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Location :North America USA
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Why the Pentagon Failed
Le Nouvel Observateur: What do you see as the results of the American occupation of Iraq?
Pierre-Jean Luizard: Five years after the American intervention, there is still no Iraqi state. Reconstruction -
Location :Middle East Iran
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Iran: The Revolution of the Kepis
It’s an opaque revolution, a coup d’etat against the very mullahs at the heart of the mullahs’ republic that has been plotted within the confines of the offices of the
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Location :Middle East Pakistan
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Pakistan: “Al-Qaeda is in the process of succeeding beyond its dreams …”
It’s a dying world that is afraid. An aristocracy living on borrowed time that knows nothing will ever be the same again as before. In the Punjab governor’s sumptuous palace,
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Location :Middle East Pakistan
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Pakistan: Meeting With the Uzbin Taliban
We imagined them bivouacking in their Uzbin camps, close to the spot where they set up the deadly ambush of French soldiers on August 18, or going for orders farther
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Location :Middle East Iran
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“Bush Wants War; We Don’t …”
Le Nouvel Observateur. Are we on the verge of war or is negotiation still possible over your nuclear program?
Manouchehr Mottaki. I am a career diplomat. Consequently, I must, as a -
Location :Middle East Iran
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Iran: The Permanent Coup d’Etat
While the international community’s threats are getting more precise with respect to Iran, does Supreme Guide of the Islamic Republic Ali Khamenei envisage sacrificing his intransigent president Ahmadinejad on the
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Location :North America USA
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The Blackwater scandal in Iraq.
How is it that private companies like Blackwater operate in Iraq, in Afghanistan and elsewhere?
Mercenaries are not a new phenomenon. But after September 11, there was an explosion of private -
Location :Middle East Pakistan
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Pakistan: The Rule of the Taliban
She kidnaps and imprisons Pakistani citizens in the name of Islamic morality. She has the police beaten up and holds them prisoner. And with her husband, the mullah of the
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Location :Middle East Pakistan
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Interview : Sarah Halifa-Legrand
Sarah Halifa-Legrand: Barely back in Pakistan after an eight-year exile, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto just escaped a double attack, at present still not claimed, that killed at least 133
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Location :Middle East Iraq
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How to Escape a Nightmare
Day after day, without any respite, the Iraqi disaster shows up on the front page of American newspapers. The young and brilliant editorialist for The New Republic magazine, Peter Beinard,