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April 2008 |
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| April 30 |
| George Friedman: The Shift Toward an Israeli-Syrian
Agreement |
| Is al-Qaida now targeting Iran? |
| Paul Craig Roberts: The Iraq war morphs into the Iranian
war |
| Feature: "Falafel fuel" powers cars in
petrol-starved Gaza |
| Andrei Kislyakov: Is Iran a nuclear threat? |
| Pakistan: A New Phase in the Militant Proxy Saga |
| Russia, Georgia: Nearing a Flashpoint? |
| Gideon Levy: Peace or real estate |
| Amitai Etzioni: For the good of all its people, Israel
must pursue diversity |
| Afghanistan's insurgency spreading north |
| In Saudi Arabia, moderate article on Islam draws death
fatwa |
| Iran takes goodwill tour to India |
| A Kurdish idealist returns to Iraq to 'change attitudes' |
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| April 29 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Israel, Syria and the Turkish
Mediator |
| Hillary and Ahmadinejad: Two Faces of the Same Coin! |
| Sir Cyril Townsend: Progress in Basra |
| Analysis: Olmert closer to deal with Syria, Israel is
not |
| Jimmy Carter: Talking to 'terrorists' |
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| April 28 |
| U.S. 'ears shut' to Syrian peace overtures |
| Ghassan Charbel: The Turkish Passage |
| U.S. pushes utilities to counter Moqtada al-Sadr |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Selling Jordan |
| Chicago lawyer finds mission in helping Iraqi Christian
refugees |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Difficulty of Managing
Afghanistan |
| Feature: Iraq's drivers buckling up as traffic rules get
stricter |
| Jihad el Khazen: Arab nations need to put their houses in order |
| Iraq: New dawn for Sunnis? |
| Olivier Guitta: Switzerland siding with Iran? |
| Galal Nassar: Can Bush attack again? |
| Amir Oren : Peace or the nuclear option |
| Uzi Benziman: Above all, Olmert must want peace |
| In weary Baghdad, reopening of bridge would mean peace
had come to stay |
| Ayman El-Amir: A reincarnation of the Baghdad Pact |
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| April 27 |
| The neoconning of a nation |
| Is Al-Qaeda Back in Baghdad? |
| Jeffrey Steinberg: London's man Cheney blows up Iraq to
trigger war on Iran |
| Egypt cracks down on the 'live in sin licence' |
| Patrick Clawson: A Roadmap for the Foreign Terrorist
Organizations List |
| Iraq: Poverty gets the survivors |
| Jim Lobe: US Hawks Resurgent? |
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| April 26 |
| U.S.: The Return of the 4th Fleet |
| U.S., Iran: Warning Shots in the Persian Gulf |
| Analysis: Assad's PR peace promise |
| Analysis: Can Israel afford to live without the Golan? |
| Martin Indyk: The Future of U.S.-Syrian Relations |
| Pakistan: A New Peace Deal With the Taliban |
| Matthew Continetti: Carter's Heir |
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| April 25 |
| Why US brings up Israeli raid on Syrian nuke reactor
now? |
| Real reason Syrian base was wiped off the map |
| Israel, Syria: Border Aspects of a Potential Peace Deal |
| Winning the War on Terror: Marking Success and
Confronting Challenges |
| Full Text:
White House statement on North Korea aiding Syria |
| Egypt: Islamists given jail, and a message |
| With Syria 'reactor' video, U.S. sends a warning |
| Peter Wilby: The last excuse for the Iraq war is founded
on a myth |
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| April 24 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Syria and Israel Hint at Peace Talks |
| Israel, Syria: Swapping the Golan Heights for Peace? |
| Analysis: Placing the Terrorist Threat to the Food
Supply in Perspective |
| Peter Zeihan:The
Politics of the Improbable |
| Iraq: The Al-Sadrite Distancing From Iran |
| Syria: Serious Talks With Israel |
| WITNESS: Dragon's Blood in a place like nowhere on earth |
| Danielle Sassoon: The Forgotten Refugees |
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| April 23 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Al-Zawahiri tries to exploit
US-Iranian dealings on Iraq |
| Analysis: How Israel views Iran |
| Yemen: Al Qaeda's Resurgence |
| Israel, PNA: A Cease-Fire Unlikely to Last |
| Iran watching U.S. campaigns with hope for detente |
| Israeli think tank: Muslim anti-Semitism is strategic
danger for Israel |
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| April 22 |
| At Kuwait meeting, U.S. hope for regional aid to Iraq |
| Geopolitical Diary: Russia, the West and Azerbaijan |
| Tom Donnelly: Sadr's in a JAM |
| David Schenker: Egypt Builds a Wall |
| Blasphemy in Pakistan - Benedict Rogers & Joseph Loconte |
| In Syrian villages, the language of Jesus lives |
| Yemen: Pirates Likely Behind Tanker Attack |
| Analysis: Carter - there he goes again |
| Rami Khouri: America through Arab eyes |
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| April 21 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Syria and Israel consider a deal |
| Ghassan Charbel: The Zewail Way and the Zawahiri Way |
| Olivier Guitta: Europe facing radicalization over the
Web |
| Carter and Hamas: Little Harvest |
| Feature: Israeli-Syrian peace talks broached, but border
tension high |
| Amir Oren: An important success foiled again |
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| April 20 |
| Arab ambassadors to Iraq |
| Israel: 60 years of hope and despair |
| The global inflation wave and OPEC's role |
| Perceived slights have left many U.S. Muslims wary of
Pope |
| British dealers supply arms to Iran |
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| April 19 |
| Abdullah Iskandar: Iran and War |
| Patrick Seale: Time for Iraq's Neighbours to Show
Leadership |
| United States: The Supersonic Anti-Ship Missile Threat |
| Analysis: Can the U.S. and Iran Share the Middle East? |
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| April 18 |
| Syria: A new air-defense system, but no fundamental
change |
| Daniel Pipes: A democratic Islam? |
| Iraq bombings target US-allied, anti-Al Qaeda groups |
| Iraq: Chaos Hardening Sectarian Fiefdoms |
| The Real World: Putin in Libya |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Cost of the High Price of Grain |
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| April 17 |
| Saudi Arabia: Petraeus and Crocker's Stopover |
| Elias Harfoush: Do You Believe Shirin Ebadi or
Ahmedinejad? |
| Geopolitical Diary: Russia's Back Door Into Libya |
| Yemen: The Skillful Jihadist Attack and Signs of Trouble |
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| April 16 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iran’s al-Sadrite Problem |
| Saudi church project runs into the sand |
| Mostafa Zein: Al-Hakim's Iraq and Sadr's Iraq |
| Martin Walker: The U.K.'s Saudi mess |
| Maria Appakova: Is there progress in Iraq? |
| Politics, US: New Jewish lobby seeks to redefine
"pro-Israel" |
| Mark Katz: Russia and Israel: A complex relationship |
| Greece: Saudi Diplomatic Vehicles Targeted |
| Russia: Putin's Continued Hold on Power |
| Worldwide Hunger Catastrophe! |
| U.S. hopes to counter Mahdi Army's clout in Baghdad |
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| April 15 |
| Israel, U.S.: Possible ballistic Missile Early-Warning
Integration |
| Ghassan Khatib: Complex regional rivalry muddying the
waters |
| Yossi Alpher: Through an Iranian prism |
| Iraq: Militias, Provincial Polls and the Ethno-Sectarian
Struggle |
| Iraq: Oil Contracts and the Security Environment |
| China, UAE: A Bid to Boost the Dubai Exchange |
| US/Iran: Tough new sanctions could backfire, experts
warn |
| Politics: Attitudes toward U.S. worsen in Arab World |
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| April 14 |
| Egypt and Hamas: The Frontiers of Crisis |
| Elias Harfoush: The Demographic Threat! |
| Abdullah Alshayji: No end in sight for unjust war |
| Jimmy Carter plans to meet a fuel-short Hamas |
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| April 13 |
| Iran: Blast
at Shiite Mosque in Shiraz |
| Iraqi neighbours rise up against al-Qa'eda |
| Nazar Janabi: Who Won the Battle for Basra? |
| Iraq: From one dictator to the next |
| Ahmad Naguib Roushdy: The rise and fall of American
empire |
| Daniel Brett: Iran, stop persecuting your Arab minority |
| Gamil Mattar: Arab cooperation adjourned |
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| April 12 |
| Resurrecting the wall of fear: The human rights
situation in Syria |
| George Hishmeh: The Window is Closing in Palestine |
| A bloody era of Syria's history informs a writer's
banned novel |
| Dilip Hiro: How to win in Iraq without losing to Iran |
| United States: The U.S. Navy and Africa |
| Somalia: The Islamist Insurgency and U.S. Aid |
| Afghanistan: Why India’s Cooperation is a Problem
for Pakistan |
| Geopolitical Diary: Bush's Overtures to Iran |
| United States: The Weaponization of Space |
| Patrick Seale: Nicolas Sarkozy's Mediterranean Union |
| Iraq: Top Al-Sadr Aide Killed |
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| April 11 |
| Extravagance uncovered during Saudi arms probe |
| Egypt: Elections and Future of the Muslim Brotherhood |
| United States: Bush Calls on Iran to Settle Iraq |
| Egypt: Gaza Border at Crossroads |
| Maryam Yasmin Hussain: Is the West anti-Islam? |
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| April 10 |
| In Iraq, Sunni insurgents still aim to oust U.S.,
Shiites |
| Pyotr Goncharov: Have a nice Nuclear Day |
| Analysis: Hamas' Risky Threat on the Egyptian Border |
| Geopolitical Diary: Three Incidents and the Course of
U.S. Foreign Policy |
| The Heathrow Plot Trial: Retrospection and Implications |
| Yemen: The High Price of an Incomplete Unity |
| Culture: Martyrs and Scholars Meet in the Middle |
| Analysis: Iran wins again |
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| April 9 |
| George Friedman: A Mystery in the Middle East |
| Lee Smith: The Trouble With Talking |
| Carl Osgood: Can Dick Cheney's war against Iran be
avoided? |
| Yemen: Clear Evidence of Jihadist Activity |
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| April 8 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Levantine War Rumors and the Iraq
Situation |
| Secret US plan for military future in Iraq |
| Claude Salhani: Can there be a victor? |
| Iraq: Al-Sadr's Difficult Disbanding Proposition |
| Mohamad Bazzi: Iraq's Shiite power vacuum |
| Linda Heard: Why the US wants to defang Iran |
| Marines face last insurgent stronghold in Iraq's Anbar
Province |
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| April 7 |
| Israel:
The Next Generation |
| Olivier Guitta: Proof of Iran's military nuclear program |
| Iraqi Christians: Exodus, ethnic cleansing &
identity annihilation |
| Hazem Saghieh: Throbbing Delirium |
| Political progress in Iraq 'halting and superficial': US
study |
| Amir Oren: Damascus, Ramallah or Tehran |
| Akiva Eldar: The time has come for Bush to intervene |
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| April 6 |
| Arshin Adib-Moghaddam: Israel and the Islamist prototype |
| Yossi Alpher: Israel's legitimacy and viability |
| Yossi Sarid: Real sanctions will cool off the ayatollahs |
| What Happened in Basra: The Maliki-Sadr showdown |
| Dennis Ross: The Pakistan Paradox |
| Zvi Bar'el: Ready for everything but peace |
| Uzi Benziman: What's behind the masks? |
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| April 5 |
| Claude Salhani: Islam and American politics |
| Iraq: Al-Sadr Falls in Line With Iran's Wishes |
| Iran, U.S., Iraq: A Fourth Round of U.S.-Iranian Talks? |
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| April 4 |
| Global Market Brief: The World Reacts to Inflation |
| Geopolitical Diary: NATO Hands Russia a Small Victory |
| The Implications of the NATO Enlargement Agenda |
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| April 3 |
| Zuheir Kseibati: Our Eternal Schizophrenia |
| Arabs without oil hard hit by food price spiral |
| Russia and the Return of the FSB - Fred Burton and Scott Stewart |
| Turkey: The AKP Prepares for the Possibility of Being
Banned |
| Libya: The Significance of Participation |
| Geopolitical Diary: Pakistan's Limited Options with the
United States |
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| April 2 |
| Fear of blue-eyed, blond terrorists |
| The Basra Business: What we know and what we don't |
| From a Beirut cell, an Iraqi watches as the U.S. finally
takes his advice |
| Iraq: The Infrastructure of Stability |
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| April 1 |
| Geopolitical Diary: NATO Expansion, BMD and the U.S.
Flush |
| Claude Salhani: New battle for Iraq |
| Robert Dreyfuss: The Lessons of Basra |
| Barry Rubin: When terrorism makes sense |
