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| Israel moves to counter Hezbollah |
| 20.11.10 12:02 |
Middle East |
| In the past few months, Israel has gone out of its way to cast itself as a victim of aggression in case a war with Hezbollah breaks out. As the United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) inches closer to indicting senior Hezbollah officials for the 2005 murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, and the likelihood grows that the Shiite militant group will stage a coup detat in response, the clouds of uncertainty hanging over Lebanon are only getting darke |
| Victor Kotsev |
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| Yemen left with little wiggle room |
| 14.01.10 12:20 |
Middle East |
| The United States may be on the verge of involvement in yet another counter-insurgency war that, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, may make a bad situation even worse. The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight by a Nigerian and apparently planned in Yemen, the alleged ties between the perpetrator of the Fort Hood massacre to a radical Yemeni cleric, and an ongoing US-backed Yemeni military offensive against al-Qaeda have all focused US attention on that country. |
| Stephen Zunes, |
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| Turkish snub changes Middle East game |
| 04.02.09 22:16 |
Middle East |
| There are different ways of looking at the Justice and Democratic Party, or AKP, which rules Turkey. Militant secularists and Kemalists allege it is a Trojan horse of Salafists whose members masquerade as democrats. Others say the AKP is so extremely moderate that it might get ostracized as infidel if it were transplanted to Iran or Afghanistan. |
| M K Bhadrakumar |
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