Monthly Archives: October, 2007
Saudi King Tries to Grow Modern Ideas in Desert
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 25 — On a marshy peninsula 50 miles from this Red…
From CIA Jails, Inmates Fade Into Obscurity
By Craig Whitlock Washington Post Foreign Service ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On Sept. 6, 2006, President…
EWG Report: Crude Oil- The Supply Outlook
C R U D E O I L THE S U P P L Y…
Pakistan: The Forgotten Conflict in Balochistan
Islamabad/Brussels, 22 October 2007: The insurgency in Balochistan province will only subside when free, fair…
The Decline of Ahmedinejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad may be gaining support across the Muslim world for his fervent…
Bhutto undeterred by cowardly bombings
LONDON, England — Born into one of the most famous political families on the Asian…
Regarding the Dangerous Resignation of Ali Larijani
The following is the latest entry in Mohammad Ali Abtahi’s weblog (http://www.webneveshteha.com/en/weblog/). Mr Abtahi was,…
The Letter of 138 Muslim scholars to the Pope and Christian Leaders
There is a lot of good in the document sent to Benedict XVI and Christian…
جثة طافية 6
في التاسعة صباحاً من كل يوم كنت دوماً في الطريق. أستقل أول تاكسي أراه من…
Recalling what ‘realism’ did to Iraq
For a long time and until 2003, the Iraqi writer Kanan Makiya was a critical…
European Hyphens Lessen Fear of The Other
Hyphenated Europeans – like hyphenated Americans – help stymie the fear that angry right wingers…
Bhutto for Home to Battle to Save Pakistan
London: After eight long years of living a roller-coaster life in exile Pakistan ’s only…
Egypt: Wolves in sheep’s clothing
Problems on hold A malicious ploy that has become all-too-familiar in case of usurping land…
Ex-Commander Says Iraq Effort Is ‘a Nightmare’
By DAVID S. CLOUD WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — In a sweeping indictment of the four-year…
The Cole Bombing in Yemen: A Seven Year Perspective
On October 12, 2000 two Yemeni suicide bombers rammed an explosives-laden dingy into an American…
Dressing the Christians up in brown shirts
Maybe someone might convincingly explain why, whenever Western journalists and publicists talk about Lebanon’s Christians,…
The Un-American Way of Torture
American citizens must face the fact that torture is happening ‘in their names’ and by…
The Kingdom in the Closet
Even as President Ahmadinejad denies the existence of gay Iranians, this Atlantic report describes the…
The Spoils of War (from Vanity Fair)
Illustration by John Blackford. By Peter van Agtmael/Polaris (desert), Konstantin Inozemtsev/Alamy (money). Billions over Baghdad…
Corner Syria at the Annapolis conference
Bashar Assad, never a man to accept conditions, is nevertheless imposing some of his own…
The next Chief? Safe keeper of the strategic assets!
Why does ‘The Newsweek’ have to carry a major story on the next chief of…