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February 2005

Monday, February 28, 2005
"A Lebanese opposition demonstrator..." (Hussein Malla, AP, 2005/02/28)
"Revolution May Be Under Way in Lebanon" (Barry Schweid, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/28)
"Lebanese Government Resigns Amid Protests" (Bassem Mroue, AP/The Guardian, 2005/02/28)
"Thousands join anti-Syria rally in Lebanon as MPs hold stormy debate" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/28)
"A Lebanese opposition supporter distributes roses..." (Ramzi Haidar, AFP, 2005/02/28)
"Man Pleads Guilty in U.K. Shoe-Bomb Plot" (Sue Leeman, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/28)
"Israeli 'hasbara' campaign against Syria" (Gil Hoffman and Margot Dudkevitch, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/02/28)
"Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 106 in Iraq" (Sameer N. Yacoub, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/28)
"The Peculiar Institution: Understanding Why Palestinian Terror Is Different" (Lee Harris, Tech Central Station, 2005/02/28)
"The Arab Street: A vanquished cliché" (Christopher Hitchens, Slate, 2005/02/28)
"Syria: W's Next Win?" (Peter Brookes, New York Post, 2005/02/28)
"A Mideast Makeover?" (Jackson Diehl, The Washington Post, 2005/02/28)
"A blinkered view from the Baghdad Hilton" (Katie Grant, The Scotsman, 2005/02/28)
"U.S. Pressure Helped Prompt Egypt's Call for Competitive Race" (Sonni Efron and Tyler Marshall, Los Angeles Times, 2005/02/28)
"Pressed, Iran Admits It Discussed Acquiring Nuclear Technology" (Elaine Sciolino and David E. Sanger, The New York Times, 2005/02/28)

Sunday, February 27, 2005
"Lebanese opposition supporters protest..." (Hussein Malla, AP, 2005/02/27)
"Thousands Defy Protest Ban in Beirut" (Lucy Fielder, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/27)
"Syria Hands Saddam's Half-Brother to Iraq" (Salah Nasrawi, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/27)
"Rating the Roadshow" (Richard Wolffe, Newsweek, from the 2005/03/07 issue)
"Saudi Arabia may look at votes for women" (Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/27)
"Iran Signs Nuclear Fuel Deal With Russia" (Ali Akbar Dareini, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/27)
"Minds are changing" (Michael Barone, USNews.com, from the 2005/03/07 issue)
"The Tipping Points" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2005/02/27)
"All but won: The media can't see that Iraq is close to secure" (Jack Kelly, Post-Gazette, 2005/02/27)
"Soft Power, Hard Truths" (Victor Davis Hanson, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/02/27)
"U.S. can sit back and watch Europe implode" (Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times, 2005/02/27)
"'European dream' fantasy - stuff of which nightmares are made" (Dominic Cummings, Scotland on Sunday, 2005/02/27)
"Is there an enemy within?" (Martin Bright and Jason Burke, The Observer, 2005/02/27)
"More Dutch Plan to Emigrate as Muslim Influx Tips Scales" (Marlise Simons, The New York Times, 2005/02/27)
"Putting the fear of God into Holland" (Brian Moynahan, The Sunday Times Magazine, 2005/02/27)
"Discrimination bill snubs gays to save Muslim vote" (David Cracknell, The Sunday Times, 2005/02/27)
"'How many more women have to die before this society wakes up?'" (Tony Paterson, The Sunday Telegraph, 2005/02/27)

Saturday, February 26, 2005
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (The Wandering Jew, 2005/02/07)
"The World Turned Upside Down" (Wretchard, Belmont Club, 2005/02/26)
"Counting on failure?" (Norman Geras, normblog, 2005/02/26)
"Mubarak Orders Egypt Election Law Changes" (Maamoun Youssef, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/26)
"After 1/30/05" (William Kristol, The Weekly Standard, from the 2005/03/07 issue)
"Iraq: moment of truth is coming" (Tony Parkinson, The Age, 2005/02/26)
"Israel blames Syria for bombing" (BBC News, 2005/02/26)
"Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 4 at Tel Aviv Club" (Alan Cowell and Greg Myre, The New York Times, 2005/02/26)

Friday, February 25, 2005
"In Hindsight, The War On Terror Began With Salman Rushdie" (Jonathan Rauch, National Journal, 2005/02/25)
"Merchants of Despair" (Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2005/02/25)
"The mullah has no clothes" (Saul Singer, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/02/25)
"U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza..." (Kevin Lamarque, Reuters, 2005/02/23)
"Condoleezza Rice's Commanding Clothes" (Robin Givhan, The Washington Post, 2005/02/25)
"Israel Draws the Line" (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2005/02/25)

Thursday, February 24, 2005
Hatin Sürücü (Polizei Berlin/Deutsche Welle, 2005/02/24)
"When Freedom Gets the Death Sentence" (Deutsche Welle, 2005/02/24)
"A cheerleader performs for soldiers of the 1st Armored Division..." (Kevin Lamarque, Reuters, 2005/02/23)
"Do Not Offend Our Future Rulers" (Tim Blair, timblair.net, 2005/02/24)
"Charming and offensive" (Hal Lindsey, WorldNetDaily, 2005/02/24)
"Taking on Tehran" (Kenneth Pollack and Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, from the March/April 2005 issue)
"Saudi 'Soldier'" (Stephen Schwartz, New York Post, 2005/02/24)
"The Middle East at a 'Tipping Point'" (ABC News/FrontPageMagazine, 2005/02/24 [2005/02/22])
"The Unheralded Revolution" (Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post, 2005/02/24)
"Syria Ready to Work with U.N. on Lebanon Pullout" (Inal Ersan, Reuters, 2005/02/24)
"Syria elite seeks Lebanon pullout" (Nicholas Blanford, The Times, 2005/02/24)

Wednesday, February 23, 2005
"A protestor with her face painted white..." (Pawel Kopczynski, Reuters, 2005/02/23)
"German protesters call Bush 'No. 1 Terrorist'" (Alexandra Hudson, Reuters, 2005/02/23)
"Iraqi TV Airs Tape of Purported Confession" (Maggie Michael, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/23)
"Anatomy of a French Media Scandal" (Ricki Hollander, CAMERA, 2005/02/23)
"Could George W. Bush Be Right?" (Claus Christian Malzahn, Der Spiegel, 2005/02/23)
"Despite the folly of it, Iraq was the right war" (Roger Cohen, International Herald Tribune, 2005/02/23)
"Freedom? Why Europe's not bothered" (Janet Daley, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/23)
"Reactions to Former Lebanese PM Al-Hariri's Assassination" (C. Jacob, MEMRI, 2005/02/24)
"Who killed Rafik Hariri?" (Patrick Seale, The Guardian, 2005/02/23)
"Beirut's Berlin Wall" (David Ignatius, The Washington Post, 2005/02/23)
"The Secret Genocide Archive" (Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, 2005/02/23)

Tuesday, February 22, 2005
"Iran Jails Editor for 14 Years for Insulting Leaders" (Reuters, 2005/02/22)
"Global blogger action day called" (BBC News, 2005/02/22)
"GO AHEAD, PISS ON ME!!" (The Weekly Standard, 2005/02/22)
"Piss Off" (Paul Belien, The Weekly Standard, 2005/02/22)
"Wilders in Prison (2)" (DutchReport, 2005/02/22)
"Prejudice for the Day" (Melanie Phillips, melaniephillips.com, 2005/02/22)
"Man Charged in Alleged Plot to Kill Bush" (Matthew Barak, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/22)
"Al-Jaafari Likely to Become Next Iraqi PM" (Maggie Michael, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/22)
"Atlanticist small talk is all that's left" (Mark Steyn, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/22)
"People Power Hits Lebanon" (Amir Taheri, New York Post, 2005/02/22)
"Lebanon's Liberation Approaches" (Daniel Pipes, New York Sun/danielpipes.org, 2005/02/22)
"Writing a Wrong" (David Andreatta, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/22)
"Rocket man gives up rebellion to put the Taliban on road to peace" (Thomas Coghlan, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/22)

Monday, February 21, 2005
"IT'S TIME FOR 1559" (Hussein Malla, AP, 2005/02/21)
"Europeans, lend him your ears" (Reginald Dale, International Herald Tribune, 2005/02/22)
"Egyptians Hold Largest Anti-Mubarak Protest Yet" (Jonathan Wright, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/21)
"Syria says it will withdraw troops from the Lebanon" (Jenny Booth, The Times, 2005/02/21)
"Thousands of Lebanese Protesters Demand 'Syria Out'" (Lucy Fielder, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/21)
"Remarks by the President at Concert Noble" (The White House, 2005/02/21)
"Why Millions Say, Softly, God Bless America" (Paul Johnson, Forbes, from the 2005/02/28 issue)
"Pakistan's gas fields blaze as rape sparks threat of civil war" (Declan Walsh, The Guardian, 2005/02/21)
"Allies must not leave yet, says Iraq leader" (Oliver Poole, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/21)
"Purported Zawahiri Tape Condemns U.S. 'Reforms'" (AP/The Washington Post, 2005/02/21)

Sunday, February 20, 2005
"Suicide-bomber film wins at Berlin festival" (Talya Halkin, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/02/20)
"Blame game redux" (Backspin, 2005/02/20)
"Israeli Cabinet Approves Gaza Settlement Removal" (Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/20)
"Talking with the Enemy" (Michael Ware, TIME, 2005/02/20)
"Ken has a lot to be sorry for" (Nick Cohen, The Observer, 2005/02/20)
"When Camels Fly" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2005/02/20)
"Be True" (Stefan Hrib, The New York Times, 2005/02/20)
"Hariri's killers 'recruited from Syrian-linked group in Iraq'" (Damien McElroy, The Sunday Telegraph, 2005/02/20)
"Europe's Jews Seek Solace on the Right" (Craig S. Smith, The New York Times, 2005/02/20)

Saturday, February 19, 2005
"Iraqi Elections As The Defining Moment: Now Hillary Clinton Says Saddam’s Cronies Have Failed" (Austin Bay, austinbay.net, 2005/02/19)
"Report: Syria planned Hariri murder" (The Jerusalem Post, 2005/02/19)
"42 Dead in Eight Iraq Suicide Bombings" (Todd Pitman, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/19)
"A Swedish Dilemma" (Christopher Caldwell, The Weekly Standard, from the 2005/02/28 issue)
"Suicide Bombers Kill at Least 35 in Baghdad Area" (James Glanz, The New York Times, 2005/02/19)

Friday, February 18, 2005
"Wilders in prison" (DutchReport, 2005/02/18)
"Threatened Dutch MP reveals living on navy base" (Reuters, 2005/02/18)
"Not Much Left" (Martin Peretz, The New Republic, 2005/02/18)
"Palestinian Suicide Bombers celebrated at the Berlin Film Festival" (Tobias Ebbrecht, Die Jüdische, 2005/02/18)
"Pressure grows on Syria to quit Lebanon with new challenge from opposition" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/18)
"The Bear Is Back: Russia’s Middle Eastern adventures" (Ilan Berman, National Review, 2005/02/18)
"Shiites and Stereotypes" (Robert Kagan, The Washington Post, 2005/02/18)
"In Europe, New Force for Recruiting Radicals" (Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post, 2005/02/18)

Thursday, February 17, 2005
"The Slaying of the Dutch Filmmaker" (DutchReport, 2005/02/17)
"Death of a Businessman" (Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/02/17)
"'Hama Rules'" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2005/02/17)
"Abbas okays 'collaborator' executions" (Khaled Abu Toameh, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/02/17)
"Allies Resisting as U.S. Pushes Terror Label for Hezbollah" (Steven R. Weisman, The New York Times, 2005/02/17)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
"HEY SYRIA - WHO'S NEXT!!" (Jamal Saidi, Reuters, 2005/02/16)
"Lebanese Vent Wrath on Syria at Hariri's Funeral" (Tom Perry and Lucy Fielder, Reuters, 2005/02/16)
"Sources: Israel satisfied by U.S. decision to recall Syria envoy" (Aluf Benn and Nathan Guttman, Haaretz, 2005/02/16)
"Iran warns US over spying as blast highlights nuclear jitters" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/16)
"Iran six months from having knowledge to build nuclear bomb: Israel" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/16)
"Syria and Iran say to build 'common front'" (Reuters/MSNBC, 2005/02/16)
"Italian Hostage Begs for Life; Shi'ites to Name PM" (Luke Baker, Reuters, 2005/02/16)
"An Iraqi boy looks at a wall of fire..." (Marwan Ibrahim, AFP, 2005/02/16)
"When Good News Feels Bad" (Kurt Andersen, New York Magazine, from the 2005/02/22 issue)
"Blame Game" (Claudia Rosett, The New Republic, 2005/02/16)
"A Murder of Little Mystery" (Amir Taheri, New York Post, 2005/02/16)
"The Sick Man of Europe - Again" (Robert L. Pollock, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/02/16)
"IAEA Head Disputes Claims on Iran Arms" (Dafna Linzer and Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post, 2005/02/16)
"UN inspectors 'spent their days drinking'" (Francis Harris, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/16)
"Oil-for-food head committed criminal acts, says US senator" (Francis Harris, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/16)
"Lebanese Warn Of Parallels to 1970s Volatility" (Scott Wilson, The Washington Post, 2005/02/16)

Tuesday, February 15, 2005
"French TV Sticks by Story That Fueled Palestinian Intifada" (Eva Cahen, CNS News, 2005/02/15)
"Livingstone's true colours" (Melanie Phillips, melaniephillips.com, 2005/02/15)
"Lebanese Vent Anger on Syria After Hariri Killing" (Alistair Lyon, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/15)
"U.S. Withdraws Ambassador From Syria" (Barry Schweid, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/15)
"Iraq Election Winners: Now, The Horse-Trading" (Ralph Peters, New York Post, 2005/02/15)
"Now Iraq has tasted democracy, the Arab tyrants are shaking in their shoes" (Amir Taheri, The Times, 2005/02/15)
"UN forces – just a bunch of thugs?" (Mark Steyn, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/15)
"Don't dare say hello to your 'infidel' neighbor" (Nathan Guttman, Haaretz, 2005/02/15)
"Legitimizing Abbas" (Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/02/15)
"Sunnis admit poll boycott blunder and ask to share power" (Rory Carroll, The Guardian, 2005/02/15)
"Syria accused of killing Lebanon's ex-leader" (Ramsay Short and Anton La Guardia, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/15)
"U.S. Seems Sure of the Hand of Syria, Hinting at Penalties" (Steven R. Weisman, The New York Times, 2005/02/15)

Monday, February 14, 2005
"Beirut residents mourn..." (AP, 2005/02/14)
"Syrian Military Intelligence Eliminates Hariri and Reform Hopes for Lebanon" (DEBKAfile, 2005/02/14)
"Huge blast kills ex-Lebanese PM" (CNN.com, 2005/02/14)
"British Dhimmitude Watch" (Charles Johnson, Little Green Footballs, 2005/02/14)
"9/11: Debunking The Myths" (Popular Mechanics, from the March 2005 issue)
"Is God Still Dead?" (Stefan Beck, Policy Review, from the February 2005 issue)
"Realnews.com" (Michelle Malkin, New York Post, 2005/02/14)
"Abbas Declares War With Israel Effectively Over" (Steven Erlanger, The New York Times, 2005/02/14)
"Power Check: Verdict Is Split in Iraqi Election" (Dexter Filkins, The New York Times, 2005/02/14)

Sunday, February 13, 2005
"BBC's deep thoughts" (Backspin, 2005/02/13)
"Kurds emerge as key players in new Iraq after years of struggle" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/13)
"Shiites Win Nearly Half of Iraqi Votes" (Robert H. Reid, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/13)
"Saudi Morality Police See Red Over Valentine Roses" (Dominic Evans, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/13)
"Israel Approves Release of Palestinian Prisoners" (Jeffrey Heller, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/13)
"On culture front, we're losing war" (Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times, 2005/02/13)
"The looming nuclear danger" (Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 2005/02/13)
"The bubbling UN cauldron under a shaky western lid" (Andrew Sullivan, The Sunday Times, 2005/02/13)
"Stranger Than Fiction" (B.R. Myers, The New York Times, 2005/02/13)
"Iraq Grows More Dangerous. But..." (Roger Cohen, The New York Times, 2005/02/13)
"Hamas link to London mosque" (Nick Fielding and Abul Taher, The Sunday Times, 2005/02/13)
"Habib seeks disability payments" (Phillip Hudson, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2005/02/13)
"U.S. Uses Drones to Probe Iran For Arms" (Dafna Linzer, The Washington Post, 2005/02/13)

Saturday, February 12, 2005
"17 Die in Iraq Bombing; Vote Results Set" (Robert H. Reid, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/12)
"Palestinian militants to maintain informal truce, but no immediate ceasefire" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/12)
"The trouble with liberals" (Ross Terrill, The Boston Globe, 2005/02/12)
"Fear of Islamists Drives Growth of Far Right in Belgium" (Craig S. Smith, The New York Times, 2005/02/12)
"CIA Operation in Iran Failed When Spies Were Exposed" (Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times, 2005/02/12)
"CNN's Jordan Resigns Over Iraq Remarks" (Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post, 2005/02/12)

Friday, February 11, 2005
"CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits" (David Bauder, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/11)
"On Message" (Joseph Braude, The New Republic, 2005/02/11)
"Symposium: The Saddam-Osama Connection" (Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine, 2005/02/11)
"Why the Palestinians Came to the Table" (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2005/02/11)
"Jewish reporter acted like camp guard, says mayor" (Tom Baldwin, The Times, 2005/02/11)
"Lawyers Take Uneasy Look at the Future" (William Glaberson, The New York Times, 2005/02/11)
"Lawyer Is Guilty of Aiding Terror" (Julia Preston, The New York Times, 2005/02/11)

Thursday, February 10, 2005
"A Saudi woman walks outside a polling station in Riyadh..." (Rabih Moghrabi, AFP, 2005/02/10)
"Say Islam is a religion of peace, or we'll kill you" (Robert Spencer, Dhimmi Watch, 2005/02/10)
"Iran Promises 'Burning Hell' for Any Aggressor" (Amir Paivar, Reuters/My Way, 2005/02/10)
"Al-Qaeda number two hits out at US in new audiotape" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/10)
"Ex-CIA Man Uncovers Jewish Conspiracy!" (James Taranto, Best of the Web Today, 2005/02/10)
"'The United States Needs to Lose'" (James Taranto, Best of the Web Today, 2005/02/10)
"Bush will not be mocked" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2005/02/12 issue)
"The Record of a Radical" (Jacob Laksin, FrontPageMagazine, 2005/02/10)
"Calling All Democrats" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2005/02/10)
"Mubarak, $2 Billion and Change" (Max Boot, Los Angeles Times, 2005/02/10)
"North Korea Says It Has Nuclear Weapons" (Sang-Hun Choe, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/10)
"Saudi women shut out of first election contest" (Samia Nakhoul, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/10)
"Saudi men vote in landmark elections" (Dominic Evans, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/10)
"Arab Bank Says It Didn't Know of Payments to Bombers' Families" (James Cordahi, Bloomberg, 2005/02/10)

Wednesday, February 9, 2005
"On the Justice of Roosting Chickens" (Ward Churchill, AKPress, 2003/09/18)
"Ward Churchill Is Just The Beginning" (David Horowitz, Rocky Mountain News/FrontPageMagazine, 2005/02/09)
"Scholar Defiant Amid Furor Over 9/11 Remarks" (Keith Coffman, AP/My Way, 2005/02/09)
"Slavery: Blame America First" (James Taranto, Best of the Web Today, 2005/02/09)
"Shia journalist murdered in Basra" (Richard Allen, The Times, 2005/02/09)
"The Middle East's dance of death" (Melanie Phillips, melaniephillips.com, 2005/02/09)
"Terror's New Frontier" (Ralph Peters, New York Post, 2005/02/09)
"Blogger's 'Crime' Against the Islamic State" (Farouz Farzami, Los Angeles Times, 2005/02/09)
"Urging New Path, Sharon and Abbas Declare Truce" (Steven Erlanger, The New York Times, 2005/02/09)

Tuesday, February 8, 2005
"U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice..." (Tony Gentile, Reuters, 2005/02/08)
"Remarks at The Institut d'Etudes Politiques - Science Politique Paris" (Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Department of State, 2005/02/08)
"Bush/Hitler and How History Repeats Itself" (Antiprotester Journal, 2005/02/09)
"A high-school art project on Bush and Hitler" (Mark Reynolds, The Providance Journal, 2005/02/08)
"What they played in Rotterdam instead of Submission" (Robert Spencer, Dhimmi Watch, 2005/02/08)
"Kurtz Does CNN's Damage Control" (Mickey Kaus, kausfiles, 2005/02/08)
"Denying Terrorism" (Daniel Pipes, New York Sun/danielpipes.org, 2005/02/08)
"C4 lines up Guantánamo-style torture show" (Dominic Timms, The Guardian, 2005/02/08)
"Sistani 'not seeking Islamic law'" (BBC News, 2005/02/08)
"Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 21 in Baghdad" (Gideon Long and Alister Bull, Reuters, 2005/02/08)
Mahmoud Abbas and Ariel Sharon shake hands (Lefteris Pitarakis, AP, 2005/02/08)
"Mideast Leaders Pledge to End Violence" (Lara Sukhtian, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/08)
"Beyond tyranny's shadow" (Fouad Ajami, USNews.com, from the 2005/02/14 issue)
"The Fighting Islamists of Notre Dame" (Thomas Ryan, FrontPageMagazine, 2005/02/08)
"The Cows Come Home" (Brendan Miniter, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/02/08)
"When Officers Aren't Gentlemen" (Mark Bowden, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/02/08)
"I hate to rain on Europe's parade, but …" (Mark Steyn, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/08)
"Terror court backs al-Qa'eda suspect" (Joshua Rozenberg, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/08)
"2 Mideast Rivals to State Intent to Halt Attacks" (Steven R. Weisman and Greg Myre, The New York Times, 2005/02/08)

Monday, February 7, 2005
"When Jews wax anti-Semitic" (Cathy Young, The Boston Globe 2005/02/07)
"U.N. Oil-For-Food Program Chief Suspended" (Edith M. Lederer, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/07)
"More than 20 dead as Iraqi police targeted" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/07)
"The Shiite Obligation" (Kanan Makiya, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/02/07)
"Photo of Palestinian Boy Kindles Debate in France" (Doreen Carvajal, The New York Times, 2005/02/07)
"Iraqis Cite Shift in Attitudes Since Vote" (Doug Struck, The Washington Post, 2005/02/07)

Sunday, February 6, 2005
"U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice..." (Murad Sezer, AP, 2005/02/06)
"Drinking with Christopher Hitchens and the Iraqis" (Michael J. Totten, michaeltotten.com, 2005/02/06)
"Religious hatred, Saudi-style" (Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe, 2005/02/06)
"Iraq Shiite leaders demand Islam be the source of law" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/06)
"The Truth About War" (Ralph Peters, New York Post, 2005/02/06)
"Would you trust these men with $64bn of your cash? Of course not" (Mark Steyn, The Sunday Telegraph, 2005/02/06)
"Still they won't admit they got Iraq wrong" (Con Coughlin, The Sunday Telegraph, 2005/02/06)
"If Bush is now gunning for anyone, it’s Syria not Iran" (Andrew Sullivan, The Sunday Times, 2005/02/06)
"I will bring al-Sadr into government, says the man tipped to be Iraq's new PM" (Toby Harnden, The Sunday Telegraph, 2005/02/06)
"Top Shiite Welcomes Overtures By Sunnis" (Anthony Shadid and Doug Struck, The Washington Post, 2005/02/06)
"What Bin Laden Sees in Hiroshima" (Steve Coll, The Washington Post, 2005/02/06)
"Iraqis defiant despite intimidation" (Miranda Devine, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2005/02/06)

Saturday, February 5, 2005
"A Realigning Election" (Robert Kagan and William Kristol, The Weekly Standard, from the 2005/02/14 issue)
"Birth of a Democracy" (Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Weekly Standard, from the 2005/02/14 issue)
"Muslim apostates cast out and at risk from faith and family" (Anthony Browne, The Times, 2005/02/05)
"Iraq's Sunnis Rethink Strategy" (Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post, 2005/02/05)

Friday, February 4, 2005
"Stylish anti-Semitism" (Avi Beker, Haaretz, 2005/02/04)
"The Global Throng" (Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2005/02/04)
"Free to Dance in Iraq" (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2005/02/04)
"Like the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iraq's elections will change world history" (Gerard Baker, The Times, 2005/02/04)
"The silence of the feminists" (Pamela Bone, The Age, 2005/02/04)
"Shiite Coalition Takes a Big Lead in Early Vote Count in Iraq" (John F. Burns and Dexter Filkins, The New York Times, 2005/02/04)

Thursday, February 3, 2005
"Scène d'amour" (Louzla Darabi, Galerie Peter Herrmann, 2003)
"Death Threats Nix Love Painting" (Mats Lilja, Expressen, 2005/02/03)
"When Muslims Convert" (Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Commentary, from the February 2005 issue)
"No tolerance, please, we’re Dutch" (Rod Liddle, The Spectator, from the 2005/02/05 issue)
"A crushing defeat for the insurgents" (Toby Harnden, The Spectator, from the 2005/02/05 issue)
"Reporting Auschwitz, then & now" (Tom Gross, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/02/03)
"U.S. President George W. Bush bows his head in prayer..." (Kevin Lamarque, Reuters, 2005/02/03)
"George Bush Talks Big, and He Delivers" (Max Boot, Los Angeles Times, 2005/02/03)
"A Day to Remember" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2005/02/03)
"My thanks to the British people" (Iyad Allawi, The Times, 2005/02/03)
"Insurgents kill 12 Iraqi army recruits" (CNN.com, 2005/02/03)
"Inquiry Faults U.N.'s Oil-for-Aid Program" (Judith Miller, The New York Times, 2005/02/03)
"In Speech, Bush Sketches a Bold Domestic and Foreign Agenda" (Richard W. Stevenson and David E. Sanger, The New York Times, 2005/02/03)

Wednesday, February 2, 2005
"Janet Norwood hugs Safia Taleb al-Suhail..." (Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP, 2005/02/02)
"State of the Union Address" (George W. Bush, The White House, 2005/02/02)
"Understanding Jihad" (Mark Gould, Policy Review, from the February 2005 issue)
"Honor Thy Father -- Or Else" (Val MacQueen, Tech Central Station, 2005/02/02)
"Fashionable anti-Americanism" (Dominic Hilton, openDemocracy, 2005/02/02)
"The Media Two-step" (HonestReporting, 2005/02/02)
"Museum removes erotic art after Muslim anger" (Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/02)
"Paper Over" (Joseph Braude, The New Republic, 2005/02/02)
"Groundhog Day" (James Taranto, Best of the Web Today, 2005/02/02)
"The Times responds" (Jeff Jarvis, Buzz Machine, 2005/02/02)
"Response from Eason Jordan" (Carol Platt Liebau, carolliebau.blogspot.com, 2005/02/02)
"Democracy is bad news for terrorists" (Janet Daley, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/02)
"Down syndrome youth used as suicide bomber" (Paul McGeough, The Age, 2005/02/02)
"U.N. Expert Calls Iraq Election Moving" (Nick Wadhams, AP/The Guardian, 2005/02/02)
"Naysayers tight-lipped since success of Iraq vote" (James G. Lakely, The Washington Times, 2005/02/02)
"Iraqis Who Died While Daring to Vote Are Mourned as Martyrs" (Edward Wong, The New York Times, 2005/02/02)

Tuesday, February 1, 2005
"'There Can Be No End to Jihad'" (Anthony McRoy, Christianity Today, 2005/02/01)
"Photo taken off an Islamist website..." (AFP, 2005/02/01)
"US 'hostage' may be doll: company" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/01)
"Zarqawi and other Islamists to the Iraqi People: Elections and Democracy are Heresy" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 856, 2005/02/01)
"Zarqawi: 'Kennedy Is the Only One That Understands Us''' (Jeremy Robb, ChronWatch, 2005/02/01)
"Egypt opposition leader detained" (BBC News, 2005/02/01)
"How Crazy Are They?" (Hindrocket, Power Line, 2005/02/01)
"Vietnam and Iraq: A Revelatory Analogy" (Tom Veal, Stromata, 2005/02/01)
"Sigh" (Jonah Goldberg, The Corner, 2005/02/01)
"Saudi Venom in U.S. Mosques" (Daniel Pipes, New York Sun/danielpipes.org, 2005/02/01)
Planet Earth (Reuters, 2005/02/01)
"Britain: U.S. Must Help Avert Climate Catastrophe" (Jeremy Lovell, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/02/01)
"What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along?" (Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times, 2005/02/01)
"The dotage of Iraq's democracy" (Spengler, Asia Times, 2005/02/02)
"A beacon is lit in Iraq. But not in your names, Robin, Douglas and the BBC" (Michael Gove, The Times, 2005/02/01)
"Iraq is now the home of the brave – and soon the free" (Mark Steyn, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/01)
"Now it's time for the war critics to move on" (David Aaronovitch, The Guardian, 2005/02/01)
"Stepping Out of the Tar Pit" (David Brooks, The New York Times, 2005/02/01)
"In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price" (Keith B. Richburg, The Washington Post , 2005/02/01)
"Alert over Islamic terrorists who tried to kill bin Laden" (Philip Johnston, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/02/01)
"U.N. Finds Crimes, Not Genocide in Darfur" (Warren Hoge, The New York Times, 2005/02/01)

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