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September 2008 |
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| September 30 |
| Israeli Intelligence Warns of New Israeli Terror |
| For U.S. and Sunni Allies, a Turning Point |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave: Connecting geopolitical dots |
| Final Hours Find Newly Conciliatory Olmert |
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| September 29 |
| Hassan Haidar: Zardari's Wars |
| Feature: Little holiday joy in Gaza, but tunnelers thrive |
| Geopolitical Diary: Congress' Plan for the U.S.
Financial Sector |
| Tzipi Livni’s Israel |
| On a vital route, a boom in piracy |
| U.S.: Iran resolution shelved in rare defeat for
"Israel Lobby" |
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| September
28 |
| Analysis: Credit crisis erodes faith in Washington |
| Feature: Golan brides know there is no going back |
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| September 27 |
| Russia: Warnings of another Chechen war |
| Geopolitical Diary: Russia's Dalliance With Venezuela |
| Joshua Goodman: Ahmadinejad's Economic Conundrum |
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| September 26 |
| Israel asked US for green light to bomb nuclear sites in
Iran |
| Unholy row: Leading Muslim clerics in increasingly
bitter sectarian feud |
| Israel asked US for green light to bomb nuclear sites in
Iran |
| Unholy row: Leading Muslim clerics in increasingly
bitter sectarian feud |
| George Friedman: McCain's Foreign Policy Stance |
| Israel: Vehicle Attacks - A New Militant Tactic? |
| Pakistan, U.S.: Dangerous Tensions |
| Muslims reject al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden |
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| September 25 |
| Feature: Jordan valley withers in wilderness of Mideast
politics |
| Geopolitical Diary: Changing Agendas on Iran |
| George Friedman: Obama's Foreign Policy Stance |
| Iraq: Election Law Gridlock Ends |
| Hydrocarbons -- the formula for war |
| Mohebat Ahdiyyih: Ahmadinejad and the Mahdi |
| What drives Ahmadinejad's combative rhetoric |
| Ghassan Charbel: The Dim Shadows |
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| September 24 |
| How Syria's Assad Is Steering His Country out of
Isolation |
| Claude Salhani: Will Tzipi Livni Opt for Peace? |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Caution Is a Must |
| George Friedman: The New President and the Global Landscape |
| Amine Ait-Chaalal: Syrian-Israeli negotiations pause for
election outcomes |
| Ghassan Khatib: Playing Palestinians off against each
other |
| Shlomo Brom: Is Israel engaging Hamas? |
| Iraq: Awash in "missing" weapons |
| Geopolitical Diary: Wall Street Drama |
| Mideast: Everyone Loses in the war of silencing |
| A question of trust in Pakistan, the land of the conspiracy
theory |
| Tense U.S.-Pakistani Relations and the Mystery of a
Downed Drone |
| Russia: Putin Pulls the Oligarchs' Strings |
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| September 23 |
| Iran: Another Sign of the Power Struggle in Tehran |
| Claude Salhani: How feasible is peace with Syria? |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Turning Point in Pakistan's
Attitude Toward Jihadist War? |
| Protective Intelligence Assessment: The Islamabad
Marriott Bombing |
| Analysis: Fear of terror worsens attacks |
| Olivier Guittta: Troubled Situation in Critical Yemen |
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| September 22 |
| New Isreali estimate: Iran is progressing fast towards a
nuclear bomb |
| Rough week, but America's era goes on |
| Pakistan: A Hotel Bombing and an Opportunity for
Islamabad |
| Michel Morkos: The Reckless US Financial
Institutions… |
| Iran: A Spotlight on the Intra-Conservative Rift |
| Jackson Diehl: A Peace From the Bottom Up |
| Abdullah Iskandar: Seasons of Terror |
| From the archive: The secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal
revealed |
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| September 21 |
| Analysis: Even Assad has a better opinion of Livni than
Barak |
| Meet Tzipi Livni |
| Terrorists are Religiously and Mentally Retarded |
| Back in Iraq, Jarred by the Calm |
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| September 20 |
| Dealing With Financial Crisis: The United States vs.
Russia |
| Garry Kaparove: Putin is ruining Russia's economy |
| Russia, Turkey: A Reduction in Tensions |
| Thousands in Cairo still live in fear at a cliff’s
edge |
| Analysis: Livni's victory is a big crack in the glass
ceiling |
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| September 19 |
| Israeli Politics and Movements in the Middle East |
| Joe Loconte: The Irrationality of Anti-Americanism |
| Irwin Stelzer: Wall Street Shudders |
| Patrick Seale: Danger Along the Durand Line |
| Mohammad Salah: Whoever Did It, Did It; What's Next? |
| Jaime Daremblum: Chavez's Dangerous Liaisons |
| Cesar Chelala: Iran's Conundrum |
| Claude Salhani: Iraq: A Precarious Peace |
| Arab Americans Favour Obama by Wide Margin |
| Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia on the Rise in Europe |
| Factbox: Diplomatic challenges facing new Israeli leader |
| US Financial Crisis: 'The World As We Know It Is Going
Down' |
| Why Livni's Victory Hurts the Peace Process |
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| September 18 |
| Hassan Haidar: Afghan "Awakenings" |
| Mother
from Mossad becomes Israel's first female PM since Golda Meir |
| Militant Possibilities on the New-Old Front |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iranian Diplomacy in the Caucasus |
| The Line Is Drawn: Stop the Nation-Killing Bailout Now! |
| Geopolitical Diary: Russia's Stock Market Woes |
| Will Washington Allow Zardari's Political Survival? |
| Iraq's Counterinsurgency College |
| Survey: Anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim feelings growing
across Europe, world |
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| September 17 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Measuring the Danger |
| Randa Takieddine: Caution over the American Financial
Turmoil |
| Jihad el-Khazen: The Threat of Religious Fundamentalism |
| Ghassan Charbel: The Tears of Pirates |
| Timeline of Israel's ruling Kadima party |
| U.S., Pakistan: Balancing Act on the Afghan Border |
| Ian Black: Too racy for Ramadan |
| Wife, mother, secret agent: Tzipi Livni may lead Israel
to peace |
| Tzipi Livni offers new hope for the floundering peace
process |
| US and UK failing to monitor flood of arms into Iraq,
Amnesty warns |
| Ghassan Khatib: Oslo's failure led to the rise of Hamas |
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| September 16 |
| Claude Salhani: Israel's Real Enemy |
| Rami Khouri: The Tragic Failure of Arab Moderates |
| Abdullah Iskandar: America between Hope and Fear |
| Feature: Displaced Sunnis face uncertain Baghdad
homecoming |
| Martin Woollacott: The Kurds seize their opportunity |
| Claude Salhani: Afghanistan tops Iraq as area of concern |
| Pakistan: Resisting U.S. Incursions, But Not Too Much |
| Pakistan: A Crisis in U.S. Ties and the Indian
Connection |
| Mohammad Salah: Dirty Businessmen |
| As peace talks sputter, Israelis and Palestinians eye
Plan B |
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| September 15 |
| Dennis Ross: A Mideast Crisis to Avert |
| Analysis: Hawkish former general hopes to replace Olmert |
| Fred Hiatt: The Battle For Hope In Iraq |
| Analysis: Lebanon War diverted Olmert from his goal to
pull out of West Bank |
| Review and Outlook: Bush's Lonely Decision |
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| September 14 |
| Thomas Friedman: Making America Stupid |
| Bush playing with firepower |
| We will spill British blood, warns Sheikh Ahmad Fartusi |
| Nobel laureate from Iran urges against military action |
| Jonathan Tepperman: We Got Trouble |
| Analysis: Candidates for Kadima primary are more like
janitors than leaders |
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| September 13 |
| 'Damascus spring' fades from memory |
| Strip of Iraq 'on the verge of exploding' |
| Iranians scarred by Russian aggression |
| Geopolitical Diary: Pakistan and the U.S. -- The Crisis
Begins |
| Geopolitical Diary: Russian Maneuvers and the U.S.
Reaction |
| American Revolutionary: Boston scholar inspires rebels
around the World |
| A West Bank ruin, reborn as a peace beacon |
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| September 12 |
| Syria, Russian naval cooperation grows |
| Raghida Dergham: How Does John McCain Think and Behave? |
| Mohammad Salah: The Dreams and Nightmares of Arabs |
| Karl Rove: Obama Can't Win Against Palin |
| Austin Bay: Bin Laden's slow rot |
| Iran is a threat, but the West can't afford to have
Israel bomb it - yet |
| Irfan Husain: The battle for Pakistan's soul |
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| September 11 |
| War in Georgia: Repercussions on the international order
and the MidEast |
| Ghassan Charbel: September 11 Calculations |
| Zuheir Kseibati: We Defeat America to Commit Suicide |
| Israeli-Syrian talks tentative |
| The Lessons of St. Paul - Fred Burton and Scott Stewart |
| Geopolitical Diary: Russian Maneuvers and the U.S.
Reaction |
| OPEC: Elusive Compliance with a Production Decision |
| 9/11 and the “War on Terrorism”: Facts and
myths |
| Slow Sunni Integration Could Derail Iraq Successes |
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| September 10 |
| Israel aims to break up Syria-Iran alliance |
| How Syria came in from the cold |
| Portrait of a suicide bomber |
| Ronen Bergman: Living to Bomb Another Day |
| Geopolitical Diary: Olmert’s Canceled Trip to
Moscow, the Broader Picture |
| David Schenker: The moral and political cost of Libya's
rehabilitation |
| The Persian Gulf's 'Occupied Territory': The Three-Island
Dispute |
| Mideast: Israel Moves to Judaise East Jerusalem |
| Analysis: Obama Is Back on Defense Against McCain |
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| September 9 |
| Israeli Strategy After the Russo-Georgian War |
| Washington Watch: Iran may be bombastic, but Pakistan has
the Bomb |
| Mostafa Zein: Seven Years of the War on Terror |
| Claude Salhani: Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: Dream or
Reality? |
| Rami Khouri: Dealing in Damascus |
| Geopolitical Diary: U.S. Troop Allocations and Future
Priorities |
| Maria Appakova: New Middle East Quartet Established in
Damascus |
| Afghanistan: Breaking Away from Islamabad's Influence |
| For Iran, energy woes justify nuclear push |
| Russia courts old allies, steps up defiance of the West |
| Analysis: U.S. losing ground, sway to Iran |
| Israeli Attack on Iran Timed Between November and
January? |
| Feature: Iraq's first Christian militia takes stand
against Qaeda |
| Walker's World: Asia's new nuclear map |
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| September 8 |
| Fact file: Facts about Israeli leader Ehud Olmert |
| Fact file: Scenarios for Israel after Olmert resigns |
| Fact File: Possible successors to Israel's Olmert |
| Mohammad El-Ashab: Rice in North Africa |
| David Singer: Jordan Prepares To Prevent West Bank
Collapse |
| Iran's Faltering Economy |
| Rami Khouri: Elegant Colonialism |
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| September 7 |
| No Bush road to Damascus |
| Feature: Iraq’s Air Force prepares for takeoff |
| Feature: An Iraqi Exodus |
| The Art
of Middle East Survival |
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| September 6 |
| How to Exit Iraq |
| Rice and Gaddafi hammer at wall built by decades of
animosity |
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| September 5 |
| Alireza Jafarzadeh: The Ayatollahs' Suicide Bombers |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Deafening Silence on Iran |
| Kim Holmes: Who Wants a Cold War? |
| Russia: Dipping into the Revenue Candy Jar |
| Patrick Seale: Charting the world of tomorrow |
| Jihad el-Khazen: The Nuclear Arena |
| United States, Iran: Reaching an Agreement on
Mujahideen-e-Khalq |
| United States: Going Quiet on Iran |
| Josh Hammer: Is Diyala the New Anbar? |
| Michael Sharoffp: Arab Initiative Worth Exploring |
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| September 4 |
| Saudi Arabia: A 'Failed Coup' and Iranian Interests |
| Geopolitical Diary: More Ripples in the Post-Georgia
Pond |
| Turkey: Eyeing Central Asian Energy Ties |
| Most Terrifying of Terrors': World War by
Miscalculation? |
| Encountering Peace: From concepts to realities |
| Assad's charm offensive |
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| September 3 |
| George Hishmeh: The Silence of the Arabs |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Medvedev Doctrine |
| Russia: Western Businesses and the Return of the Cold
War Mentality |
| Yemen: High-Profile Militants Killed and the Yemeni
Power Structure |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Diplomatic Phase of the Georgian
War |
| Peter Robinson: Why McCain still has a chance to win |
| Chuck Freilich: US-Iranian tango |
| The next step: Making peace with Syria |
| A US role in Syrian-Israeli peace - Robert Pelletreau and Edward S. Walker |
| Claude Salhani: NATO's new significant threats |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave: Israel of the Caucasus |
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| September 2 |
| Walker's World: The world's election |
| Why America needs a post-Bush makeover |
| Olivier Guitta: Algeria fooling itself over Al-Qaida |
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| September 1 |
| Ghassan Rubeiz: Is Israel one disaster from collapse? |
| A Conventional Obama… and an Adventurous McCain |
| Let Palin Be Palin: Why the left is scared to death of
McCain's running mate |
