January 13, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
CAIRO (Reuters) — US President George W. Bush’s plan to send 21,500 more troops will fail to bring peace to Iraq and could aggravate a conflict in which tens of thousands of people have already died, Arab analysts said on Thursday.
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January 13, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
RAMALLAH (AP) — At a rally meant as a show of strength of his Fateh movement, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday called on rival forces to halt their armed clashes and replace bloodshed with respect.
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January 13, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
MADRID (AFP) — Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa on Thursday threw his weight behind Spanish and European calls for an international conference on the Middle East.
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January 13, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
ERBIL (AFP) — US troops raided an Iranian consulate in Iraq on Thursday and arrested five employees, officials said, as Washington vowed to act against Iranian meddling in the war-torn country.
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January 13, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
WASHINGTON (AFP) — President George W. Bush laid out the details Wednesday of a new US plan for Iraq in a major televised address.
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January 13, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
WASHINGTON — Leaders of the new Democratic-controlled Congress are vowing to fight it. An elite panel on Iraq has shown little enthusiasm for it. And even some military commanders are deeply sceptical about it.
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January 13, 2007 Iran, Iran News
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran and Syria on Thursday denounced a new Iraq strategy announced by US President George W. Bush that blames them for fuelling violence in the war-torn country. Tehran and Damascus said the plan to send more US troops would only increase bloodshed in Iraq.
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January 10, 2007 Iran, Iran News
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Two International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors arrived in Iran on Tuesday.
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January 10, 2007 Iran, Iran News
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian MP here on Wednesday warned Saudi Arabia against the adoption of provocative measures, stressing that any regional crisis will be detrimental to Riyadh’s interests as well.
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January 10, 2007 Iran, Iran News
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Wednesday condemned US air raid on villages and refugees in southern Somalia.
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