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| February
28 |
| Dubai: A Perfectly Framed Assassination |
| Scenarios: Possible Iraqi election outcomes |
| Facrobox: Iraq's most influential people |
| March elections are another step toward normality in Iraq |
| Jamsheed Choksy: Ahmadinejad Bucks Clergy |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Al-Maliki Reinstates Saddam's Army |
| Feature: Cramped Quarters Define Struggles of Iraqi
Families |
| David Ignatius: The U.S. is at a crucial point in
defining its direction |
| In Yemen’s South, Protests Could Cause More
Instability |
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| February
27 |
| Syria and Iran…Who’s Deceiving Who? |
| Amir Tahiri: The Sufferings of Iran's Minorities |
| Soner Cagaptay: What's Really behind Turkey's Coup Arrests? |
| Ahmed Chalabi's renewed influence in Iraq concerns U.S |
| Once seemingly impregnable, Hamas shows signs of
vulnerability |
| Gaddafi vs. Switzerland: The Leader's Son on What's
Behind the Feud |
| Is Iran 'inviting' Israel to strike its nuclear facility? |
| Resistance and Rockets: Hamas Targeting of Israeli
Civilians |
| Feature: "The Green Prince" - Confessions of a
mole vex Hamas |
| Profile: Ex-Jihadist Defies Yemen’s Leader, and
Easy Labels |
| Aluf Benn: Israel's leaders have been in disguise this
year |
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| February
26 |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Iranian Saga Continues |
| Hamas assassination: If Mossad did it, Israel wonders if
it was worth it |
| Roger Cohen: An Eye for an Eye |
| Anthony Shadid: In an Iraqi City, the Real Ballot
Contest Is for Shiite Leadership |
| UAE: Credit Card Links to the al-Mabhouh Assassination |
| Ely Karmon: With Ahmadinejad's finger on the trigger |
| Iraq, U.S.: Why A Drawdown Contingency Plan? |
| Gabrielle Rifkind: A route to resolution for Syria and
Israel |
| Israel’s perceived pattern of lawlessness hurts its
cause |
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| February
25 |
| The Iraq Withdrawal and the Rigi Capture |
| AQAP and the Secrets of the Innovative Bomb |
| The winds of Middle East war |
| Yossi Melman :Was Mossad on a fantastic adventure in
Dubai? |
| David Ignatius: Tehran's vote-buying in Iraq |
| Geopolitical Diary: Russia's Modern Oligarchs |
| Thomas Friewdman: Iraq’s Known Unknowns, Still
Unknown |
| Avner Cohen: Iranian threat to destroy Israel doesn't
hold up |
| Douglass Bloomfield: Can the enemy of my enemy be my
ally? |
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| February
24 |
| Iran: Decisive Blow Against a Rebel Group? |
| Iraq, U.S: A 'Plan B' for Withdrawal Emerges |
| Israel sees fallout as Mossad blamed for Dubai Hamas hit |
| Jackson Diehl: Will Iraq be an Obama achievement or
nightmare? |
| Haaretz exclusive: Hamas founder's son worked for Shin
Bet for years |
| Mathew Brodsky: Dithering on Damascus |
| Why does Israel continue to dismiss Obama's Mideast peace
efforts? |
| Aluf Benn: Netanyahu faces double intifada from
Palestinians and settlers |
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| February
23 |
| George Friedman: The Utility of Assassination |
| Israel: A New Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| Israel and Iran beef up their arsenals |
| Marjah, Pakistan and American Prospects in Afghanistan |
| Turkey: A Dawn 'Sledgehammer' Raid |
| Richard Cohen: Iran and the crazy factor |
| Anne Applebaum: Prepare for war with Iran -- in case
Israel strikes |
| Yoel Marcus: Dubai hit can't distract from Palestinian
talks |
| Akiva Eldar: For Palestinians, more talks don't mean new
hope |
| Amalia Rosenblum: Israeli impatience strikes again after
Dubai hit |
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| February
22 |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Dubai and Hamas and the “Real
Killer” |
| Webster Brooks: Obama's Grand Strategy in the Middle East
& Central Asia |
| Jackson Diehl: Will Iraq be an Obama achievement or
nightmare? |
| Uri Avnery: Dubious in Dubai |
| Dubai: Confronting Thieves and Spies |
| Syria in a corner: The game is more about economics |
| Meir Dagan: the mastermind behind Mossad's secret war |
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| February
21 |
| Mossad: the Keystone spooks |
| Visa Security: Getting Back to the Basics |
| Iran: A regional superpower even without the bomb |
| Profile: The powerful, shadowy Mossad chief Meir Dagan
is a ‘streetfighter’ |
| A Look at the Mossad's Assassination Squads |
| Caroline Glick: The Fatah fairy tale |
| Phillip Knightley: Spying and Leakages |
| Mohamed ElBaradei: Egypt's Undeclared Candidate for
President |
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| February
20 |
| Iran, Syria: An Assassination and Rifts Within Hamas |
| Mossad's checkered history |
| Dubai hit - another move in the Israel-Iran cold war |
| Ranni Amiri: The Shia Crescent Revisited |
| Peter Hounam: How I escaped Mossad's clutches |
| HDS Greenway: Obama Soft on Terror? |
| Roger Cohen: Target Iran's Censors |
| Israelis ponder Mossad ethics, role in Dubai Hamas
assassination |
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| February
19 |
| David Schenker: Who's behind the Houthis? |
| Profile: Victim's brother tells of 'shadowy and
secretive life' |
| Syria Breaks From ‘Axis of Evil’ as Ex-Critics
Seek Influence |
| Pakistan: Bin Laden's Call for 'Economic Jihad' |
| Iraq: An End to Operation Iraqi Freedom |
| David Pollock: Saudi Arabia by the Numbers |
| Obama and Iran : The End of Illusions? |
| Shahid Alam: Is one Iraqi's self-hatred newsworthy? |
| Corruption…The Conflict between Ramallah and Gaza |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Iran…Not Our War |
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| February
18 |
| UAE: The Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh |
| The hand extended to Syria is also intended as a blow to
Iran |
| Syria's Assad: pariah to power-broker |
| Revolutionary Guards Keep Stranglehold on Iran |
| The Assassin Squad |
| Profile: Slain Hamas leader was mechanic, bodybuilder |
| Turkey: A Battle Over the Judiciary |
| Sami Moubayed: Turkey's 'Regional Schengen' System |
| Analysis: Dubai hit was not a botched job |
| Why Israel will never confirm or deny role in
assassination |
| Support for Iran's Green Revolution gains traction in the
Senate - Helle Dale and James
Phillips |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave: Taliban vs. al-Qaida? |
| Martin Walker: Greek tragedy unfolds |
| Michael Freund: Citizen Mahmoud Abbas |
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| February
17 |
| Mossad's licence to kill |
| Dubai: A smiling killer and mystery of forged UK
passports |
| Dubai: New Hints of Skulduggery in Hamas Killing |
| The Meaning of Marjah - Kamran Bokhari, Peter Zeihan and Nathan Hughes |
| Analysis: Clinton's sharp words for Iran counter offers of
outreach |
| Iran Has Designs on Iraq - Kimberly and Fredrick Kagan |
| In Dubai, hit squad used Mossad-style tactics to kill
Hamas leader |
| David Ignatius: What the partisan squabbles miss on
Obama's terror response |
| Yossi Melman: Israel has nothing to worry about over
Dubai killing |
| Dubai
Hit: Is Mossad Back On Top Of Its Game? |
| Andrew Lee Butters: Iran's Opposition Searches for a
New Strategy |
| Kennith Bialkin: Time for a change in US Mideast strategy
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| February
16 |
| The Afghanistan Campaign: The U.S. Strategy |
| West fears converts who become bombers |
| Analysis: Is Russia as ‘orderly’ as we think? |
| Judith Yaphe: Regimes change but national interests
remain the same |
| Waleed Sadi: The unfolding revolution will eventually
come to a head |
| Iran: Power jostling can only lead to disaster |
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| February
15 |
| Has the Isolation of Iran Begun? |
| Hussein Shobokshi: The Biggest Danger! |
| Diana Mukkaled: Fatwas of Fear |
| Afghanistan: Offensive Continues in Marjah |
| India: Tactical Assessment of the Pune Attack |
| Biden vs. Cheney: three points of dispute |
| Analysis: Red is not always black and white |
| Imprisoned Iranian protesters share a bond forged in
hell |
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| February
14 |
| Reuel Marc Gerecht: The Struggle for Iran |
| Setback for Iran's Opposition: Khamenei's Hardline
Reinforced |
| Under Obama, more targeted killings than captures in
counterterrorism efforts |
| Thomas Friedman: 1977 vs. 1979 |
| Jim Hoagland: As Obama bets on Asia, regional players
hedge |
| Matthew Levitt: Can Gaza Become a Somalia or Yemen? |
| David Ignatius: On Iran, all of the above |
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| February
13 |
| Israel is accused of waging covert war across the Middle
East |
| Helicopter armada heralds Afghan surge |
| Ban Ki-moon: A Solution Now for Cyprus |
| Lawrence Sellin: Vietnam 1963 and Afghanistan 2010 |
| Ali Ansari: The nuking of Iran's dissent |
| Michael Mukasey: Where the U.S. went wrong on the
Christmas Day bomber |
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| February
12 |
| Melik Kaylan: Iran On The Brink |
| Iran: a bloody history may be about to repeat itself |
| Iran: Tehran Keeps a Lid on the Opposition |
| The Lessons of Dubai |
| Defector: Violence threatens Iran unity |
| Iran: New Claims of Enrichment Capability |
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| February
11 |
| The Jihadist CBRN Threat |
| Mehdi Khalaji: Khamenei and the Politics of Indecision |
| Iran's anniversary: Opposition tries to thwart a
crackdown |
| Pakistan: Another Reported Blow to the TTP Leadership |
| The Next Crisis: Prepare for Peak Oil |
| Analysis: Obama takes several gambles in bid to defuse
nuclear standoff with Iran |
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| February
10 |
| Iran: Expectations for the Revolution's Anniversary |
| U.S. eyes sanctions on Revolutionary Guards to curb
Iran’s nuclear plans |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Seminal Moment for Germany and
Iran |
| Germany: A Bailout for Greece? |
| Mathew Levitt: Can Gaza become a Somalia or Yemen? |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave: Hawks on the war path |
| Iran: Expectations for the Revolution's Anniversary |
| U.S. eyes sanctions on Revolutionary Guards to curb
Iran’s nuclear plans |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Seminal Moment for Germany and
Iran |
| Germany: A Bailout for Greece? |
| Mathew Levitt: Can Gaza become a Somalia or Yemen? |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave: Hawks on the war path |
| Tarsem King: Iranian opposition and authorities draw battle lines |
| A.B. Yehoshua: Israeli-Palestinian peace would neutralize
Iran threat |
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| February
9 |
| Adam Lowther: Iran’s Two-Edged Bomb |
| Modest US gains expected from thaw with Syria: analysts |
| Geopolitical Intelligence Report: Germany's Choice |
| Turkey: Debating the U.S. Security Umbrella |
| Fareed Zakaria: United States and China Need Each Other |
| Jeff Gates: An American Intifada? |
| Analysis: Iranian plan a step closer to having material
for bomb |
| Yoel Marcus: If Netanyahu wants peace, he must lose Lieberman |
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| February
8 |
| Israel Coming Unhinged? A Loose Cannon in a Volatile
Region |
| Who Rules Iran? - Reza Molavi and K. Luisa Gandolfo |
| France's 'A Prophet' offers a new kind of gangster: a Muslim |
| Why Christians are Leaving the Middle East |
| Amos Harel: Israel must remove Syria from the Iran axis |
| David Ignatius: A new thaw between India and Pakistan |
| Barry Rubin: Salam Fayyad cannot deliver |
| Why the U.S. is Back on the Road to Damascus |
| The Basij Resistance Force: A Weak Link in the Iranian
Regime? |
| Iran: Revolution in the Making? |
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| February
7 |
| Iranian revolution grinds to a halt on the eve of its
anniversary |
| Zvi Bar'el: Peace with Syria as vital as stopping Iran's
bomb |
| Salam Fayyad: A Brave Man |
| Zuheir Kseibati: The First Shot |
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| February
6 |
| The Kremlin Wars: Power Struggle Reaches Russia's Muslim
Regions |
| Fawaz Gerges: Lone wolves signal al Qaeda's weakness |
| Iran: Will the Guard Switch Sides? |
| Geopolitical Diary: U.S. Tightens European Alliances and Internet
Security |
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| February
5 |
| Iraq: Elections and the Ongoing Debaathifacation Battle |
| Serious Play: War Games Explore Options on Iran |
| Iran Nuke Deal: What if Ahmadinejad is Serious? |
| The Kremlin Wars (PART 2): The Fight for the Interior
Ministry |
| India, Pakistan: A Diplomatic Thaw? |
| Iraq: Ruling Out OPEC Quotas |
| Syria is blowing off steam, not rattling sabers - Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel |
| Iraq: Ruling Out OPEC Quotas |
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| February
4 |
| The Kremlin Wars: Searching for the Minister of
Organized Crime |
| Syria, U.S.: Diplomacy Comes With a Price |
| Egyptian sources: Israel prepares to strike Iran from
Gulf and N. Iraq |
| Michael Schwartz: The Iraqi Oil Conundrum |
| Iran: Nuclear Promises and Stalling Tactics |
| Iraq: A Compromise on Debaathification? |
| Geopolitical Diary: Beyond the Negotiations With the
Afghan Taliban |
| Michael Jacobson: Learning from al Qaeda dropouts |
| Daniel Pipes: How to save the Obama presidency - bomb
Iran |
| David Ignatius: Revenge on the Taliban, from 10,000 feet |
| Michael Gerson: U.S. solidarity could boost Iran's Green
Revolution |
| Michael Freund: The jihadist next door |
| Gideon Levy: The message is clear: Israel must not strike
Iran |
| Ari Shavit : Peace will be found in Damascus, not
Ramallah |
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| February
3 |
| Somalia: The Disintegration of Hizbul Islam? |
| Pakistan: The Emergence of a New Approach to Afghanistan |
| Pakistan: Unprecedented Strikes in North Waziristan |
| Iraq: Allegations of Fraud Scheme at Agility of Kuwait |
| Yossi Melman: Mossad killing of terror bigs has little
impact on Israel-Hamas war |
| Einat Wilf: Finally, some Palestinian responsibility |
| David Newman: Water - conflict or peace? |
| Jimmy Carter: A crisis in Sudan |
| George Friedman: A Defensive Buildup in the Gulf |
| Man-Portable Air Defense Systems: A Persistent and
Potent Threat |
| Suicide sisterhood: Al-Qaida's female bombers |
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| February
2 |
| The Age of Obama: Anno Domini 2 |
| Nasa picture suggests Dubai globe is sinking back
into the sea |
| Hamad Al-Majid: Yemen Collapsing |
| Iran's Opposition: Gearing for confrontation or
compromise? |
| Pakistan: Taliban Rebels Lose Another Leader? |
| Dalia Moghahed: So
a Jew and a Muslim are in the same boat... |
| HDS Greenway: Tony Blair and the American Connection |
| Is Iran Pre-Revolutionary? |
| HDS Greenway: American-born Jihad |
| Dubai's new business: international intrigue |
| Uri Avnery: Obama and his Kangaroo |
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| February
1 |
| Abbas: Israel's West Bank occupation leading to
one-state solution |
| Analysis: Is Dubai turning into another Beirut? |
| In Egypt, religious clashes are off the record |
| Analysis: Another blow to the ‘axis of evil’ |
| Analysis: Air security "blacklist" angers U.S.
allies |
| Saudi Public Opinion: A Rare Look |
| Yemen: Latest U.S. Battleground |
| Islamists ‘Indoctrinating’ Somali
Schoolchildren |
