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• Iran sets summer date for 1st nuke plant
   
• LaRouche: Syria-Israel Peace Would Defeat British Chaos Plan
  by Michele Steinberg
   
• Russia sends more nuclear fuel to Iran
   
• Israel wants to draw Syria closer
   
• US senator sees "real opportunity" for resuming Syria-Israel peace talks
  International Herald Tribune
   
• Israel Wooing Syria to Shun Friends
   
• Arming, Military Training, and the Weapons Trade in Lebanon
  By H. Varulkar
   
• Cast to the wind
  Lebanon drifted like a rudderless ship for much of the year, lacking unity in government, parliament and even a president
  Lucy Fielder reports
   
• Bhutto Assassinated in Rawalpindi
  by Jed Babbin
   
• Lebanon Between Democracy and Civil War
  by Mshari Al-Zaydi
   
• Syria says Israel's aura of invincibility is long gone
  By Agence France Presse (AFP)
   
• Syria's impatience is leading to mistakes
  By Michael Young
   
• No Arab summit in Damascus
  By Joseph A. Kechichian, Special to Gulf News
  
   
• Bolton : State Department Leftists Have Defeated Bush
  By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
   
• Russia to sell advanced air defense systems to Iran
  
   
• Iran Ups The Ante
   
• Iran, Turkey play key role in regional security: Turkish MP
   
• Armenia backs Iran-Armenia gas pipeline extension to Europe
   
• Iran, Russia in Arms Deal Talks
   
• The Year of Acting Dangerously
  Barry Rubin
   
• US report: Israel would weather nuclear war with Iran
  Yitzhak Benhorin
   
• Iran Slams US Interference in Lebanon
   
• Lebanon Crisis Threatens U.S.-Syria Thaw
  The Wall Street Journal
  Jay Solomon
   
• Iran Says in Talks on Selling Gas to Italy's Edison
   
• Syria Working With France on Lebanon
  Al Alam-Iran
   
• Syria Arrests Top Officials in Hariri Murder Case - Bashar's Relative Part of the Mystery
  
   
• Bush Offers Olive Branch to Iran-North Korea-Syria
  Malaysia Sun
   
• Top Hezbollah Official Blasts US President Bush, says Lebanon Rejects his Tutelage
  International Herald Tribune
   
• Iran's Nuclear and Syria's Iraq Adventures
  Barry Rubin
   
• Islamist Groups in Lebanon
  Gary C. Gambill
   
• Iraq Seen Plain
  By Michael A. Ledeen
   
• Energy Security, Energy Urgency:
  Key Issues Facing the Next President
  The Brookings Institution
   
• Russian fuel supplies bring Iran closer to nuclear arms - Israel
   
• After NIE, More BMD
  Ballistic missile defense is one of few remaining options for pressuring Iran.
  by Charlie Szrom
   
• Ahmadinejad: Iran will continue resistance against US hegemony
  IRNA
   
• Iranian intelligence official visits Lebanon
   
• Iran, Italy to Sign Gas Export Agreement
   
• We Need New Nukes
  by Caspar Weinberger Jr.
   
• In Iraq, Lebanon & Gazza
  Pentagon report: Iran keeps funding militias in Iraq
  By Gordon Lubold | Staff writer of The Christian
  Science Monitor
   
• US Envoy in Lebanon to Discuss Vote
  Al Alam-Iran
   
• Second, third stages of IRGC Navy exercises held in Persian Gulf
  IRNA- Bushehr
   
• Strategic ties with Russia to deepen after nuclear fuel supply
  IRNA - Teheran
   
• Playing Chicken with the Lebanese Presidency
  By Hassan Hanizadeh
   
• Recent attacks in Lebanon
  The Guardian Unlimited
   
• Syria's Remote Control
  Wall Street Journal
   
• Lebanon Gov't Rapped for Blast
  Al Alam Network-Iran
   
• Blast May Deepen Lebanon Rifts
  Al Alam - Iran
   
• Hopes Rise for Improved U.S.-Syria Relations
  by Deborah Amos
   
• Iran-President-Security
  IRNA
   
• Syria prepares its grand comeback
  By Michael Young
   
• Syrian agency: Lebanon assassination serves "Israeli interests"
  Text of report in English by Syrian News Agency SANA website
   
• Entanglement in Iraq: Light at the End of the Tunnel?
  The Institute for National Security Studies – Tel Aviv University
  by Ephraim Kam
   
• Iran stops accepting U.S. dollars for oil
   
• Steinberg: Alarm Subsiding in Israel on Intelligence Estimate on Iran
   
• EU Gives Lebanon 80 Million Euros
   
• Cement factory in Syria ready
   
• US urged to engage with Iran and Syria
  By Roula Khalaf in Manama, Bahrain
   
• Syria Sees Isolation Fading After Annapolis
   
• Bush Engages Foreign Foes As Policy Shift Accelerates
  By Jay Solomon
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Report: UNIFIL Chief in Lebanon Stopped at Hizbullah Checkpoint
  Militants try to prevent Major General Claudio Graziano from gathering information on terror group's activities in south Beirut
  Roee Nahmias
   
• Unwanted Guest: The Gulf Summit and Iran
  By Simon Henderson
   
• Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States
  Staff Report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy
   
• Global Security Assessment for the House Armed Services Committee
  Dr. Thomas Fingar
  Deputy Director for Analysis
   
• Macchiavelli NIE
  by John Batchelor
   
• "High Confidence" NIE
  by Jed Babbin
   
• The Suspect Provenance of the NIE Report
  By Ed Lasky
   
• Lebanon: A sellout to Syria?
  The Christian Science Monitor
   
• Hezbollah Holding the Cards in Lebanon
  Samuel Segev
   
• A New Player in the Middle East
  By Nicholas Blanford
  Beirut
   
• Gun-shy America is Losing the Best Chance to Stop Iran
  John Bolton, the hawkish former US ambassador to the UN, says Tehran’s nuclear threat is growing and it will have to be halted by force
  Richard Woods
  The Sunday Time
   
• Syria Sends Envoy to Tehran Over Annapolis Attendance
  IRNA
   
• Phone Call to President Assad from UN Chief
  Damascus: Syria Times
   
• You Can't Get to Peace if You Can't Get it Right
  Barry Rubin
   
• Syria’s Bio-Warfare Threat: An interview with Dr. Jill Dekker
  by Jerry Gordon
   
• Losing Ground to Syria in the Bazaar
  By Rami G. Khouri
  Daily Star staff
   
• The Price of Annapolis: Lebanese Democracy
  by Lee Smith
   
• U.S. Seems to Soften Syria Stance
  By Cam Simpson and Jay Solomon
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Iran Develops New Long-range Missile
   
• Condi's Road to Damascus
  by Bret Stephens
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Syria a Nation of Contradictions
  By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
   
• Towards Annapolis: Is U.S. Policy Changing on Israel's Rights in a Peace Settlement?
  Dore Gold
   
• New Nuclear Realities
  Harold Brown
   
• Lebanon opposition to skip president election Friday
  Haaretz
   
• Rival factions return to arms as Lebanon stares into the abyss
  Nicholas Blanford in Beirut
   
• A Powder Keg in Lebanon
  Deadlock over a new leader could set off a civil war and fuel Mideast volatility.
  By Milton Viorst
  Los Angeles Times
   
• Iran Ready for Nuclear Co-op with Syria
   
• This Time, the IDF Favors Syria
  By Amir Oren
   
• Three U.S. Agencies Reviewing Decision to Export High-Tech Support to Syria
  By George Russell
   
• Syria Orders MIG-31 From Russia
  Middle East Newsline
   
• U.S. Licensing High-Tech Exports to Syria Under U.N.
  Development Program
  FOX 5 Atlanta
   
• Syria sets condition for Mideast talks
   
• Time for EU to get tough with Iranian mullahs’ terror machine
  Struan Stevenson
  Conservative Party MEP
   
• Match Iran Policy with the Security Threat\
  by Paul E. Vallely and Fred Gedrich
   
• Lebanon’s Presidential Front-Runners
  The New York Times
   
• No Power Can Disarm Hezbollah: Nasrallah
  Teheran Times
   
• Dealing Syria out of Rogue Statehood
  By Mohamad Bazzi
   
• A "Compromise" President for Lebanon
  By Joseph A. Kechichian,
  Special to Gulf News
   
• Flip-flopping Toward Damascus
  By Uzi Benziman
  Haaretz
   
• Hezbollah is Iran's Army in Lebanon, not a Militia or Resistance
  By Elias Bejjani
   
• 'Shas Will Safeguard Israel's Interests'
  By Matthew Wagner and Gil Hoffman
   
• Preparing a Replacement Government for Israel
  by Emanuel A. Winston, Mid East Analyst & Commentator
  
   
• Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas and the Global Jihad:
  A New Conflict Paradigm for the West
  By Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Moshe Yaalon, Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira, Daniel Diker, Uzi Rubin, Dr. Martin Kramer, Lt. Col. (Res.) Jonathan D. Halevi
  
   
• The US is Navigating in a World of Illusions, Syria Needs a Regime Change, Not an Opening to Washington
   
• Bush Demands Syria Stay out of Lebanon Vote
   
• Annapolis and a Dual-Track Peace Process
  By David Makovsky
   
• Iran: Reality, Options, and Consequences
  By Suzanne Maloney
   
• Boosting the Slim Chances for Mideast Breakthrough
  By Shibley Telhami
   
• Uncle Sam's New Backyard
  Le Monde Diplomatique
  By Alain Gresh
   
• Syria, Nuclear Weapons Programs
   
• A Wake Up Call Before Annapolis - War and Peace in Islam
  By Yoram Ettinger
   
• Syria-North Korea Nuclear Nexus
  by Robert Maginnis
   
• Rice, Olmert Agree to Involve Syria Into Peace Summit Conditionally
   
• Iran Ready to Use Suicide Bombers if Attacked
   
• Lebanon's Militant Hezbollah Forging New Ties
  Shiite group recruits from other sects to help build strength
  Hugh Macleod
  San Francisco Chronicle
  Foreign Service
   
• MPs Shelter from Assassins in Beirut Hotel
  By Tom Perry
   
• "Israel's Strike on Syria Reduces Chances for Peace Deal"
  By Nick Keehan
   
• Syria's Role in the Region
  Moshe Ma'oz
   
• What is Syrian President Bashar Assad up to?
  Daniel L. Byman
   
• Putin reaffirms commitment to Bushehr NPP completion
   
• Why Syria's Air Defenses Failed to Detect Israelis
  By David A. Fulghum
   
• Olmert rules out Syria talks at Annapolis conference, Israeli official says
  International Herald Tribune
   
• Israeli strike on Syria kindles debate in U.S.
  By Mark Mazzetti and Helene Cooper
   
• Michel Aoun: From Jesus to Judas
  Charles Jalkh
   
• David Wurmser:
  US 'Must Break Iran and Syria Regimes'
  By Toby Harnden in Washington
   
• Shifting Targets
  The Administration’s plan for Iran.
  by Seymour M. Hersh
   
• Bush and Iran
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Syria a Peaceful State, Approved by Bilal Mohsen & the Chura Council of Hezbollah, for Better US Interests in the Middle East
   
• Stop coddling Assad
  Instead of Reassuring Syrian President, Israel Should Prepare for his Collapse
  Farid Ghadry
   
• Hezbollah-led Boycott Delays Election of New Lebanese President
  RIA Novosti
   
• Attacking Syria: Focusing on Iran
  by Chuck Freilich
   
• N Korean Ship 'Linked to Israel's Strike on Syria'
  By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
   
• US Needs New Strategic Doctrine
  Professor Louis Rene Beres (Purdue University)
  Lt. General (USAF/Ret.) Thomas McInerney
  Major-General (USA/Ret.) Paul E. Vallely
   
• Syria’s Complaint
  by Caspar Weinberger Jr.
   
• N. Korea, Syria May Be at Work on Nuclear Facility
  By Glenn Kessler
  Washington Post
   
• U.S. Develops 14-ton Super Bomb, Bigger than Russian Vacuum Bomb
   
• Israel Raid on Syria Triggered by Arms Fears, Officials Say
   
• The Region: Influence in the Mideast
  Barry Rubin
   
• The Missing Option in Our National Security Debate
  by Newt Gingrich
   
• Understanding the U.S. - Israel Alliance
  An Israeli Response to the Walt-Meaersheimer Claim
  by former Israel Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold
   
• U.S. Links Syrian Intel to Al Qaida
  Middle East Newsline
   
• The Region: Losing Lebanon
  By Barry Rubin
   
• Security and Defense: Lying in Wait
  By Yaakov Katz
   
• The Iranian Threat
  By Tom McInerney and Fred Gedrich
  Washington Times
   
• Reappraise US Lebanon Policy
  By Graeme Bannerman
  Middle East Institute
   
• Open Letter from Lt. Gen (Ret.) Moshe Ya'alon to PM Tony Blair
   
• The CIA, George Tenet and the Path to 9/11
  by Martha Zoller
   
• Fire the Neocons, Fight the War
  by Jed Babbin
   
• Aoun and Christian Marginalization
  Hassan Haydar
  Al-Hayat
   
• Hizbullah: Will Not Allow New Lebanon President Be Part of U.S. National Security
   
• From the Anti-Syrian, Anti-Iranian Camp
  Written by Felice Friedson with S. Jacobson
  The Media Line
   
• Disarming Hezbollah Should Be U.N.'s Top Priority
  By Benny Avni
  NY Sun
   
• Would Iran's Guards Strike U.S. Targets in Lebanon?
  Naharnet
   
• Time to Change Strategy to Win Globally
  By Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely
   
• Netherlands Plans to Host Hariri Tribunal
   
• Analysis: fresh blow for Lebanese Government
  Nicholas Blanford in Lebanon
   
• Syria Buys Advanced Anti-Aircraft Missiles: Israeli Report
   
• Nasrallah Embraces Aoun
  moqavemat.com
   
• A Dangerous Regional Crossroad
  By Nagi N. Najjar
  Executive Director, Lebanese Foundation for Peace
   
• Russian Ambitions on Mediterranean Stir Cold War Chill
  By Adrian Blomfield
  London Daily Telegraph
   
• Russia weighs relocation of Black Sea Fleet to Syria
   
• The New/Old Cold War
  by Monica Crowley
   
• Bush Sends Warning Meant for Syria: Don’t Meddle in Lebanon
  By Sheryl Stolberg
   
• Islamists Fire Rockets in North Lebanon
   
• Hamas to Show an Improved Hand
  Organization Aims to Capitalize
  On Intelligence Gains From Gaza Takeover
  By Cam Simpson Jerusalem and Neil King Jr.in Washington
   
• Tea with Iran: Risky At Best
  The Heritage Foundation
  by Peter Brookes
   
• Attacking Syria: Focusing on Iran
  by Chuck Freilich
   
• N Korean Ship 'Linked to Israel's Strike on Syria'
  By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
   
• US Needs New Strategic Doctrine
  Professor Louis Rene Beres (Purdue University)
  Lt. General (USAF/Ret.) Thomas McInerney
  Major-General (USA/Ret.) Paul E. Vallely
   
• Syria’s Complaint
  by Caspar Weinberger Jr.
   
• N. Korea, Syria May Be at Work on Nuclear Facility
  By Glenn Kessler
  Washington Post
   
• U.S. Develops 14-ton Super Bomb, Bigger than Russian Vacuum Bomb
   
• Israel Raid on Syria Triggered by Arms Fears, Officials Say
   
• The Region: Influence in the Mideast
  Barry Rubin
   
• The Missing Option in Our National Security Debate
  by Newt Gingrich
   
• Understanding the U.S. - Israel Alliance
  An Israeli Response to the Walt-Meaersheimer Claim
  by former Israel Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold
   
• U.S. Links Syrian Intel to Al Qaida
  Middle East Newsline
   
• The Region: Losing Lebanon
  By Barry Rubin
   
• Security and Defense: Lying in Wait
  By Yaakov Katz
   
• The Iranian Threat
  By Tom McInerney and Fred Gedrich
  Washington Times
   
• Reappraise US Lebanon Policy
  By Graeme Bannerman
  Middle East Institute
   
• Open Letter from Lt. Gen (Ret.) Moshe Ya'alon to PM Tony Blair
   
• The CIA, George Tenet and the Path to 9/11
  by Martha Zoller
   
• Fire the Neocons, Fight the War
  by Jed Babbin
   
• Aoun and Christian Marginalization
  Hassan Haydar
  Al-Hayat
   
• Hizbullah: Will Not Allow New Lebanon President Be Part of U.S. National Security
   
• From the Anti-Syrian, Anti-Iranian Camp
  Written by Felice Friedson with S. Jacobson
  The Media Line
   
• Disarming Hezbollah Should Be U.N.'s Top Priority
  By Benny Avni
  NY Sun
   
• Would Iran's Guards Strike U.S. Targets in Lebanon?
  Naharnet
   
• Time to Change Strategy to Win Globally
  By Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely
   
• Netherlands Plans to Host Hariri Tribunal
   
• Analysis: fresh blow for Lebanese Government
  Nicholas Blanford in Lebanon
   
• Syria Buys Advanced Anti-Aircraft Missiles: Israeli Report
   
• Nasrallah Embraces Aoun
  moqavemat.com
   
• A Dangerous Regional Crossroad
  By Nagi N. Najjar
  Executive Director, Lebanese Foundation for Peace
   
• Russian Ambitions on Mediterranean Stir Cold War Chill
  By Adrian Blomfield
  London Daily Telegraph
   
• Russia weighs relocation of Black Sea Fleet to Syria
   
• The New/Old Cold War
  by Monica Crowley
   
• Bush Sends Warning Meant for Syria: Don’t Meddle in Lebanon
  By Sheryl Stolberg
   
• Islamists Fire Rockets in North Lebanon
   
• Hamas to Show an Improved Hand
  Organization Aims to Capitalize
  On Intelligence Gains From Gaza Takeover
  By Cam Simpson Jerusalem and Neil King Jr.in Washington
   
• Tea with Iran: Risky At Best
  The Heritage Foundation
  by Peter Brookes
   
• Hot in Tehran
  Iran’s global-warming agenda.
  By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
   
• Netherlands Requests Talks Ahead of Accepting Hariri Court
  Daily Star staff
   
• Lebanese Army Commander Will Resign if Two Governments are Formed
  The military institution sounds the alarm for politicians
  Translated from Asharq Alawasat in Arabic
   
• U.N. Seeks Dutch Venue for Hariri Tribunal
  By Marlise Simons
   
• Syria Preps for Possible War By Year’s End
  By Riad Kahwajo, Damscus
   
• What does Assad Want?
  Syrian leader makes peace declarations while preparing for war
  Roee Nahmias
   
• Getting Hezbollah to Behave
  By Nicholas Noe
  New York Times
   
• Fatah Al Islam Admits Syrian Link
  Middle East Newsline
   
• US: Arms Smuggling to Lebanon Proven
   
• General Sees Own Candidacy as Only Hope for Lebanon
  Haro Chakmakjian
   
• U.N. Official Says Probe Has ID'd People with Possible Ties to Hariri Assassination in Lebanon
   
• Teheran’s War by Proxy
  by Chuck Freilich
   
• Analysis: Rumors of Syria-Israel War
  By Claude Salhani
   
• Syria Asked its Nationals to Leave Lebanon in Anticipation of an Explosion in Lebanon
  Al Quds in Arabic**
   
• Syria Threatens Israel on Golan Heights
  Vows 'Resistance' Unless It Withdraws
  By Aaron Klein
   
• Lemons from Lemonade:
  Washington and Lebanon after the Syrian Withdrawal
  by Gary C. Gambill
   
• Russian Weapons in the M.E. & America's Backyard
   
• The Strange Story of MiG-31s for Syria
  By Pavel Felgenhauer
   
• Iran Establishes Missile Defense Shield in Syria
  By Con Coughlin
  The Daily Telegraph
   
• Winds of War
  By Joshua Muravchik
  The Wall Street Journal
   
• Smiles in Damascus and Tehran
  Lionel Beehner
   
• Syria Updates Combat Fleet
   
• The Siege of Lebanon: After Gaza, the Next Domino?
  By Peter Brookes
  New York Post
   
• Iran’s Long Game Sets Stage for War
  Uzi Mahnaimi
  The Sunday London Times
   
• Syria's Export of Terrorism to Lebanon: Threat and Response
  By David Schenker
   
• A Summer of War or Peace?
  By Patrick Seale, Special to Gulf News
   
• Analysis: A Decision Needed On Syria
  by Anshel Pfeffer, Jerusalem Post
   
• On the Escalator to War With Iran
  by Patrick J. Buchanan
   
• A War in Gaza Threatening to Redraw the Map of the Middle East
  By Donald McIntyre in Jerusalem
   
• Standing Up to Killers: Syria Must Answer for Its Murders in Lebanon
  By Hussain Abdul-Hussain
  Washington Post
   
• Dramatic escalation in the violent confrontations between Hamas and Fatah
  Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
  at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
   
• Why Olmert's Golan Surrender Is a Strategic Error for Israel
  By Professor Louis Rene Beres and Major General Paul Vallely
   
• Barry Rubin on Syria
  Ryan Mauro
   
• "Military Plan Against Iran is Ready"
  By Yaakov Katz
   
• Islamists Threaten to Expand Lebanon Camp War
  By Nazih Siddiq
   
• As Crises Build, Lebanese Fearful of a Failed State
  By Anthony Shadid
  Washington Post Foreign Service
   
• Turkish Authorities Seized Weapons on a Syria-bound Train from Iran
  The New Anatolian
   
• Tehran's Secret 'Department 9000'
  By Mark Hosenball
  Newsweek
   
• Jihadists Moving into Lebanon from Syria
  By Christopher Allbritton
  The Washington Times
   
• Iran's President Threatens Israel in Angry Speech
  Cambodian Times
   
• Syria Said to Run Insurgents in Lebanon
  Middle East Newsline
   
• Dozens Slain as Lebanese Army Fights Islamists
  By Hassan M. Fattah and Nada Bakri
   
• Crying Wolfowitz
  . . . while the United Nations bankrolls dictators.
  by Claudia Rosett
   
• Shimon Peres Addresses The Washington Institute's Soref Symposium
  by David Makovsky
   
• We Must Attack Iran Before it Gets the Bomb
  By Toby Harnden in Washington
   
• Serbia: Police Arrest Four in 'Wahbabi Terror Training Camp' Raid
   
• Can Bush Recover?
  Like it or not, the Republican party is tied to his fate.
  by Fred Barnes
   
• Hezbollah as a Case Study of the Battle for Hearts and Minds in the Confrontation Between Israel and the Terrorist Organizations
  Dr. Reuven Erlich and Dr. Yoram Kahati
   
• Saudis Worry Over U.S. Pro-Shi'ite Policy
  Middle East Newsline
   
• Cheney in the Middle East: Defining Key Issues and Mutual Interests
  By Simon Henderson
   
• Damascus Moves to Center Stage
  By Sami Moubayed
   
• Talk to Syria
  By Dennis Ross
  New Republic Online
   
• Strategic Lessons of the Winograd Commission Report
  By Maj. Gen. Yaakov Amidror, Former commander of the IDF's National Defense College
   
• The Next Mideast War?
  By David Makovsky
  Washington Post
   
• Rice Offers Incentive to Damascus
  By Nicholas Kralev
  The Washington Times
   
• Syrian Endgame
  America should press Damascus to let go of Lebanon.
  By Michael Young
   
• Olmert's Failure
  Olmert's failures in 2006 may mean another war in 2007
  by Chuck Freilich
   
• The Winograd Report and Olmert's Fate
  Stratfor Intelligence Brief
   
• Catalytic Converters
  By Andrew Tabler
   
• George Tenet Sings Toby Keith
  by Jed Babbin
   
• Iran's Funding is Paying
  The new Christian Puppets of Nasrallah:
  Lebanon Considers Suing Israel for War Crimes
  By MP Ghassan Moukheiber and Amy Goodman
   
• Obstructionist Democrats
  by Rep. Duncan Hunter
   
• "I Found Saddam’s WMD Bunkers"
  Melanie Phillips
  
  Balance of Power
  By Dennis Ross
   
• Judge: Israel Discriminated Against Withdrawal Opponents
  by Elli Rodan
   
• Excerpts From a Press Conference by Mohammad Raad, Head of the Hezbollah Bloc in the Lebanese Parliament
  Al Manar TV
   
• U.N. Council Authorizes Lebanese Mission
  By The Associated Press
   
• Syria: Without Peace, Resistance Will Liberate Golan Heights
  Roee Nahmias
   
• Europe Claims Israel Preparing for War
  Officials telling Damascus to expect conflict this summer
  By Aaron Klein
   
• Tehran Arms Lebanese Hizballah Militia with Air Defense Missile Wing as Part of War Build-up
  DEBKAfile Exclusive
   
• Dangerous Liaisons
  Dismissing al-Qaeda – Hizballah Cooperation Fosters Dangerous Misconceptions
  By Steve Schippert
   
• Fighting to Win
  Now is hardly the time to end our support and abandon our Iraqi allies
  by Frederick W. Kagan
   
• The Truth About Syria
  By Liz Cheney
  Washington Post
   
• Leave Pelosi on a Damascus Road
  by Caspar Weinberger Jr.
   
• Iran Needs a Reason to Fear
  by Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely and Fred Gedrich
   
• The Fifteen: Part 4
  by John Batchelor
   
• AKOURI TO PELOSI: Bring Home Lebanese Detainees Out of Syria
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
  Letter to House Leader highlights plight of captives
   
• The Road to Damascus
  by Michael Barone
   
• The Pelosicrats' Coup d'Etat
  by Jed Babbin
   
• General Petraeus' Letter to the Iraqi People
  David H. Petraeus
  General, United States Army
  Commander, Multi-National Force-Iraq
   
• Gen. Pelosi's Gift to Our Enemies
  by David Limbaugh
   
• ‘Security Agents Helping Hizb to Smuggle Arms’
   
• The Evolution of Iran's Revolutionary Guard
  by Renee Montagne
   
• Column One: Iran Doesn't Mix Signals
  By Caroline Glick
   
• Pelosi Is Our Neville Chamberlain
  Ronald Kessler
   
• Did Nancy Pelosi Commit a Felony When She Went to Syria?
  by Robert F. Tuner
   
• The Iraq Report 1
  From "New Way Forward" to New Commander
  by Kimberly Kagan
   
• The Iraq Report II
  The Baghdad Security Plan begins
  by Kimberly Kagan
   
• The Iraq Report III
  The Anbar Awakening: Displacing al Qaeda from Its Stronghold in Western Iraq
   by Kimberly Kagan
   
• Pelosi Abroad
  The New Speaker Stumbles in Syria
  by Fred Barnes
   
• Keep Us Out of Hariri's Tribunal
   
• The Fifteen: Part 3
  by John Batchelor
   
• Using the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards as the Main Tool to Export the Revolution Beyond the Borders of Iran
  Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence' Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
   
• The Washington Virus
  by Jed Babbin
   
• Ominous Similarities to 1979 Hostage Crisis in Tehran
  By Simon Henderson
  London Evening Standard
   
• Peace Needs Leadership from Both Syria and Israel
   
• Saudis Carefully Edging Away from United States
  by Douglas Farah
   
• The Brigands of Tehran
  by John Batchelor
   
• Wake up Washington
   
• Russian Intelligence sees U.S. Military Buildup on Iran Border
   
• The Reality of Evil and the Men and Women of Munich
  by Newt Gingrich
   
• Moscow's Troubling, Confusing Course
  Washington Times editorial
   
• Face-off with Iran Takes Tougher Turn
  Tehran spurned UN Security Council sanctions Sunday as it still held 15 British captives.
  By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
   
• Bolton: Iranian Regime Must be Toppled
   
• Accidents Are Happening … Iran to Hit Back at US ‘Kidnaps’
  by Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv
   
• Iran: New Voices but Same Message
  by Casper Weinberger Jr.
   
• Tense Backdrop to Navy Incident
  By Bridget Kendall
  BBC Diplomatic Correspondent
   
• Iranian Navy begins Maneuvers in Persian Gulf
  RIA Novosti
   
• US Power Games in the Middle East
  Robert Fisk
   
• UNIFIL Remains Too Small, Ill-Equipped, for Lebanon  Mission , Experts Say
  By Brooks Tigner, Brussels
   
• March 14 in Lebanon
  by Jed Babbin
   
• Confronting Iran: An Exclusive Interview With Former CIA Director Jim Woolsey
  by Jamie Glazov
   
• Iran Defense Minister Meets Syria Pres.
   
• Iran's Defense Minister Underscores Military Cooperation with Syria
  Syria-Iran-Defense
   
• Israel Ineffectually Swats Solana's Syria Stopover
  By Stan Goodenough
   
• Can Syria Come in from the Cold?
  By Seth Wikas
   
• Syria Deploys Thousands of Rockets on Israel Border
   
• Former Iranian Defense Official Talks to Western Intelligence
  By Dafna Linzer
  Washington Post Staff Writer
   
• Syria Denies Arms Crossing Border into Lebanon
   
• Hezbollah Regroups in a New Mountain Stronghold
  Nicholas Blanford in Rihan
   
• Cheney Hints at Iran Strike
  Greg Sheridan
   
• Geopolitical Diary: Syria's Russian Connection
  Strattfor
   
• Suspicion of UN Troops Grows in South Lebanon
  Clancy Chassay in Maroun al-Ras
  The Guardian
   
• Explosive Situation in Lebanon Will Continue
  By Olivier Guitta
   
• Claim: Syria-Russia Missle Deal Close
   
• Iran's Revolutionary Guards ARE the Regime
  By Clare M. Lopez
   
• Hizbullah Orders Bombings in Israel
  Middle East Newsline
   
• A History of Violence
  Syria Reminds Lebanon of their "Special Relationship"
  by Lee Smith
   
• Remarks By Saad Hariri, Lebanese Parliamentary Majority Leader,
  in an Address Marking the Second Anniversary of his Father's Assassination
  Al Alam TV
   
• Interview With Amin Gemayel, Former President of Lebanon
  Arabiya TV
   
• Syria's Harsh Message to Lebanon
   
• Iran Successfully Tests Russian TOR-M1 Missiles
  RIA Novosti
   
• Hizbullah Recieves SA-18 Missiles from Syria
  Middle East Newsline
   
• Hezbollah Raises its Flag Across Border
   
• Syria Behind 'Coup d'etat' in Lebanon: Gemayel
   
• Russian FM Speaks on Results of his Visit to Washington
   
• US, Russia Disagree Over Syria's Role in Mideast Peace
   
• Iranian Nuclear Scientist ‘Assassinated by Mossad’
  Sarah Baxter, Washington
   
• US Military Chiefs Eye Confrontation with Iran
  By Philip Sherwell in Washington
  Sunday Telegraph
   
• They Would Not Listen
  By Moshe Arens
   
• General Aoun Discloses Aggressive Attacks by Lebanese Force's Militia
  Iranian News
   
• Interview with Hussein Rahal, Hezbollah Spokesman in Beirut
  Al Jazeera TV
   
• Interview with Michael Aoun, Former Lebanese Prime Minister
  Al Arabiya TV
   
• Hizbullah Uses Allies to Store Rockets
  Middle East Newsline
   
• More Needed Against Syria, Iran
  By Michael Ledeen
   
• Netanyahu: Iran Can be Stopped
  By Ynetnews
   
• Iran Practices Firing its Missiles in Three Day Maneuvers
  By Associated Press
   
• Analysis: Lebanon II - The Fallout
  By Yaakov Amidor
   
• 2007 - A Time Of War Or A Time Of Peace?
  Will Israel Be Embroiled In Yet Another Time of War or Celebrating a Diplomatic Breakthrough Toward Peace?
  By Guest Contributor, C. Hart
   
• US Military Strike on Iran Seen by April ’07; Sea-Launched Attack to Hit Oil, N-Sites
  Arab Times Online
   
• Hezbollah: Opposition Movements Will Culminate Before January 25
  Beirut-agencies
   
• War With Syria and Iran = Peace With Iraq?
  William M. Arkin
  Washington Post
   
• Lebanese Opposition Decides to Escalate the Moves Tomorrow to  Bring Down the Government
   
• Review of the year: The Middle East
  Pray for little countries that believe in empty promises of a superpower
  By Robert Fisk
   
• The Consequences of Failure in Iraq
  They would be awful. But failure can still be averted.
  by Reuel Marc Gerecht
   
• Eyes on Iraq as Iran Nears the Edge
   
• Next Monday : Starting the Second  Phase of the Opposition Uprising
  Ibrahim Secretary
  www.al-akhbar.com/
   
• Excerpts from a Press conference with Ghazi Aridi, Lebanese Information Minister
  Al Alam TV
  (Note - The following was translated from Arabic)
   
• Visiting Hezbollah Delegation  Discusses Lebanon with Saudi King
  Text of report by Lebanese Hezbollah TV Al-Manar on 4 January
   
• Two New Steps Taken by President Bush Support the  Revised Iraq Strategy Under Development in the White House
  DEBKAfile
   
• US Treasury Steps up Pressure on Syria
  By Jeannine Aversa
   
• Russia Nearly Completes SAM Deliveries to Iran, Syria
  Middle East Newsline
   
• Syria: First Things First
  By Moshe Arens
   
• Secretary of State Specter: Syria 's useful idiot
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
   
• Israel's Dilemma Over Syria
  By Amotz Asa-El
   
• To Win in Iraq
  By Fred Gedrich and  Gen.Paul E. Vallely
   
• U.S. on Lebanon Bombing: Assailants Want to Impede Freedom
  By Reuters
   
• Lebanon Struggles to Find Bombers
  By Sam F. Ghattas
  The Associated Press
   
• Backing Mullahs of Iran on Nuke, Russia Eyes Own Interests
   
• Syria Seeking Deal In U.N. Hariri Probe
  Investigation Into Killing Deepens
  By Robin Wright
  Washington Post Staff Writer
   
• Cell-Phone Sellers Arrested in Lebanon
  By Hussein Dakroub
  The Associated Press
   
• Iraq Accuses Syria of Not Cooperating Against Terrorism
   
• Lebanese President Should Resign, Prime Minister Says
  By Robin Wright
  Washington Post Staff Writer
   
• Accountability for Syria
  Boston Globe
   
• Did Assad Threaten Hariri?
  Syrian President taped threatening former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri
  Ynet
   
• U.S. says Syria facilitates terror in Iraq, Israel and Lebanon
   
• Saad Hariri to Asharq Al-Awsat "We need to try the murders to ensure the stability of Lebanon.”
  By Ghida Fakhri
   
• Judicial Intolerance Versus The Guardians of the Cedars
  by Nagi N. Najjar
  Executive Director
  Lebanese Foundation for Peace
   
• French Official to Asharq Al-Awsat: France"does not seek to topple the Syrian regime"
   
• Syria's Conundrum
  By Claude Salhani
  Washington Times
   
• Assad Frets as Hariri Focus Shifts to Syria
  By Roula Khalaf in London and Ferry Biedermann in Damascus
   
• Bush Threatens Syrian Isolation For Lack of Action
  By Bill Sammon
  The Washington Times
   
• U.S. Envoy: Syria a Terrorist Hub for Iraq
  By Anne Gearan, AP Diplomatic Writer
   
• Syria Making Mehlis Task More Difficult?
  United Press International
   
• Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan
  Strategy Includes Preemptive Use Against Banned Weapons
  By Walter Pincus
  Washington Post Staff Writer
   
• Syria is Still Meddling in Lebanon Affairs: US
   
• Report Warns of Terrorists' 'Great Ramadan Offensive'
  By Sherrie Gossett
  CNSNews.com Staff Writer
   
• Politics & Policies: Rifaat Eyes Return
  By Claude Salhani
  UPI International Editor
   
• Open Letter to Judge Detlev Mehlis
  Open Letter to the UN Security Council
  by Nagi N. Najjar
  Executive Director
  Lebanese Foundation for Peace
   
• U.S. to Put New Pressure on Syria
  Initiative Also Has Goal of Helping Lebanon Rebuild Politically
  By Robin Wright
  Washington Post Staff Writer
   
• Assassination Fears Grip Anti-Syrian Camp in Beirut
   
• Syrian Had Inside Knowledge of 9/11 and London Bombings
  By Holger Stark
   
• 'We Have Got To Bring the Hammer Down on Iran'
  by General Paul Vallely, Executive Intelligence Review:
   
• The Two Faces of a Coin Representing The Syrian Terror Mechanism in the Middle East
  by Nagi N. Najjar
  Executive Director
  Lebanese Foundation for Peace
   
• Iran the Model
  Iran Moves, We Don’t
  Michael Ledeen
  NRO Contributing Editor
   
• Iran, Lebanon Review Cooperations
   
• US Congressmen Being Visit To Lebanon
   
• Beirut Street to be Named After King Fahd
  Saudi Press Agency
   
• Why is Bibi Still in the Government?
  Caroline Glick
  The Jerusalem Post
   
• UN Rights Body Calls for Inquiry on Lebanese Disappeared in Syria
   
• Rewarding Terror
  Rachel Ehrenfeld and Paul E. Vallely
  FrontPageMagazine.com
   
• Financing of the Iraqi Insurgency
  Joint Hearing of The Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities of the House Armed Services Committee and the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committe
   
• The Jihadists Cannot be Reasoned With, Only Defeated
  Victor Davis Hanson
  NRO
   
• Joint Hearing of the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities of the House Armed Services Committee and the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee.
   
• State Department: Iran Training Hezbollah Gunmen in Lebanon
  The Associated Press
   
• Interview with Antoinette Geagea, Lebanese Forces Party's Media Adviser, discussing the release of party leader Samir Geagea
  Translated from Al Arabiya TV
   
• Al-Zarqawi Group Said Threatening to Kill Lebanon's Top Shi'is
  Text of report in English by Kuwaiti news agency Kuna website
   
• Lebanese Democracy and Its Enemies
  Washington Times
   
• Former Warlord to Leave Lebanon After Prison Release
   
• Aoun Calls for Normal Ties with Damascus
   
• Lebanon Amnesties Jailed Ex-Militia Leader Geagea
   
• AP: Iraqi Minister Criticizes Syria
  By Louis Meixler
  The Associated Press
   
• U.S. Could Strike Northern Syria
  Middle East Newsline
   
• U.S. Says Syria Is Trying To Strangle Lebanon
  Government, Economy Said to Be Targeted
  By Robin Wright
  Washington Post Staff Writer
   
• ‘From Madrid to London: Al-Qaeda Exports the War in Iraq to Europe’
  By Reuven Paz
  Director and Editor of the Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PPISM)
   
• London Bombs
  The Suicide Bomb Squad from Leeds
  London Times
  By Michael Evans, Daniel McGrory and Stewart Tendler
   
• Safer at the Safari
  Reassessing Things Post-7/7
  By Michael A. Ledeen
  NRO
   
• Time for Europe to Unite in Global War on Terror
  U.S. Newswire
   
• Syria Seen Stepping Up Aid to Iraq-Bound Insurgents
  By Rowan Scarborough
  The Washington Times
   
• Book: Iranian Warned CIA Before 9/11
  By Eli Lake
  Staff Reporter of the Sun
   
• Iran's New Leader: a Familiar Face?
  John Simpson
  BBC World Affairs Editor
   
• France Joins U.S. on Syria Demands
  By Nicholas Kralev
  The Washington Times
   
• Rice Urges Syria on Securing Iraq Border
  By Anne Gearan
  The Associated Press
   
• Strike Hezbollah to Provoke Syria – Washington's Plan
  By Al Jazeera
   
• U.S. Sees Consensus That Syria Foments Strife in Lebanon and Iraq
  By Steven R. Weisman
  NY Times
   
• Rodney King Approach to Terrorists
  By Wayne Stamm,
  Fullerton, California
   
• U.S.: Syria Operatives Still in Lebanon
  By Anne Gearan
  The Associated Press
   
• Cocaine Ring Suspected of Financing Hezbolla busted in Ecuador
  By Edison Lopez
  The Associated Press
   
• Loose Canons
  Not Missing: Moved
  By Jed Babbin
  The American Spectator
   
• Winning With Words in the Global War on Terrorism
  Thomas G. McInerney, Lt. Gen. USAF (Ret)
  Paul E. Vallely, Maj. Gen. USA (Ret)
   
• INTERVIEW WITH MR ZIAD ABDELNOUR
  PRESIDENT OF THE US BASED
  UNITED STATES COMMITTE FOR A FREE LEBANON
  By Massoud A. Derhally
  Arabian Business
   
• Syrian Influence Is Seen in Lebanese Parliamentary Vote
  [The Traitor Aoun]
  By John Kifner
  NY Times
   
• U.S. Has 'Credible' Word of Syrian Plot to Kill Lebanese
  By Steven R. Weisman
  NY Times
   
• It's Time for a pro-Syrian Aoun to return to Paris
  The Associated Press
   
• Rifaat’s Plans to Return Adds Pressure on Bashar
  By Robert Fisk
  The Independent, Arab News
   
• Aoun Brands Rivals as ‘Prostitutes’
  Khaleej Times
   
• Rifaat al-Assad is Ready to Cooperate with Washington<