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H1  Independent  America's allies in Iraq under pressure as civil war breaks out among Sunni

 

Our Reign of Terror, by the Israeli Army In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on Hebron

 

McClatchy GIs in Sadr City under fire from friends and foes Three weeks after U.S. troops were ordered into the sprawling Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City to stop rockets from raining down on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad's Green Zone, they're caught in crossfire between Shiite militiamen and the mostly Shiite Iraqi army

 

Analysis: Time, delegate math working against Clinton

 

Washington Post Carter Meets With Hamas Chief In Exile, Defying Israel and U.S.

 

Iraqi, U.S. Forces Put Pressure on Mahdi Army

 

NewsHour Carter Meeting Sparks New Debate Over Engaging Hamas

 

Clinton, Obama Enter Final Stretch in Keystone Primary Fight

 

Guardian Top Bush aides pushed for Guantánamo torture Senior officials bypassed army chief to introduce interrogation methods

 

Ronald Brownstein / National Journal Online:  The First 21st-Century Campaign 

 

Time How to Win the Global-Warming War

 

MESH Extended deterrence
Newmyer, Rosen, Inbar, Mandelbaum. MESH.

 

Asia Times Petraeus hid Maliki's resistance to US troops Petraeus' portrayal of last month's offensive in Basra by Iraqi forces as inept masked a quite different picture in which Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki launched the attack to forestall a much bigger US-led operation against the Mahdi Army. Maliki did not want the US push to succeed. - Gareth Porter

 

Afghanistan Moves to Center Stage By: M.K. Bhadrakumar | Asia Times The United States' monopoly of the Afghan war is coming under serious public challenge. Iran and Turkey have been vocal in their criticism of the way things are going -- or not going. At the same time, erstwhile bitter enemies of the Taliban from the former Northern Alliance are now involved in direct talks with "important people" from the Taliban. Simultaneously, the geopolitics of energy are inextricably drawing China, Russia and Iran towards Afghanistan. - M K Bhadrakumar

 

A birthday present for Mubarak
Eighty-year-old President Hosni Mubarak faces trouble as never before in his 26 years at Egypt's helm. For myriad reasons, people are angry, which alarms "Big sister Egypt's" neighbors, and particularly Cairo's ally, the United States. The beleaguered president could well recall the events leading to the demise of the last king of Egypt in 1952. - Sami Moubayed

 

McClatchy Washington Bureau: Pentagon institute calls Iraq war ‘a major debacle’ with outcome ‘in doubt’ 

 

Choosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq and Its Aftermath (PDF; 1 MB) Source: Institute for National Strategic Studies (National Defense University)

 

Pentagon Study? Current Events in Iraq? Not so Fast...

 

US Army War College’s Parameters “The Mythical Shia Crescent” by Pat Proctor (.htm format) (.pdf format)

 

The Strategic Importance of Central Asia: An American View by Stephen Blank

 

Robert Jervis here Bush lied and people died? Not so, says prominent social scientist Robert Jervis. And what's more, the U.S. intelligence service remains the best in the world.

 

New York Times McCain, Iraq War and the Threat of ‘Al Qaeda’  Critics say Senator John McCain’s descriptions of the enemy in Iraq oversimplify its hydra-headed nature.

 

SyriaComment News Round Up (18 April 2008)

 

After Bush
Gordon Brown sets out foreign policy vision for years to come

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Troops torture Palestinians'

 

Testimonies of Israelis who serve in Hebron reveal common use of unrestrained violence  To read the pamphlet in full, click here

 

IHT  SIZE AND POWER

A bigger nation isn't always better

By PAUL KENNEDY Being very big, either in acreage or in population, is of itself no guarantee of becoming and remaining a Great Power.

 

Financial Times  Gideon Rachman’s blog Fear of China, fear of America: As China emerges a challenger to US dominance, Europeans may remember they have more in common with the Americans than the Chinese

 

Girls allowed After Iran’s Islamic Revolution, women had fewer legal rights and were forced to wear the hejab. Ironically it also opened up opportunities for those who used to be kept at home, writes Anna Fifield

 

The dilemma haunting Clinton’s prey Edward Luce analyses Barack Obama and ‘elitism’

 

Economists’ Forum Dissecting Greenspan’s defence: ‘It didn’t have to be this way. Saying no to asset bubbles – equity, property, or credit – was always an option’, writes Stephen Roach

 

Russia tries to soothe Georgia

Moscow lifts visa restrictions on Tbilisi and will hold talks to allow banned goods amid criticisms over its move to establish official relations with separatist Georgian regions

 

RFE/RL Georgia Asking Too Much On Abkhazia? Sukhumi has repeatedly rejected Tbilisi's peace proposals, even as Moscow deepens its own presence in the region. Some say it's time for a different approach.

 

The Times Al-Qaeda warns of Iranian threat Ayman al-Zawahri said in an audio message that Washington's war had met with nothing but failure and defeat

 

Los Angeles Times Stuck in the middle The United States has put itself in a dangerous spot -- between warring Shiite factions in Iraq.

 

Arab ambassadors to Iraq Iraq's Arab neighbors keep vowing to send ambassadors to Baghdad. Will they?

H2 UPI Analysis: Al-Qaida to attack Turkey? By STEFAN NICOLA Experts are worried that Turkey will soon be hit by an al-Qaida-orchestrated terror attack 

 

BittterLemons Turkey, Iraq and the PKK

 

Steven A. Cook,Turkey's Problematic Middle East Role - Council on Foreign Relations

 

A time for moderates? Hiwa Osman

 

New Turkish strategy points the way ahead  Bulent Aras

 

Toward a new era in Turkish-Iraqi relations regarding the PKK Abdulkadir Onay

 

EDM TURKISH RELATIONS IMPROVE WITH IRAN BUT ARE SHAKY WITH IRAQ

ABD'den 'ahlaksız teklif'

Erdoğan'ın, ABD Başkanı Bush ile 5 Kasım 2007'de Beyaz Saray'da yaptığı görüşmenin ardından PKK ile gizli anlaştığı ortaya çıktı

 

 ABD’den ikili oyun

 

Sami Kohen ABD-AB farkı

 

İlter Türkmen Türkiye-ABD ilişkilerinde bahar havası

 

Öcalan:Türkiye'ye karşı PKK'yi hazırda tutuyorlar. Tamamen bitirmiyorlar!

 

Kürt devleti olmaz

 

Iraqi Kurds Back PKK Despite Hardships Institute for War and Peace Reporting

 

'301 değişikliği yetersiz'

 

AKPM kapatma davasından endişeli

 

AKPM bildirisi küme düştü

 

AKPM’den ‘suya sabuna dokunmayan’ bildiri

 

İşte AKPM Başkanı’nın tartışılan sözleri

 

 

Abdülhamit Bilici Does the Islamic world view the closure case differently than the West?

 

İşte o bildiri

 

EurasiaNet Turkey: More Woes for Government, as Economy Loses Steam If the secularist-dominated Supreme Court in Turkey doesn’t sink the governing Justice and Development Party, the country’s slowing economy just might.

 

McClatchy Turkish court threatens to oust government that lifted head scarf ban

 

Mustafa AKYOL The American plot to overthrow the Turkish Republic

 

'Derin devlet’ ve Amerika

'Türkiye dışlanamaz'

 

Türbanlı Türk bayrağı

 

 

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası  Dış Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit      

 

 

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

 

Rasim Ozan Küahyalı Kürt meselesi ve Türkiye

 

BM'nin Kerkük planı üç aşamalı -

 

Öcalan:Türkiye'ye karşı PKK'yi hazırda tutuyorlar. Tamamen bitirmiyorlar!

 

Iraqi Kurds Back PKK Despite Hardships Institute for War and Peace Reporting

 

Filistinliler Iraklı Kürtleri örnek almalı
HAYRULLAH HAYRULLAH

 

The Invisible People FrontPage Why there are 22 Arab states, but not a single Kurdish state?

 

Kürt devleti olmaz

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Iran, Kürdistan bayrağını astı

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Serpil Yılmaz Barzani, Türk devletinin gönderdiği işadamını tutukladı

 

'Kürtlerden, referandumsuz Kerkük çözümüne ihtiyatlı onay'

Iraqi Social Movement Official in Mosul Criticizes Kurdish Parties, Peshmerga Presence

 

Iraqi Kurdish Writer Appreciates Barzani's Speech on Fall of Saddan

 

Dr Hassan Aydinli, ITF Europe Representative's letter to Iraqi Prime Minister Mr. Nouri Al-Maliki

 

Doktor olmak yerine ‘canlı bomba’ oldu

DTP'li vekilden ezber bozan çıkış

 

Şırnak’ta 3 PKK’lı terörist öldürüldü

 

Iraq Oil Deal Could Ignite International Investment

 

Sezgin Tanrıkulunun duruşu ve KCK - DTP

 

Matin Münir Hükümet, Katar’ı neden bu kadar seviyor?

 

Iran, Turkey sign memorandum to deepen cooperation against terror

 

 

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

 

AB, Cumhuriyet ve ulusal çıkar BAHADIR KALEAĞASI -

 

Divergent European approaches to combating PKK terrorism
Abdulkadir Onay

 

CSM In Germany, a breakthrough year for immigrant politicians

This weekend, more than 50 elected officials of Turkish descent meet to spur wider political participation among the country's 2.7 million Turkish residents.

Kalus Jurgens UK-Turkey relations: formula for success

 

Zeynep Göğüş Avrupa kehanetleri

 

Semih İdiz Küçük Çek Cumhuriyeti’nden büyük destek

 

Russia tests waters in Cyprus ahead of talks

 

New reunification process in Cyprus officially under way

 

Avrupa Konseyi: Kapatma davası endişe verici, reform yapılmalı

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

BM Kıbrıs sürecinden memnun

 

 

Tartışılan bildiride ‘endişe’ vurgusu!

 

Beril Dedeoğlu The EU-Turkey: again?

 

ABD'de "Ermeni yalanlarıyla mücadele" mitingi

 

İnsan Hakları İzleme Örgütü: "301 önerileri yetersiz"

 

PACE joins criticism of closure case

 

UN Security Council welcomes Cyprus process

 

Balıkçı kazayla vurulmuş!

Turkey slams move to ask CoE for AKP statement

 

"Ermeni yalanlarıyla mücadele" mitingi

 

Big prize for the partnership

 

Missing persons What the dead have to say 

 

[NEWS ANALYSIS] You are neither democratic, nor Atatürkist nor secular

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

Öğretmen, Azrail'i okul sırasına soktu

 

DAĞBAŞI GİBİ

 

Ankara-Eskişehir high-speed link on track for completion soon