The publication of sections of a key United States "national intelligence estimate" (NIE) document in Washington on 26 September 2006 has brought the issue of Iraq and the
United States military casualties in Iraq are small in number compared with the hundreds of Iraqi civilians being killed each week. In human terms the imbalance is stark, but in
On the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, President Bush once again conflated the war in Iraq into the global war on terror, declaring that victory in Iraq was
A fourth report from the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics to the al-Qaida Strategic Planning Cell on the progress of the campaign.
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Soon after the Lebanon ceasefire took hold on 14 August 2006 after the thirty-four-day war, George W Bush declared with conviction that Hizbollah would be seen to have
The United States responded to the attacks of 11 September 2001 by declaring a global "war on terror". More recently, it has redefined the conflict as the "
In the first four days after the ceasefire in Lebanon on 14 August 2006, all the major players and their supporters sought to portray the outcome as a victory. Ehud
In the thirty-six hours before the uneasy ceasefire in Lebanon took hold on the morning of 14 August 2006, Israel poured thousands of troops into southern Lebanon and was
Israel was not able to disarm Hizbollah in the anticipated time frame of around three weeks and Hizbollah is still able to fire missiles into northern Israel in substantial numbers
Whatever the outcome of the Lebanon war that started on 12 July 2006, one key result of the first four weeks is apparent: that in one important sense, Israel is
Each of the near-daily columns in this series over the past three weeks have focused on the Lebanon war, albeit with some mention of its connections with Gaza, Iraq
The failure of the Rome summit on 26 July 2006 and the unwillingness of the United States to press for anything more than a minor pause in Israel's
