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Water Crisis Grips Syria
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(New York Times) Daniel Williams - Scores of refugees fleeing drought in Syria's northeastern breadbasket have settled into tents on the outskirts of Damascus. "It's not just a lack of water, it's bad water management by the government itself," said Jihad Yazigi, editor in chief in Damascus of The Syria Report, an online business journal.
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When It's Necessary and Desirable to Assassinate Terrorists
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(Global Research in International Affairs Center, IDC, Herzliya) Barry Rubin - Proposition One: If you truly understand that the terrorist gr
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Trafigura, Vitol Stopping Iran Gasoline Sales as U.S. Sanctions Loom
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(Reuters) Simon Webb and Luke Pachymuthu - Oil trading firms Trafigura, based in Amsterdam, and Vitol, based in Switzerland, are stopping gasoline sales to Iran, industry sources said on Monday, joining BP, Glencore and Reliance Industries which have halted sales under threat of U.S. sanctions. Analysts say Iran would always find traders to sell it fuel, but the smaller list of suppliers mean
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In Hebron, Renovation of Holy Site Sets Off Strife
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(Washington Post) Janine Zacharia - The Tomb of the Patriarchs - a site revered by Jews, Muslims and Christians as the burial place of their common forefather, Abraham - needed bathrooms and a new roof over an outdoor prayer area. To the spokesman for Hebron's Jewish community, that should not have been grounds for international scandal. "In any normal country, people would take a site like th
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Israel Criticizes EU Support for Goldstone Report
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(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff -Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said: "It is remarkable that all EU members have not supported the different phases of the Goldstone process, either at the UN Human Rights Council or at the General Assembly, yet the European Parliament thinks it can afford the luxury of an irresponsible and irrelevant resolution on a report that was immoral to be
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Iran Begins Production of Cruise Missiles
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(AP-Washington Post) Nasser Karimi - Iran announced Sunday that it has started a new production line for a short-range cruise missile, called the Nasr 1, that would be capable of destroying targets up to 3,000 tons in size. Iran boasts an array of short and medium-range missiles capable of hitting targets in the region, including Israel, U.S. military bases, and much of Europe. T
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Al-Qaeda Calls on U.S. Muslims to Attack America
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(AP-Washington Post) Patrick Quinn - Al-Qaeda's American-born spokesman Adam Gadahn on Sunday called on Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood. In a video posted on militant Web sites, he said, "Brother Nidal is the ideal role-model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate re
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