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• Female Iraqi cops: more good news from a troubled land

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  In Iraq, there is a piece of news that’s more exhilarating than Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds ‘trying to resolve tough procedural issues over oil rights and shares of seats in parliament’ and preparations for a landmark democratic election proceeding full speed ahead towards its January schedule. The other good ...
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• Mysterious Saddam Hussein channel hits Iraq TV

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Nov.30 (ANI): Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is the star of a mysterious channel on satellite TV in Iraq that began broadcasting on the Islamic calendar’s anniversary of his 2006 execution. According to The Telegraph, the channel, which is broadcast across the Arab world, dredges up the sectarian ...
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• America Swallows Prime Minister Singh’s ‘Lies’ on Kashmir: The Frontier Post, Pakistan

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 715
  The battle for Kashmir: While it remains one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood conflicts on the planet, it is also one of the most dangerous and unpredictable – and a major threat to the battle against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. This editorial from Pakistan’s Frontier Post , a newspaper published near ...
  6 days ago

• Addendum I on Mauritanian and Algerian Islamists

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 412
  My previous post regarding the role of Algerian Islamist parties in the post-Civil War period focused primarily on the functional and strategic role of such parties. This is also true of the previous posting on the Mauritanian Tawassoul. The conclusion of both of those posts was that the net affect of these parties, ...
  6 days ago

• Mauritanian Islamists: Political Islam beyond the War of Ideas

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 412
  Tawassoul, Mauritania’s principle Islamist political party, announced this week that it would join forces with now ruling Union for the Republic, the party of president General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Tawassoul’s leader, Jamil Mansour, spent the better part of the last year in opposition to Ould Abdel Aziz, who ...
  2 weeks ago

• Arab World ‘Impotent’ but to Witness Iran’s Ascent to Dominance: Le Quotidien d’Oran of Algeria

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 715
  JUST WESTERN BLUSTER BEFORE THE INEVITABLE DEAL? Could it be that at the end of this tortuous process of negotiating with Iran, the United States and the West will arrive at some sort of entente with Tehran that leaves America’s current Arab allies out in the cold? That is precisely the prediction of Le ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is it Fair for George W. Bush to Remain ‘Outside Prison Bars’?: OEA Libya, Libya

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 715
  Coming from a state-controlled mouthpiece of Muammar Gaddafi’s despotic regime, some may scoff at this article calling for President Bush to be brought before the International Criminal Court and charged with war crimes. The unfortunate truth, however, is that the sentiments expressed by OEA Libya’s Ali Mar’i ...
  4 weeks ago

• Iran hangs convicted Sunni rebel: Report

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Tehran, Nov 4 (DPA) Iran hanged a member of a Sunni rebel group blamed for deadly attacks in the predominantly Shia Muslim state, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Tuesday.“Abdol-Hamid Rigi was hanged inside the main prison of Zahedan on Monday,” the agency quoted top police official Gholam-Ali Nekouie ...
  4 weeks ago

• Iran arrests eight Pak officials for crossing territorial waters

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Quetta (Pakistan), Nov. 2 (ANI): Iranian marine guards have apprehended eight Pakistani officials, who allegedly crossed into Iran’s territorial waters.The arrest of eight officials of Pakistan’s Fisheries Department, including a marine inspector, comes in the wake of 10 Iranian Revolutionary Guards personnel ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cause for Alarm in Iraq, or Just a Ripple?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 742
  Najim Abed al-Jabouri, former mayor of Tal Afar, has a piece in the Times that seems like cause for alarm: Both the military and the police remain heavily politicized. The police and border officials, for example, are largely answerable to the Interior Ministry, which has been seen (often correctly) as a pawn of ...
  4 weeks ago

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