AL QAEDA'S PLAN B

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• OBAMA VS. EUROPE

  O'S UNILATERALISM OUTRAGES EU

  June 30, 2008 - DOES Barack Obama intend to break the united front that the Bush administration has built to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions? The question, posed by US allies in Europe and the Middle East...more >

• ELEX: WHAT IRAQ NEEDS NEXT

  June 17, 2008 - THE elections that gave legiti macy to the new system in Iraq, thus helping bring about the tipping point against the insurgency, are starting to fade in Iraqi memories. In a democracy, mandates...more >

• BOMBS AWAY

  WHY THE US POLICY ISN'T WORKING - AND IRAN WILL GET NUCLEAR WEAPONS

  June 15, 2008 - "Hit us and we shall hit you ten times harder!" This is how General Muhammad-Ali Jaafari, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) has responded to...more >

• JAILED FOR OUTING THE MULLAH MAFIA

  June 13, 2008 - 'A BUNCH of turbaned thieves": So a member of the Iranian General Audit Office described leading Islamic Republic figures in a speech two weeks ago. On Wednesday, that official, Abbas...more >

• BARACK'S MIDDLE EAST EDUCATION

  June 10, 2008 - IN his address to the American Israeli Political Action Committee last week, Sen. Barack Obama discarded some of his most dangerous positions. Of Iran, for example, he said: "The Iranian regime...more >

• LEBANON'S MAN IN THE MUDDLE

  May 28, 2008 - EVEN before he was sworn in as Lebanon's new president on Sunday, Gen. Michel Suleiman had earned the sobriquet tawafoqi - "man of consensus." He lived up to that label in his first...more >

• BEHIND THE ISRAEL-SYRIA TALKS

  May 23, 2008 - EVERYONE had been dancing around the idea of Israel-Syria peace talks for at least a year. Why are they happening now? Will they get anywhere? Negotiations are under way now because all those...more >

• OBAMA TO A'JAD: ATOMIC ASSIST

  STIFFS UN IN NUKE NEGOTIATIONS

  May 21, 2008 - BUOYED by their modest electoral success last month, critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's provocative foreign policy were preparing to launch a series of attacks on him in the Islamic...more >

• IRAN'S LEB GAME

  HEZ HUMILIATES GOV'T AND US

  May 19, 2008 - 'RWANDA on the Mediterranean!" That's how some Bei rut residents described Lebanon's prospects last week, as Hezbollah gunmen went on the rampage in Sunni Muslim districts and Druze...more >

• WHY SIX POWERS CAN'T STOP IRAN

  May 12, 2008 - WOULD you take an offer if you knew that by refusing it you'd get a better one? Tehran's answer to the latest "generous package" offered to end its uranium-enrichment program is an...more >