Middle East

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National Defense February 2005 Harold Kennedy	Military Officials Warn Al Qaeda Determined To Attack With WMD Most attacks probably would be small-scale, incorporating improvised delivery systems and easily produced chemicals, toxins or radiological substances.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 John Carey	Taking Quick Aim Against Snipers The Pentagon needed a way to counter attacks in Iraq. It got results in short order, illustrating how the demands of war are a powerful spur to progress.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Stanley Reed	Iraq: After the Election, It Won't Get Easier Despite continued violence, Iraq's planned Jan. 30 election looks set to occur. It's unlikely to be either the decisive turning point the Bush Administration once hoped for or the unmitigated disaster critics predict.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Babak Pirouz	Iran: Perfect Demography, Lousy Economy Iran has a demographic profile that some development experts regard as a dream. The high birth rate of the 1980s created an enormous pool of young adults beginning to pour into the labor force.
The Motley Fool January 11, 2005 Lawrence Meyers	Israel at the Forefront Middle East peace could make Israeli stocks more appealing.
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005	Turkey And Israel Patch It Up Turkey and Israel are trying to mend relations strained by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's sharp criticism of Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories.
Reason January 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	Iraq's Summer Soldiers When the invasion of Iraq was still in its notional phase, a coalition of liberal hawks joined the president in arguing for the war as a Progressive intervention. It is in the open-ended occupation that they lost their nerve.
Reason January 2005 Charles Paul Freund	Free the Nile Egyptian parliamentarians have formed a new liberal political party that stands for a free-market economy, respect for the rule of law, good governance, women's empowerment, freedom of expression, and an open relationship with the West.
Reason January 2005 Charles Paul Freund	Allah My Children An arabic-language soap opera was pulled after a Web site that often features messages from Islamist extremists carried a threat against everyone involved with the show.
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Stanley Reed	Rule By Rigor Mortis "In the Rose Garden of Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran," Christopher de Bellaigue theorizes about an Iranian culture that places an unhealthy emphasis on death and martyrdom and defiance of outsiders.
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