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March 2008 |
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| March 31 |
| Labour pains in the Middle East |
| Olivier Guitta: Al-Qaida waning on 10th birthday |
| Al-Maliki and the Decisive Battle |
| Condemn the Dutchman for Terrorism |
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| March 30 |
| Jihad el Khazen: A Tool in the Hands of Israel |
| Con Coughlin: New Iraq receiving baptism of fire in
Basra |
| Under siege in Baghdad's Mahdi army stronghold |
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| March 29 |
| Iran: Entangled in the Web of Iraq's Shiite Factions |
| American warplanes join Iraqi troops in taking the fight
to Shia militia |
| Geopolitical Diary: Ukraine, The Main Battlefield of
Cold War II |
| Akiva Eldar: Syria and Palestine first |
| Iraq: No more than a gamble |
| Mustafa Kibaroglu : Kurds hold the key for both Turkey
and the US |
| Lawrence Kaplan: The US army belongs to Iraq |
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| March 28 |
| Christian Rage and Muslim Moderation |
| Iraq: Clashes Hit Oil Export Capability |
| Rice: 'Iraq was harder than I thought' |
| Michael Freund: The price of Washington's obsession with
the Palestinians |
| Zuheir Kseibati: Moqtada's Bitter Cup |
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| March 27 |
| Iraq: Al-Maliki's Offensive and the U.S. Bid to Bypass
Iran |
| The U.S. Election Season: Security Challenges and
Conventional Wisdom |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Tale of Two Summits |
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| March 26 |
| Abdullah Iskandar: Crisis between Islam and the
Christian West |
| Randa Takieddine: Sarkozy in Britain |
| George Friedman: A New French Strategy |
| Iraq: The Mehdi Army's Existential Crisis |
| Jihad el-Khazen: There are Enemies of Muslims |
| Muqtada Al Sadr: Force to reckon with |
| Q&A: Who is Moqtada al-Sadr? |
| U.S., Bahrain: A Reminder of the Status Quo |
| Yoel Marcus: Go to Damascus |
| Gavri Bargil: World is against us, as usual |
| Jeffrey Steinberg: British Launch 'Great Eurasian War'
Drive |
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| March 25 |
| Egypt: U.S. Cargo Ship Fires on Motorboat |
| Pakistan: Democratization and U.S. Interests |
| Michael Tanji: Intelligently Misleading |
| Suzanne Maloney: How the Iraq War Has Empowered Iran |
| Michael Jacobson: The Bombers Who Weren't |
| Peter Hirschberg: Israel Strengthens Hamas Some More |
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| March 24 |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Vatican's New Clash With Islam |
| Younger leadership for Taliban in Afghanistan |
| Nicholas Kristof: Iraq, $5,000 Per Second? |
| Shahar Ilan: The vision of an Arab-free Knesset |
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| March 23 |
| Paul Berman: Why Radical Islam Just Won’t Die |
| Iran: Hardliners hit harder |
| Hassan Nafaa: Cheney's trap |
| Ramzy Baroud: War on Iran appears a little less certain |
| Ayman El-Amir: Democracy in decline |
| Zvi Bar'el: We've already won in Iraq |
| Analysis: Unofficial Gaza cease-fire benefits everybody
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| Uzi Benziman: Religious fuel for the bonfire |
 Iran, Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction |
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| March 22 |
| Ralf Nader: Bush Blisters the Truth on Iraq |
| Signs of Iran's Hand in Iraq |
| Russia: Moscow's Middle East Conference |
| Cheney in Baghdad: What a difference two years make |
| Luckiest man in the race: For McCain, the best may be yet
to come |
| The Gaza Challenge |
| Russia: Another Military Reshuffling |
| Iraq: Toward Greater Turkish Involvement |
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| March 21 |
| Ariel Cohen: Iran's managed democracy |
| Patrick Seale: Power Struggles in Tehran and Washington |
| Raghida Dergham: Prospects for a Regional Conflict |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Start of Cold War II? |
| Geopolitical Diary: U.S. Puts Russia On Notice |
| Georgia: Russia's Response to the United States |
| Kosovo: U.S. Military Assistance and the Russian
Confrontation |
| Afghanistan, Pakistan: A Bin Laden Tape's Rhetoric |
| Iraq: Splits Among the Sunnis |
| Iraq: Winners and Losers at Five Years |
| Trauma, kidnap and death: all in a day's work for
journalists in Iraq |
| Zuheir Kseibati: Five Years of Genocide |
| Feature: The news that shaped the Iraq war |
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| March 20 |
| Rachelle Kliger: The clandestine Saudi-Israeli ties |
| Osama bin Laden threatens EU over cartoons |
| Mark Moyar: Iraq, five years later – still too soon
to judge |
| Chased through the Nile Delta by a blue Peugeot - Witness |
| Iraq: Provincial Elections and Future Instability |
| A new Tower of Babel? Iraqis flee sectarian violence |
| Abdullah Iskandar: Disqualifying Iraq |
| The terrible reality of Iraq: A war of lies |
| Iraq: 'We live in a nightmare. Death and carnage is
everywhere' |
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| March 19 |
| Is life for Iraqis improving? |
| Alon Ben-Meir: Caught in a vicious cycle of violence |
| Ghassan Khatib: Rendering the PA irrelevant |
| Yossi Alpher: Only in Gaza |
| Stratfor's War: Five Years Later |
| Israel's 'religious right' gains clout, complicating
peace with Palestinians |
| Russia, Syria: Lavrov's Visit and Russia's Levers |
| PNA: A New Peace Deal for Hamas and Fatah? |
| Yemen: Twin Bombings Signal a Possible Jihadist Revival |
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| March 18 |
| Vatican in Saudi talks on building churches |
| Dennis Ross: How to talk to Iran |
| Dean Andromidas: Will Cheney's Mideast Trip Launch New Round of Wars? |
| Claude Salahani: Peril or hope? |
| Michael Oren: From the shores of Tripoli to the Tigris |
| Feature: West Bank feels pinch of Chinese imports |
| How will the Iraq war end? |
| Is the Mahdi Army's 'cease-fire' over? |
| Iran Electioons: Meet the winner |
| Kuwait: Another Government Steps Down |
| Pakistan's new leaders face tough issues |
| Anonymous activists gaining strength online |
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| March 17 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Beijing's Tibetan Dilemma |
| Analysis: Iran's conservatives not necessarily behind
Ahmadinejad |
| Dividing Jerusalem? It's when, not whether |
| What to do about Gaza: The realistic scenario |
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| March 16 |
| Stephen Hayes: Saddam's Dangerous Friends |
| David Ignatius: Waiting Games in the Middle East |
| Cheney's Mideast trip: Iran tops a weighty agenda |
| US draws portrait of Iraq bombers |
| Noah Feldman: Why Shariah? |
| Why We Went Into Iraq: The question McCain must answer |
| Five Years On: The war for Iraq and its lessons |
| Iraq insurgency runs on stolen oil profits |
| Anthony Diaz: Hard-Won Progress In Baghdad |
| Linda Bilmes: Another year, another $300 billion |
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| March 15 |
| Palestinian old guard: defiance, regret |
| Daoud Kuttab: The futility of deterrence |
| Caroline Glick: Musharraf's Israeli disciples |
| Benjamin Weinthal: The German-Israeli tango |
| Mostafa Zein: The Admiral Resigns before
"Checkmate" |
| From the internet to prison: Arab bloggers face high
risks |
| US commanders: Al-Qaida in Iraq to stay |
| McCain on World Stage On Mideast, Europe Trip |
| Facts about al-Qaida in Iraq |
| Iran: Parliamentary Elections and the Elusive Consensus |
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| March 14 |
| Feature: Muslim Gulf makes room for churches as Qatar
catches up |
| Ariel Cohen: Hamas, Qassams & conflict |
| John McCain: Early US pull-out from Iraq will cause
'genocide' |
| Israel: the assassins are alive and well |
| George Giacaman : Assassinations galore |
| Iran: the long-term effect of political assassination |
| Death Comes for an Iraqi Archbishop |
| Russia: Political Clan Warfare Takes a Turn |
| Geopolitical Diary: Turkey Tries to Tame its Kurdish
Southeast |
| Geopolitical Diary: Eyes on Franco-Russian Relations |
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| March 13 |
| Joshua Goodman: Ahmadinejad's last stand |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Killing Is Not Restricted to Iraq |
| Mohammad Salah: Dividing the Arabs Once Again |
| Black Blocs: Upping the Ante at Protests |
| Zuheir Kseibati: Defiance and Favoritism |
| Saddam Hussein had no direct ties to al-Qaida, says
Pentagon study |
| Feature: Israeli coastal resort becomes latest frontline city |
| Feature: Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brothers defy state crackdown |
| Jordan: A Freed Jihadist's Limited Utility |
| Pakistan: Democracy and the Jihadist Threat |
| Geopolitical Diary: Turkey Tries to Tame its Kurdish
Southeast |
| Amir Oren: Admiral's break with Bush on Iran lands him on
the outs |
| Targeted assassination: Little room for mistakes |
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| March 12 |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Dick Cheney is not one of them |
| Randa Takieddine: Sarkozy and Israel |
| U.S. sees long fight to oust Al Qaeda in Mosul |
| Austin Bay: Al-Qaida's fading victory |
| To rescue the two-state solution, Israel must make peace
with Syria |
| Iran: Using al-Sadr as Leverage? |
| Geopolitical Diary: Fallon and the Two Persistent
Stalemates |
| U.S.: Fallon Resigns |
| Factbox: US assesses rights record in selected Mideast
nations |
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| March 11 |
| Factbox: Islam has different branches around the world |
| Analysis: Obama plans hands-on Mideast role |
| Middle East: Climate change could threaten food
security - FAO report |
| Gershon Baskin: The moral majority for peace |
| Iraq: The Long-Term al-Sadrite Threat |
| Tunisia: A Brush with Al Qaeda's North African Node |
| U.N. alleges nuclear work by Iran's civilian scientists |
| Eugene Robinson: Iraq's Surging Violence |
| Olivier Guitta: Being a Christian in the Maghreb |
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| March 10 |
| Syria 'intensely' arming itself |
| Arab entrepreneurs seek new riches south of Sahara |
| Saddam-era spies at work in Iraq |
| Wayne Madsen: The McCain/Rove defence contractor shake
down game |
| Scott MacLeod: Iran's Referendum on Ahmadinejad |
| Edward Spannaus: Exposé of Cheney's war crimes wins
Oscar |
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| March 9 |
| Kuwaiti analyst: Best if Israel, not U.S., destroys
Iranian nukes |
| Lee Kuan Yew:
The cost of retreat In Iraq |
| Mshari Al-Zaydi: Who controls Hamas |
| Amir Taheri: Why the nuclear program undermines Iran's
independence |
| Michael Jacobson: Iran and the Road Ahead |
| Editorial: It's Iran vs. Israel |
| It's Arabs who are showing us how to tackle extremism |
| Ed Husain: Saudis offer pioneering therapy for
ex-jihadists |
| Editorial: Talk, but No Peace |
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| March 8 |
| Najad's Visit and the Arab "Absence" |
| Massacre fuels fears of another Intifada |
| Mostafa Zein: A simplistic image of a complicated
conflict |
| Israel's dance of death |
| Timeline of the Israel-Palestine conflict |
| Assassination Middle East-style |
| Bernard Lewis:
When defeat means liberation |
| Assassinations: Unpredictable consequences |
| Assassinating terrorists: the bin Laden case |
| Pakistan's bloody past |
| Cyprus: The Bright Hopes and Dim Reality of
Reunification |
| Patrick Seale: Massacre in Gaza |
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| March 7 |
| Hamas countdown 'has begun' |
| Tim Butcher: Hopes of Middle East peace are blown away |
| Iraqi Christians cling to last, waning refuges |
| Iran debate: Who owns the revolution? |
| Yossi Sarid: The curse of Gaza |
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| March 6 |
| Iran, U.S.: Confusion About Iraq Talks (and the Lack
Thereof) |
| Feature: Jerusalem Bedouin fear a return to the
wilderness |
| Who leaked the details of a CIA-Mossad plot against Iran? |
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| March 5 |
| Zuheir Kseibati: They Are All Victors |
| Ricin: An Unlikely Weapon of Mass Destruction |
| Iraq: Iranians Arrive for a Fourth Round of Talks With
U.S. Officials |
| Palestine: Can Fatah Survive? |
| Iraq: The Status of National Reconciliation |
| Ivan Zakharchenko: Is Iran Looking for Change? |
| Mark N. Kaatz: The Saudi succession solution |
| PNA: The Possibilities and Difficulties of Egyptian and
Jordanian Rule |
| Alon Ben-Meir: The Languishing Initiative |
| Akiva Eldar: He who pays last pays best |
| Moshe Arens: Too much to expect |
| Rice meets harder lines in push for Israeli-Palestinian
peace |
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| March 4 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Medvedev's Grand Entrance |
| Iran reformers hemmed in ahead of elections |
| Mohammad Salah: "Hot Winter" and Cold Blood |
| Aluf Benn: The bad or the worse |
| Claude Salhani: Mideast turning point |
| Personal
trek, with millions |
| As Israelis pull out of Gaza, Hamas celebrates its
rocketry |
| Iran reformers hemmed in ahead of elections |
| Ahmadinejad's Iraq visit bolsters Iran's influence |
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| March 3 |
| Gershon Baskin: Talk to the devil |
| Remarks by His Majesty King Abdullah II |
| Geopolitical Diary: Ahmadinejad Among the Iraqis |
| Con Coughlin: Mahmoud Abbas should try leadership |
| Gaza: Truce or bloodbath |
| Iran/Iraq: Good Neighbours? |
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| March 2 |
| Analysis: Iraq welcomes Ahmadinejad, Sunni Arabs object |
| N.Y. Plaza Hotel, co-owned by Israeli and Saudi groups,
reopens doors |
| Elias Harfoush: Gaza the Victim |
| Abdullah Iskandar: A Negative American Message |
| Analysis: Mideast talks a mixed bag |
| In Search for Peace, a Shrinking White House Role |
| Analysis: Gaza raids met by loud silence from the Arab
world |
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| March 1 |
| Rami Khouri: America's Political and Media Hooligans |
| Patrick Cockburn: Chasing dreams of a new era in the
Mideast |
| Robin Wright: Why I have new hope for the Mideast |
