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August 2009 |
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| August 31 |
| Ahmadinejad's Stalling Tactic |
| Syria trained me: Al Qaeda militant |
| No surprises on Saudi's first ever rich list |
| Maliki throws all-or-nothing hat into election |
| Editorial: Shia upheavals |
| Digging up the Saudi past: Some would rather not |
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| August 30 |
| IAF adding firepower to helicopter fleet |
| Amir Taheri: Tehran and the British Spy Game |
| Karin Friedemann: Myths and Facts About Al Qaeda |
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| August 29 |
| Khalid bin Mahfouz; Saudi banker denied terrorism ties |
| Religion as a force for peace |
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| August 28 |
| Iraq: The Shifting Balance Between Iran and the U.S. |
| Al-Qaeda leader: Pakistan is the main battleground |
| Analysis: Obama steers the peace train on |
| 'United' Jerusalem has two faces |
| Diana Mukkaled: The Gazan Jilbab |
| The bomber goes free, but why? |
| Syria: Cleansing the olive oil business |
| Gaza at Ramadan: blockade, dress code fray tempers |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iran and the Question of Sanctions |
| Saudi Arabia: An Attack on the Deputy Interior Minister |
| Terrorism in Saudi Arabia: Who is developing it and who
can explain it? |
| Egypt, Israel: Overcoming the constraints |
| Egypt, Israel: Interests aligning |
| Egypt, Isreal: The elusive alliance |
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| August 27 |
| Iraq: The Implications of Al-Hakim's Death |
| Libya: A Hero's Welcome |
| Analysis: Iraq's Shiite power base shifts |
| Palestinian Organs on the Black Market |
| How Shimon Peres reinvented Israeli presidency |
| Inside Iran…The Government with Hostages |
| Aluf Benn: Netanyahu, do Israel a service and fire
Lieberman |
| Carlo Strenger: One-state solution is a blueprint for a
nightmare |
| Jonathan Power: How Not to Capture Osama bin Laden |
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| August 26 |
| David Ignatius: Behind the Carnage in Baghdad |
| Palestinian PM aims for de facto state |
| Why Israel will thwart Obama on settlements |
| Is Yemen Chewing Itself to Death? |
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| August 25 |
| Iraq: Iran Attempts a Comeback |
| Israel assembles Iron Dome unit |
| Yemen War: Where US and Iran Jockey for Regional Primacy |
| Obama's Foreign Policy: The End of the Beginning |
| Analysis: Iraq's premier must work to keep job |
| The European-Libyan Game |
| Fawaz Gerges: Sick man of the Middle East |
| Alon Ben-Meir: Winning Back Israel |
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| August 24 |
| Makers of Military Drones Take Off |
| Iraq…The Coming Violence Will Be Worse |
| Khamenei Vs. Khomeini |
| US the key to Syrian rehabilitation: analysts |
| Analysis: Yemen war on northern rebels compounds
instability |
| Thomas James: Postcard From...Damascus |
| Frederick Kagan: We're Not the Soviets in Afghanistan |
| Barry Rubin: Iran and Syria, so happy together |
| Feature: Dancing by the Waves, Iraqis Forget War for a
Day |
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| August 23 |
| Saudi families square up over $20bn 'fraud' |
| Analysis: Trouble in former Qaeda heartland bodes ill for
Iraq |
| Zvi Bar'el: The trap of regional peace |
| Joel Brinkley: Syria holds strategic power |
| Minorities Trapped in Northern Iraq’s Maelstrom |
| Was Oil Part of a Deal for the Lockerbie Bomber? |
| Israel's Visa Rule: If You Visit Palestine, Stay There |
| David Ignatius: Leadership 101 |
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| August 22 |
| Claude Salhani: Is Israel About to Miss an Opportunity
for Peace? |
| Ahmadinezhad's Cabinet: Loyalists and Radicals |
| Haleh Esfandiari: Tehran's Self-Fulfilling Paranoia |
| Russia: The Chechen Economic War Threat |
| Afghanistan: The Electoral Distraction and the Potential
For Instability |
| Analysis: Netanyahu’s Déjà Vu Cabinet Storm |
| Saudi Arabia: Undercutting Regional Rivals |
| Geopolitical Diary: Mixed Signals From Tehran |
| Afghanistan: Necessity vs. choice |
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| August 21 |
| Iraqi lawmakers seek review of security forces |
| Shias and Sunnis accuse each other of bombings |
| Libya keeps Lockerbie bomber under wraps |
| Iran: The Fight Over Economic Power |
| Mshari Al-Zaydi: “Jihad” Against Hamas and
Sheikh Sharif |
| Behind Hamas' Own War on Terror |
| Analysis: Embattled Hamas Shows its Moderate Face |
| Robert Fisk: Democracy will not bring freedom |
| Israel's Barak Takes Lead in Peace Talks |
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| August 20 |
| Iran: The
Fracturing of the State |
| Geopolitical Diary: Of Afghan Warlords and Polling Places |
| Pakistan: Spreading Taliban Factionalism |
| Ganesh Sitaraman: Reason in the Land of 10,000 Wars |
| Kishore Mahbubani: An Asia Strategy for Iran |
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| August 19 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Israeli Arms and Russian Intentions |
| George Friedman: Iraq Endgame |
| Iran: The IRGC's Place in the New Cabinet |
| Pakistan: More Setbacks for the Pakistani Taliban |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Erdogan and the Islamists…Is the
Honeymoon Over? |
| Walker's World: The China bubble |
| Hamad Al-Majid: Blind Fanaticism and Its Consequences |
| Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed : Iraq's Long Marathon Elections |
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| August 18 |
| Will Iran's 'Kennedys' Challenge Ahmadinejad? |
| Gaza Strip: Cutting Out the Competition |
| Iran: The Supreme Leader's New Security Force |
| Feature: Israeli wine flows onto international shelves |
| Afghanistan: Dostum's Return |
| Analysis: Israel wrecked Arafat, crowned Hamas, gave
birth to Al-Qaida in Gaza |
| Michele Dunne: A Message for Mubarak |
| Gabriel Siboni: Demilitarization is not feasible |
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| August 17 |
| Hamas turns on al-Qaida |
| Geopolitical Diary: Israel's Position on Iran |
| Hamas profits from Israel's Gaza blockade |
| The Geneva conventions at 60: Unleashing the laws of
war |
| Merav Michaeli: Beyond the border of peace |
| Charles Grant: How to make Europe’s military work |
| Barry Rubin: Fatah's ticking bomb |
| Zvi Bar'el: If a soldier is kidnapped, we'll talk |
| Egypt's guessing game: How long can a leader last? |
| Daoud Kuttab: Fatah’s new Face |
| Muhammad Diyab: Al Qaeda’s “Promised Land” |
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| August 16 |
| For Hamas, Challenges May Be Growing |
| Analysis: Hamas wipes out opposition |
| Barry Rubin: Fatah's new status quo leaders |
| Yossi Sarid: Nothing in Israel to be proud of anymore |
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| August 15 |
| Fatah Congress: A Victory for Abbas |
| Daoud Kuttab: The Normalization of Fatah |
| Caroline Glick: Gazan and West Bank ‘leaders’
come clean, but Obama is still playing deaf |
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| August 14 |
| Iran: An Increase in Arms Smuggling? |
| Kuwait: An Ambitious Attack Plan |
| Mehdi Khalaji: Militarization of the Iranian Judiciary |
| The Counterinsurgency in Pakistan - Kamran Bokhari and Fred Burton |
| Barry Rubin: Fatah’s Status Quo |
| Claude Salhani: How to Trap Producers of Terror |
| Suddenly, It's Advantage Fatah, and a Solution |
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| August 13 |
| U.S.: P-3Cs and Counterpiracy Operations |
| Revolution Leaders Struggle for Power in Tehran |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Why is Iraq Ablaze? |
| Jihadists Describe Hatred of US as Reason for Terror
Plot |
| Analysis: New faces of an unreformed, hardline Fatah |
| Mel Frykberg: New Blood Invigorates Fatah Leadership |
| Arnaud de Borchgrave: Pakistan nuke thefts foiled |
| Anne Applebaum: A Good Month for Bad News |
| Feature: Iraqi immigrants face lonely struggle in U.S. |
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| August 12 |
| Fatah: a New Beginning? |
| The two-state solution doesn’t solve anything -
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley |
| Avi Issacharof: Fatah showed Palestinians democracy is
more than just a slogan |
| Analysis: New faces of an unreformed, hard-line Fatah |
| Ziad Abu Zayyad: A brand new Fatah? |
| Thomas Joscelyn: The Zubaydah Dossier |
| Iraq's bombs of august: A return to the bad old days? |
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| August 11 |
| George Friedman: Hypothesizing on the Iran-Russia-U.S. Triangle |
| Geopolitical Diary: Truth and Lies about Russia and Iran |
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| August 10 |
| Iran: A Canceled Sermon and an Upper Hand for the
Supreme Leader? |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave: Al-Qaida's navy? |
| One of Yemen’s 3 insurgencies flares up |
| Uri Avnery: Israel’s Own Psyche |
| Are Taliban leaders fighting among themselves? |
| Gary Wasserman: The AIPAC Case and Prejudice |
| War by Other Means: Econo-Jihad |
| As Dubai's glitter fades, foreigners see dark side |
| Spengler: The closing of the Christian womb |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Iran's Farcical Play |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's
Current Disarray |
| Pakistan: Taliban Infighting Amid the Search for a
Successor |
| Analysis: How Fatah has evolved into the Palestinian
Ba'ath party |
| Barry Rubin: The benefits of anti-Americanism |
| Ed Hussein: Where is the Muslim anger over Darfur? |
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| August 9 |
| James Denselow: Wandering across war zones |
| Thomas Friedman: Green Shoots in Palestine II |
| In Iran, a hostage-taker is now hostage |
| The Case for Leaving Iraq — Now |
| Fatah: Playing Russian roulette |
| Yagil Henkin: How to effectively sanction Hamas |
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| August 8 |
| Amir Taheri: Tennessee Turkey Shoot in Tehran |
| Another Tack: (Trans) Jordan is Palestine |
| Reality Contradicts New Hamas Spin |
| U.S., Pakistan: The implications of Mehsud's death for
broader counterjihadist vooperation |
| Pakistan: The Pakistani Taliban Post-Mehsud |
| Who will be Pakistan's next terrorism chief? |
| Pakistan: The Death of Baitullah Mehsud |
| Geopolitical Diary: Putin Goes to Turkey |
| Stephen Hayes: A War Grows in Afghanistan |
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| August 7 |
| Somalia is Obama's new 'Afghanistan' |
| Washington Watch: American and Israeli delusions of peace |
| Nushin Arbabzadah: The all-new, same old Taliban? |
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| August 6 |
| Israel: Preparations and Challenges for a Strike |
| Peter Zeihan: Ten Years of Putin |
| U.S.: A New Bunker Buster |
| Iran: Political Infighting and Foreign Policy |
| Ataollah Mohajerani: “Down with the Dictator” |
| Harlan Ullman: The whole Middle East enchilada |
| Pakistan: Who's Attacking the Christians? |
| Make way, Fatah young guns tell Arafat generation |
| David Schenker: Where have all the Palestinian moderates
gone? |
| Profile: ‘Marwan paid, now he should be
rewarded’ |
| Analysis: Western concern grows over Somali war fallout |
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| August 5 |
| Factbox: Somalia's al Shabaab rebels |
| Webster Brooks: Obama’s Unfolding Strategy for
“Victory” in Afghanistan |
| Can Fatah reinvent itself? |
| From Aleppo to New York |
| Alon Ben-Meir: Israel's strategic necessity |
| Yoel Marcus: Stop the brutalization of the State of
Israel |
| Justin Raimondo: The ‘Patriotic’ Spy |
| Raymond Beauchemi: Bad loans come due in UAE |
| Profile of a real cyberwar |
| Thomas Friedman: Green Shoots in Palestine |
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| August 4 |
| Iran is ready to build an N-bomb - it is just waiting for
the Ayatollah's order |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Lasting Rifts in Tehran |
| Qatar: A Possible Coup Attempt? |
| Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood is linked to terrorists |
| Will a police probe take down Israel's foreign minister? |
| Preview: Fatah facing tough challenges at first congress
in 20 years |
| Background: The Fatah movement |
| Feature: Gazans debate Hamas "Islamization"
signals |
| Sami Moubayed: In memory of brave Al Hout (1932-2009) |
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| August 3 |
| The Israeli conundrum: How to deal with Iran |
| Geopolitical Diary: Turkish and Iranian Interests in
Iraq |
| Lubna 'ready for 40,000' lashes to change harsh law |
| Analysis: Lieberman is just one time bomb at Netanyahu's
doorstep |
| Feature: Under the veil, nip and tuck makes new Saudi
faces |
| Mass trial of Iranian protesters deepens nation's
divides |
| Weapons: Pentagon Eyes Accelerated "Bunker
Buster" Bomb |
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| August 2 |
| Iranian dissidents’ fate in Iraq shows limits of
U.S. sway |
| David Ignatius: A waiting game with Iran |
| Iran's Nuclear Program: Lessons from Pakistan |
| Greg Jaffe: There's still a war In Iraq. It isn't ours. |
| Analysis: Obama maneuvres between Jewish Israelis,
Jewish Americans |
| Iraq: Key figures since the war began |
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| August 1 |
| Interview: Hamas chief outlines terms for talks on
Arab-Israeli peace |
| Anthony Shadid: Maliki tactics stun friends and foes |
| Amjad Atallah: Hamas again accepts a Palestinian state on
the 1967 lines |
| Egypt's peace role – and its influence – under
fire |
| Lamis Andoni: Fatah needs more than superficial unity |
| Fatah: A diaspora left out in the cold |
| Oraib Al Rantawi: The end of illusions |
| Iran: Theocratic disarray |
| Iran: Assessing economic sanctions and other U.S. policy
options |
| Israel’s New Mini Spy in the Sky |
