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August 9, 2003, 10:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
<em>mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/JRwreck.jpg" align="right" border="0">The fingerprints of Ansar al-Islam, the Iraqi fundamentalist terror group linked to Al Qaeda, prompted Washington to place the FBI at the head of the investigation into the Jordanian embassy bombing in Baghdad Thursday, August 7, in which ...</em>
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July 22, 2003, 9:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel has more cause for concern from the presence of senior al Qaeda operatives in Iran than from the prospect of Iran shooting a Shehab-3 medium-range missile any time soon, despite the handover ceremony Iran's bellicose spiritual leader Ali Khamenei staged with Iran's Revolutionary Guards on July 20 ...
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July 19, 2003, 4:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since the May 12 al Qaeda triple attacks on Riyadh compounds housing Westerners, Tehran has been leaking teasers about the presence of high-profile Islamic terrorists purportedly in the custody of Iranian authorities. None of these terrorist leaders have ever been shown in public. Each leak raises temperatures in Washington, Riyadh ...
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July 9, 2003, 10:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Violent three-way clashes in Tehran marked the July 9 anniversary of the brutally suppressed student demonstrations of 1999, despite the Islamic regime's advance crackdown against the pro-democracy student movement. Hundreds of hard-line Islamic vigilantes, police and students milling about outside Tehran University got into running battles Wednesday night. Police ...
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May 31, 2003, 1:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
On May 1, US President George W. Bush landed on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln opposite the San Diego coast of California and declared, "Combat operations in Iraq have ended." Thirty days later, US Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, commander of American mili8tary forces on the ground Iraq, said ...
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May 24, 2003, 11:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Bush administration is engaged in one of the most sensitive and ambitious geo-strategic projects ever undertaken by any US presidency - comparable to landmark events like the termination of the Cold War, the opening up of Communist China to the world back in the 1970s and detente with the Communist ...
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May 10, 2003, 11:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
After undergoing several metamorphoses since its formulation by the Quartet, the Middle East road map looks rather like a skimpy blanket pulled over Ariel Sharon, Colin Powell, Bashar Assad, Abu Mazen and Yasser Arafat while each keeps to his own bed. Saturday, May 10, the blanket was whisked away, draining ...
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April 22, 2003, 1:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
The first great pilgrimage to Karbala that Iraqi Shiites were permitted to make in almost 30 years, starting Tuesday, April 22, may prove the defining event in the US-Iran contest for influence over Iraq's majority Shiite community. The freedom to commemorate the 7th century death in battle of Imam ...
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September 30, 2002, 1:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
America's failure to enlist UN Security Council members for a tough new ultimatum to Baghdad is misleading. On the quiet, Washington has made important strides in the bid to assemble an Arab-Muslim coalition for its war effort. Egypt and Saudi Arabia were the first to come on board, although ...
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September 26, 2002, 4:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to our sources, a CIA undercover unit has entered Iran through Zabul, in the Sistan Baluchistan province. Its assignment is to stir up dissent among the largest population in the area, the Baluchi tribes. This province is of small strategic value per se. Nonetheless, the CIA finds it valuable ...
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September 4, 2002, 3:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran has drawn up an elaborate war plan of its own to counter the approaching US campaign against Iraq. Syria, Lebanon, the Hizballah and the Palestinians have been enlisted to provoke a massive confrontation with Israel that will serve as a second front and hamstring the US offensive. This is ...
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September 3, 2002, 3:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran has drawn up an elaborate war plan of its own to counter the approaching US campaign against Iraq. Syria, Lebanon, the Hizballah and the Palestinians have been enlisted to provoke a massive confrontation with Israel that will serve as a second front and hamstring the US offensive. This is ...
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June 14, 2002, 4:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iranian government spokesman Abdllah Ramezanzadeh handled with extreme care the Tehran press reports of a US unmanned plane crashing late last month near the city of Korba in Iran's northwestern province of Kurdistan. He confirmed the crash, but said the wreckage had been scattered too widely in the mountainous ...
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February 3, 2002, 2:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
Madeline Albright understandably took aim at George W. Bush for "lumping Iraq, Iran and North Korea together" in his evil axis. She went so far as to declare that Washington may appear to the world as having gone out of its mind. Ms. Albright should be excused; the policies she ...
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