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H1 Daily Telegraph British fear US want Iran strikes  British officials have warned that America's commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against Baghdad's government

 

Los Angeles Times A battle for land in northern Iraq A struggle between Sunni Arabs and Kurds has torn apart the city of Mosul and could play a crucial role in drawing the region's boundaries.

  

Washington Times Intelligence Officials Downplay Iran Report By: Rowan Scarborough The contested U.S. intelligence conclusion that Iran stopped work on its nuclear weapons program in 2003 is now being downplayed by the same officials who wrote the much-publicized report in November

 

Asia Times Muqtada out of step in Shi'ite dance The attempted crackdown by the Nuri al-Maliki government on Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army vividly illustrates how politics in Iraq have slipped into a Shi'ite vs Shi'ite battle. The Muslim sect can no longer be viewed as one big family - thanks to the preferences of Iran, and the ambitious Muqtada. - Sami Moubayed

 

Los Angeles Times Keep your enemies closer By Melvyn P. Leffler  In public Reagan reviled them, but in private he sought to talk to our foes

 

Daily Star Let's consider it's time to blow up the CIA and start over   By David Ignatius

Congressional Maneuvers Ahead of Iraq Hearings

 

Financial Times The rebalance of power The west is approaching Asia’s return to economic pre-eminence with cautious optimism, writes Victor Mallet

 

Governments can no longer ignore the hungry It takes a mounting sense of crisis to get politicians to focus on letting markets deliver cheaper food, writes Alan Beattie

 

Bernanke hopes for hopefulness

The Fed chairman knows that there is always a chance that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact an onrushing train

 

Nato closes ranks Nato has ended its summit more united than might have been expected even a few days ago. For that the alliance members have to thank Putin

 

Commentary: Boom to bust By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE  (UPI) -- Borrowing $2 billion to $3 billion a day from other countries to maintain the world's highest standard of living, based on conspicuous consumption, in an age of growing world shortages, while fighting two wars whose costs will soon ring up a $1 trillion tab, is tantamount to living on borrowed time.

 

Washington Post Putin Edges In on NATO Talks While not an alliance member, Russia looms large at summit after its leader shows up unexpectedly

 

Al-Sadr militia prep for new U.S., Iraqi offensive (By Sharon Behn )

 

Weekly Standard I and My Brother Against My Cousin Is Islam the best way to understand the war on terror? Tribalism may offer a clearer view of our enemies' motivations.
by Stanley Kurtz

 

Guardian Israel's Tehran connection Richard Silverstein

Israel, while supposedly observing an ironclad boycott of all things Iranian, is happily buying Iranian oil

 

Quiet death in Xingjiang Charles Cumming: Tibet is not the only Chinese province to suffer barbaric treatment from its Beijing masters

 

Nuclear Spring by J. Peter Scoblic
New Republic

 

Botching Basra By: Max Boot | New York Post Critics of the Iraqi army's recent assault on militias in Basra have focused on the Maliki government's motives. But the real concern should be the competence -- or lack thereof -- it displayed.

 

Feith: We invaded Iraq because we feared they'd attack us

 

New On MEMRI: "Open Meeting with Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri"

The Iranian Model, Mexico and Kangaroo By: Amir Taheri | Asharq Alawsat Baffled by the Iranian political system? Looking for clues to the message of the latest "general election" in the Islamic Republic? Here are two clues: Mexico and kangaroo

 

Middle East Times In an editorial, the paper says that behind the headlines there are trends and portents that suggest NATO is becoming steadily more integrated into the security architecture of the Middle East.

 

Al Hayat NATO needs an Exit Strategy in Afghanistan Patrick Seale - What most Afghans have in common is pride and a fierce attachment to their country -- as well as a visceral hatred of foreign domination. This was a lesson the British learned to their cost in the 19th century and the Soviets in the 1980s. It is a lesson the United States and its NATO allies are painfully learning in their turn.

 

Daily Star The costs just keep growing in Iraq By Rami G. Khouri

 

A regional solution in Iraq would help contain Iran   By Mohammad K. Shiyyab

 

Hudson When Obama "Talks to Our Enemies," What Will He Say?

 

CIGI `07 - Conference on International Governance Innovation

A new report from the Brookings Institution ranks 141 countries on economics, politics, security, and social welfare—as well as twenty other “sub-indicators”—and derives an “index of state weakness” (PDF).

 

MESH ‘The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq’

 

Salon Does NATO want out of Afghanistan?  Behind closed doors a paper has been circulated that may provide the beginnings of an exit strategy.
By Matthias Gebauer

 

 

H2 Talabani’yi davetiniz cesaret verici

 

Terör örgütü El Kaide'ye yönelik yapılan operasyondan 24 kişi tutuklandı

 

Referansları 15-20 Kasım patlamaları!

 

İstanbul'da El-Kaide baskını: 35 gözaltı

 

BBC In the slow lane
Turks feel frustrated at slow progress of EU membership bid

 

Le Monde Carte blanche

L'islamisme turc face à ses juges, par Caroline Fourest

 

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

 

Doğum günü tahriki

 

Sınır ötesi PKK’lı infazı

 

Ömer Lütfi Mete  Muro, muzır devreleri yakıyor

 

Kurdish leader's birthday marked by riots

 

Üniversiteliye 'etnik baskı'

 

Cevdet Aşkın

 

PKK kararı politikacıları ikiye böldü

 

Kirkuk next likely flashpoint

 

DTP’s Kaplan: We want real reform, not quick fix

 

Başkan Barzani:140.maddenin uygulanması ile çoğu sorun çözülür erteleme muhaldir”

 

DTP'ye bir ay ek süre

 

Şanlıurfa'da meydan savaşı

 

Israel sets April deadline for $100 million battalion UAV contract ...

 

Kardeşler 'pişman oldu'

 

Belçika vergi cezası kesince Roj TV, Almanya'ya kaçtı

 

PKK, listemizden çıkamaz

 

'Gönül Köprüsü' nasıl doğdu?

 

Pakistan'da şüphelenilen 4 Türk yakalandı

 

Avrupa yargısından PKK kararı

 

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Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık

 

Mensur Akgün Bratislava'dan bakınca AB ve Türkiye

 

Sadi Somuncuoğlu AB'ye kükreyen Erdoğan'ı anlamak

 

Sami Kohen NATO nereye koşuyor?

NATO bildirgesinden Türkiye memnun

 

AKP, AB’ye kendini savundu

 

Denktaş:Tek çözüm iki devlet

 

Demokrasinin seyir defteri
BAHADIR KALEAĞASI

 

İlnur Çevik Yes Turkey delayed reforms, but did EU help?   

İlter Türkmen AKP’yi kapatma davasına tepkiler

 

Kadri Gürsel Taliban’a geçit yok

 

Hadi Uluengin Kalıcı NATO

 

STELYO BERBERAKİS
NATO'ya Putin damga vurdu

 

Zeynep Göğüş PKK kararının aslı astarı

 

AP'ye İngiltere'den ilk Türk aday

 

Beril Dedeoğlu The anatomy of a conference

 

Anayasa’daki 2 madde yeter

 

'O listede prosedür hatası var'

 

'Fitna' is fanatical - but it deserves a voice Mustafa AKYOL

 

The SS is very angry with the EU on the 'naked king!' Orhan Kemal Cengiz

 

Babacan: Turkey feels unwanted in Europe

 

The Balkans through Turkish eyes Gila BENMAYOR

 

Klaus Jurgens Open letter to Commissioner Olli Rehn

 

Mahir Kaynak NATO genişliyor mu?

 

Lokmacı’daki aç-kapa krizine Rum göstericiler neden olmuş

Lagendijk to close chapter on politics, but not on Turkey

 

Büyükanıt: Supporters of terrorism should not forget boomerang effect

 

Gül regrets Macedonia not invited to join NATO

 

Waiting for decades

 

PKK adresini bildirirse, karar postalanacak

 

Türk evinde uyum ve göçmenlik zirvesi

 

'Müzakereleri tıkamayacağız'

 

Belçika'da PKK operasyonunda 29 kişiye gözaltı

 

Tension Rises in Cyprus After Trouble at Crossing

 

Cyprus Asks for US Envoy to Reunification Talks

 

Cyprus Minister Urges Patience in Island Talks

 

Karabakh Peace in Question After Armenian Vote By: Emil Danielyan | Eurasia Daily Monitor Armenia’s post-election political crisis and Azerbaijan’s apparent attempts to take advantage of it are dealing a serious blow to international mediators’ hopes for a near-term solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

 

[HABER ANALİZ] NATO'nun 'soğuk savaş' zirvesi

 

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Gül, Afganistan'daki eğitim çalışmalarını NATO'ya örnek gösterdi

 

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Putin'den NATO'ya üç uyarı

 

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Belçika vergi cezası kesince Roj TV, Almanya'ya kaçtı

 

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Halk iradesi, yargı kararıyla tersyüz edilemez

 

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Türkiye, demokrasinin laiklikten önemli olduğunu göstermeli

 

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