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| August 31 |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Glimpse of the Petraeus Report |
| Iraq: New strategy urged in briefing to Petraeus |
| Russia uses Syrian port to demonstrate its power in the
Med |
| New Muslim cartoon protests grow |
| US ready to move into Basra as British pull out |
| Zouheir Kseibati: The Shock of the Generals |
| Maher Osman: Pakistani and Turkish Deals |
| Guy Bechor: Singing a different song |
| Pakistan: Trouble Brewing over Latest Prophet Mohammed
Cartoon |
| U.S.: Crunch Time for Bush on Iraq |
| Geopolitical Diary: Russia's Attempt to Redefine
Regional Relationships |
| Iraq: Faint glimmer of hope |
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| August 30 |
| Move and Countermove: Ahmadinejad and Bush Duel |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Bush Has Swallowed The Bait |
| Geopolitical Diary: Envisioning Turkey under the AK
Presidency |
| Iraq: The Brief Detention of Eight Iranians |
| Iraq: Al-Sadr's Six-Month Freeze |
| Modernising Turkey |
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| August 29 |
| Iraq: Iran Versus Saudi Arabia, Minus the United States? |
| Mideast power vacuum ‘benefits Iran’ |
| Daniel Pipes: The case against banning the Koran |
| Analysis: How strong has Hamas become? |
| Hazem Saghieh: Maliki's Quest For Respect |
| The price of a pizza in Iraq: an eye and a leg |
| Bush Wants $50 Billion More for Iraq War |
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| August 28 |
| Bernard Kouchner: What
France can do in Iraq |
| France: Sarkozy and the New Paris |
| Endgame: American Options in Iraq |
| Huge Saudi force to defend oilfields from al-Qaida |
| Commentary: Israel-Fatah-Hamas relationship problematic |
| ‘Core Issues’ raised in Mideast talks |
| Jamil Theyabi: The Arab Belly! |
| U.S.: Ferries as Targets |
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| August 27 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iraq's Fractional Step |
| Bush league war drums beating louder on Iran |
| Turkey: An Army in Retreat |
| Turkey: Muslim Democracy in Action |
| Oxford Analytica: Anti-American Sentiment Grows Worldwide |
| Ghassan Charbel: The Neo-Chemists |
| Zuheir Kseibati: Rice and the "Garden of Eden" |
| Europe's Frustration with Sarkozy |
| Nina Shea: Iraq's Endangered Minorities |
| Michael Lind: Iraq withdrawal will not hand victory to
Bin Laden |
| Iraq: British retreat descends into chaos as Shia
militia occupy police centre |
| Mideast Peace: Critical twelve months ahead |
| Following Bush’s logic, US must reinvade Vietnam |
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| August 26 |
| Iran's Guard builds a fiscal empire |
| Jeffrey Steinberg: Is
it just drumbeats we hear, or is it actual war? |
| Iran Guard terror label 'paves way for air strikes' |
| Claude Salhani: Why has the Guard become a threat now |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Real and Imaginary Enemies |
| Mohamed Ashab: The Islam of Morocco and the Authority |
| Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11 |
| Jonathan Steele: Beware partition |
| Chris Hedges: What starving Gaza will bring upon the
world |
| Christopher Hitchens: To invoke Vietnam was a blunder
too far for Bush |
| Analysis: Outside Baghdad, violence soars |
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| August 25 |
| Operation Phantom Strike: How the US is demolishing al
Qaeda in Iraq |
| David Ignatius: Post-Iraq Strategy |
| Fotini Christia: A Quiet Battle for Rights in Iran |
| Russia: The Fundamentals of Russian Air Defense Exports |
| Russia: The Unveiling of the Skat |
| Stephen Schwartz: Saudi Arabia's Koran Kops |
| Geopolitical Diary: Rethinking the Mission in Iraq |
| Analysis: Iraqi factions’ self-interest blocks
political progress |
| Can Americans be convinced Islam isn’t the black
sheep of religions? |
| Film traces historical coexistence of faiths |
| A Crisis of Conscience Over Refugees in Israel |
| As'ad Abdul Rahman: Lessons to learn from Israelis |
| Iraqi trial rekindles Shiite anger toward U.S. |
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| August 24 |
| Iran's Revolutionary Guard: Monolith or Jigsaw? |
| Al Qaeda: The Split Between the Apex and the Franchises |
| Bouthaina Shaaban: Everyone can see that the king has
no clothes on |
| Change in Iran regime viewed as unlikely |
| Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed: A Good Arab is a Dead Arab! |
| Geopolitical Diary: Russia Rewrites the Post-Cold War
Rule Book |
| Was George Bush right about Vietnam? |
| Feature: Arabs flood safest city in Iraq |
| Analysis: Kurdistan setting own course on oil |
| Martin Woollacott: This is a war for credibility |
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| August 23 |
| US ‘ready to strike Iran in six months’ |
| Egypt: Are Islamists Heading to Power? |
| Zuheir Kseibati: Which Deal? Which Wisdom |
| Analysis: Iraqi Leader's Flaws Impact US |
| Analysis: Putin's posturing can't hide Russia's weaknes |
| George Bush: Iraq must not become Vietnam |
| Robert Fisk: The Iraqis don't deserve us. So we betray
them... |
| Seumas Milne: How can this bloody failure be regarded as
a good war? |
| Ex-Fatah fighter in battle for justice after daughter
killed by Israeli police |
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| August 22 |
| Farid Ghadry: The Saudi-Syria rift |
| Iraq: An Iranian Offensive in the North? |
| Iraq: Tactical Barriers to an Iranian Incursion |
| Palestinian peace deal hinges on economics, claims Peres |
| Bush: History to prove Iraq war worth it |
| Analysis: Lack of alternatives may be Iraqi leader's
trump card |
| Randa Takieddin: The sacking of the Iranian minister of
oil |
| Egypt: A Silent Majority and an Absent Alternative |
| Iran, Iraq: Turkey, the U.S. and the Kurdish Wedge |
| Georeg Friedman:
Window of Opportunity; Window of Vulnerability |
| Not so fast, Christian soldiers |
| Hamas refashions its militancy |
| CIA missed chances to tackle al-Qaida |
| Claude Salhani: Washington's Iraq blame game |
| A new push for change in the war on terror |
| Islamic Spain: History's refrain |
| Reversing Course, France Seeks an Active Role in Iraq |
| Feature: Rival Gaza children's camps mix fun with
politics |
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| August 21 |
| Putin exports Russian missiles to Syria |
| Hazem Saghieh: America, Iran and Avoiding War |
| Saad Eddin Ibrahim: Egypt's Unchecked Repression |
| Geopolitical Diary: Psychological War Games With Iran |
| The Looming Central Asian Battleground |
| Afghanistan: The Threat to NGO Workers Moves Closer |
| Dick Cheney Iraq 'quagmire' video hits the web |
| US military looks to reduce role in Iraq |
| As democracy push falters, Bush feels like a 'dissident' |
| With billions more dollars, US military struggles to
'defeat' Iraq's IEDs |
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| August 20 |
| War Has Made Baghdad Pre-Industrial |
| Al-Shara's Slip of the Tongue and the Saudi Outrage? |
| Muqtada al-Sadr: The British are retreating from Basra |
| Falluja’s calm is seen as fragile if U.S. leaves |
| Ephraim Sneh: Checklist for a Peace Pact |
| Kurds flee homes as Iran shells villages in Iraq |
| Hamas's approach to jihad: Start 'em young |
| Controversial Turkish foreign minister Gul relaunches
presidential bid |
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| August 19 |
| Iranian Guards amass secret fortunes |
| Prelude to an Attack on Iran |
| Mark Lilla: The Politics of God |
| Saudis plan Iraq border fence |
| Hassan Haydar: Welcome Chavez! |
| The Smarter Way to Target Iran |
| Muhammad Salah: Bilateral ties and regional developments |
| Eugene Robinson: Success in Iraq? Ask remaining Yazidis |
| U.S. actions against Iran raise war risk, many fear |
| A U.S.-backed plan for Sunni neighborhood guards is
tested |
| Divided they stand, but on Graves |
| Elegies From an Iraqi Notebook |
| Iraq: The war as we saw it |
| Prepare to face the Russian threat |
| Business profile: Kibbutznik to car park king |
| Flight from Darfur ends in tragedy in Egypt |
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| August 18 |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Limits of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization |
| Nigeria: Reining in Niger Delta Militants |
| Russia: Moving Beyond Words |
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| August 17 |
| Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, Inc. |
| Ayad Allawi: A Plan for Iraq |
| Jonathan Finer: Green Zone Blinders |
| Analysis: America's 10-year military aid package to
Israel |
| Bush's optimism extends to Iraq and economy, no matter
the bad news |
| Galal Nassar: Priorities of conflict |
| Ilya Shapiro: Club Med Baghdad |
| Mousa Abu Marzook: Hamas is ready to talk |
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| August 16 |
| Blacklisting Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard |
| US: Upping the Ante with Iran |
| How to be a jihadi: Taliban's training secrets |
| Yazidi: ancient sect caught up in Iraq turmoil |
| Russia, China host Ahmadinejad at Anti-U.S. security
summit |
| Personal Contingency Plans: More than an Ounce of
Prevention |
| Minority Religions Under Attack in Iraq |
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| August 15 |
| William Blum: The Anti-Empire Report |
 Panic
is in the Air as financial system implodes |
| Russia's Copycat Chechen Militants |
| Algeria: The Attack Against an Ex-Islamist Militant |
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| August 14 |
| Getting a grip in Iran |
| Hazem Saghieh: Promised Sultanate and Bomb |
| Geopolitical Diary: Rove Leaves |
| Amir Taheri: The Kurds and Barzani's Lessons |
| Hamas optimism vs. Fatah despair |
| Israeli youths opt out of army service |
| Geopolitical Diary: Bush-Sarkozy -- Does it Matter? |
| U.S.: The Cycle of 'Dirty Bomb' Threats |
| Subprime Geopolitics |
| Israel: Who's in charge? |
| Hazem Saghieh: The Levant and Domestic Impossibilities |
| For top general in Iraq, role is a mixed blessing |
| Defense chief keeps own counsel on Iraq |
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| August 13 |
| Syria buys advanced anti-aircraft missiles: Israeli
report |
| Walid Khadduri: Fears of an interruption in oil supplies |
| Hassan Haidar: The Clamor of the Jamahiriya |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Goodbye to Newspapers |
| Trouble grows in Iraq's Shiite south |
| Maliki aims to reconcile with cabinet |
| Frenzy of construction - and destruction - transforms a
holy city |
| Mike Gapes: Time to talk to Hamas |
| A sea of weapons floods Iraq |
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| August 12 |
| A Shiite militia turns treacherous |
| Shiite militia grows bolder in Iraq |
| Dubai's economy to cushion UAE's diminishing oil reserves |
| Democrats say leaving Iraq may take years |
| U.S. pays millions in cost overruns for security in Iraq |
| Nayef Hawatmeh: 'Abbas willing, truly seeks peace' |
| Analysis: Israel fears possible 'miscalculation'
regarding Syria |
| 'Fixin' to Sit Down,' Bush and Sarkozy Do |
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| August 11 |
| Damascus' View of Russia's Mediterranean Ambitions |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Let us forget the hypocrisy |
| Mohamed Salah: Hijazi…and Hijazi…and Strife |
| Algeria: Threats Versus Realities for Al Qaeda's North
African Node |
| Geopolitical Diary: Russian 'Smiles' |
| Mark Kirk: Bankrolling Iran |
| UNSC approves a broader U.N. mandate in Iraq to seek
reconciliation |
| Kate Hahn: A Scoop of Scandal |
| Reuel Marc Gerecht: The Audacity of Shallowness |
| Eugene Robinson: Just another vacation from reality |
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| August 10 |
| Syria: The risks of Iraqi cooperation |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Safe Sign of Saudi Displeasure |
| Anti-Saudi tide rises in Iraq |
| Jack Mendelsohn: America, stop waving the nuclear threat |
| Russia: A potential Mediterranean move |
| Jack Mendelsohn: America, stop waving the nuclear threat |
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| August 9 |
| UK 'set to sign $40bn Typhoons deal with Saudi' |
| Analysis: U.S. making new military gains in Iraq |
| Hassan Haydar: Damascus and Washington: An impossible
exchange |
| Abdullah Iskandar: The State, Authority, and Crises |
| Mahdi al-Hafez: The challenges of growth and economic
reform in Iraq |
| Are Attitudes on Iraq Changing? |
| Analysis: Iran still a concern for GCC |
| Traffic Stops and Thwarted Plots - Fred Burton and Scott Stewart |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Good Day in Iraq |
| Israel: Missile interception system to be operational in
18 months |
| Seumas Milne: Eventually, the US will have to negotiate its way
out |
| Gwynne Dyer: Talk of an Islamist takeover is alarmist |
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| August 8 |
| George Friedman: The Major Diplomatic and Strategic Evolution in Iraq |
| Daoud Shirian: Who is the Saudi Declaration referring
to? |
| Adrian Morgan: The
Sickness That Is Wahhabi Islam |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Negotiations on Iraq Get Real |
| Louis Beres: Fighting terrorists requires understanding
their concept of time |
| Mark Sappenfield: Is Iran meddling in Afghanistan? |
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| August 7 |
| U.S.: The Delicate Diplomatic Dance with Iran |
| Palestinian merchants in Gaza live hand-to-mouth |
| Ghassan Khatib : Possible elections problematic for
Palestinian-Israeli dispute |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Well-Timed Announcement on Iraq |
| Sudan: Al Bashir and Continuity in Darfur |
| U.S.: The Threat from Fringe Groups |
| Gaza jobs meltdown: An ice-cream firm's tale |
| Is military justice in Iraq changing for the better? |
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| August 6 |
| Jamil Theyabi: Excluding the Arabs |
| Mohammed Salah: The Power of the Media… or Change
in Egypt |
| In Iraqi south, Shiites press for autonomy |
| To exit Iraq, how is as important as when |
| Afghanistan's success story: The liberated Hazara
minority |
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| August 5 |
| Walid Phares: An idealist alternative to the Saudi deal |
| A truce to vanquish al-Qaida in Iraq, or a deal with the
devil? |
| Abdallah Iskandar: Gaddafi, inside and out |
| Iraq's 'Martyr' Factory |
| Who Are the Bombers? |
| Instrumenets of death |
| Getting Israelis, Palestinians on the same page |
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| August 4 |
| In Iraq, a perilous alliance with former enemies |
| Syrians seek seat at Mideast peace table |
| After claiming the Pole, Russia looks south |
| Gulf states buy arms with wary eye on Iran |
| Victor Hanson: Middle East mindsets |
| Iran's zero tolerance leads to wave of executions |
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| August 3 |
| Gaza Strip: A New Intra-Islamist Conflict? |
| Stands Vis-à-vis the Fall Conference |
| U.S. Pressure on Foreign Firms and Iran's New Financial
Direction |
| The U.S. Energy Debate: Whether to Bet on Future
Technology |
| Geopolitical Diary: China's Woes and Limitations |
| Iraq's humanitarian crisis sparkscall to action |
| High living costs ‘may force expatriates to
leave’ GCC |
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| August 2 |
| Walid Phares: Military Jihad in modern times is illegal |
| Secretary Rice's Mideast mission: contain Iran |
| Pakistan: Divided by Faith |
| Hassan Haydar: America and Planet Afghanistan |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iraq really looks like a mess |
| India and the Jihadist Pit - Fred Burton and Scott Stewart, Stratfor |
| Poll: Syrians have mixed stance on war |
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| August 1 |
| Riyadh gives talks with Israel cautious welcome |
| Iran ayatollah death opens way for moderates |
| Rosemary Behan: Praising Allah is a full-time job in
Tunis |
| Daniel Hannan: Why oil is the enemy of democracy |
| Saudis begin talks on opening embassy in Iraq |
| Jonathan Last:
Unwelcome Internet Guests |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Sharing the Spoils |
| George Friedman: The
Geopolitics of Turkey |
| Daoud Shirian: Why Did Syria Withdraw? |
| Iraq leader warns of ‘civil war’ |
| Geopolitical Diary: In with the new British PM |
| Michael Rubin: President Bush's Broken Promises |
| US troop fatalities in Iraq drop sharply |
| Taliban leaves tribal roots for Al Qaeda tactics |
