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POLITICS: Bush, U.S. Military Pressure Iraqis on Withdrawal

IRAQ: Most NGOs Losing Face

US/IRAQ: McCain Knee-Capped by Al-Maliki

IRAQ: Fallujah Braces for Another Assault

IRAQ: Unrest Surfaces in Fallujah Again

MIDEAST: Palestinian 'Che' Blindfolded and Shot

LEBANON: Syria Comes In From the Cold

MIDEAST: In Israel, Obama Looks to Votes Back Home

LEBANON: Bodies Swap Brings Uneasy Triumph

MIDEAST: Roadblocks Cripple West Bank Economy

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MIDEAST: Palestinian 'Che' Blindfolded and Shot
By Mel Frykberg
BI'ILIN, West Bank - A Youtube video, uploaded on the Internet this week, showing a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian being fired on at close range by an Israeli soldier in the presence of a Lieutenant-Colonel, has made international and regional headlines.
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LEBANON: Syria Comes In From the Cold
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Syrian skies seem to be finally clearing after a very long storm and the virtual shunning of President Bashar al-Assad from the international political scene for almost three years. Many may perceive the recent rapprochement between Syria and France as a mere dalliance, but others believe it can herald a new -- and more peaceful -- dawn in Lebanon.
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MIDEAST: In Israel, Obama Looks to Votes Back Home
Analysis by Peter Hirschberg
JERUSALEM - Lighting a remembrance flame at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. Speaking against the backdrop of a pile of empty rocket casings in the southern town of Sderot. Standing solemnly, face close to the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
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UAE: US-Iran Detente Viewed With Caution
By Meena Janardhan
DUBAI - The turnaround in Washington-Tehran ties is being viewed with relief on the one hand and anxiety and anger on the other by various quarters within the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) bloc.
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LEBANON: Bodies Swap Brings Uneasy Triumph
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - The image of 199 coffins covered with Lebanese, Palestinian and Hezbollah flags neatly aligned in a southern Beirut compound was broadcast last week on all national Lebanese TV stations. On Tuesday this week, 144 of these remains were transferred to Syria, their final place of rest. Such images have stirred varying emotions among the Lebanese population.
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POLITICS: Bush, U.S. Military Pressure Iraqis on Withdrawal
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - Instead of moving toward accommodating the demand of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a timetable for U.S. military withdrawal, the George W. Bush administration and the U.S. military leadership are continuing to pressure their erstwhile client regime to bow to the U.S. demand for a long-term military presence in the country.
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RIGHTS-US: NGO "Blacklist" Unfair and Arbitrary, Groups Say
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - In the name of "global war on terror", the U.S. government is waging war on non-governmental organisations by applying "shortsighted, undemocratic policies" that are "constraining the critical activities of the charitable and philanthropic sectors, stifling free speech, and ultimately impeding the fight against terrorism."
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IRAQ: Most NGOs Losing Face
By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail*
BAGHDAD - Welcomed at first after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, most NGOs have run into scepticism and mistrust. Few remain to help.
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MIDEAST: Roadblocks Cripple West Bank Economy
By Mel Frykberg
HEBRON, West Bank - The Israeli military has erected three additional roadblocks, further blocking vehicular access on the road between the south Hebron village of At-Tuwani and the commercial hub of Yatta in the southern West Bank.
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HEALTH-LEBANON: Cancer On the Rise
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Reports of a rising incidence of cancer now worry many families across Lebanon. Over the past 40 years, reported cases of cancer have risen from 3,000 to about 8,000 a year.
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CANADA: Gov't Slow to Defend Guantanamo's "Child Soldier"
By Am Johal
VANCOUVER - He remains the youngest prisoner still languishing in the U.S.-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. While Australia and Britain have fought to have al Qaeda-linked detainees who were respective citizens of their countries returned home to face domestic legal processes, the Canadian government has not done the same for its own citizen, Omar Khadr.
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US/IRAQ: McCain Knee-Capped by Al-Maliki
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - This weekend's surprise endorsement by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Sen. Barack Obama's call for U.S. combat forces to leave Iraq by mid-2010 marks a serious setback to Sen. John McCain, who has tried hard to depict his Democratic rival as "naïve" on foreign policy, especially with respect to Iraq.
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RIGHTS-US: Hamdan Case to Test Military Tribunals
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - As the long-awaited trial of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan opened this week at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, human rights groups filed suit demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) produce documents related to the U.S. government's ghost detention, torture, and extraordinary rendition programme.
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