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H1 The Economist  Nuclear proliferation Has Iran won? 

 Iran's ayatollahs have wriggled off the nuclear hook, but there is a way to put them on again  

 

Iran's nuclear programme As the enrichment machines spin on How America's own intelligence services have brought international policy on Iran to the edge of collapse

 

IHT  Putting Pakistan together again By SELIG S. HARRISON

The Pakistani state is not likely to survive for long unless it is radically restructured

 

Foreign Policy Ask the Author: Graham Fuller

"In Search of Moderate Muslims"
Commentary Joshua Muravchik and Charles P. Szrom

 

TNI Mesopotamian Muddle

Dennis Ross

 

Dan Drezner Hegemonic decline, revisited

 

The Washington Independent: Security Gains From 'Surge' Backsliding

 

McClatchy U.S. casualties rise in Iraq after falling for 4 months

 

Mosul, the next major test for the U.S. military in Iraq

 

The Economist How jihad went freelance Al-Qaeda has evolved from a single group to an amorphous movement. Does that make it less dangerous or more so?

 

The Times $3 trillion budget leaves little for Bush to bank on President Bush has reached a landmark spending figure but the proposals illustrate the tough choices that his successor will face

Bronwen Maddox

 

Mission Seep Nato is in severe danger of letting Afghanistan slip away

 

Iraqi oil production hits post-invasion record Better security means production is expected to pass the prewar level of 2.6 million barrels a day by the end of the year

 

Martin Peretz / The New Republic: Can Friends of Israel—and Jews—Trust Obama?

 

Guardian Infatuated with Sarkozy's infatuation, France is blind to his recklessness Simon Jenkins: The president is eager to give France a new world confidence, but he has so far proved impetuous in matters of heart and state

 

Failing state Afghanistan: It is hard to be hopeful about Afghanistan. Sliding away from progress, the country has begun a fretful, violent descent towards calamity that all the efforts of Nato, aid agencies and Afghans seem unable to stop

 

Bin Laden aide killed in US strike
Al-Qaida figure in Afghanistan, seen as one of Bin Laden's top six lieutenants, is killed

 

Demise of al-Qaida's 'director of communictions'

 

Iraqi MP: US Oil Firms Offered $5 Million to Each MP to Vote for Oil Law

 

Asia Times Bombs away over Iraq: Who cares?When, in April 1937, the German Condor Legion dropped 45,000 kilograms of explosives on the Spanish town of Guernica, international outrage followed, and Pablo Picasso was inspired to paint his now famous Guernica. When the US Air Force recently loosed 45,000 kilograms of bombs on a small Sunni farming district in Iraq, there was hardly a peep. These days, only "insurgent" suicide bombings warrant media attention, while the US's air "surge" is politely played down. - Tom Engelhardt

 

Towards a new 'Suez crisis'
Just as threats to the pound forced Britain to climb down during the Suez canal crisis in 1956, pressure on the dollar could force a change in the United States' attitude towards Iran - Alan G Jamieson

 

Obama: Most Liberal Senator In 2007 - Friel, Cohen & Victor, Nat'l Journa

 

Iraq War Killed a Million, Says Survey

 

[Fbis] OSC: OSC Analysis: Iran -- Reformists Debate Future After Majles Disqualifications  

 

New Guide Outlines Iraq Government Structures, Responsibilities Source: RTI International A newly released handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of the organization and workings of Iraq’s government systems Republic of Iraq District Government Field Manual, Volume I, Version 1 — Operating Procedures (PDF; 1 MB) + Volume II: Resources — Operating Procedures (PDF; 1.3 MB)  + Volume I, Version 2 (pocket edition) (PDF; 1 MB)

 

Heritage The EU Reform Treaty: Why Washington Should Be Concerned

 

Afghanistan Study Group Final Report, January 30, 2008 (PDF; 417 KB) Source: Center for the Study of the Presidency
From media advisory (PDF; 22 KB)  Highlights from Afghanistan Study Group Final Report (PDF; 109 KB)

 

Iran's foreign minister to step down?

 

Washington Times U.S. energy security (By S. Rob Sobhani)

 

Ha’aretz  Top IDF brass: Winograd war report is an 'earthquake' Military advocate general: Report does not require delaying advancement of officers involved in the war

 

Al Awsat A Temptation to Resist : Amir Taheri

 

• 'Israel’s War With Hezbollah Was Not a Failure' by Martin van Creveld, Forward  

 

Jerusalem Post Analysis: 33 years after Agranat, the IDF is left to pick up the pieces again  With enlistment numbers dropping, the top command will face many more challenges in the years to come

 

Analysis: Decisions, decisions
Jerusalem Post  By AMIR MIZROCH

 

Financial Times Olmert is alone after Annapolis Most people want Middle East peace, but far fewer seem ready to accept the short-term risks unavoidable in the quest for long-term security, writes Philip Stephens

 

Buyers, not savers, caused America’s deficit As Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan misunderstood the nature and seriousness of America’s current account deficit. Policymakers today must take heed, says Richard Duncan

 

Washington Post The NATO Emerging in Afghanistan By Victoria Nuland,  On-the-job training in how to fight a 21st-century insurgency.

 

The McCain Divide? The GOP vs. Conservatives By E. J. Dionne Jr., 

Some on the right feel it would be less damaging to their cause to lose the 2008 election than to win with John McCain

 

Clawing for a Legacy By Charles Krauthammer Obama's assessment is so obviously true: Reagan was consequential. Clinton was not.

 

DAVID BROOKS The McCain Transition John McCain has to transition from being an insurgent to being the leader of a broad center-right coalition.

 

McClatchy Clinton, McCain likely gain most from dropout candidates

 

Arming the Middle East  by Stephen Zunes

 

The Economist Israel, Egypt and the Gaza Strip The shifting balance of power 

 

Time Voter's Guide To the Issues

 

Why the Surge Worked  A year after Bush sent 30,000 additional troops to Iraq, violence is down and al-Qaeda is in retreat. But the gains are still too fragile

 

Daily Star The US should let Iran's contradictions play out y Mark Fitzpatrick

 

Analysis: The Oil Paradox: A worldwide slowdown won't end the oil price boom anytime soon A worldwide slowdown won't end the oil price boom anytime soon.

 

Campaign 2008: The Role of Foreign Policy

 

Time Still Trying to Squeeze Iran

 

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H2 NYT Kurds’ Power Wanes as Arab Anger Rises  Once in a position of enormous strength, Iraqi Kurds are now pursuing policies that are antagonizing other factions and uniting most Sunnis and many Shiites.

 

CSIS US-Turkish Relations: Another Honeymoon? Read More

 

Economist Turkey, the Kurds and Islam The AK government uses Islam to win over Kurdish support

 

Wilson: Hava saldırıları PKK'ya önemli ölçüde zarar verdi

 

Türk Amerikan İlişkilerinin Geleceği

 

Wilson: Hiç türban takmadım!

 U.S.-Turkish Military Cooperation Deepens After Rough Patch By: John C. K. Daly | Eurasia Daily Monitor
The United States seems finally to have abandoned its hesitant attitude on supporting Turkey’s fight against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), but Ankara is increasingly driving the agenda.

 

EDM TURKEY STILL HANGING ON THE MILITARY’S WORDS AND SILENCES

 

FT Turkey rectors to block easing headscarf ban The influential figures at Turkey’s state universities are to meet in Ankara to unite against a government proposal to ease the ban on wearing the Muslim headscarf on campus

 

Istanbul fireworks blast kills 20

 

 Turkish Planes Bombard Iraqi Kurdistan Border Areas

 

Paşaların suskunluğu

 

The return of the scarves  Rural Kurds revive an old Armenian tradition

 

Turkey warned over Iranian banks
BusinessWeek

 

Turkish Islam and the headscarf

 

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Turkish Press 31 Jan 08

   

 Kurdish TV Airs Images of Hospital "Targeted", Hit in Turkish Iraq Air Strikes

 

HRW’den Türkiye’ye ifade özgürlüğü uyarısı

 

Dozens killed or injured in Turkey fireworks blast

 

Ermeni lobisi ABD başkanlık yarışında Obama'yı destekleyecek

 

Saygun, Washington'da PKK mesaisi yaptı

 

Ross Wilson: Türban Türkiye'nin iç meselesi...

 

Türk İslamcılar demokrasiyi sevdi
NİZAR AGİRİ

 

Finally, Turkish army is respecting democratic values!’
Aljazeera.com

 

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect  BBC Monitoring

 

İran'la 'gaz' imzası Şubat'ta atılıyor

 

Iraqi Kurd Leader Demands Iraq Apology Over Anfal

 

Türkmenlerden 'bizi koruyun' çağrısı

 

ABD'nin dikkatini, sınırdaki 100 bin askerle çektik

 

Talabani: Kerkük sorununa Türkiye karışabilir

 

Köyden göç eden Kürt analara gidiyor

 

Provakatör fazla mesaide!

 

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Kürdistan için güvenli sınırlar

 

 

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Alınak: Uzlaşma değil kriz siyaseti izlenmeli

 

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Iraqi Troops Mass for Operation in Mosul By: Alissa J. Rubin | The New York Times
The unsettled situation in northern Iraq continued Wednesday as Iraqi troops massed in Mosul to fight Sunni Arab extremists, and a Turkmen political group in Kirkuk threatened to resort to arms in response to the kidnapping and killing of Turkmens by extremists.

 

[Fbis] OSC: Al-Iraqiyah Roundup -- Iraqi President Talabani Meets Kirkuk Chieftains; Update  

 

Iraqi Kurdish Paper Criticizes President's Stand on Execution

 

08:25 Bombalı eyleme gelen terörist sınırda yakalandı

 

Bianet :: Headscarf Debate Diverts Attention from Kurdish Issue and Economic Crisis

 

Turkish PM: No objection to cooperation with Israel

 

Kurds cry out against corruption (1): Whoever not corrupted in ...

 

"Turkmen Conference" for Common Kirkuk Position

 

Beneath the desert sands flows lifeblood of economic recovery

 

ITC wants Turkmen force for protection against ‘genocide’

 

İslam dünyasının en büyük şirketleri

 

Filming on the borders of fiction, documentary and identity

 

EU, Iraq Pursue Closer Energy Ties

 

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

 

Turkey and Postnational Europe: Challenges for the Cosmopolitan Political Community -- Baban and Keyman 11 (1): 107 -- European Journal of Social Theo

 

WORLD NEWS: CDU officials join racism row

 

Avrupalı Sosyalistler CHP ile yine ters düştü: Başörtüsü yasağı kalkmalı

 

Rumlar Schröder'in ziyaretine inanamıyor

 

Karamanlis kâbus yaşıyor

 

Fransa'da Türk Adaya Ermeni Baskısı

İsveç'ten Kuzey Irak'a uçuşa izin

 

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Balkans: Eager for results by HAJRUDIN SOMUN *

 

Genocide; is it a question of national identity?

 

Sözde soykırımı ders kitabina aldılar

 

Atina Parlamentosu'nda hassas denge