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H1 Financial Times Today’s task is to mend broken Iraq The US must stay long enough to avert a bloodbath but leave soon enough to make faction leaders – their safety net removed – reach a modus vivendi

Oil groups circle Iraq’s vast reserves Western groups see a chance to develop deposits of quality crude. Yet sectarian tensions stand in the way

Warning on threat to Europe’s US links The rift in transatlantic relations is deeper than previously thought, with almost half of Europeans seeing the US as having a negative influence on world affairs and a third of US citizens seeing Europeans as ‘snobbish’, according to a British Council survey

 

Poll on Relations Between the U.S., Canada, and Europe

 

Los Angeles Times Joint Chiefs, ground commanders split on Iraq Tensions rise over when to bring troops home, exposing rifts over long-term strategy in the region.

 

The Economist Wall Street's crisis What went wrong in the financial system—and the long, hard task of fixing it

 

Elections in Iran Conservative or conservative? A pitiful narrowing of choices for Iranians—and for the outside world

 

International Crisis Group Ruling Palestine I: Gaza Under Hamas 

  

NYT Clinton Facing Narrower Path to Nomination  Winning the Democratic presidential nomination has seemed something of a long shot for Hillary Rodham Clinton since February, but that shot now seems to have grown a little longer

 

In Mosul, New Test of Rebuilt Iraqi Army  The Iraqi Army’s performance so far suggests that while the forces have made strides, there are still big gaps

 

Obama's Speech on Iraq, March 2008 We cannot seize opportunities to resolve our problems unless we create them. That is what Kennedy did with Khrushchev; what Nixon did with Mao; what Reagan did with Gorbachev. And that is what I will do as President of the United States.

 

New 'bin Laden tape' threatens EU A new audio message purportedly from Osama bin Laden threatens the EU over cartoons offensive to Muslims

 

Asia Times Shocked, awed and left to rot   Cheney is spot on when he talks of "phenomenal changes" in Iraq. Millions of Iraqis have lost their homes, their jobs, their families, their dreams and in countless cases their own lives because of a pre-emptive war. And anti-American Muqtada al-Sadr will ultimately be the lord of what remains of Iraq. - Pepe Escobar

 

Wall Street Journal Whatever Happened to Moqtada?
By Dan Senor and Roman Martinez It turns out Sadr's appeal was mostly about the Shiite need for security.

 

The Maginot Pipeline
By Kyle Wingfield
Business Europe:
Europe hasn't committed fully to Nabucco.

 

America and Iraq
The goals that motivated the invasion are once again in reach.

 

Sub Sarko
By Pierre Briançon
Voters punished the French president's lack of substance, not style.

 

CFR Farhi: New Iranian Majlis Will Be Critical of Ahmadinejad on Domestic Issues

 

Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: A Guidebook for American Policymakers

NEW BIN LADEN AUDIO WARNS OF GRAVE PUNISHMENT OVER CARTOONS...

 

NYT Afghanistan’s New Deal By ZALMAY KHALILZAD Success in Afghanistan will be a major step in helping to create security, stability and progress in the broader Middle East, which is the defining challenge of our time

 

MESH Iraq: two scenarios revisited

 

The Economist Exchange rates

Dollar doldrums  How low will the greenback go

 

Obama's Key Advisers Push Persuasion to Resolve Global Traumas Bloomberg -

 

CNAS Middle East Policy: Thinking Strategically About Iraq: Report from a Symposium

 

Working with Iran to stabilize Iraq INTERNATIONAL CONCERN over Iran's nuclear program continues to smolder. But from Iran's perspective, Iraq has now become the most dangerous flashpoint of potential conflict with the United States. (By Selig S. Harrison, Boston Globe)

 

The TimesCommentary: more threats but smaller risks

There is a strong case that, even if the new threats are more diffuse than the old ones, they are also smaller in scale

 

CHENEY: Iran May Have Resumed Weapon Program...

 

Bush speech hails Iraq 'victory' President George W Bush marks the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion with a speech hailing its success.

 

Iraqi Law Paves Way for Provincial Vote

 

Iraq's Al-Sadr Launches "Brotherhood Initiative" in Basra; Update

 

GuardianFive years on Leader: Next US president must set date for withdrawal from Iraq and end the occupation

 

Free countries must defy Chinese blackmail and greet the Dalai Lama Timothy Garton Ash: There is not much that we can do for suffering Tibet, but this we can and must. It's far more than mere tokenism

 

There must be a reckoning for this day of infamy Seumas Milne: The Iraq catastrophe isn't down to mistakes or lack of planning, but a refusal to accept that people will resist foreign occupation

 

A war of utter folly Hans Blix: Responsibility for this spectacular tragedy must lie with those who ignored the facts five years ago

 

Trusting in America Michelle Goldberg: US elections 2008: By appealing to the intelligence and decency of the American people, Obama placed his fate in their hands

 

Jim Lobe Why Did the US Invade Iraq?

 

Washington Post After a Decade at War With West, Al-Qaeda Still Impervious to Spies

 

New Interagency Group to Oversee Cyberattack Defense

 

Who's Next to Fail? By Robert D. Novak The Fed's new role may calm Wall Street, but it scares the rest of the financial world.

 

Walker's World: Why the war worked By MARTIN WALKER (UPI) -- Whatever the costs of the Iraq war, it was a crucial catalyst of change in the Arab world

 

Christian Science Monitor

 Five years in Iraq: a deep disquiet in the US The bottom line may be that many in the US view the Iraq invasion as a mistake they don't want to see repeated

 

U.S. Military takes lessons from Iraq 'insurgent' war As the fight in Iraq drives fundamental changes to the military, it is also forcing a debate on how far those changes should go.

 

Despite Iraq discord, world eager for U.S. diplomacy But America may need to understand how the world has changed during the war and what different kind of leadership is now required.

 

IHT  Enough with the bling

Hopefully, the results of France's local elections will prompt Sarkozy to refocus his energy on serious economic reforms

 

The final straw y ELIE FAWAZ

Hezbollah may be undermining itself from within

 

EU anxiety as Sarkozy prepares to take helmn July France takes over the bloc's six-month rotating presidency, and the prospect is beginning to worry some as President Nicolas Sarkozy is seen to face a steep learning curve.

 

Millions strike in Greece to protest plan to overhaul pensions
The national strike on Wednesday - the third since December - capped nearly a month of labor unrest that has brought power blackouts, heaps of uncollected garbage and transport disruption.

 

Foreign Policy The List: Seven Kremlin Powerbrokers to Watch

 

Newsweek Who Won Iran's Elections?

 

Drezner The realist tradition in American public opinion -- published

 

Stratfor’s War: Five Years Later

 

Der Spiegel Globalizing Its Military Power: Beijing Moves to Modernize the People's Liberation Army

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

 

Time Why Beijing Needs the Dalai Lama

 

Salon Our "black Monday" for oil The record high price of crude that was hit this month reflects the new reality of global energy consumption -- and may presage dark times for America. By Michael T. Klare

 

The GOP attack plan for Barack Obama

 

American Prospect Five Years Later According to interviews with detained members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the most powerful recruitment tool for Islamic extremists is ... the war itself

H2 The Economist Turkey's secular constitution See you in court

 

ABD'den PKK ve AKP mesajı

 

Washington’un davaya bakışı

 

 

Ankara Cheney’e PKK sitemine hazırlanıyor

 

Washington Institute Will the Turkish Constitutional Court Ban the AKP? By Soner Cagaptay, H. Akin Unver, and Hale Arifagaoglu

 

Financial Times Does the EU care about Turkish democracy? Like the proverbial mad aunt, Turkey is a topic most European Union governments prefer these days to keep locked well out of sight. But if the EU isn’t careful, it will discover one day that the aunt, quite sanely, has decided she doesn’t want to be part of the family anyway. … Turkey is no longer a cause worth sticking your neck out for. …  By challenging the AKP’s right to rule, the secularists damage not the party but themselves and their country.

 

Ha’aretz What would Ataturk say? By Zvi Bar’el

  

Turkey mulls to send more troops to Afghanistan

 

BLOWBACK FROM IRAQ INCURSION SPARKS POLITICAL DEBATE IN ANKARA? Eurasia Daily Monitor

 

Askere Afganistan yolu!

 

Christian Science Monitor In divided Cyprus, new leader Christofias energizes unity bid

 

FT Cyprus leaders attempt to unite island The heads of the two Cypriot communities are to meet for talks that could affect not only the chances of unifying the island but also Turkey’s hopes of joining the EU

Guardian Peace talks must not fail, says Cypriot president  Failure of peace talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots would be devastating for Cyprus, says President

WashingtonTimes Leader to seek Turkish unity The newly elected communist president of Cyprus yesterday pledged to pursue talks to unite the Mediterranean island but gave no indication he would accept Turkish conditions that a U.N. formula be used.

 

Street - Opening Fosters Hope of Unity

 

İran dosyasıyla Ankara’ya geliyor

İran’a İHA kalkanı

 

Hindu India, Turkey propose to initiate talks on FTA

   

Turkey offers FTA with India

 

 

 

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dış Basında Irak  BBC Monitoring Inter national

 

Terörün Nevruz planı -

 

Rights, not cash is East's demand

 

NEWS ANALYSIS: Cheney concentrates on Iraqi problems with Barzani ...

 

Cevdet Aşkın Ankara'dan Erbil'e konsolosluk, PKK'dan 'final' Nevruz'u

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