News & comment: MIDDLE EAST



Deck chairs on the Titanic? Waiting for history to judge Bush's Iraq nightmare
March 7 2007: Colleen Redman asks whether we can afford to wait for history to judge the Bush Presidency.

Judith Miller's 'middleman' mission in Iraq
October 20 2005: Jason Leopold
looks at New York Times reporter Judith Miller's 'middleman' relationship with military and political groups in Iraq.

Iraq election truths
February 10 2005: How much real democracy has been achieved in Iraq and at what price? Colleen Redman looks at past comparisons, future probabilities and US interests.

Bush sleeps on Afghan opium boom
November 27 2004: A UN study has revealed a record opium production boom in Afghanistan to 87 per cent of the world crop for 2004. So why is the White House not responding? John Hickman provides some of the answers.

Pre-election message to Americans - 30 Oct 2004
November 1 2004: Text of Al-Jazeera televised message from Osama Bin Laden.

Election of Afghan president sets undemocratic precedent
October 18 2004:  Despite high voter turnout and mainstream press reports, says John Hickman, the election conspicuously failed to represent the will of the Afghan people .

Bewailing walls of doom: Israel and beyond
July 23 2004: Héctor Abad Faciolince describes his visit to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and reflects on some of the far-reaching implications of Israel's ongoing Cisjordanian wall for the 21st century.

Imperial tea party in Iraq
May 12 2004: With recent "revelations" of Iraqi mistreatment, the Bush horror show in Iraq has assumed a surreal dimension, say Daniel Patrick Welch and Julia Nambalirwa-Lugudde.

Message to Iraqis - 19 Oct 2003
November 30 2003: Text of Al-Jazeera televised message from Osama Bin Laden.

Message to Americans - 18 Oct 2003
November 30 2003: Text of Al-Jazeera televised message from Osama Bin Laden.

Who was behind 9/11? - an interview with Osama Bin Laden
November 26 2003: The Daily Ummat of Karachi interviews Osama Bin Laden.

Muslims against global crusaders - an interview with Osama Bin Laden
November 26 2003: Tayseer Alouni interviews Osama Bin Laden.

When terrorist response is justified - an interview with Osama Bin Laden
November 26 2003: John Miller and some Bin Laden followers put questions to Osama Bin Laden.

Focus on Saudi Arabia - an interview with Osama Bin Laden
November 26 2003: Peter Arnett conducts the 1997 CNN television interview with Osama Bin Laden.

Transplanting the heart of democracy in Iraq
November 21 2003: Héctor Abad Faciolince explains why Bush's declared attempt to introduce democracy in Iraq by force seems set to fail.

Don't mess with Texas
April 13 2003: Daniel Patrick Welch asks what lessons we should learn from Iraq 2003.

Road to hell
April 7 2003: An Argentinian asks whether current US genocide could reach the level of the Jewish holocaust and whether Americans are aware that a tiny percentage of the world's population has "democratically" elected a puppet-madman. Daniel Patrick Welch provides some honest answers.

Iraq 2003 - a trial run: an interview with Noam Chomsky
April 4 2003: V.K. Ramachandran interviews Noam Chomsky.

Fair Warning
March 15 2003: Daniel Patrick Welch argues that unilateral unprovoked American aggression against Iraq would signal the beginning of the end of the US as a world power
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American Taliban
January 17 2003: Obsession with Iraq by George W. Bush and his henchmen has set the US firmly on course to becoming the world's pariahs, says Daniel Patrick Welch.

Towards a definition of terrorism
July 25 2002: Ayatollah Muhammad Ali Taskhiri argues that acts of terrorism are linked with inhuman and corrupt objectives in a wider sense than has generally been admitted in the West and that they include the violation of rights which are acknowledged by religion and mankind.

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