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H1 Rand US Should Rethink "War On Terrorism" Strategy to Deal with Resurgent Al Qaida Full Document All terrorist groups eventually end. But how do they end? The evidence since 1968 indicates that most groups have ended because (1) they joined the political process (43 percent) or (2) local police and intelligence agencies arrested or killed key members (40 percent).  News Release

 

Project on National Security Reform Cites Need for Restructuring of U.S. National Security System News Release     Preliminary Findings Report

 

Wall Street Journal U.S., Iraq Closer to Security Deal Negotiations between Washington and Baghdad over a long-term security pact are heating up, the result of the White House's embrace of a flexible timeline for pulling troops. The optimism marks a turnaround from just a month ago, when big differences seemed to have deadlocked talks over the terms of a continued American military presence in the country

 

Failed Trade Talks Signal Shift

World trade talks collapsed over food tariffs, reflecting a dramatic shift in the influence and interests of China, India and Brazil. The failure by negotiators at the WTO leaves the so-called Doha Round of talks dead in the water for "the foreseeable future," said EU trade chief Peter Mandelson.

 

Financial Times Doha trade talks collapse The Doha round of global trade talks, now in its seventh year, broke up without agreement on Tuesday after nine days of tense negotiations

 

The world cannot grow its way out of this slowdown It is surprising how many policymakers and pundits believe economic policy should aim to keep pushing demand up. If all regions attempt to stimulate demand, there will be higher commodity prices and ultimately a bigger crash in the not-too-distant future, says Kenneth Rogoff

 

NYT C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants  The agency presented Pakistan with evidence showing that members of its spy service had deepened ties with militant groups responsible for a surge of violence in Afghanistan

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Iraqi Army Seeks Out Insurgents and Arms in Diyala, Backed by U.S. Forces

 

Carnegie The Rise of the Rest: How the Ascent of Russia and China Affects Global Business and Security
 

USIP The Future of the US Military Presence in Iraq

Israel's Airstrike on Syria's Nuclear Reactor: Preventive War and the Nonproliferation Regime

Spencer Ackerman provides an update on the US Department of State's Counterinsurgency: A Guide for Policy-Makers (October 2007 version).

 

Asia Times Good cop, bad cop: Pakistan reels
Even as the United States rebukes Pakistan over its performance in the "war on terror", it hands Islamabad four F-16 fighter jets as a reward for siding with Washington. Then the US launches a missile attack into Pakistani territory, killing an al-Qaeda commander. These contradictions test Islamabad's will, to the advantage of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

 

'Pushover' Maliki stands his ground Many in the George W Bush administration dismiss Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's demand for a United States timeline for withdrawal of its troops as political posturing, assuming that he will abandon it under pressure, just as he did in 2006. But Maliki now has much greater purchase to defy Bush than he did two years ago. - Gareth Porter

 

Russia takes control of Turkmen (world?) gas
Gazprom, Russia's energy leviathan, has signed two major agreements in a new scheme to purchase gas from Turkmenistan. This deals the United States a huge defeat in the race for Caspian gas and strengthens Moscow's hand in setting the price of world gas. - M K Bhadrakumar

 

Christian Science Monitor

Iraqis more secure, but few are finding jobs Most jobs are in the military, police, and intelligence forces. But Iraqis say those jobs are only attained through family ties or bribes.

 

Can Iraq's new calm hold?

Improved security has boosted optimism, but US commanders want to be assured it is "irreversible."

 

Sons of Iraq made Iraq safer. What's their mission now? The US military is trying to transition 103,000 Iraqi neighborhood guards into steady work.

 

Obama and McCain as neo-neocons They compete over who can better attack Al Qaeda in Pakistan – unilaterally.

 

Los Angeles Times The death of Belgium? By Ian Buruma

Flemish and Walloon nationalism threatens the country. The European Union could face a similar fate.

 

Guardian Miliband: Labour needs to change and change now

Exclusive: Foreign secretary, writing in the Guardian, calls for clarity of leadership 

 

Last-ditch WTO talks collapse

US objects to 'special safeguard mechanism', designed to protect farmers in the developing world

 

National insecurity  Martin Woollacott: The Pakistani army must change its tactics if it is to halt a descent into chaos

 

The world isn't flat – it's networked David Singh Grewal: Globalisation does not 'flatten' opportunity in the world: rather it forces everyone to conform to an underlying standard

 

Daily Telegraph Bush spikes some of McCain's guns The Republican candidate is looking like the odd man out as the President moves closer to Obama's positions on Iraq and Iran, says Irwin Stelzer.

 

Petraeus: Iraqis could regain control by 2010 General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, has offered his most optimistic assessment so far.

 

The Times Obama: voters are nervous about me John McCain is ahead in the latest poll despite his lacklustre campaign and Barack Obama's successful international tour

 

India and Pakistan in Kashmir clash A 16-hour gun battle across a disuputed border in Kashmir is described as the most serious violation of the 2003 ceasefire pact

 

Maddox India deserves help as the problems pile up India’s smooth success has been taken for granted. That is a mistake

 

Al-Qaeda's creep into North Africa As the jihadists face defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, they are moving stealthily into a new power base Amir Taheri

 

Heritage Foundation Saving the NPT and the Nonproliferation Regime in an Era of Nuclear Renaissance

 

Ha’aretz  Israeli officials: Syria taking peace talks seriously

 

Editorial: Why aren't we taking on rampaging settlers?

 

Abbas: If Israel frees Hamas prisoners, I will dismantle PA

 

The future belongs to Asia  Bill Emmott, 'Rivals: How the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade' Download item (89KB PDF)

 

Pakistan: Bush Administration Sticks with Pakistani Military
BY RICHARD WEITZ President George W. Bush is talking to Pakistan’s civilian leaders, but the US presidential administration continues to exhibit a stubborn preference for maintaining close ties with the Pakistani military, an institution that is widely discredited inside the South Asian state

 

Struggle ahead for Afghanistan

WHEN THE next president enters the Oval Office in January, he will face the toughest foreign policy decisions of any president since Franklin Roosevelt. But the toughest of all will involve the struggle for Afghanistan. (By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, Boston Globe)

 

Independent Leading article: The trade talks are over. What now?

H2 Washington Institute The Future of the Iraqi Kurds Soner Cagaptay, editor - What is the Kurdish Regional Government's current status in northern Iraq, and what implications does it hold for the United States? Is Kurdish independence a likely scenario? (Full text)
 

BBC Rendezvous with the PKK  Clive Myrie tells how he recently travelled to northern Iraq to put allegations of terrorism to the group's leader

 

Guardian Turkish society on trial

Stephen Kinzer: Two major court cases in Turkey this week hold the keys to the future of democracy and the rule of law in the country

  

BBC  Turkish jets 'attack PKK hideout' The Turkish military says its fighter planes have attacked a hideout of the Kurdish rebel PKK in northern Iraq.

 

Washington-Ankara-Tahran hattındaki Tel Aviv virajı -

 

‘Darbeler PKK’yı uyuşturucuya yöneltti’

 

Petrolcü Perle

 

 

AK Parti tehdit değil

 

Foreign media warn of risks of AK Party closure

 

 'AK Parti kapatılırsa hepimiz kurban oluruz'

 

Ergenekon davası tam Da Vinci’lik!

 

EDM ERGENEKON INDICTMENT DASHES HOPES OF FINAL RECKONING WITH TURKEY’S “DEEP STATE”

 

Comment from Jane’s Middle East Editor on the Bombings in Turkey
Jane's

 

Turkish Strikes in Northern Iraq 'Retaliation' for Istanbul Bombing

 

Al Hayat The Turks Are Fine; We Are Jealous! Jamil Theyabi - Is Turkey on the verge of a new revolution in politics, arts, culture, and sports? Has the Turkish mentality changed with the desire to retrieve a European-influenced "Ottoman" empire?

 

The fundamentalist persuasion of Turkish secularism by RALPH HUBBEL*

 

'Silah ihtiyacımızın yarısını yerli kaynaklardan sağlayacağız'

 

Nükleer diplomasi

 

 

Gül'ün Erivan yolu Bakü'den geçecek

 

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

 

MİT ajanının sızdığını PKK'lılar da kabul etti

 

Nagehan Alçı Sorumlu TAK (Kürdistan Özgürlük Şahinleri) mı?

 

Sami Kohen Kerkük bombası

 

Nasuhi Güngör ‘Kürt Gladio’su var mı?

 

Kerkük diken üstünde

 

İsrail-Suriye diyaloğu dördüncü turunda

 

 

Kardeş kavgası çıkarmak için Mersin'i pilot bölge seçmişler

 

Kerkük'te gerilim
Iraklı müsteşar Muzaffer Aslan'a sorduk

 

33 erin şehit edilmesinde azmettirici Perinçek mi?

 

Talabani’den Gül’e Kerkük telefonu

 

Turkish planes attack rebel Kurds in Iraq

 

PKK'dan müteahhit teröriste infaz kararı

 

‘Darbeler PKK’yı uyuşturucuya yöneltti’

 

 

PKK’yı dolandırıp inşaatçı oldu

 

Brian Katulis The Kirkuk Impasse

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 29 Jul 08

 

Kurdish Exiles in Germany Feel Pain of Protracted War at Home Deutsche Welle

 

Cevdet Aşkın

 

India Keen to Be Part of Turk Pipeline Plan

 

Olmert Sends Envoys to Turkey For More Syria Talks

 

Amnesty International Urges Iran to End Discrimination Against its Kurdish community.

 

Ankara’da değil İstanbul’da ağırlanacak

 

Iraqi Kurds Protest in Arbil Against Provincial Election Law

 

 

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

 

"Kıbrıs’ta uzlaşmacı başkanlar dönemi", Hugh Pope in Star (Turkey)

 

US basketball to be tested by tall Turks

 

Bush'un Erivan elçi adayı onaylandı

 

Downer: Liderler çözüm sözü verdi

Cuntz: Türkiye, Irak veya Afganistan değil

 

 

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

KEY skandalı

Milyonlarca kişinin TC kimlik ve sigorta numarası gibi kişisel bilgilerinin KEY listelerinde yayımlanması tartışma yarattı.

 

Biyoloji öğretmeni evrime 'mesafeli'

 

Türkiye'nin ilk milli tankı için imzalar atıldı

 

Milli tank için düğmeye basıldı

 

 

‘Sayın Koç tank için 78.5 ay bekleyemeyiz, işi hızlandırın’

 

Üniversitenin seçilmiş kralları -

 

A savory Turkish delight A jar of eggplant and red peppers in olive oil is a delicious reminder of a trip to Turkey.

 

Feathered fight  clubs spur outrage A brutal blood sport to some, a time-honored tradition for others, cockfighting is illegal in Turkey but survives in clandestine dens across the country. Defenders of the practice are fighting tooth and nail to have the sport legalized and given back to the public. - Fazile Zahir

 

 

H3 Ergenekon şemasında Deniz Baykal da var

 

Ergenekon’u Danıştay’a bağlayan dokuz köprü

 

Ergenekon reenkarnasyona uğradı

 

Çukurambar senaryoları

 

MİT ajanının sızdığını PKK'lılar da kabul etti

 

Baykal savcıya meydan okudu: Çıkar cübbeni

 

Kardeş kavgası çıkarmak için Mersin'i pilot bölge seçmişler

 

Neden gizli gizli buluştunuz

 

Kapatma davasında karar için kritik gün

 

Kapatma davasında son aşamaya doğru

 

 

AKP davasında hızla finale doğru

 

Emekli DGM Başsavcısı’nın Ergenekon analizi

 

Hayal’in avukatını tutan “hatırlı kişi” ortaya çıktı

 

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