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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Iran: Cartoon Controversies Continue...

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The government in Tehran is mighty sensitive about cartoons. First it fed the uproar over the Danish depictions of Mohammed, then it held it...
Monday, September 11, 2006

Torture: The Basic Problem

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As often happens, the most salient fact was left to the end of yesterday's New York Times story about the torture -- or, interrogation -...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Shadowland: Flying Blind

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There's an interesing first batch of letters responding to this week's column, "Flying Blind," about the way travelers ar...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

The JonBenet Hoax: The Important Part

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Several irate e-mails responding to the Shadowland column on the over-coverage of claims by a creep named John Mark Karr that he murdered si...

Turkey: Troop Movements

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The Turkish military as a new chief of staff, Gen. Yasar Buyukanit , sworn in yesterday. He's a man to watch as the Middle East grows mo...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

Iran: The Response?

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The wires have picked up on a despatch from Agence Global by Abbas Maleki and Kevah L. Afrasiabi . Maleki is described as the Director of th...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Update: Women and Jihad

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Last December we published a cover story on " The Women of Al Qaeda. " This is from the most recent issue of "Terrorism Focus...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Press: The JonBenet Furore

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A couple of follow-ups on last week's column, " Pulp Fact," about the JonBenet Ramsey case: It's intriguing that the rans...

Italy-Lebanon: D'Alema's Dilemma

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Photographs of Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema walking arm and arm through the ruins of Beirut on August 17 with Hizbullah parl...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

Hizbullah: The Inside Story

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There's been no shortage of commentary over the last month explaining Hizbullah, where it came from and where its leader, 46-year-old Ha...

Video Blog: Walls Within Walls

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A few days ago, as I was winding up my trip to Israel, I called up Daniel Seidemann of Ir Amim, an NGO focused on Jerusalem issues and espe...

Flashes from the Past: Notes on "The Ugly American" and "Unhappy Hours"

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Sooner or later, every foreign correspondent learns that what Americans really want from the rest of the world is to forget about it. This i...

Catching Up

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The advent of the latest wars in Gaza and Lebanon so entirely consumed my writing time over the last six weeks that I just ran out of the en...
Sunday, July 09, 2006

Update: The Debate on Order 17 Heats Up

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From the current issue of Newsweek, a brief report from Baghdad: July 17, 2006 issue - The arrest of former U.S. Army Pfc. Steven D. Green—f...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

Update: Render Unto CIA That Which Is ...

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If Italian prosecutors have anything to say about it, the issue of C.I.A. "renditions," particularly the egregious example of ...

Update: Rules of the Game in Iraq

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Last week's Shadowland column, "The Rule of Order 17," said the agreements and resolutions governing the American presence in...
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Press: Ben Bradlee On The Record

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If you've got an hour or so to listen to Jim Lehrer's interview with Ben Bradlee , well, it's an education not only in the lette...

French Protests: The Cuban Connection

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Took this picture at Place de la Madeleine today. It was blocked off entirely so the CGT could protest against privatizations of state util...

Al Qaeda: MUBTAKKAR

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Another new word, thanks to Ron Suskind and Time Magazine : "mubtakkar," which means "inventive" and is supposed to be t...
Monday, June 19, 2006

Bush: Screen Saver

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If you haven't seen it already, this animated screen saver of President Bush tumbling ever downward is, well, interesting. If he gets st...