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POLITICS: Bogus Claim, al-Maliki Stall U.S. Plan on Iran Arms
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - Early this month, the George W. Bush administration's plan to create a new crescendo of accusations against Iran for allegedly smuggling arms to Shiite militias in Iraq encountered not just one but two setbacks.
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US/IRAQ: Tangled Web of Allegiances Leads Back to Tehran
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the relationship between Iran, the United States and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq is the strangest ménage à trois in international relations today.
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POLITICS: Lebanon Crisis Shows Hues of Iraq
By Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - Almost every country in the world has had a civil war, but rarely has a nation survived a second one.
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RIGHTS-US: School Recruiting Could Violate Int'l Protocol
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Pressed by the demands of the "global war on terrorism", the United States is violating an international protocol that forbids the recruitment of children under the age of 18 for military service, according to a new report released Tuesday by a major civil rights group that charged that recruitment practices target children as young as 11 years old.
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POLITICS: Bush Tour Diminished by Hezbollah Show of Force
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - While this week's trip by President George W. Bush to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt was never conceived as a triumphant "victory lap" around the region, the swift rout of U.S.-backed forces by Lebanon's Hezbollah Friday has provided yet another vivid illustration of the rapid decline in Washington's influence in the Middle East during his tenure.
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POLITICS: Washington Rallies Behind Embattled Lebanese Gov't
By Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged her administration's support for the Lebanese government Friday in the aftermath of Hezbollah's takeover of West Beirut, accusing the Iranian-backed group of "killing innocent civilians" in a bid to "protect their state-within-a-state".
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IRAN: Can P5+1 Offer Break the Nuclear Stalemate?
Analysis by Trita Parsi*
WASHINGTON - The P5+1 -- the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany -- will present Tehran with a secret incentive package in the next few days to convince Iran to suspend its enrichment programme and enter negotiations.
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POLITICS-US: Lawmakers Seek Probe of "Media Generals"
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - As U.S. television networks continue their silence about their use of retired military officers to "sell" progress in Iraq, members of the U.S. House of Representatives are calling on the Defence Department Inspector General to investigate the Pentagon-sponsored public relations effort.
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US/IRAQ: Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strains "Surge"
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Growing impatience in Congress over the enormous costs being racked up by the Iraq war, as well as the Pentagon's belief that it needs more troops in Afghanistan to fight insurgents there, is putting the vaunted success of the George W. Bush administration's "surge" strategy to the test.
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RIGHTS-US: Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, new torture claims were leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib "ghost" detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released without charge.
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POLITICS: Washington Cool on New Israel-Syria Talks
Analysis by Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - Amid regional fears of a summer war between Israel and Syria, the two countries may in fact be inching closer to a deal. Not even President George W. Bush's recent disclosures to Congress, intended to prove Syrian-North Korean nuclear cooperation, appear able to dent the resolve for peace, or at the very least, a reduction in tensions.
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POLITICS-US: Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted extensively in then Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith's recently published account of the Iraq war decisions.
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US/IRAQ: "Divide and Rule" Strategy Called Shortsighted
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - Five years since U.S. president George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech, critics say the administration has yet to show a credible way to actually "accomplish" the mission that could see a peaceful Iraq and a return home of U.S. troops.
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As President George W. Bush enters the final stretch of his second term, there are few substantial policy changes in sight, from Iraq to climate change. Meanwhile, the campaign for the 2008 presidential election is in full swing.

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