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January 2010 |
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| January
31 |
| Ralph Peters: Nightmare in the Middle East |
| U.S. speeding up missile defenses in Persian Gulf |
| A Look at America’s New Hope: The Afghan Tribes |
| Special report: The rise of 'the African Taliban' |
| David Ignatius: Populism popular at the World Economic
Forum in Davos |
| Zvi Bar'el: Obama should admit he doesn't want Mideast peace |
| Claude Salhani: Signs of a Lasting Revolution |
| Arshin Adib-Moghaddam: The future of Islam and democracy
in Iran |
| Iran: A military coup and an aggressive foreign policy |
| Meir Javedanfar: Crunch time for Khamenei |
| Iran: Only compromise can prevent deterioration |
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| January
30 |
| EU: The Burqa Ban's Potential Fallout |
| Unbowed on Iraq, Blair Makes the Case for Targeting
Iran |
| Afghanistan: The Helmand Attack and the Taliban's Limits |
| Americans in Iraq: occupiers no longer |
| David Ignatius: Populism popular at the World Economic
Forum in Davos |
| Diana Mukkaled: “Protecting Freedom” |
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| January
29 |
| Early Exit for Ahmadi-Nejad Predicted |
| Matthew Levitt: When Yemen Meets Gaza |
| Iraq inquiry puts Blair back in the spotlight |
| The handling of the Christmas Day bombing suspect: the
scandal grows |
| Ali Ibrahim: An Administration under Siege |
| Tariq Alhomayed: The New Huthi Game |
| Jonathan Marcus: Yemen on the brink of collapse |
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| January
28 |
| Obama Silent on Iran, Merkel Picks up the Slack |
| Bin Laden: Taking Credit for Failure |
| Obama Vows to Restore a ‘Tested’ Nation |
| How Obama can reverse Iran's dangerous course |
| The Gulf States in the Shadow of Iran |
| Syria's Financial Support for Jihad |
| Intelligence from Tehran Elevates Concern in the West |
| New Study Looks at Challenges Faced by Germany's Muslims |
| Geopolitical Diary: Moving toward a global Afghan Taliban
settlement |
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| January
27 |
| Anthony Shadid: Latest bombings add new layer of anxiety and
suspicion in Baghdad |
| Robert Baer: Why bin Laden isn't worth worrying about |
| Iraq: A Nervous Kurdistan Ahead of the Elections |
| Germany: A New Strategy for Afghanistan |
| Russia, Iran: The Dance Continues |
| U.S., Yemen: Suspected Shooter Claims Ties to AQAP |
| Rami Khouri: Recognition at last for the Arab world's
modern thinkers |
| Rivalries in Iraq Keep G.I.’s in the Field |
| U.S. wrestling with prospect of olive branch for Taliban |
| Shada Islam: Looking Beyond Minarets |
| Rami Khouri: Syria's new rumblings are worth watching |
| Claude Salhani: Scourge of ‘Islam Experts’ |
| Roger Cohen: The dragon’s swagger and Uncle
Sam’s world |
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| January
26 |
| Iraq: Baghdad Hotels Bombed |
| Yemen: Al-Houthi Rebels Declare Truce With Saudi Arabia? |
| Yemen: The west's new front against Al-Qaeda |
| Afghanistan: A Flurry of Talks With the Taliban |
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| January
25 |
| Saudis suffer heavy losses in Yemen's other war |
| Feature: With peace talks frozen, Palestinians back
protests |
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| January
24 |
| Al-Qaeda's female suicide bombers to attack West |
| Mehdi Khalaji: The Iranian Republic of Fear |
| Muhammad Diyab: It’s a Big World…So Why
America!? |
| Bouthaina Shaaban: The Meanings of Apology |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Hillary and the Dilemma of Freedom |
| Arianna Huffington: Obama’s ‘No Exit’
Strategy |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave: Global fatigue and trust deficit |
| Reuven Pedatzur: Mohammed al-Dura - Israel's greatest PR
failure |
| Yossi Sarid: Jerusalem is starting to resemble Tehran |
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| January
23 |
| Iran: Stirring the Pot with Al Qaeda in Yemen |
| Israel completes testing its Iron Dome anti-rocket system |
| Pakistan: Expanding Operations into North Waziristan? |
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| January
22 |
| Decade Forecast: 2010-2020 |
| Osama bin Laden is 'worth more alive than dead',
declares his son |
| Diplomatic Intrigue and Russian Resurgence |
| Mshari Al-Zaydi: The Neo-Mukhtar Revolution in Iraq |
| Tariq Alhomayed: The Political Activist Yusuf al
Qaradawi |
| What Europe and Pakistan's Self-Preservation Means for
Afghanistan |
| Freedom vs. security: How far can Obama push Iran? |
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| January
21 |
| Profiling: Sketching the Face of Jihadism |
| Obama's Year of Crises: Mr. Change Needs a Reboot |
| Anthony Shadid: How an Inflammatory Term, Baathist, Bars
Candidates in Iraq |
| Iran: Shadowy arms deal traced to Kazakhstan |
| The escalating ties between Middle Eastern terrorist
groups and criminal activity |
| At Yemen College, Scholarship and Jihadist Ideas |
| The Rise and Fall of a Sunni in Baghdad |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Little Saddam? |
| Randa Takieddine: Peace Stalled on All Fronts |
| Yossi Sarid : Barak legitimizes the evils of Israeli
occupation |
| Harlan Ullman: Winning hearts and minds ain't it |
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| January
20 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iran’s To-Do List |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Taliban Wait It Out |
| Michigan defense contractor has God in its sights |
| Zvi Bar'el: Egypt riled by Syria's increasing role in the
region |
| Feature: Arab Christians try reviving town of Jesus
miracle |
| Yitzhak Santis: U.S. must not repeat 2009 mistakes in new
Middle East peace process |
| Aluf Benn: Netanyahu is a hesitant politician trying to
please all |
| Feature: Homosexuality in Arab world remains taboo |
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| January
19 |
| Israel can use stockpiled U.S. arms |
| Egypt: Why key US ally in Mideast peace is weaker |
| Harsher Gaza War Looming on Horizon? |
| Israel, Turkey and Low Seats |
| The Kabul Attack: A Postmortem |
| Khalaf Al Habtoor: Arabs Own Battle |
| Shlomo Brom: A more assertive Egypt |
| Gamal Soltan: Cairo's plan B |
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| January
18 |
| David Schenker: Renewed Violence against Egypt's Coptic
Christians |
| David Makovsky: Prospects for the Resumption of
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks |
| Information warfare: Turkey buys into the big lie |
| Iran buys business management system form Israel |
| Why has Israel's press freedom ranking taken a crash dive? |
| Iraq’s Ban on Democracy - KennethPollack and Michael O’Hanlon |
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| January
17 |
| Webster Brooks: Al Qaeda's new strategy in Yemen threatens
U.S.-Saudi axis |
| Sherwood Ross: Obama spreading war flames across Middle
East |
| David Ignatius: The CIA has long struggled with ensuring
safe interrogations |
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| January
16 |
| Al-Qaeda threat: Britain worst in western world |
| Yemen: Whittling Away at AQAP |
| The Intricate Nature of Aviation Terror Threat Alerts |
| In Afghanistan attack, CIA fell victim to series of
miscalculations |
| Garry Leupp: War on Yemen |
| Mohammad Ali Salih: Why I hold a jihad at the White House |
| Al Balawi: After Ata and al Jarrah |
| Yemen: An International Incident |
| Chris Cook: Saudi Arabia and the oil bank |
| France Soars With Israeli Wings |
| Gidi Grinstein: Israel delegitimizers threaten its
existence |
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| January
15 |
| Jordan: An Attempted Strike on a Diplomatic Convoy |
| Jordan bombing: Good intelligence, poor execution |
| One year out: President Obama's fall |
| Sami Moubayed: Turkey embraces role as Arab 'big brother' |
| Asif Ali Zardari: For Pakistan, no turning back from
reform |
| Yemen: A Warning to the U.S. |
| U.S., Yemen: Warnings of an AQAP Attack |
| Syrian Haven for Christian Spirituality |
| Zvi Mazel: The Palestinian paradox |
| Michael Freund: Going Cold Turkey |
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| January
14 |
| Bin Laden's legacy: Terrorists hurt America most by
making it close its borders |
| Riyadh, Cairo and Damascus…Will the Political
Triangle Return? |
| Simon Tisdall: Turkey starts to love its neighbours |
| A new Middle East cold war |
| Airline Security: Gentle Solutions to a Vexing Problem |
| Iranian Attack Complicates Nuclear Negotiations |
| How to Apply 'Smart Power' in Yemen |
| U.S. Companies Race on Iraqi Oil Bonanza |
| Iran vs. China in Cyber War |
| Iraq: Iranian Maneuvering and March Elections |
| Iran: Assessing the Ali-Mohammadi Slaying |
| Al-Qaeda in the West Bank and Gaza - Matthew Levitt and Bruce Riedel |
| Feature: TV spat further damages Israel's image in Turkey |
| Gabriel Siboni: A border authority on the Egypt frontier |
| Analysis: Turkish public won't forgive Israel's insult |
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| January
13 |
| U.S.: A year of terror plots, through a 2nd prism |
| The Allah Controversy in Maylaysia |
| Iraq: Will elections bring stability, or more turmoil? |
| Howard Adelman: The canaries in Iran's cages |
| Rami Khouri: Misconceptions of Terrorism |
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| January
12 |
| A New Civil War in Iraq? |
| Israeli Robots Remake Battlefield |
| Gaza Extremists Drifting Towards al-Qaeda? |
| The Khost Attack and the Intelligence War Challenge
- George Friedman and Scott Stewart |
 Deterred
but Determined: Salafi-Jihadi Groups in the Palestinian Arena |
| Greece: An Intensifying Bombing Campaign |
| Pakistan, U.S.: Rumors and Fallout From the Khost
Bombing |
| Jackson Diehl: U.S. ambition alone won't forge Mideast
peace |
| Bruce Hoffman: Al-Qaeda has a new strategy. Obama needs
one, too. |
| Yemeni president vows crackdown on al-Qaeda branch |
| Pakistan's Response to Terrorism: Still Inadequate |
| War’s Fury No Longer Pauses for Afghan Winter |
| Intelligence fiasco in Afghanistan |
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| January
11 |
| Anthony Shadid: Allah - The Word |
| Fawaz Gerges: The Transformation of Hamas |
| The Shadow War - Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse |
| Stuart Littlewood: What Next, Viva Palestina? |
| Reuel Mark Gerecht: The meaning of al Qaeda's double
agent |
| Dana Milbank: Was the 'Tighty-Whitey Terrorist'
al-Qaeda's best shot? |
| David Ignatius: How the CIA can improve its operations in
Afghanistan |
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| January
10 |
| Thomas Friedman: Who’s Sleeping Now? |
| Iraq: Border oil dispute worsens fears of Iranian
influence, rallies nationalists |
| The Terrorist Mind: An Update |
| Think Again: Nuclear Weapons |
| Robert Grenier: The spies who got left in the cold |
| Patrick Seale: War on Four Fronts |
| Nicholas Blanford: Syria and the waiting game |
| Middle East: Atomic agitation |
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| January 9 |
| Killing freedom and cartoonists |
| Syria: From isolation to center stage |
| Syrian emergence: Implications for Israel |
| The World in 2020 |
| 5 myths about who becomes a terrorist |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Is the War on Terror Over? |
| Diana Mukkaled: The Resurrection of Al Qaeda |
| Turkey: The Army Reasserts Itself |
| Afghanistan: A U.S. Target Comes Under Fire in Herat |
| Syria's
mysterious Dead Cities |
| Turkish-Syrian rapprochement key to peace in the Middle
East |
| Syria in 2009: a good year |
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| January 8 |
| Yemen: Turning Up the Heat on Al Qaeda |
| U.S., Afghanistan: A Deadly Meeting for the CIA |
| Geopolical Diary: A Lack of Intelligence |
| Geopolitical Diary: Turkey's Ongoing Resurgence |
| Fighting al-Qaeda: The Role of Yemen's President Saleh |
| Strengthening Yemeni Counterterrorism Forces: Challenges
and Political Considerations |
| Omayma Abdel-Latif: The Israel factor |
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| January 7 |
| Jihadism in 2010: The Threat Continues |
| Steady drip of leaks corrodes the core of the Iranian
regime |
| In Yemen's capital, fearful talk of war with al-Qaeda |
| Foreigners in Yemen see terrorism worries as overblown |
| The Issues that Will Shape the World in 2010 |
| Greece: The Closing Window of Opportunity |
| Michael Rubin: Has Damascus Stopped Supporting
Terrorists? |
| Thomas Friedman: Father Knows Best |
| Yemen: U.S. Poised to Increase Aid |
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| January 6 |
| George Friedman: The Christmas Day Airliner Attack and
the Intelligence Process |
| Geopolitical Diary: Yemen's Complex Jihadist Problem |
| Is the World's Tallest Building a Monument or a Tombstone
for Dubai? |
| Al-Qaida's New Home: Dealing with the Yemen Dilemma |
| Robert Fisk: America's desire to be loved and feared has
long misled CIA |
| After attack on Danish cartoonist: The West is choked by
fear |
| Iran shielding its nuclear efforts in maze of tunnels |
| Tehran Imbroglio: No Green Revolution |
| Iran: Foreign Funding of the Opposition |
| Sudan: Khartoum Threatens Shaky Peace |
| Another Iranian Revolution? Not Likely |
| Yemen sharpens debate: Are wars the answer to terrorism? |
| Shlomo Gazit: Ten years of negotiations and crisis |
| Ghassan Khatib: The almost irreversible decade |
| The first decade: Mostly negative events |
| Daoud Kuttab: Jerusalem should be at the center of peace
efforts |
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| January 5 |
| Annual Forecast
2010 |
| Iran: The
Beginning of the End? |
| Dubai Opens a Tower to Beat All |
| Jihadist kidnappers plague North Africa |
| US takes risk on Yemen president to fight al-Qaida |
| Is a Taliban-Style Group Taking Over Somalia? |
| In Gaza, Hamas faces jihadist challenge |
| Profile: In Yemen, U.S. faces leader who puts family first |
| Behind Afghan bombing, an agent with many loyalties |
| Jay Bahadur: Heroes in a Land of Pirates |
| Will New Airport Body Scanners Stop Future Terror
Attacks? |
| Eugene Robinson: A terrorism designation Cuba doesn't
deserve |
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| January 4 |
| Jordan emerges as key CIA counterterrorism ally |
| Israel wary of U.S.-Arab arms deals |
| Crackdown on alcohol seen as part of conservative moment
in Iraq |
| Akiva Eldar: Is there really a difference between Israel
and apartheid South Africa? |
| Uri Avnery: The Iron Wall |
| Emily Ratner: Fanning the flames of freedom from Cairo
to Gaza and beyond |
| Editorial: 'Free to speak out' in Egypt |
| One woman's account of having to cover her head in Iraq |
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| January 3 |
| Robert Fisk: Walls never work: in the Middle East or in
Ireland |
| Patrick Seale: A grim year for the Middle East |
| Zvi Bar'el: Peace with Syria would bring Israel nothing |
| Mshari Al-Zaydi: A New Mindset for a New Decade |
| Roger Cohen: Change Iran at the Top |
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| January 2 |
| Standoff in Iran Deepens with New Show of Force |
| Peacemaking in the Mideast: Obama's Year of Missteps |
| Al-Qaeda ally in Somalia vows to send hundreds of men to
fight in Yemen |
| CIA caught in dirty and secretive war against Al-Qaeda
on Afghan border |
| Iran's December Rising: A Dress Rehersal for Revolution |
| Edward Djerejian: The Radical Legacy of 1979 |
| Double life of 'gifted and polite' terror suspect Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab |
| Graham Usher: Obama, Pakistan and the Afghan Wars to
Come |
| Diana Mukkaled: Iran 2010 |
| 2009: the year of living dangerously |
| Hussein Shobokshi: The Bad Smell of Money Laundering! |
| Yemen: 'You’re foreign and should go to Hell’ |
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| January 1 |
| Yearender: A tough year for Ahmadinejad - a tougher one
ahead |
| Yearender: Iraq to reinvent itself in 2010 - or fall
apart |
| Yearender: Yemen conflict threatens to widen into
regional tension |
| Yearender: As year ends, no Gaza reconstruction, no peace
talks |
| Yearender: Jordan on threshold of era of political reform |
| Thomas Joscelyn: Al Qaeda's Trojan Horse |
| Ari Shavit: Between decades |
| Alexander Yakobson: Settlers can stay, but only as
citizens of Palestine |
| Denis Dutton: It’s always the end of the world as
we know it |
| Charles Krauthammer: A terrorist war Obama has denied |
