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CNN
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s new centrist Kadima party was projected to claim the largest share of parliamentary seats in elections Tuesday, according to Israeli TV exit polls.The election is widely considered a referendum on the future of Israel’s borders. Since the West Bank was conquered in 1967, Israelis have settled inside that territory.
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Healing Iraq
Please don’t ask me whether I believe Iraq is on the verge of civil war yet or not. I have never experienced a civil war before, only regular ones. All I see is that both sides are engaged in tit-for-tat lynchings and summary executions. I see governmental forces openly taking sides or stepping aside. […]

Washington Post:
Salim Ahmed Hamdan claims he is an innocent father of two young daughters and worked as a driver for Osama bin Laden only to eke out a living for his family.The Bush administration says he is a trained terrorist who should be tried for war crimes before a special military commission, the first such […]

Francis Fukuyama and Adam Garfinkle write about the Bush administration’s coupling of Democracy and Terrorism fighting and why this is a bad idea in the Wall Street Journal. Here is the central tenet of the article:
Authoritarian political cultures do function as enablers of radical Islamism, but the essential cause of the latter–today as […]

CNN
Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified at his sentencing trial Monday that he knew about the terrorist group’s plan to crash airplanes into the World Trade Center.”I had knowledge that the two towers would be hit, but I did not have the details,” Moussaoui told jurors after taking the stand in his own defense.
He said […]

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Arab News
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf yesterday warned foreign Al-Qaeda militants to quit Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan otherwise his forces would kill them. “We will never tolerate foreign terrorists and extremists” hiding in the tribal region, Musharraf told a rally in the eastern city of Lahore.“These foreign militants are indulging in acts of terrorism not […]

Christian Science Monitor
Global warming appears to be pushing vast reservoirs of ice on Greenland and Antarctica toward a significant, long-term meltdown. The world may have as little as a decade to take the steps to avoid this scenario.Those are the implications of new studies that looked to climate history for clues about how the planet’s […]