN |
| Zarqawi message: 'I'm still here' |
| John Cooley: US should call for direct talks with Iran |
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| April 26 |
| Analysis: Hamas stand unchanged by condemnation of Egypt
attacks |
| Iraq: Al-Zarqawi's TV Debut |
| Geopolitical Diary: Al Qaeda's Quest for Influence |
| Joseph Flesh: An Israeli-Arab optimist |
| Robert Hunter: Time To Talk With Iran |
| The problem is: Iran does pose a threat in every way
Iraq did not |
| Chrono: Iran nuclear standoff: four years of rising
tension |
| George Friedman: The Geopolitics of China |
| Analysis: The Latest Trends in Jihadist Attacks |
| Egypt: Resurgence of militant Islamists |
| Jpost Editorial: Jihad in Sinai |
| India: Bin Laden's Call to Kashmir's Militants |
| James Brandon: Kurds quietly angle for independence |
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| April 25 |
| Egypt: The
Strengthening Jihadist Wave |
| Facts: Dahab, a diver's paradise on Egypt's Red Sea
coast |
| Iraq: Violent Responses to the Political Process |
| Rhonda Roumani: Study reveals domestic abuse is
widespread in Syria |
| Feature: No strings attached marriage enrages Gulf women |
| Richard Cohen: No, It's Not Anti-Semitic |
| Geopolitical Diary: Al Qaeda's New Focus on Sudan |
| Egypt: Explosions in Sinai |
| Turkey: The Reappearance of al Qaeda |
| Intelligence Guidance: April 24, 2006 |
| W. Bruce Weinrod: The case for U.S. power |
| Analysis: Perfect timing for local militants to strike |
| Editorial: Declawing Iraq's militias |
| Editorial: The art of compromise in Iraq |
| Editorial: A major step forward in Iraq |
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| April 24 |
| Al-Qaeda eyes new Darfur battleground with West:
analysts |
| Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: Bush's Thousand Days |
| Walid Phares: Bin
Laden's "State of Jihad" speech |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski: Talk of a U.S. strike on Iran is
eerily reminiscent of the run-up to the Iraq war |
| Feature: Gaza hospital fights for life after
international aid cuts |
| Henry Morgenthau III: Turkey finally hears its past |
| Feature: Iraq air force needs more than new coat of
paint |
| Robert
Worth: In Search of a Secular, Nonsectarian Time in Baghdad |
| Jawad
al-Maliki: A Novice, but Outspoken |
| Angus McDowall: Western pressure irks average Iranians |
| Dan Murphy: New Iraqi leader seeks unity |
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| April 23 |
| Analysis: Gulf Arab states jittery over Iran crisis |
| Feature: Trafficked from Pakistan, raped and jailed in
Saudi Arabia |
| Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed: Why We Fear Iran |
| Analysis: Gulf states reap the fruits of record oil
prices |
| By Daoud Kuttab: Hamas's predicament - self-inflicted? |
| Nazir Majali: Philosophy of death |
| Joost Hiltermann: External forces on Iraq's new
government |
| Analysis: Jordan also pressures Hamas |
| David J. Forman: Moral comparisons |
| Niall Ferguson: Curious… the Chinese take over but
the dogs don't bark |
| Con Coughlin: 'We would have been close even if 9/11
hadn't happened' |
| Analysis: Where Hamas can afford to fight, and Fatah
can't |
| Chrono: Evolution of oil prices since 1970 |
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| April 22 |
| Profile: Loyal aide leaps past boss to become Iraq's
next PM |
| Profile: Kurdish rebel Talabani wins second term as
Iraqi president |
| Iraq: Jaafari Steps Aside -- Not Down |
| Patrick Seale: Can the U.S. Win 'Asymetric' Wars? |
| Farouq El-Baz: The Arabs' Generation of Failure |
| Robert Kuttner: Indispensable, untouchable China |
| Salama A Salama: Strife in Alexandria |
| Ibrahim Nafie: Domestic threats to peace |
| Hassan Nafaa: Beyond calculation |
| Mustafa El-Labbad: Iranian fait accompli |
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| April 21 |
| Maliki: Jaafari number two tapped to be Iraq's new PM |
| Adeeb: Little known Shiite dark horse for Iraq's top job |
| Jaafari: the stubborn Iraqi PM who lost battle for post |
| Ze'ev Schiff: A different war outline |
| Yoel Marcus: Until they get some brains |
| James Brandon: Jordan uneasy after Hamas arms find |
| Analysis: The Pakistan-Jihadist Connection |
| Jonathan Eric Lewis: Replace Turkey as a Strategic
Partner? |
| Michael Jordan: Unmasking UNRWA |
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| April 20 |
| Kamran Bokhari: The
Shiite Schisms |
| Chances rising of military strike on Iran: analysts |
| Analysis: Egypt turns up pressure on reformists |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Case of the Iranian Visitor |
| Egypt: Targeting Civilian Interests to Discredit the
Government |
| The tragedy that followed Hillary Clinton's bombing of
Iran in 2009 |
| Simon Tisdall: Iran's enemy lies within |
| David Enders: Militias roil Baghdad streets |
| Rasheed Abou-Alsamh: Saudis mull electric fence on Iraqi
border |
| Key election issue: U.S. resolve against Islamic
fanaticism |
| Iran: We 'can block oil exports whenever necessary' |
| Barrry Rubin: Good things in Mideast |
| Saudis consider nukes to achieve 'balance of terror' with
Iran |
| Flash Points: Stateless States |
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| April 19 |
| Analysis: Young terrorists are made, not born |
| Janiki Cingoli: What to do with Hamas? |
| Jeffrey Steinberg: Generals' Revolt |
| In Response to Iran: Two Saudi and Egyptian Bombs |
| Joost Hiltermann: External forces on Iraq's new
government |
| Michael Levi: Iran's Sitting Duck |
| E. J. Dionne Jr: Roots of the Uprising |
| Manuel Hassassian: Last chance for two states |
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| April 18 |
| Derrick Jackson: Robbery, not reconstruction, in Iraq |
| Israel: Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv |
| PNA: Hamas' Message in the Tel Aviv Attack |
| Israel: Shifting Tactics by Palestinian Militants |
| Feature: Israeli strikes force Gaza militants
underground |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Middle East Roundup |
| Pakistan: Closing a Border -- And Closing in on Al
Qaeda? |
| Joshua Mitnick: Attack tests Israeli response to Hamas |
| Ursula Lindsey: Egypt's grand mufti issues fatwa: no
sculpture |
| Donna Abu Nasr: Dining Out in Saudi Arabia a Police
Matter |
| Telegraph
Editorial: Hamas's weasel words bode ill for peace |
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| April 17 |
| Analysis: Experts on attacking Iran |
| Danny Rubinstein: Rallying around Hamas |
| Shmuel Rosner: A flood of Mexicans |
| Feature: Two US films draw ire of Gulf Arab censors |
| Feature: Northern Iraq city's fragile ethnic mix
perseveres |
| Feature: The Dead Sea is 'dying' |
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| April 16 |
| Gaza on brink of implosion as aid cut-off starts to bite
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| Israel: Too late to stop Teheran diplomatically |
| Is showdown over Iran close? |
| US analysts detail war planning against Iran |
| Amir Taheri: The frightening truth of why Iran wants a
bomb |
| Hugh Barnes: Drumbeat of war is drowning out wiser
counsels |
| Feature: Multi-ethnic drill sergeants give unity lessons
to Iraqi recruits |
| Haaretz Editorial: The noise before the storm |
| Zvi Bar'el: Ahmadinejad awaits a response |
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| April 15 |
| Bonnie James: Negative American views about Islam
‘worrying’ |
| Fawaz Turki: How to Lose Your Job at a Saudi Newspaper |
| Sarah Holewinski: The True Cost Of War |
| Globe Editorial: Islam faces its future |
| Feature: Anfal's Kurdish victims impatient for Saddam's
trial |
| Elias Bejjani: The obligation to protect Egypt's
Christian community |
| Interview: Pharaoh's
revenge |
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| April 14 |
| Iran and the West: oil and bad blood |
| Analysts say a nuclear Iran is years away |
| Analysis: Playing poker in Teheran |
| Henry Kissinger: American strategy and pre-emptive war |
| U.S. War on Iran: When, Not If |
| Jonathan Steele: US allies are behind the death squads
and ethnic cleansing |
| Feature: Iraq's oil guardians ill-trained and sometimes
treacherous |
| Feature: Iraqi children find hope in theatre amid
violence |
| Caterina Dutto: Iran's Long Nuclear Road |
| Reuel Marc Gerecht: To bomb, or not to bomb, that is Iran
question |
| Mark Sappenfield: Behind Bush's hard line on Iran |
| Global Intelligence: The QE2 Threat and the Symbolic
Value of Cruise Ships |
| Iran: Heard the one
about the president? |
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| April 13 |
| Gennady Yevstafiyev: Storm gathering in Iran |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iran's Nuclear Announcement |
| George Friedman: Idealism, Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy |
| David Enders: Shiite exodus from mixed towns |
| PNA: Hamas Tests the Waters With its Stance on Israel |
| Palestine: Hamas in Power |
| Jordan: Islamic Action Front Presses for Role in
Governing |
| Feaure: In strife-torn Nepal, 1,500 Israelis celebrate
huge passover meal |
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| April 12 |
| David Ignatius: An Iranian Missile Crisis? |
| Iran:
Crossing the Redline? |
| Has Iran reached nuclear point of no return? |
| Fred Burton: Framing the 'Sleeper Cell' Argument |
| Global Intelligence: 'Official' Kidnappings in the
Developing World |
| Geopolitical Diary: Italy's Election Drama |
| Feature: Bargain plastic surgery flourishes in Egypt,
but at a price |
| Simon Jenkins: If ever there was a nation not to drive
to extremes, it is Iran |
| Mark Sappenfield: Is Iran next? The calculus of military
strike |
| Warning: 'We do not have the most powerful weaponry on
earth' |
| John Hughes: Bush had good reason to believe there were
WMD in Iraq |
| Ilene R. Prusher: Sharon's legacy of controversy |
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| April 11 |
| Howard Kurtz: Going Nuclear Over Leaks |
| James Martin: No revelations in Gospel of Judas |
| H.D.S. Greenway: Reform in Morocco |
| Iraq: Arab concerns over US-Iranian talks |
| Turkey: As tensions escalate, Istanbul security is key |
| Geopolitical Diary: Exploiting sectarian fault lines |
| Moshe Arens: A fragmented Knesset |
| David Forman: Reevaluate birthright Israel |
| Seth G. Jones: Striking Iran is an option, not
inevitable |
| France: The Demise of a Youth Labor Law -- and a Prime
Minister |
| Con Coughlin: The West can't let Iran have the bomb |
| Remarks by President Bush on the Global War on Terror
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| Guardian Editorial:
Going nuclear |
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| April 10 |
| James Carroll: Iraq and the legacy of Abraham |
| Shmuel Rosner: The Iranian clock |
| James Follows: The
Nuclear Power Beside Iraq |
| Hamas: On the way down |
| Iraq: A way out for America |
| Analysis: The escalating Gaza war |
| Patrick Cockburn: The war gets more grim every day |
| Feature: Dubai's dark side - misery for Asians |
| Feature: Bahrain women battle Islamists, chauvinists in quest for rights |
| Attacks test Iraq's Shiites - David Enders and Dan Murphy |
| Yigal Schliefer: Kurdish unrest stirs again in Turkey |
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| April 9 |
| Caleb Carr: Let Them Have Their Civil War |
| Ahmed Al-Jarallah: Winds of war over horizon |
| Analysis: Iraq's thousand new dictators |
| Bouthaina Shaaban: State of denial: till when? |
| Hassan Nafaa: Comatose in Khartoum |
| Omayma Abdel-Latif: Can Syrian opposition bring about
democratic change? |
| Galal Nassar: Democracy revisited |
| The battle for Baghdad's future - John Ward Anderson and Jonathan Finer |
| Feature: Foreign ownership law to boost Dubai property
market |
| Feature: Bordeaux 2005 wins rave reviews at tasting week |
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| April 8 |
| Analysis: The Saudi militant threat in Israel and the
Palestinian territories |
| Israel, North African countries: From practical
cooperation to political dialogue |
| Sean Gannon: Papal fallibility |
| Analysis: Political Instability in Europe's Core |
| Ike Seamans: Toward the center, a safer future |
| Geopolitical Diary: The United States, Pakistan and
Musharraf |
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| April 7 |
| Jonathan Fine: Shiite Militias Now Seen As Iraq's Most
Critical Challenge |
| Con Coughlin: Iran has
missiles to carry nuclear warheads |
| Iran's New Weapons:
More Flash Than Force? |
| Rosa Brooks: Those ungrateful Iraqis! |
| Editorial Review: In support of Iraqi Shi'ites |
| Editorial Review: Sharon's legacy--and shadow |
| Traitor or ally: gospel sheds new light on Judas |
| U.S.: Imagining a Pakistan Without Musharraf |
| Daniel Schorr: The prospect of civil war in Iraq |
| Editorial Review: Iran's lethal ambitions |
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| April 6 |
| Edward Morrissey: Saddam's Goering Gambit |
| James Thayer: The dangerous lesson America's wars have
taught us |
| Ahmed Al-Jarallah: Iran can’t scare US |
| Claude Salhani: Iraq's last chance for peace |
| Richard Cohen: Let Moussaoui Live |
| Pat M. Holt: The scope of clashes in the Middle East
since 9/11 |
| Iraq: Leaving the Green Zone |
| Turkey: Fighting Internal and External Battles |
| Daoud Kuttab: Prospects for negotiations |
| Paul Moorcraft: A
replay of Iraq beckons in Darfur if we send in troops |
| Sidney Blumenthal: The
tethered goat strategy |
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| April 5 |
| John Kerry: Two Deadlines and an Exit |
| Eliot Cohen: Yes, It's Anti-Semitic |
| Peter Baker: Democracy In Iraq Not A Priority in U.S. Budget |
| David Ignatius: Let the Iraqis Bargain |
| John Hughes: West should close gaps against nuclear
terrorism |
| Ilene R. Prusher: Israelis ponder a land swap |
| Editorial Review: Is al Qaeda targeting Israel? |
| Israel, PNA: A Misguided Missile's Political Fallout |
| Analysis: Italy's Attraction for Islamist Militants |
| George Friedman: Borderlands and Immigrants |
| Feature: Scandals and oddities sink Israeli rabbis to
all-time low |
| Feature: Israeli strikes prompt fear and loathing in
northern Gaza |
| Feature: Israeli searches Polish village for remains of
family killed in 1943 |
| Daniel Pipes: If only America would let Israel win |
| J. Freedland: International law doesn't have to be
dumped because of al-Qaida |
| Zvi Heifetz: The Hamas honeytrap |
| Andrew Glyn: Marx's
reserve army of labour is about to go global |
| Timothy Burger:
Qadhafi's 9/11 Fears |
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| April 4 |
| Eugene Robinson: Once Upon a Time In Baghdad . . . |
| Fareed Zakaria: To Become an American |
| Carla Seaquist: Free speech should soar above insult and
injury |
| Iraq: Has Al-Zarqawi Been Sidelined? |
| Geopolitical Diary: The United Iraqi Alliance Dilemma |
| Terrorism, Iraq war: Now we can blame one mysterious,
powerful group |
| David Hirst: If one side in a conflict goes nuclear, the
other is bound to follow |
| Australia: Battling the Terrorism Threat from Within |
| Feature: Egypt's illegal organs trade thrives on poverty |
| Feature: War-hit patients feel secure in Iraqi mental
asylum |
| Feature: Israeli law eases settlers into east Jerusalem |
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| April 3 |
| Charles Krauthammer: Correcting former neocon's Iraq
story |
| Analysis: Hamas' diplomatic difficulties |
| Suzanne Fields: The rising tide of anti-Semitism |
| Editorial Review: Israel Hamastan and Katyushas |
| Cathy Young: What war on Christians? |
| James Carroll: The thread of anti-Semitism |
| Kaveh Afrasiabi: A two-track path to dialogue with Iran |
| John A. Kringen: How We've Improved Intelligence |
| Hobbling Hamas: Moving beyond the U.S. Policy of Three
No's |
| Akiva Eldar: Peace talks first, wage talks later |
| Danny Rubinstein: Let others topple Hamas |
| Bradley Burston: A new kind of Israel-basher |
| Feature: Scared Palestinians try to flee Iraq |
| Feature: Fatwa against statues triggers uproar in Egypt |
| Leader: We should leave Iraq sooner rather than later |
| Max Hastings: The new definition of military valour -
saying no to politicians |
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| April 2 |
| Shlomo Avineri: Post-charismatic leadership |
| Zvi Bar'el: Let Hamas do its work |
| Marvin Schick: Those 'powerful' Jewish lobbyists |
| Daniel Levy: Visions of Israel after the conflict |
| Feature: Jews and Arabs unite to protest Israel's
unilateral frontier |
| David Makovsky: Israel's Unlikely Transformer |
| Phil Sands: A hostage's story |
| Editorial Review: The Endgame in Iraq |
| Editorial Review: No more pussyfooting around Iran |
| The road to canonization is paved with humanity |
| Experts' analysis on Iran attack |
| Common Ground: Interfaith dialogue |
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| April 1 |
| Mustafa El-Labbad: Scenarios of an American strike |
| Gamil Mattar: A marriage made in hell |
| Salama A Salama: International intervention and the Arabs |
| Iraq: The Unusual Jill Carroll Abduction Case |
| Feature: New US scheme to revitalise Iraqi
reconstruction |
