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September 2006 |
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| September 30 |
| Bob Woodward:
State of Denial |
| Feature: Shiites flee reign of terror in mixed Iraqi
city |
| Feature: Iraqi gallery pieces looted art heritage back
together |
| Feature: Egypt professor in hot water for comparing
Koran to supermarket |
| Iran, Iraq, Turkey: The Kurdish Factor |
| Geopolitical Diary: Fighting the Taliban with Loya
Jirgas |
| Car Blast in Israel: Criminals, not Terrorists, Likely
at Work |
| Ayman El-Amir: How to buy image |
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| September 29 |
| Saudis in quiet talks to revive Arab peace bid |
| Chrono: Courting death in Saddam trials |
| Walid Phares:
A Patient Enemy |
| Patrick Seale: What Can America Do About Iraq? |
| Rumors of bin Laden's Death: Truth, Lies and Audio Files |
| Afghanistan: The Taliban's Newest Cards |
| Somalia: Ugandan Troops and the Coming Battle for
Baardheere |
| Sever Plocker: 'No' to Hamas; 'Yes' to Syria |
| Yoel Marcus: On popes and pullouts |
| Daniel Schorr: Stay the course in Iraq? What course? |
| Ze'ev Schiff: A very worrisome decision-making process |
| Howard LaFranchi: Chávez's anti-US campaign |
| Karl Inderfurth : Afghanistan's good news: seeds of
economic progress |
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| September 28 |
| Jim Hoagland: Risky Wishes at the U.N. |
| Iran, Russia: A Nuclear Marriage of Convenience |
| Iraq: Turning Eastward for Oil Contracts |
| Iraq and jihad: A consensus surfaces |
| William O'Neill : The responsibility to protect Darfur |
| Amy Green: More US Hispanics drawn to Islam |
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| September 27 |
| Sudarsan Raghavan: Distrust divides Iraqi neighbors |
| Analysis: Sobering Conclusions On Why Jihad Has Spread |
| Daniel Pipes: 'Islamic law rules you, too' |
| Israel/Saudi meeting: A flash of reason, or another
trick? |
| Editorial: Talking with the Saudis |
| Stratfor: Crime and Militancy in South America's
Tri-Border Area |
| Zaenal Abdin Eko Putro: Toward an Islamic democracy |
| Howard LaFranchi: After Annan, what kind of UN leader? |
| Somalia: Ethiopia's Islamist Fears |
| John Hughes: Don't reward Ahmadinejad or Chávez for
their UN tirades |
| Max Paul Friedman: A fair, safe way to close Guantánamo |
| Yossi Alpher: Olmert and Abbas need one another, but for
the wrong reasons |
| Ghassan Khatib: Nearing the point of no return |
| Aluf Benn: The tragedy of weakness |
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| September 26 |
| Geoplotical Diary: Back-Channel Talks for Israel and Saudi Arabia? |
| Feature: Palestinians mark Ramadan with sadness, anger |
| Iraqi Kurds: Playing it Safe in Turkey's PKK War |
| Jyoti Malhotra: The pope knew what he was saying |
| Shmuel Rosner: The return of the bad cop |
| Raja Zaatry: No light at the end of the tunnel |
| David Montero: In Pakistan, the delicate dance of a key
US ally |
| Brian Nelson: Hugo Chavez is not going away soon |
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| September 25 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Nearing a Political Brownout in Pakistan? |
| The Rise of Jihadistan - Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai and Michael Hirsh |
| Bouthaina Shaaban: The Arabs Are Not Allowed to be
Victims |
| The Pope and Islam: The Historical Background of the
Discourse |
| Fareed Zakaria: What Iranians Least Expect |
| Feature: Hasidic pilgrims dance in Ukraine for Jewish
New Year |
| Feature: Gulf 'war of the tents' for Ramadan |
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| September 24 |
| Leader: Disastrous errors of Iraq |
| Gregory Winger: Get Ethiopian troops out of Somalia |
| Max Hastings: The war on terror is unwinnable with Bush
and Blair in charge |
| Scene: Violence and high prices cast shadow over Ramadan
in Iraq |
| Yemeni pluralist polls rare Arab exercise, not enough:
Analysts |
| Bin Laden: Dead or alive? |
| Syria and the US: Fellow Travelers at the Crossroads for
Terrorism |
| Feature: Iraq police key to battling Anbar insurgency |
| Cal Thomas: Where are the moderate Muslims? |
| Patrick Buchanan: Comic relief at the United Nations |
| Lorenzo Vidino: Democracy in the Muslim world |
| US: Evaluating Partners and Allies Five Years Later |
| Shulamit Aloni: Time to talk peace |
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| September 23 |
| Profile: Yemen president one of the region's great
survivors |
| Jonathan Cook: How Israel is Engineering the "Clash
of Civilizations" |
| Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed: An Iranian in Space and
Iranians on Earth |
| Amir Taheri: The Pope, the Emperor and the Persian
Preacher |
| Ze'ev Schiff: Washington is signaling Tehran |
| Iran, U.S.: Movement Toward Public Talks? |
| Derrick Jackson: Playing shell games on responsibility
with Iraq |
| Robert Kuttner: Bush's options on Iran |
| Geopolitical Diary: Musharraf Girds for a U.S. Operation |
| Interview with Olmert: 'A prime minister has to run a
country' |
| Time Mcgirk: Abbas's Mission Impossible |
| Feature: Iraqi rebel bastion recruits locals for the
city police |
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| September 22 |
| Feature: Campaign gets unholy in first Cyprus church
election in decades |
| David Verbeeten: How Important
Is the Israel Lobby? |
| Raghida Dergham: The Need for New Arab Strategies |
| Analysis: Egypt party hits
out at West as it promotes president's son |
| Zalman Shoval: Courting terrorists |
| Charles Krauthammer: Tolerance: A
Two-Way Street |
| Diana West: Just shut up |
| Aravind Adiga: India's
Cash-for-Fatwa Scandal |
| Feature: Israelis pessimistic on
eve of Jewish New Year |
| Feature: Soap operas clean up on
lucrative Ramadan market |
| Bart Mongoven : The World Bank at a
Crossroads |
| Gerard Baker: Confronted by
Islamist threat, Europe pathetically caves in |
| Ori Nir: Bush Presses Israel in
Apparent Bid to Maintain Anti-Iranian Front |
| Profile: Yemen president one of the
region's great survivors |
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| September 21 |
| Gabriel
Sawma: Pope Benedict and the Islamic
Reaction |
| Fred Burton:
The Pope as a High-Value Target |
| Michael Rubin: The U.S. vs. Iran |
| Jeff Jacoby: Muslim violence |
| Howard LaFranchi: Why Bush is taking a more diplomatic
approach on Iran |
| Shmuel Rosner: Wild thoughts about the Palestinian issue |
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| September 20 |
| Faith, Reason and Politics: Parsing the Pope's Remarks |
| George Weigel: The Pope Was Right |
| Bush wasting his time with address to Mideast
population: analysts |
| Daniel Pipes: The pope & the Byzantine emperor |
| Anshel Pfeffer: Showdown at the UN |
| Feature: 65 years on, 'dead' Holocaust siblings reunite |
| Feature: Stryker brigade victim of own successes in Iraq |
| John Hughes: Seizing opportunities to promote stability
in the Middle East |
| Erik Swabb: Train soldiers to win hearts and minds |
| Ginny Hill: Yemen moves along volatile path to democracy |
| Gaza: Not without a political horizon |
| Ghassan Khatib A measure of international seriousness |
| Ahmed Al-Jarallah: Crescent leads ME peace plan |
| Abdullah Iskandar: Terrorism in Syria |
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| September 19 |
| Dan Murphy: Pope's comments on Islam hit 'civilization
clash' fault line |
| Hamas walking impossible tightrope: analysts |
| Paul Cobb: When do we get to offend in peace? |
| Martin Marty: Pope Benedict XVI and Islam |
| El Shukrijumah and the 'Dirty Bomb' Threat |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iran Strikes Conciliatory Note |
| Anne Applebaum: Enough Apologies |
| Editorial: Wrong address for pressure |
| Entertainment: What's Up? Palestinian soap for Ramadan |
| Mini-Crisis in Iraq: Which Iraqi Flag? |
| Profile: Anousheh Ansari: an Iranian woman's space
odyssey |
| Feature: Egypt dance brings life to City of Dead |
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| September 18 |
| Feature: Shiite district serves as dress rehearsal for
Sadr City |
| Feature: Chasing invisible enemy, US marines aim to win
over Iraqi town |
| Factfile on Yemen |
| Profile: Veteran Yemen president one of region's great
survivors |
| Profile: Yemen's 'Mr Clean' flies opposition flag in
landmark poll |
| Ahmadinejad : We do not need attacks |
| Leader: Islam, like Christianity, is not above criticism |
| Editorial: Islamic intolerance |
| Karen Armstrong: We can't afford to maintain ancient
prejudices against Islam |
| Jackson Diehl: An Endless Vacuum in the Middle East |
| Melvin Goodman: America is safer since 9/11 |
| Peter Grier: Is war in Iraq a shield against attacks at
home? |
| Ilene Prusher: Palestinian officials allege torture |
| Michael Jordan: UN nuclear watchdog ponders
international 'fuel bank' |
| Will Hutton: Only reason can conquer intolerance |
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| September 17 |
| Patrick Seale: Pressures Mount on Bush to Bomb Iran |
| Analysis: Allies muted as US wages financial offensive
on Iran |
| Jon Meacham: A Pope’s Holy War |
| View from America: The next catastrophe waiting |
| Leader: God is not to be second-guessed |
| Leader: Let the Pope preach |
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| September 16 |
| Full Text: Pope's Speech |
| Giles Fraser: The unmistakable whiff of Christian
triumphalism |
| Tom Regan: Pope Benedict creates international furor
with remarks on Islam |
| Melanie McDonagh: Pope's message of greater dialogue
achieves the opposite |
| Leader: The Pope's point was the virtue of dialogue |
| Leader: The Pope and the Prophet |
| Feature: US uses ink-drop strategy to contain rebel Iraq
town |
| U.S.: The Annual U.N. Security Challenge |
| Analysis: Two Attacks Fail in Yemen |
| David Ignatius: Bush's Message to Iran |
| Arnold Wesker: On waking, we think about life. Bin Laden
thinks of slaughter |
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| September 15 |
| The Political Fallout from the Pope's Speech |
| Aluf Benn: Following in Shamir's footsteps |
| Feature: Iran replaces Palestinians as Israel's chief
security concern |
| Feature: Anousheh Ansari: an Iranian woman's space
odyssey |
| First female space tourist limbers up for launch |
| Soner Cagaptay: Is There a Clash of Civilizations? |
| Yair Sheleg:
Harbinger of the clash of civilizations |
| Charles Krauthammer: The Tehran Calculus |
| Daniel Schorr: Does 'appeasement' fit into the Iraq war
debate? |
| Guy Bechor: Israel helping Ahmadinejad Israeli |
| Iraqis feel weight of high prices, few jobs - Dan Murphy and Awadh al-Taiee |
| Christa Case: Germans reconsider religion |
| Ian Fisher: Muslim leaders assail Pope’s speech on
Islam |
| Steven Weiss: Israeli Rightist Calls for Transfer of
Arabs |
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| September 14 |
| Richard Cohen: Bin Laden, 1; America, 0 |
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| September 13 |
| Scott Peterson: Taliban adopting Iraq-style jihad |
| Max Boot: Democracy, Our Best Protector |
| Feature: Saving Baghdad's mixed neighborhoods |
| Mehdi Khalaji: Iranian President Relations with Supreme
Leader Khamenei |
| How Fatah got religion and lost power - Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook |
| David Ignatius: Young Anger Foments Jihad |
| George Friedman: The U.S. War, Five Years On |
| Analysis: Foiled attack could warm frosty Syria-US ties |
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| September 12 |
| Chrono: Attacks in Syria |
| H.D.S. Greenway: The reality in Iraq |
| PNA: The Formation of a Unity Government |
| Geopolitical Diary: Sept. 11 Retrospective |
| U.S.: A Clumsy Attempt to Bypass Airport Security -- or
Pinging the System |
| Anne Applebaum: Stop blaming America for terrorism |
| Simon Tisdall: The west needs Turkey |
| Tony Karon: A peace of the lame for the Middle East? |
| Ilene R. Prusher: Palestinians, Israelis more open to
talk |
| Monitor's View: Turning Islamists into democrats |
| Reinforce Baghdad - William Kristol and Rich Lowry |
| Robert A. Pape: The growth of suicide terrorism |
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| September 11 |
| Donald Rumsfeld: What has 9/11 yielded? |
| James Carroll: The end of civilization |
| Cathy Young: The search for clarity in a more complex
world |
| Suzanne Fields: Remembering the 'Blessed Terror' |
| Ahmed Rashid: Losing the War on Terror |
| Analysis: Arabs pay price for 9/11 outcome |
| Leader: Islam v Islam |
| Editorial: Five years on, the US is far from winning |
| United by 9/11, a Muslim and a Jew strengthen community
ties |
| Dan Murphy: Has Al Qaeda advanced its goals since 9/11? |
| Rachel Morarjee: Doubts intensify over Afghanistan's
future |
| Five years after 9/11: a shifted view of the world |
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| September 10 |
| Blair to Haaretz: Our public still does not see the
danger of Islamic extremism |
| Feature: Whispering and writing to hidden imam at Iran
shrine |
| Jason Burke: It may well take 20 years. But al-Qaeda's
days are numbered |
| Feature: A year after pullout, Gaza in crisis, Israel
unilateralism dead |
| Chrono: Gaza Strip timeline on anniversary of Israel
pullout |
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| September
9 |
| Ismail Haniyeh: A policy of punishment |
| Can the West defeat the Islamist threat? Here are ten
reasons why not |
| Uzi Landau: The First Word: America's missile crisis and
ours |
| Khatami: American "Conceit and Pride" Led to
Iraq Mess |
| Gerald Posner: Why protect the Saudi royal family and
Pakistani military? |
| Victor Hamson: Yes, it's fascism--and it's Islamic |
| Walid Phares: Projecting Future Jihadi Terrorism Five
Years After 9/11 |
| As-Sahab: Al Qaeda's Nebulous Media Branch |
| Feature: Saudi 'jihadi' had a change of heart |
| Iran: Creating a Buzz About Military Capabilities |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Clock Runs Down on Blair |
| Afghanistan: The Intensifying Fight |
| Sean Gannon: One hundred years of hostility |
| Jason Gitlin: Rethinking Jewish American deterrence |
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| September 8 |
| Simon Tisdall: Bush and Bin Laden locked in an embrace |
| Feature: Saudi schoolbooks still in dispute five years
after 9/11 |
| U.S.: The Other Ways to Interrogate Militant Suspects |
| Linda Feldmann: Bush moves to shore up war-on-terror
credentials |
| David Monteror: In border zone, Pakistan backs off from
Taliban |
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| September 7 |
| Kaveh Afrasiabi: Governor's got it wrong on Khatami |
| Feature: Israeli teens bolster emergency frontlines |
| The Religious Foundations of Suicide Bombings |
| Iraq: Tehran's Shiite Autonomy Solution |
| Fred Burton: Ansar el-Mehdi and Terror Potential in
Morocco |
| Pat M. Holt: The paradoxes of the Bush presidency |
| Olivier Roy: We're winning, despite the 'war' |
| Mark Clayton: In the Iraqi war zone, US Army calls for
'green' power |
| David Ignatius: In Iran, Searching for Common Ground |
| Jeff Jacoby: Bowing to Iran |
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| September 6 |
| George Friedman: Iraq: The Policy Dilemma |
| Bouthaina Shaaban: Why Arabs Do Not Stand Up for Their
Victory?! |
| Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed: Will the Kurds Secede? |
| Analysis: Al Qaeda's 'American' Voice of Islam |
| Amir Taheri: Making sense of Ahmadinejad |
| Geopolitical Diary: Latest Developments in Baghdad |
| Feature: Jewish settlers in the West Bank predict a rosy
future |
| John Hughes: Don't abandon the quest for freedom in the
lands of Islam |
| Gail Russell Chaddock: Congress is back, its sights on
war |
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| September 5 |
| FT interview: Mohammad Khatami |
| Geopolitical Diary: Latest Developments in Baghdad |
| Dan Murphy: Another blow to Al Qaeda in Iraq |
| Joshua Mitnick: Across Palestinian territories, support
for Hamas erodes |
| Monitor's View: Uniting Europe by another road |
| Eliot Jager: For the good of the many |
| Yossi Alpher The Palestinian narrative clashes with a
two-state solution |
| Paul Scham: Historical narratives and peacemaking |
| Walid Salem: The narrative in the Israeli-Palestinian
context |
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| September 4 |
| Jihad el-Khazen: They Are the Enemies of All Muslims |
| Hazem Saghieh: The Danger of Iran's Petrodollar! |
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| September 3 |
| Maziar Bahari: Ahmadinejad, How Popular Is He Really? |
| Walid Phares: Why terrorists hate us |
| Howard Zinn: War is not a solution for terrorism |
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| September 2 |
| Amir Taheri: The Ayatollah and the Only Bright Spot on
Earth |
| Patrick Seale: Is the Middle East Heading for Peace or
War? |
| Raghida Dergham: Need to Stir Up the Status Quo of the
"Peace Process" |
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| September 1 |
| Analysis: Is the problem the nuclear program or
Ahmadinejad? |
| Elaine Shannon: Why the U.S. Is Holding Its Fire on Iran |
| Sudan: The U.N. Security Council's Stillborn Resolution |
| Linda Feldmann: Bush escalates war-on-terror rhetoric |
