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H1 • 'The Price of the Surge' by Steve Simon, Foreign Affairs

 

Guardian Secret US plan for military future in Iraq Confidential draft agreement on future of US forces in Iraq shows provision for military presence in the country, but sets no time limit for withdrawal

 

 Le Monde Document Shows Tehran Pursued a Military Nuclear Program after 2003

 

William Arkin Questions for Gen. Petraeus and the US Military

 

Efraim Inbar An Israeli view of the Iranian nuclear challenge The Iranians’ nuclear strategy is simple: it’s to talk and build

 

Iran Says US Requests More Iraq Talks

 

Salon The Iran boogeyman is back Gen. Petraeus is reportedly going to blame Iran for why we need to stay in Iraq. If he does, it'll be destructive propaganda.
By Gary Kamiya

 

Ha’aretz  Ben-Eliezer: If Iran attacks, we will destroy it

 

U.S., Israel fear Iran has N. Korean nuclear know-how

 

Al-Sadr Considering Breakup of Mahdi Army Militia

US/IRAQ: Petraeus Testimony to Defend False "Proxy War" Line

 

Independent Robert Fisk: Hizbollah turns to Iran in war on Israel The Shia "martyrs" of this hill village are normally killed in the dangerous, stony landscape of southern Lebanon, in Israeli air raids or invasions or attacks from the sea. The Hizbollah duly honours them. But the body of the latest Shia fighter to be buried here – from the local Hashem family – was flown back to Lebanon last month from Iran.

 

BBC Waiting patiently
Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood bides its time amid crackdown

 

McClatchy Few see Petraeus testimony changing much in Congress  With only seven months to go before the election of a new president and Congress, any Democratic effort to change Iraq policy probably won't go far

 

Debka Exclusive: Major row in Assad regime delays Sunday publication of Mughniyeh probe findings

 

Exclusive: Ahmadinejad to respond to Israeli minister's threat on Iranian Atom Day

 

Financial Times  The political threats to globalisation Hunger – that most traditional threat to ruling elites – is returning to many countries that have embraced globalisation, writes Gideon Rachman. Along with other mounting pressures, it could come to undermine the free-trade consensus built up over the past 30 years

 

Mind the gapAs Anglo-American capitalism looks tarnished, a period in which rising inequality and stagnant incomes seemed tolerable to voters may be coming to an end

 

Gulf states tighten ties with China

Delegations from Abu Dhabi and Qatar are expected to visit Beijing as Middle Eastern funds continue to scour the globe for investment opportunities for their oil revenues

 

Israeli civil defence drill raises tension Israel launches the biggest emergency drill in its history to ready the population for potential bombardment even as the government plays down the risk of conflict

 

Iraq’s Maliki threatens to bar Sadr from vote Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister, warned Moqtada al-Sadr, a militant Shia cleric, to disband his militia or face being excluded from future Iraqi elections

 

Egypt opposition calls for election boycott The Muslim Brotherhood has called for a boycott of local elections in protest at the government’s failure to abide by court rulings allowing its candidates to run

FRONTLINE: bush's war | PBS

 

A Comprehensive PBS Documentary on the Iraq War Becomes a Big Hit ...

 

Time How Petraeus Will Make His Case

 

New York Times  Crackdown on Militias May Add to Instability in Iraq  A crackdown on the Mahdi Army militia is creating potentially destabilizing political and military tensions in Iraq, pitting a government against the power wielded by the cleric Moktada al-Sadr

Editorial More Time for More of the Same? It is clear that Gen. David Petraeus and President Bush don’t have a strategy for ending America’s disastrous involvement in Iraq.

 

Back From Iraq, Again Facing Fire With Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker to appear before Congress, three military and diplomatic experts reflect on changes in Iraq of the last seven months.

DAVID BROOKS A Network of Truces The grand compromise model would be appropriate if Iraq were a Western country living in the shadow of the Magna Carta.

Attacks in Baghdad Spiked in March, U.S. Data Show

Inflation in Asia Begins to Sting U.S. Consumers  For two generations, Americans have imported goods produced ever more cheaply from a succession of low-wage countries. But that free ride may be coming to an end.

 

Guardian A leadership deficit lies at the heart of the financial storm Joseph Stiglitz: The greatest onus is on the US, where the global gloom began. But can we trust those who got it so wrong to put things right?

 

Los Angeles Times Resist the urge to leave Iraq By Max Boot  As Petraeus and Crocker know, the U.S. can win if troops remain.

 

The Times More or fewer troops? The future's not that simple The next US president is likely to inherit 140,000 troops on the ground in Iraq and no clear plan of what to do with them Bronwen Maddox

 

Al-Mahdi army offers to lay down its arms Iraq's most dangerous militia will disband voluntarily if Shia scholars advise its leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, to do so

 

Bird flu: solid evidence of human transmission Alarm about a possible global flu pandemic restarted by clear evidence that bird flu can be transmitted person to person

 

Nato general warns of a more ruthless Taleban Commanders killed by the alliance in Afghanistan are being replaced by more radical recruits, says General Dan McNeill

 

Brookings The Future of the Foreign Service

Carlos Pascual,

 

Walker's World: Bush's last summit By MARTIN WALKER  (UPI) -- Putin got all he wanted from the NATO summit and from President Bush's visit; his guest left empty-handed and diminished

 

World: Governments Take Action To Curb Rising Food Prices, But At What Cost?

 

Iraq Still a Quagmire, Say Experts

 

Gallup Daily: Obama Moves to 9-point Lead Over Clinton 

Iraq options by elimination
Steve Rosen, MESH.

 

IHT  Return of jihadists: Europe's fears subsideAs members of a cell suspected of sending insurgents to Iraq in 2005 await a verdict in their case in France, intelligence and law enforcement officials say their fears of young would-be fighters from Europe traveling to Iraq and returning more radicalized and better trained were overblown.

 

Are NATO promises backed by anything? You can now file away as "frozen promises" NATO's commitment to two would-be democracies.

 

Asia Times The Taliban's shadow hangs over NATO Following the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit and the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President George W Bush, the Russians say they were "defeated": the US's missile defense shield in Europe and NATO's expansion will go ahead. This is a smokescreen. Moscow, by agreeing to the transit of food and non-military cargo and "some types of non-lethal military equipment" across Russia to Afghanistan, now has a role in NATO's operations in Afghanistan. - M K Bhadrakumar

 

Washington Post Sadr Told to Disband Militia Elections Are at Stake, Premier Says; Attacks Kill Three U.S. Troops

 

Congress To Hear Of Gains In Iraq: Petraeus, Crocker To Face Impatient Lawmakers  

 

Obama at the Helm By Peter Beinart If presidents govern the way they campaigned, Obama will be a fine leader.

 

WSJ Cultural Autonomy for Tibet
By David L. Phillips An existing solution to China's problems.

 

 

 

Andrew Sullivan Quote For The Day II

 

 Wall Street Journal The Petraeus EffectThe surge's success makes a political victory in Iraq possible. Will Washington squander these gains?

 

Officer Questions Petraeus's Strategy

 

After the Fire
By James Taranto The battle of Basra: another Tet, or just a tête-à-tête?

 

Greenspan Defends His Legacy

Alan Greenspan was lionized for the economy's performance for much of his 18 years as chairman of the Federal Reserve, but now, he notes, he's being second-guessed for it. Now 82 years old, he wants to set the record straight before the ink dries on the first draft of the current financial crisis' history. Excerpts: Greenspan's Interviews with the Journal

 

Antimissile Milestone
A Bush legacy against rogue threats.

 

The Sergeant Solution
By Robert H. Scales Saddam learned the hard way. Armies aren't effective when they're not flexible at the unit level.

 

China Confirms Human H5N1 Transmission

 

The List: The World’s Worst Religious Leaders

 

 Can we survive China’s rush to emulate the American way of life?

 

H2  Ankara's Quiet Revolution
Washington Institute By Soner Cagaptay

  

Sami Kohen Batı, tavır almakta zorlanıyor

 

Babacan wants Iraqi Kurds to do more against PKK

 

Barzani’nin Irak’ın sesi Ajansına verdiği özel demecin tam metni...

 

Bakan Babacan'dan Neçirvan Barzani'nin ziyaretine yeşil ışık

 

 Babacan'dan Barzani'ye: Söylem ve eylem lazım

 

Fried NATO meselelerinde Türklere danışmayı öğrendim

 

AB 2007 Terör Raporu açıklandı…

 

EDM BUYUKANIT WARNS AGAINST ISLAMISM AND KURDISH SEPARATISM, ATTACKS EU OVER POLICIES ON ESDP AND PKK

 

 

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

 

Kürt sorunu Çankaya'da

 

Iraqi Kurds Not Content With Draft Oil Law

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 7 Apr 08 - Arabic

 

 

Director of Al-Jazeera Kurdistan Office Interviewed By Iraqi Kurdish Paper

 

 Barzani: "We are in the union of Iraq"

 

 

MELİHA OKUR Körfez kaynıyor Türkiye bakıyor!

 

 

PKK, AB güvenliğini tehdit ediyor

 

PKK’ya karşı yasal yetersizlik var

 

Belçika, 29 kadın teröristi aynı gün serbest bırakmış

 

Cevdet Aşkın

 

Azınlık bölgelerinde salt ekonomik kalkınma yeterli değil
CİHAD EL ZEYN
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Kurdish complex open for business  -- With aid from the Kurdistan government, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers helped open a government complex less than a year after an explosion ripped it apart.

 

Austrian Airlines to fly to Iraqi Kurdistan again

 

Barzani: We work on having warring factions reach common ground

 

 

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

 

Avrupa Birliği'nden üç aşamalı liste geldi

 

'AB bakanlığı' kurulması gündemde

 

Brüksel'de lobi atağı

 

Hükümet rotayı AB’ye çevirdi

 

ABD'den NATO konusunda Türkiye'ye övgü

 

Ermeni soykırımı iddiası İsrail'in gündeminde

 

Talat: "Lokmacı'nın açılması sorunu çözmüyor"