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18/12/2006 Article

The Martial Plan

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Iran, Middle East

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Washington’s liberal, progressive, Democrat-oriented, anti-Bush newspaper — the Washington Post — has weighed in on a prospective war against Iran. They’re all for it. If

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07/12/2006 Article

If the US Should Talk to Iran, Why Shouldn’t it Talk to Hamas?

/ Paul Woodward

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Iran, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians

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James Baker threw down the gauntlet to President Bush yesterday when he commended the Iraq Study Group report as “probably the only bipartisan report he’s

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09/11/2006 Article

The White Man’s Club

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Bitterlemons, November 9, 2006 He stepped in from the harsh sunlight of Egypt. He had just crossed the Sinai with two Arab friends, one of

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05/11/2006 Article

The Axis of Not Quite As Evil

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, War in Iraq, War on terrorism

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Bitterlemons, November 2, 2006 We might now take George Bush at his word: in the wake of the September 11 attacks, he named three nations

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02/11/2006 Article

How Hezbollah Defeated Israel:
III. The Political War

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Middle East

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Asia Times, October 14, 2006 In the wake of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, a public poll in Egypt asked a cross-section of that country’s citizenry to

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27/10/2006 Article

How Hezbollah Defeated Israel:
I. Winning the Intelligence War

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Middle East

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Asia Times, October 12, 2006 Introduction Writing five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, US military expert Anthony Cordesman published an account of

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27/10/2006 Article

How Hezbollah Defeated Israel:
II. Winning the Ground War

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Middle East

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Asia Times, October 13, 2006 Israel’s decision to launch a ground war to accomplish what its air force had failed to do was made hesitantly

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25/10/2006 Article

Calculating Iran’s Iraq Impact: “It’s too late to switch sides” a Sunni leader argues

/ Baghdad Correspondent

Tags: Bush Administration, Iraq, War in Iraq

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Condoleezza Rice’s recent visit to Iraq was intended to show support for the battered government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but it was clear

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14/10/2006 Article

Comment le Hezbollah a Vaincu Israël

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Middle East

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Traduit par Marcel Charbonnier et révisé par Fausto Giudice [La victoire du Hezbollah dans son récent conflit avec Israël est beaucoup plus significative que bien

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