1 day ago by frankherles

Why do Arabs so often lose wars against non-Arabs? Why has so much of the terrorism activity for the last few decades been carried out by Arabs? Why are Arab societies so corrupt, so uneducated and lacking in economic or scientific progress? Even raising these issues is considered un-diplomatic, pro ...

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4 days ago by Extacy

An “epic snowstorm” smacked the nation’s capital and mid-Atlantic states Friday, and a father and son were killed on a slick highway in southwestern Virginia when they stopped to help another motorist. Virginia State Police said the weather-related accident happened early in the day on Interstate 81 ...

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22 days ago by steve2

Marc Lynch has a good piece up on the upcoming Iraqi elections. The Maliki government has disqualified about 500 Iraqi politicians from running in the upcoming elections because of, supposed, Baathist ties. Of course this just happens to include a lot of Sunnis. Some people on the list are, convenie ...

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27 days ago by War News Online

I think the war in Iraq is progressing nicely toward the new Shiite government replacing Saddam’s brutal regime with a similar regime dominating the Sunni minority and tolerating the Kurds at least in the near term. It seems like the Shiite government is positioned to take control of most of the cou ...

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30 days ago by paderbornersj

By Timothy R. Furnish Mr. Furnish, Ph,D., is the author of Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama bin Laden and The Caliphate: Threat or Opportunity? (forthcoming, 2010). He also maintains a website dedicated to covering Mahdism and Muslim eschatology: mahdiwatch.org. This article was ...

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37 days ago by Shannon Rodgers

This is an old rant, posted here in support of what I think Mr. Shaw articulated in his post on Empire Building. – Shannon Today it will finally happen. I am about to make you think that I have gone off the deep end. Half of you are going to think I’m a loon for what I’m about to say, the other half ...

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42 days ago by Jodi Liss

Last week, in a December 22th Wall Street Journal op-ed, Ibrahim Bahr Al-Uluom, a former Iraqi oil minister and current member of the Iraqi National Alliance (a political party), lamented the recent Iraqi oil lease auctions and suggested transferring as much of Iraq’s oil wealth directly to its citi ...

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50 days ago by Greg Matthews-007

Remember Iraq? For months our attention has been focused on Afghanistan, and you can be sure that the surge will be covered exhaustively as it unfolds in 2010. But the coming year could be even more pivotal in Iraq.

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76 days ago by Kal

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 ...

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88 days ago by Kal

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 Ab ...

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