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Domino democracy
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Jerusalem Post
Bernard Lewis, the world renowned scholar of Islamic history and the Middle East, explains to Saul Singer why hopes for peace and democracy in the region are still viable even in one of its darkest hours
Princeton professor Bernard Lewis has been a recognized leader in his field for a generation, but since September 11, he has become something of a media superstar. He has written 20 books on Islam and the Middle East, but his latest, What Went Wrong? - an examination of how a Muslim civilization that once rivaled the ... more
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Terrorists trained by Iran tracked from Uzbekistan
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Washington Times
Iran is secretly training Islamic terrorists from Uzbekistan for future operations in Central Asia, according to U.S. intelligence officials. Top Stories
Military officials from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran's radical Islamic military units, have been training and supporting militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, known as IMU.
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Russia Transfers Equipment For Bushehr
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MENL
MOSCOW -- Russia continues to construct the Iranian nuclear reactor at Bushehr.
Russian officials said Moscow has decided to continue the \$800 million Bushehr project despite what they described as serious differences with Teheran over a payment schedule and technical specifications. The officials acknowledged that the differences have slowed down construction of Bushehr.
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Iran denies presence of senior PKK commander
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IranMania.com
TEHRAN - The interior ministry here denied Sunday Turkish media reports over the presence in Iran of a senior field commander of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Cemil Bayik, IRNA reported.
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Iran Wants Islamic World to Sever Ties with Israel
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Reuters
TEHRAN - Iran called on Monday for Islamic nations to sever ties with Israel in order to force it to withdraw its forces from the Palestinian territories.
"The only way (to achieve a withdrawal) is that Islamic countries use practical tools like severing any kind of relations with Israel," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said.
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Former Iran Hostage Killed in Crash
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Associated Press
BOSTON - A former U.S. Embassy worker in Iran who survived 444 days of captivity after he was taken hostage in 1979, died in a two-car accident allegedly caused by a drunk driver.
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Iraq cuts oil in Israel protest
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CNN
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- President Saddam Hussein has announced Iraq is cutting its oil exports for a month in protest at Israel's military offensive in the West Bank.
The halt in oil would include all exports through Turkey and the Persian Gulf port of Basra, including that for the United Nations oil-for-food programme, which limits Iraq's oil exports in exchange for food and medical supplies.
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Ancient Rite for a New Year
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The Washington Post
The sound pulsed up the hill to where the men were playing volleyball, over to the playground where the kids were tossing a football, and across the carpets, blankets and picnic tables where people had set out food and traditional plates of lentil grass.
Here, the sound made a hip sway. There, a hand was thrust in the air to float like a bird. In front of the disc jockey's stand, it drew a knot of young men and women who danced and danced and danced.
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Daily analyzes pros and cons of declaring a state of emergency
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IRNA
Tehran -- `Iran Daily' on Monday slammed a televized address by US Presdient George W. Bush in which he made veiled threats against the Islamic Republic.
It said the threats have created two groups in political and social circles in the country: those who favor the idea of declaring a state of emergency and those who don't.
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Senseless sniping
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Washington Times
The longer Israel's military campaign against Palestinian terror continues, the clearer it becomes that the Bush administration has no coherent idea of how to react. To his credit, President Bush has stepped up his criticism of Yasser Arafat's continued support for terrorism, and his rotten, bankrupt leadership which has brought the Palestinian people to ruin.
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Egypt's unrest a two-edged sword
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The Christian Science Monitor
CAIRO, EGYPT – As the latest wave of anti-Israel protesters poured into the streets of capitals across the Arab world, observers are saying that a backlash against the Arab regimes themselves is closer than ever before.
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Crackdown On Democracy Advocates In Syria
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Human Rights Watch
New York -- Human Rights Watch today condemned the harsh prison sentence handed down this week against Riad al-Seif, a 55-year-old independent parliamentarian. He was the second elected member of Syria's parliament in less than a month to get a five-year prison term for advocating democratic change.
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Assassination Bid as New Violence Hits Afghanistan
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Reuters
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan Defense Minister Mohammad Fahim survived an assassination attempt and Kabul was hit by a possible new rocket attack Monday as fragile Afghanistan (news - web sites) appeared headed for a fresh wave of violence.
The attacks, a day after the six-month anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, were major setbacks to the war-ravaged country's efforts to recover since the defeat of the ultra-Islamic Taliban in December.
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Blair Faces Row Over Iraq Threat: Iraq Will Retaliate, Says Hussein's Son
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Sky News
Tony Blair returns to Britain from his mini-summit in the US and straight into a row over his warnings of military action against Iraq.
The Prime Minister faces criticism from backbench Labour MPs over threats to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's "brutal" regime.
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Abu Zubaydah capture poses embarrassing questions
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The Daily Star
The capture of Abu Zubaydah, one of Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenants, in Pakistan on March 28 was a feather in the cap of the Pakistanis and the Americans but it also underlined the extent to which Al-Qaeda fighters who fled the US campaign in Afghanistan have been able to burrow down into Pakistan’s population centers to regroup far from the Afghan border which had been the focal point of Pakistan’s drive to intercept the Islamic zealots.
Abu Zubaydah, considered to be bin Laden’s operations chief, was among around 30 suspected Al-Qaeda and Taleban members rounded up by Pakistan security authorities, supported by US Federal Bureau of Investigation ... more
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United We Stand vs. Iraq: Blair
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Daily News
British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave strong backing to U.S. threats to use military force against Iraq yesterday — saying it would be a mistake to ignore the lessons of Sept. 11.
"If necessary, the action should be military and again, if necessary and justified, it should involve regime change," Blair said.
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French march in support of Israel, against attacks on Jews
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Ha'aretz Daily
PARIS - Demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and other French cities yesterday to express their solidarity with Israel and protest against a wave of anti-Jewish violence as tensions in the Middle East flare.
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