Possible Eruption of Violent Crisis in Lebanon After July 15

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Published in Middle East, Lebanon, Middle East

On July 5, 2007, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported that Syrian authorities had instructed all Syrian citizens residing in Lebanon to return to their country by July 15, 2007. [2] The next day, the Israeli Arab daily Al-Sinara similarly reported, on the authority of a Lebanese source close to Damascus, that Syria was [...]

Syria Winds up Planning for Campaign of Terror on Golan

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Published in Israel, Syria, Israel, Syria

This could lead to war.
On June 26, Syria opened the Damascus-Golan road to Quneitra to civilian traffic for the first time since the Six-Day War of 1967. No announcement was made. The dozens of military roadblocks studding the 60 km high road connecting the capital with the Syrian part of Golan for 40 years were [...]

North Korea Has New Missile

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Published in Koreas, Missiles, Koreas, Missiles, north_korea

WASHINGTON (AP) – North Korea is about to field an advanced short-range missile that has been tested successfully and will pose a new threat to South Korea, a departing Pentagon official said Friday.
Richard Lawless, at a final news conference after serving nearly five years as the Pentagon’s top Asia policy official, said the new missile [...]

U.S. Policy and Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Containing Threats and Encouraging Regional Security

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Published in Pakistan, Pakistan

Some observers have incorrectly characterized the threat of nuclear terrorism in Pakistan as stemming from the danger of radical Islamists overrunning the country and gaining control of the countryâ€™s nuclear assets. However, given that the religious parties lack wide popular support and that President Musharraf and his senior Army commanders largely oppose the Islamist agenda, [...]

Saudi Arabia downplays Iran military threat – Times of India

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Saudi Arabia downplays Iran military threatTimes of India, India - Jul 6, 2007The Gulf Arab region contains a large US military presence that could be deployed to attack Iran, which Washington and its ally Israel accuse of using a …

When Conservatives Argue about Islam

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Published in Islam, Islam

by Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com
July 6, 2007
Allies in the Cold War trenches generally, but not always, still work together against radical Islam.
Take the key question of which Muslims are on the enemy’s side and which on ours. With exceptions, the Right shuns non-violent Islamists, while the Left welcomes them as friends. Conservatives accept as moderates only those [...]

The Westâ€™s Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?

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Published in Islam, West, Islam, West

OVER THE LAST few years, the world has watched jihadist assassinations on the streets of Amsterdam, civilian slaughter in Madrid and on the London Underground, Franceâ€™s car-and-vanities bonfire, and the global assault on Denmark after one of its newspapers dared to depict the Prophet Muhammad in a derogatory cartoon. For ordinary Europeans who pride ourselves [...]

Iran’s Proxy War

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Published in Iran, Middle East, Iran, Middle East

Tehran is on the offensive against us throughout the Middle East. Will Congress respond?
These latest revelations should be a painful wakeup call to the American people, and to the U.S. Congress. They also expand on a steady stream of public statements over the past six months by David Petraeus, the commanding general of our [...]

China plans to build its first aircraft carrier

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Published in China, Military, China, Military

HONG KONG, July 6 (RIA Novosti) – China is close to beginning construction of its first aircraft carrier to expand the operational and strategic capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), a Chinese news agency said Friday.
KANWA News cited sources in the Chinese defense industry as saying that several companies had received contracts [...]

Will China be a better superpower?

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Published in China, China

China has come to loom large in regional affairs. Some, seeing its fast-paced economic growth, regard it as the region’s biggest opportunity, while others, seeing its ambitions to become a superpower, sense trouble ahead. Historical experience, the latter argue, has shown that entry of a new major power into the vortex of international politics has [...]