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IPS News - Iraq and the Middle East
Developments in Iraq and the Middle East are having a telling impact on politics and policies the world over. IPS is keeping track of them through its network of correspondents providing independent accounts rather than those that suit governments. Following is the latest bulletin of reports
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BRITAIN: Police Response More Frightening Than the Killing
Sanjay Suri
LONDON, Jul 26 (IPS) – That an innocent Brazilian was shot dead on the London Underground is tragic; but the near justification of that killing by the police is frightening.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29642
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RIGHTS-US: Navigating Gitmo’s Legal Labyrinth
Interview by William Fisher
NEW YORK, Jul 27 (IPS) – As Washington prepares to resume military trials of ‰war on terror‰ detainees, a debate over their status is heating up in the U.S. Congress, with even some prominent Republicans demanding higher standards for interrogations and a ban on ‰cruel, degrading and inhumane treatment‰.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29670
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EGYPT: Tourism Industry Braces for Fallout
Adam Morrow
CAIRO, July 27 (IPS) – The local tourism industry is scrambling to assess the economic fallout in the wake of the triple bomb attacks that wrecked the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh July 23, killing more than 80 people including a number of foreign tourists.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29666
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US: Civil War Spectre Spurs New Iraq Exit Plans
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Jul 25 (IPS) – Growing pessimism about averting civil war in Iraq, as well as mounting concerns that the U.S. military presence there may itself be fuelling the insurgency and Islamist extremism worldwide, has spurred a spate of new calls for the United States to withdraw its 140,000 troops sooner rather than later.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29638
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US: Iraq Seen as Weakening Terror War
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Jul 21 (IPS) – A plurality of the U.S. public now believes that Iraq war has undermined U.S. prospects for victory in the larger war on terrorism, but a majority still believe that Washington should not yet begin withdrawing its troops, according to major new poll released here shortly after Britain reported four new bombing incidents in London.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29596
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EU: New Measures to Crack Down on Terrorist Financing
Stefania Bianchi
BRUSSELS, Jul 26 (IPS) – The European Union unveiled new proposals aimed at cutting off funding for terrorist networks.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29650
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U.N. Member States Struggle to Define Terrorism
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 25 (IPS) – The rash of terrorist bombings in Britain, and most recently in Egypt, have prompted Secretary-General Kofi Annan to prod the U.N.’s 191 member states to speed up a long-delayed decision on one of the most politically sensitive issues in the world body: a definition of ‰terrorism‰.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29633
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POLITICS: Pakistan Hit by Islamist Backlash
M B Naqvi
KARACHI, Jul 25 (IPS) – Spiralling conflict between the Pakistan army and Islamist militants along the Afghan border, straddled by pro- Taliban, Pashtoon tribes, has led security analysts to talk of a full- fledged insurgency that poses a graver threat to the country than admitted by authorities.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29627
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LEBANON: It Takes a Long Time to Undo Destruction
Ferry Biedermann
BEIRUT, Jul 25 (IPS) – This is a city marked by a civil war and moulded by divisions that still run deep within the country and through the fabric of society. With typical Lebanese gusto much has been done over the past 15 years to repair the physical damage, but much more has been done to gloss over the problems that gave rise to the conflict in the first place.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29623
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RELIGION: A British Offer to the Islamic Way
Sanjay Suri
LONDON, Jul 26 (IPS) – How do you ever engage in banking without interest coming into it? Well, if you want to do it the Islamic way, you just have to find a way.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29649
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