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		<title>A &quot;Bright Day&quot; for Iraq?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuri al-Maliki, the somewhat lame duck Iraqi Prime Minister, has called today &#8220;a bright day&#8221; for Iraq, saying &#8220;It&#8217;s a day that Iraq gained back its sovereignty. Iraq is now its own master.&#8221; Well, maybe. There are still close to 50,000 US troops there, after all, and the formal end of combat5 operations today is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iraqi Electoral Standoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been staying away from the Iraqi election standoff because I figure Juan Cole, Reidar Visser, Marc Lynch and others who follow it more closely than I do have been keeping track of it. But as things get more and more tangled, I guess I ought to offer a few thoughts. And while the various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maliki&#8217;s &#8216;State of Law&#8221; leadership is prepared to throw him &#8216;under the bus&#8217; to get the votes required to form a government &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2010/03/25/malikis-state-of-law-leadership-is-prepared-to-throw-him-under-the-bus-to-get-the-votes-required-to-form-a-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cole/ here &#8220;&#8230; The State of Law said it had negotiated without preconditions, considering that who fills the post of prime minister is less important that for the two parties to arrive at a common plan. The fundamentalist Iraqi National Alliance groups Muqtada al-Sadr&#8217;s Free Independents with Ammar al-Hakim&#8217;s Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Reasons East Jerusalem does not belong to Jewish-Israelis</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2010/03/23/top-ten-reasons-east-jerusalem-does-not-belong-to-jewish-israelis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cole/ here 1. In international law, East Jerusalem is occupied territory, &#8230;&#8230;Israeli claims that they are building on empty territory are laughable&#8230;.. 2. Israeli governments have not in fact been united or consistent about what to do with East Jerusalem and the West Bank, contrary to what Netanyahu says&#8230;. 3. Romantic nationalism imagines a &#8220;people&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt  coach  reckons  Terry and Cole should be  thrown  out  of England squad</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2010/03/04/egypt-coach-reckons-terry-and-cole-should-be-thrown-out-of-england-squad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[London, Mar. 3 (ANI): Egypt coach Hassan Shehata reckons that England players John Terry and Ashley Cole should be thrown out of the world Cup squad in the wake of their alleged infidelities. Go to Source]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;&#8230; Israel has no sense of us as an ally, any more than do any of the Arab states &#8230;&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2010/01/31/israel-has-no-sense-of-us-as-an-ally-any-more-than-do-any-of-the-arab-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lang on Philip Giraldi via SST/ here &#8220;A 1996 Defense Investigative Service report noted that Israel has great success stealing technology by exploiting the numerous co-production projects that it has with the Pentagon. &#8220;Placing Israeli nationals in key industries …is a technique utilized with great success.&#8221; A General Accounting Office (GAO) examination of espionage directed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>22 Dead, 80 wounded in Baghdad Crime Lab Bombing,</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2010/01/27/22-dead-80-wounded-in-baghdad-crime-lab-bombing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP reports that guerrillas drove a car bomb into an Interior Ministry crime lab in the Karrada district of Baghdad on Tuesday, only a day after a coordinated bombing attack on the city&#8217;s hotel district, killing 22. Al-Zaman says that a number of high-ranking officers are among the dead, and that some 80 are wounded. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Irrelevance of Bin Ladin</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2010/01/25/the-irrelevance-of-bin-ladin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An audio message allegedly from Usamah Bin Laden was released Sunday, claiming that the attempted Christmas day airline attack over Detroit was his work. I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb here and assert two things about the audio. First, I do not think it is genuine. Second, I think it demonstrates that Bin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Yemen (and some a bit off)</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2010/01/19/on-yemen-and-some-a-bit-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Varisco interviewed about Yemen on MSNBC, January 16 For the past week or so, just before the terrible human tragedy in Haiti, Yemen was once again a front page news story in the Western media. This time it was not about qât, nor about the rhino horn used in Yemeni dagger hilts, but the issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Roundup from the Holiday Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the Martin Luther King holiday in the US and I&#8217;ve been busy with family things, but I thought I&#8217;d offer a few quick links you might wish to check out: Amira al-Tahawy, one of the bloggers arrested in Nag Hammadi and held in Qena, managed to conceal her cellphone and get a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Saleh is erratic &amp; sensitive to criticism. But the US has no alternative but to continue engaging him &#8230;&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2010/01/08/president-saleh-is-erratic-sensitive-to-criticism-but-the-us-has-no-alternative-but-to-continue-engaging-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WINEP/ here &#8220;Yemen&#8217;s reemergence in the headlines as a crucial player in the fight against al-Qaeda raises questions about Washington&#8217;s next steps. What sort of relationship will the Obama administration have with President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the longtime leader of what could be the world&#8217;s next failed state? Saleh spoke with President Barack Obama by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Qaeda in Yemen</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2010/01/02/al-qaeda-in-yemen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Salon Magazine recently published an interview with Gregory Johnsen on the recent attacks against alleged al-Qaeda sites in Yemen. Here is a brief excerpt from the interview. The whole piece can be found at salon.com.] Glenn Greenwald: My guest today on Salon Radio is Gregory Johnsen, who is an expert on Yemen; he&#8217;s a Ph.D. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Demands an End-Game before Committing Troops to Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP is reporting that President Barack Obama is declining to be rushed into committing to the Afghanistan War as an open-ended project, and wants a timetable for turning security duties over to the Afghanistan National Army. AP says that the key intervention here came from US ambassador in Kabul, Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, who warned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handling the &quot;Saudi-Yemen&quot; challenge is an early test of a bunch of new Princes &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2009/11/10/handling-the-saudi-yemen-challenge-is-an-early-test-of-a-bunch-of-new-princes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WINEP, here &#8220;&#8230;. Handling this challenge looks to be an early test of the executive competence of a new generation of Saudi leadership&#8230;. The Houthis, who take their name from the family of their leader, say they want increased local autonomy and a greater role for their Zaydi version of Islam, which is Shiite and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Useful Counterargument</title>
		<link>http://www.arabnewsblog.net/2009/10/02/a-useful-counterargument/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Juan Cole posted what I think is a useful offset to the massive anti-Iranian Internet rhetoric. I don&#8217;t agree with everything he says, but then I don&#8217;t agree with everything anybody says. It&#8217;s really worth a read as we move into a really difficult up-or-down -eriod with Iran. Go to Source]]></description>
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