Modern History of the Middle East - Current Political Issues

General
Algeria	Israel-Arab Conflicts & Accords
Arab-/Muslim-American	Jordan
Para-States & Freelance Groups	Kurdistan
Cyprus	Libya
Desert Storm / Iraq-Kuwait Disputes	Sudan
Iraq-UN Issues / WMD	Turkey
Iran	Western Sahara
	Gulf States
Iraq/U.S.A, 2002--	Other Links

General

• International Documents : Middle East and North Africa
• Global Studies : Middle East
• Arabists of the 20th Century
• NITLE Arab World Project (online sources for the study of culture and civilization of the Arab World & Islam / National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education.)
• Islam & Islamic Studies, Arabic, and Religion (Dr. Godlas, University of Georgia)
• RAND Reports and Analyses - The Center for Middle East Public Policy
• ASSR (Arab Social Science Research)
• U.S. Report on the Middle East (USROM) (Political, economic and defense news updated daily. Washington's policies towards Middle Eastern countries, and how these countries explain their policies in Washington. Sources include the White House, Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Congress, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Middle Eastern ambassadors, thinktanks, companies, the media, and many more).
• Washington Arabic Bulletin (U.S. Information Agency Arabic translations of official statements about U.S. policies on the region, including U.S.-Iran and U.S.-Iraq relations, original and translated articles on related issues or American society and institutions. Updated daily)
• U.S. Department of State International Information Program's transcripts on Middle East and North Africa
• U. S. State Department Files Relating to the Middle East and North Africa (lists United States State Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff records filmed from National Archives holdings in Washington, D.C. that are currently held in the Main Library at U.C. Berkeley)
• Magharebia (news and information about the Maghreb in three languages: Arabic, French, and English) [sponsored by the US Department of Defence]
• Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
• The United States Information Service in Israel (Full text of official U.S. government transcripts, press releases, and speeches, as well as the latest Human Rights Reports, a "Peace Page" which chronicles and documents progress in the Middle East Peace Process, a photo gallery, and links to other official U.S. government sites)
• OCLC NetFirst® Hot Topics: Middle East: Arab-Israeli Conflict
• The Middle East Intelligence Bulletin (MEIB)
• The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (Israel)
• 1999 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices / US State Department
• Office of Foreign Assets Control
• US State Department
• Current Political Headlines (from the National Political Index)
• Arab Foundation for the Image = Fondation Arabe pour l'Image
• Political Islam
• Arab Civilization: An Introduction to the Arab World (Prepared by the League of Arab States (in English))
• It's a Volatile, Complex World... [Middle Eastern studies at American universities] (NYT, November 11, 2001)
• Towering misrepresentation (Roger Owen discovers he is a post-modern mandarin) (Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 28 March, 3 April 2002, Issue No.579)
• The Roots of Muslim Rage: Why so many Muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified / Bernard Lewis: The Atlantic Monthly; September 1990; The Roots of Muslim Rage; Volume 266, No. 3; pages 47 - 60.
• The Clash: Two professors, two academic theories, one big difference. depending on which is right, September 11 may mark a brief battle against terrorism, or an endless struggle between Islam and the West (The Washington Post, Sunday, December 16, 2001; Page W17
• Americans for Middle East Understanding (AMEU)
• Middle East Peace (FMEP)
• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
• The Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society (ISIS)
• MILNET: Military Information - Middle East/North Africa
• Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
• The Federation of American Scientists
• The Casablanca Declaration of the Arab Human Rights Movement
• Search for Common Ground
• Gender and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Women in the Public Sphere
• The Arab nations are lost in a pit of desperation 'They cannot criticise US policy, however outrageous they believe it to be, because they are all beholden to it' / Robert Fisk (The Independent (UK) 16 February 2002)
• The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
• The Olof Palme International Center
• The Multilaterals Project / Multilateral Conventions
• United Nations Treaty Collection
• Inter-Parliamentary Union
• International Action Center, New York (Ramsey Clark and antiwar activists)
• The Fourth Freedom Forum (disarmament issues)
• The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies ...
• Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID)
• Dudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School
• The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (searchable site includes a database of attacks since 1990 and detailed articles on groups, state sponsors, and related topics).
• Patterns of Global Terrorism, Middle East Overview (U.S. Department of State Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism)
• Countering the Threat of International Terrorism : Report of the National Commission on Terrorism (Pursuant to Public Law 277, 105th Congress, [June, 2000])
• Catalogue of the papers of T.E. Lawrence and A.W. Lawrence, c.1894-1985, University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
• T.E. Lawrence
• Interception capabilities 2000
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Arms Control Association
• Institute for Science and International Security
• Covert Action Quarterly
• Strategic Intelligence (by Loyola College)
• Intelligence Online (Indigo Publications)
• DangerFinder
• Elections around the world
• Public Information Research
• Education World

• Jihad vs. Crusade A historian's guide to the new war / BY BERNARD LEWIS (Wall Street Journal, Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:02 a.m.)
• JIHAD / by HASAN AL-BANNA
• The Islamic Fundamentalist Ideology: Context and the Textual Sources
• LES CONTOURS FLOUS DE L'« INTERNATIONALE » ISLAMISTE: Un fondamentalisme sunnite en panne de projet politique / Par OLIVIER ROY (Le Monde diplomatique, OCTOBRE 1998, Pages 8 et 9)
• Londonistan/ Michael Radu (American Diplomacy)
• A Bibliography: OSAMA BIN LADEN [a.k.a. BIN LADIN, OSAMA BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AWAD / AL QA'IDA; ISLAMIC ARMY; THE BASE]
• Al-Qa'ida (the Base) (Air University Library)
• Osama bin Laden (Biography) (ERRI Risk Assessment Services, Daily Intelligence Report, Friday, July 25, 1997)

• Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders (World Islamic Front Statement, 23 February 1998) ALSO "Fatwa" Statement by the "World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders" [Arabic] (Nass Bayan al-Jabhah al-Islamiyah al-Alamiyah li-Jihad al-Yahud wa-al-Salibiyin) -- Pubished in al-Quds al-Arabi (London, U.K.) on 23 February, 1998, p. 3.
• FBI Websites Document Evidence Against Bin Laden
• Multi-page letter left by the terrorists on the Sep 11 attacks [FBI Site]
• "Ghazwat 11 min Aylul fi qira'ah" [Analysis of letter left by the terrorists] / Kanaan Makkiyah & Hasan Menayminah. (al-Hayat, 4 Jan. 2002, p. 17)
• "Ghazwat 11 min Aylul" / Hasan Menayminah. [PDF--ARABIC] (al-Hayat, 2 Feb. 2002, p. 10)
• Bin Laden: Public Enemy Number One - fascimiles of U.S. government documents related to bin Laden (The Smoking Gun)
• "WORLDWIDE MUSLIM CONDEMNATIONS OF THE 9/11 ATTACKS"
• The making of the world's most wanted man: Part 1 (The Observer, U.K., Sunday October 28, 2001)
• Inside the Mind of Osama Bin Laden Strategy Mixes Long Preparation, Powerful Message Aimed at Dispossessed (By Michael Dobbs Washington Post, Thursday, September 20, 2001; Page A01)
• Al-Qaeda : the misunderstood Wahhabi connection and the ideology of violence / Maha Azzam.Briefing paper (Royal Institute of International Affairs. Middle East Programme) ; no. 1
• Daily transcripts of the USA v. Usama bin Laden et al. trial in the Southern District of New York
• Frontline(PBS) : hunting bin laden
• "Al Qaeda Training Manual" (Excerpts (95 pages!) from this manual published on the DOJ web site)
• THE LADENESE EPISTLE: DECLARATION OF WAR
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• "Hunting Bin Laden" (FRONTLINE/PBS. Airdate: March 21, 2000. Produced and Directed by Martin Smith. Written by Lowell Bergman and Martin Smith. Correspondent, Lowell Bergman)
• Bin Ladin ... Qissat al-mu'amarah [The "Conspiracy" story...] (al-Hayat, 4 OCt. 2001, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• --------------------------------------Pt. 2. Qissat ta'sis al-Qa'idah [Founding of al Qaida organization] (al-Hayat, 5 OCt. 2001, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• --------------------------------------Pt. 3. al-Qa'idah fi al-Sudan [al Qaida in Sudan] (al-Hayat, 6 OCt. 2001, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• --------------------------------------Pt. 4. al-Qa'idah fi al-Sudan (al-Hayat, 7 OCt. 2001, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• --------------------------------------Pt. 5. Rahil al-Qa'idah il'a Afghanistan [al Qaida moves to Afghanistan](al-Hayat, 8 OCt. 2001, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• --------------------------------------Pt. 6. 11 September 2001(al-Hayat, 9 OCt. 2001, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• Zawahiri's family does not consider him a terrorist ... [Arabic](al-Hayat, 12 OCt. 2001, p. 10--in Arabic--PDF)
• al-Zawahiri ... Kama Araftuhu. ------PT. 1 / Muntasar al-Zayyat (al-Hayat, 10 Jan. 2002, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• al-Zawahiri ... Kama Araftuhu. ------PT. 2(al-Hayat, 11 Jan. 2002, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• al-Zawahiri ... Kama Araftuhu. ------PT. 4(al-Hayat, 13Jan. 2002, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• al-Zawahiri ... Kama Araftuhu. ------PT. 5(al-Hayat, 14 Jan. 2002, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• al-Zawahiri ... Kama Araftuhu. ------PT. 6(al-Hayat, 15 Jan. 2002, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• al-Zawahiri ... Kama Araftuhu. ------PT. 7 (al-Hayat, 16 Jan. 2002, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• al-Zawahiri ... Kama Araftuhu. ------PT. 8 (al-Hayat, 17 Jan. 2002, p. 15--in Arabic--PDF)
• Fiqh al-Islam al-musallah = [Theology of Armed Militant Islam]--PT. I / Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din. (al-Hayat, 1 Nov. 2001, p. 10) [PDF--Arabic]
• Fiqh al-Unf al-musallah fi al-Islam = [Theology of Armed Violence in Islam]--PT. II / Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din. (al-Hayat, 2 Nov. 2001, p. 21) [PDF--Arabic]
• Liberation Movements, Terrorist Organizations, Substance Cartels, and Other Para-State Entities (Federation of American Scientists)
• Jihad vs. Crusade A historian's guide to the new war. / BY BERNARD LEWIS (Wall Street Journal, Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:02 a.m.)

• ISLAM IN THE UNITED STATES -- Dept. of State, International Information Programs, Islam in the United States
• 100 Questions and Answers about Arab Americans
• Muslim Wakeup
• Arab Americans / The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute (ADCRI)
• ISLAM IN AMERICA / By Philip Jenkins. Foreign Policy Research Institute, WATCH ON THE WEST [www.fpri.org], Volume 4, Number 4 July 2003 (c)
• Yullah.com - Your Arab American Event Directory
• Arab American Bibliography
• Select Bibliography on Arab America
• FBI Terror Probes Focus on U.S. Muslims: Expanded Investigations, New Tactics Stir Allegations of Persecution (The Washington Post, Saturday, October 31, 1998; Page A01)
• Not Your Father's Detroit (Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday , January 9, 2000 ; E01)
• Negative Stereotyping Distorts Arabs' Image (Los Angeles Times, July 30 2001)
• "My American Jihad" / By Zayed Yasin, (Zayed Yasin delivered this speech at Harvard University's commencement ceremony on June 6th. The title was changed to "Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad"
• Muslim-as-Apple-Pie Videos Are Greeted With Skepticism (NYT, October 30, 2002)
• Response to Inquiries from Arab American and American Muslim Communities for Guidance on Charitable Best Practices, November 7, 2002
• Nagib Arabi's Last Stand (The Washington Post , Monday, October 25, 1999; Page F10)
• A Flag Officer for the Present and Future Chiefs' Top Aide Holds Credentials in Middle East, Infantry and Ivy League (Washington Post, Friday, October 4, 2002; Page A27)

• Cyprus Problem

Gulf States

• A Revolution Brought to Bare : Tradition-Bound Gulf Societies Relax the Reins of Conformity (Washington Post Friday, October 29, 1999; Page A23)

• Operation Desert Storm Chronology (A rundown of the events of 1990-91 from staff of DesertStorm.com)
• Report to Congress on the Conduct of the Persian Gulf War
• Background to the Gulf War and the Iraq-Kuwait frontier question (MIDDLE EAST INSIGHT)
• Key Events in Iraq and U.S. Relations (From the Gulf War to the standoff over weapons inspections, By The Associated Press, December 16, 1998)
• Invading Iraqis Seize Kuwait and Its Oil; U.S. Condemns Attack, Urges United Action (NYT, August 3, 1990)
• Iraq Army Invades Capital of Kuwait in Fierce Fighting (NYT, August 2, 1990)
• Raids, on a Huge Scale, Seek to Destroy Iraqi Missiles (NYT, January 17, 1991)
• U.S. and Allies Open Air War on Iraq; Bomb Baghdad and Kuwaiti Targets (NYT, January 17, 1991)
• Bush Halts Offensive Combat; Kuwait Freed, Iraqis Crushed (NYT, February 28, 1991)
• Allies Destroy Iraqis' Main Force; Kuwait Is Retaken After 7 Months (NYT, February 28, 1991)
• Iraq Approval Starts Peace Schedule (NYT, April 7, 1991)
• Overview of the Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Oral histories, maps, weapons, radio sound bites, from PBS' Frontline)
• Operation Desert Storm Debriefing Book
• Gulf War Leaflets : The 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne)
• Psychological Operations
• The war journal of a young Iraqi lieutenant
• Mississippi State's Military Archive (Persian Gulf War)
• Gulf War Illnesses (Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses)
• CIA Report on Intelligence Related to Gulf War Illnesses, 2 August 1996
• Operation Desert Strike (DefenseLink)
• Bush Says He Hoped Saddam Would Flee Iraq: Capturing Leader at Gulf War's End Was Ruled Out
• U.S. attacks Iraq (by the Nando Times)
• Something New in the Iraqi Conflict: Concrete Bombs (NYT, October 7, 1999)
• Report Revives Criticism of General's Attack on Iraqis in '91 (NYT, May 15, 2000)
• Iraq Crisis / The Federation of American Scientists [News and Analysis Archives, Background Information, Iraqi Special Weapons Programs [nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile], Iraqi Intelligence and Security Agencies, Reconnaissance Imagery of Iraq, United Nations Documents on Iraq, Desert Fox, Desert Strike, Desert Storm, Desert Shield, Smart Weapons, US Military Aircraft, US Naval Forces, US Intelligence Programs, US Military Space Systems, Current US Order of Battle, Targets, USAF Targeting Guide, etc.]
• Kuwait Seeks Role 10 Years After Invasion (Washington Post, July 31, 2000 ; A01)
• Iraq Homepage / State Department web site
• U.S. Central Command Web page on Iraq
• Research and Documentation Project to Preserve Contemporary Iraqi History
• CIA World Fact Book: Iraq

• Iraq Crisis (The Federation of American Scientists)
• From EPIC (Education for Peace in Iraq Center), extensive bibliographic guide to the Iraq conflict
• Iraq Watch (Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control)
• A War Crime or an Act of War? [Halabja in March 1988] / By STEPHEN C. PELLETIERE
• Iraq: What you need to know about the U.S. Embargo / U.S. Dept. Of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
• U.N. Documents (United Nations disarmament documents on Iraq that have been made public)
• The Iraq Liberation Act (STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT [Clinton], October 31, 1998)
• Qanun tahrir al-Iraq = The Iraq Liberation Act (In Arabic, as published in Al-Hayat Newspaper (London; New York, N.Y ed., January 1999)
• United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission (UNIKOM)
• Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network; A Guide and Analysis / Ibrahim al-Marashi (MERIA Journal, VOL. 6 No. 3 - September 2002
• The Iraq Foundation (Iraqi oppositon groups, texts of UN resolutions regarding Iraq, etc.)
• Annan Suspicious of UNSCOM Role (Washington Post, Wednesday, January 6, 1999; Page A1)
• U.S. Spied on Iraq Under U.N. Cover, Officials Now Say (NYT, January 7, 1999)
• U.S. Says It Collected Iraq Intelligence Via UNSCOM (Washington Post, Friday, January 8, 1999; Page A01)
• U.S. Aides Say U.N. Team Helped to Install Spy Device in Iraq (NYT, January 8, 1999)
• C.I.A. Was With U.N. in Iraq for Years, Ex-Inspector Says (NYT, February 23, 1999)
• We spied for US in Iraq: insider (Canberra Times, Wednesday, January 27, 1999)
• U.S. Spied On Iraqi Military Via U.N. Arms Control Team Had No Knowledge Of Eavesdropping (Washington Post,Tuesday, March 2, 1999; Page A01)
• Iraq's Weapons Program (William J. Broad and Judith Miller, NYT)
• Iraq's WMD / BCC
• Iraq's WMD / A.H. Cordesman
• The Continuing Threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction (Statement for the Record by Dr. Gordon C. Oehler, Director, Nonproliferation Center to the Senate Armed Services Committee, 3/27/96)
• Fact Sheet: Iraq's Program Of Mass Destruction (USIS)
• Weapons of Mass Destruction Facilities, The Structure of the Amn Al Khass or Special Security Organisation (SSO) , et al.
• SIPRI's Factsheet, "Iraq: The UNSCOM experience"
• Middle East Research and Information Project (on Iraq)
• IRAQ's WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND THE 1997 GULF CRISIS" (By Laurie Mylroie, MERIA, issue #4 JANUARY 1998)
• Lessons From Halabja: We still are not allowed access to the Kurds hit with chemical and biological weapons (By Christine Gosden and Mike Amitay. The Washington Post, Friday, August 20, 1999; Page A35
• Production and Use of Biological Weapons: Need for International Sanctions? (JAMA Letters - August 6, 1997)
• Flight Tests by Iraq Show Progress of Missile Program (NYT, July 1, 2000)
• An Iraqi Defector Warns of Iraq's Nuclear Weapons Research (NYT, August 15, 1998)
• Saddam's Bomb (The New York Times, Sunday October 1, 2000)
• Iraq Suspected of Secret Germ War Effort (NYT, February 8, 2000)
• Document Reveals 1987 Bomb Test by Iraq (NYT, April 29, 2001)
• The Deaths He Cannot Sanction : Ex-U.N. Worker Details Harm to Iraqi Children (Washington Post. Thursday, December 17, 1998; Page E01)
• Smart Bombs, Dumb Sanctions (NYT, January 3, 1999)
• Iraq and the UN (UN Special Commission Reports)
• Britain Urges UN Official in Iraq to Quit
• Ex-U.N. Inspector Ritter to Tour Iraq, Make Documentary (The Washington Post Thursday , July 27, 2000 ; A18)
• Saddam defiant [Book review: The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Growing Crisis in Global Security, By Richard Butler. New York] In : Harvard International, Review; Cambridge; Spring 2001; Paul Hatt.
• Baghdad Frozen in Time by Years of Sanctions (December 22, 1998)
• The Misery of Babylon in the Age of Hussein (NYT, December 24, 1998)
• Educated Iraqis Try to Comprehend Their Loss (NYT, December 23, 1998 )
• Iraq Sanctions Challenge (International Action Center)
• In Iraq's Classrooms, Uncle Sam Gets an F (Washington Post, Monday, November 9, 1998; Page A18)
• Baghdad Striving to Recover Glory of Its Past, Residents Optimistic Despite War, Sanctions (The Washington Post, Sunday, November 29, 1998; Page A25)
• Letter From Iraq: A Land in Limbo, Sinking Ever Lower (Washington Post, Friday, June 16, 2000 ; A01)
• Under Iraqi Skies, a Canvas of Death (Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, February 23, 2000 ; C01)
• Containing Iraq: A Forgotten War (Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 25, 2000 ; Page A01)
• U.S. Against Iraq: Absolute Victory?
• Mortality Up Among Children in Iraq (The Washington Post, Thursday, August 12, 1999; Page A21)
• Back in Business in Baghdad: Growing Ties With Once-Hostile Syria and Saudi Arabia Ease Iraq's Isolation
• At Iraq's Backdoor, Turkey Flouts Sanctions (NYT March 30, 2001)
• U.S. Firms Aiding Iraqi Oil Industry (The Washington Post Sunday , February 20, 2000 ; A23)
• What Next: Towards a Responsible Iraq Policy (ADC's Foreign Policy Symposium, December 29, 1998)
• U.S. Aids Hunters of Iraqi War Criminals : Private Groups Suffer Setbacks (The Washington Post, Saturday, September 4, 1999; Page A23)
• The Radicalization of James Woolsey(NYT, Magazine, 7/23/2000)
• Israel Gave Key Help to U.N. Team in Iraq (Washington Post, Tuesday, September 29, 1998; Page A1)
• Mossad plot to assassinate Saddam (The Sunday Times, January 17 1999)
• President Broadens Anti-Hussein Order. CIA Gets More Tools to Oust Iraqi Leader (By Bob Woodward Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 16, 2002; Page A01)
• Desert Fox: The Difference Was in the Details: Analyzing Iraqi Targets / By William M. Arkin (Special to The Washington Post, Sunday, January 17, 1999; Page B1)
• Biological Weapons (Devil's Brews in Deail)
• IONP General Bibliography / (Center for Nonproliferation Studies Monterey Institute of International Studies)
• Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Terrorism/Warfare -- Bibliography of Periodical Articles / (Naval Postgraduate School)
• SICRI, Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq
• Congress's Candidate to Overthrow Saddam Hussein Ahmed Chalabi Has Virtually No Other Backing (Washington Post Wednesday, April 21, 1999; Page A03)
• Testimony of Ahmad Chalabi, President of the Iraqi National Congress, at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 3/2/98
• London Journal: If Iraq Ever Needs a King, Here's a Dapper Hopeful (The New York Times, April 2, 2001)
• Iraq Action Coalition (IAC)
• Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy Movement
• Iraqi leader's Koran 'written in blood' (BBC, Monday, 25 September, 2000, 16:59)
• CIA gets into Saddam's head through a novel ['Zabibah wal Malik'' (''Zabibah and the King'')] (Arabia on Line, May 26, 2001)
• Another side of Saddam - the shy romantic novelist ['Zabibah wal Malik'' (''Zabibah and the King'')] (Brian Whitaker, Saturday May 26, 2001 The Guardian)
• Iraq under sanctions ("megastories.com")
• Mix of Uses Tangles Sanctions U.S. Blocks Items to Iraq That Other Nations See as Benign (The Washington Post Monday, March 26, 2001; Page A21)
• In the Arabian Desert, U.S. Troops Settle In Temporary Deployment Has Permanent Feel (Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, May 3, 2001; Page A01)
• Americans Against Bombing
• Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas (The New York Times, August 18, 2002)

• NewsBank SPECIAL REPORT! War With Iraq NewsBank is updating this SPECIAL REPORT throughout the day.
• IRAQ INDEX "Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq"
• Saddam's Iron Grip : Intelligence Reports on Saddam Hussein's Reign / National Security Archive Electronic
• Visions of Iraq: Topography and Historical Monuments
• Iraq & Middle East Maps and data
• Government resources about Iraq / the City College of New York Libraries
• The Iraq Research and Documentation Project (IRDP) (official government documents, maps, citizen testimonies, reference sources, chronologies, bibliographies, notable articles, human rights reports, photographic and other images, audio and video materials).
• U.S. Government and United Nations publications about Iraq " highly selective bibliography"
• Iraqi Opposition Gets U.S. Pledge to Oust Hussein for a Democracy (The New York TimesAugust 16, 2002)
• A Liberal Argument For Regime Change / By Salman Rushdie (Washington Post, Friday, November 1, 2002; Page A35)
• 2 Leaflets Dropped Over Iraq in October 2002 by U.S. Planes
• Leaflets Dropped Over Iraq 23 January 2003
• Political flyers being dropped in Iraq
• Political flyers being dropped in Iraq
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• Leaflets dropped over Iraq / UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND, "information warfare"
• "Iraqi War Criminal Playing Cards" : "deck of cards" issued by Central Command to assist soldiers in locating members of the deposed regime
• The threat to world heritage in Iraq: rebuilding heritage
• Saddam's Letter to the London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, 30 April, 2003, P. 1 & 3
• The Baghdad Bulletin / Editor, David Enders; (bimonthly News Magazine printed in Baghdad covering the issues surrounding the redevelopment of Iraq after Saddam Hussein's rule. Launch date: June 9th 2003. )
• Interim Iraqi Constitution January 2004 draft Translation and Commentary / Nathan J. Brown
• Hague Convention: Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
• The 2003 Iraq War & Archaeology

• The Harvard Iranian Oral History
• The Anglo-Russian Entente, Agreement on Persia, 1907 (Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers, London, 1908, Vol CXXV, Cmd. 375)
• Ayatullah Khomeini: The Mystic Who Lit the Fires of Hatred (Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1979)
• Mohammed Mossadegh: Challenge of the East (Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1951)
• The C.I.A. in Iran (The New York Times, April 15 2000)
• Overthrow of Mossadegh (CIA Secret Memo written by Dr. Donald Wilber in March, 1954 [PDF] (The New York Times, June 16, 2000)
• Web Site Lists Iran Coup Names (The New York Times, June 27, 2000)
• CIA Report on Mossadeq Overthrow (On June 16, 2000, the New York Times published on its Web site PDF files of a secret CIA report: "CLANDESTINE SERVICE HISTORY, OVERTHROW OF PREMIER MOSSADEQ OF IRAN, November 1952-August 1953," an operation planned and executed by the CIA and British SIS. The Times wrote in an introductory note that names of participants in the overthrow were digitally edited from the report "after consultations with historians who believed there might be serious risk that the families of some of those named as foreign agents would face retribution in Iran." Cryptome has recovered the majority of the edited text of the files and is publishing the report unedited except for unrecoverable redactions, and Sections IX and X as well as four appendices which were not edited).
• CIA Report on Mossadeq Overthrow [Recovered text] (John Young's Cryptome site)
• Teheran Students Seize U.S Embassy And Hold Hostages (The New York Times , November 4, 1979)
• CIA Goes Hollywood: A Classic Case of Deception / Antonio J. Mendez. In: Studies in Intelligence, Winter 1999-2000. [exfiltration from Iran of six US State Department personnel on 28 January 1980]
• Cairo Marks Shah's Flight From Iran (AP, January 15, 1999)
• Uphill Battle in Iran: Trying to Keep '79 Revolution Alive (NYT, February 5, 1999)
• Background Briefing on Sanctions against Iran (The White House Office of the Press Secretary)
• Executive Order on Iran (by U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, 5/1/95)
• New U.S.-Iran Dialogue: Psst. Mumble. Huh? (The New York Times, June 6, 1999)
• Know Thine Enemy : A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran / By EDWARD SHIRLEY (a.k.a, REUEL MARC GERECHT) (Publ.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [Review] / (By ELAINE SCIOLINO)
• C.I.A. Tells Clinton an Iranian A-Bomb Can't Be Ruled Out (NYT, January 17, 2000)
• Talking to Iran: Phone's Ringing. Wonder Who's on the Line (NYT, December 21, 1997)
• Clinton Seeks an Opening to Iran, but Efforts Have Been Rebuffed (NYT, December 3, 1999)
• The Iran-US Citizen Exchange Information Resource
• Islamic Iran's American Base (The American Spectator, December, 1995)
• THE IRANIAN GORBACHEV: Khatami's "New Thinking"
• Iranian President's Demanding Agenda After Decisive Win, Khatami Faces High Expectations for Democratic Reforms (Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, June 10, 2001; Page A18)
• Transcript of interview with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami January 7, 1998 Source: CNN
• La visite à Paris du président iraninen a suscité des vives contestations (Le Monde, 29 Oct., 1999)
• Ayatollah HussainAli Montazeri
• Iranian Cleric Goes to Battle in Cyberspace (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, December 17, 2000)
• Former Hanging Judge of Iran Upheaval Now Backs Reformers (NYT, October 23, 1999)
• Order in the Court! A Revolution Is on Trial. (NYT, November 7, 1999)
• Iran Law OKs Suits Against U.S. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / ( NYT, November 1, 2000)
• al-Hukm al-Istibdadi fi Alamina la Yumkin an Yastamirr [Despotic Rule in our World Should not Continue] Interview with Ayatollah Montaziri (al-Hayat, 4/26/2000, p. 8.)(PDF)
• Letter From Iran / by Afshin Molavi (The Nation, July 19, 1999)
• Issue in Iran Democracy Debate: Clerics' Power ( NYT, October 15, 1998)
• Cleric Uses Weapon of Religion Against Iran's Rulers ( NYT, September 18, 2000)
• Children of the Revolution Gain Peace From Persia's Poets (Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, November 11, 1999; Page C01)
• Iran's Young Voices for Change (Washington Post, February 17, 2000 ; A01)
• Iran's Voters Put Pragmatism Above Philosophy (Washington Post Foreign Service Friday , February 25, 2000 ; A18)
• CLERICAL ERROR : Iran´s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (NYT, February 27, 2000 )
• Democracy in Iran Prompts Arab Introspection (Washington Post Foreign Service Friday , March 10, 2000 ; A15 )
• Iran Blends Pragmatism With Islam to Solve Modern Problems (Washington Post Foreign Service Monday , May 15, 2000 ; A20)
• Mehregan (An Iranian Webpage of Culture and Politics)
• U.S. Department of State Human Rights Report on Iran, 1994
• U.S. Nuclear Policy Toward Iran (By Mark D. Skootsky)
• A STUDY OF IRAN's RESPONSES TO U.S. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS By Hooman Estelami
• Iranians, Bioweapons in Mind, Lure Needy Ex-Soviet Scientists (NYT, December 8, 1998)
• American Foreign Policy and Iran : Time for a change? (International Policy Studies Center)
• War Memories Weigh Heavily in Iranian Reform Debate (The Washington Post, Sunday, August 8, 1999; Page A23)
• Here and There, a Burst of Color Is Now Islamic IRANIAN DRESS CODE (The New York Times, July 23, 2000)
• Roll Over, Khomeini! Iran Cultivates A Local Rock Scene, Within Limits (Washington Post, Thursday, August 23, 2001; Page A01)
• In Iran, More Women Leaving Nest for University (The New York Times, July 23, 2000)
• A Persian Wedding, 1885 (Charles James Wills)
• Life in Persia, 1885 (S. G. W. Benjamin)
• An American Dares to Film Islam's Story in Iran (The New York Times, November 16, 1999)
• Arrests Shake Ancient Roots of Iran's Jews (The New York Times, October 17, 1999)
• World Tour for a Diva Long Banned from Singing [Googoosh] (NYT, Aug. 9, 2000)
• The Funny, but Fictional, Mullah (NYT, Aug. 20, 2000)
• Journal in Exile: [Riza Pahlevi] Man Who Would Be Shah Seeks Job Ruling Iran (NYT, February 15, 2001)
• Riza Pahlevi Home Page

• UN Information System on the Question of Palestine (UNISPAL) (Full-text documents of the United Nations system relevant to the question of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East since 1946)
• Peacenet's Middle East Gopher
• Israel CIA - State Department Files
• Echoes of Mideast Conflict Online (NYT, October 13, 1997)
• Paris Peace Conference in 1919: Palestine Question : Fonds des conférences de la paix / Conférence de la Paix (1919 / 1920 ; Paris) -- Sources ; Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC) " procès-verbaux dactylographiés en français des Conférences de la Paix, des réunions tenues en France et à Londres, des sessions du Conseil supérieur de guerre, des résolutions, conversations et documents annexes ayant été utilisés dans les discussions entre le 7 novembre 1917 et le 7 avril 1920. Ce fonds de 26 cartons est librement consultable."
• Official PNA Website
• U.S. State Department - Middle East Peace Process
• Palestine 1916 - 1999 : A Documentary Record (The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School)
• Fallen Pillars : U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945** Chapter One: Zionism: Jewish Americans and the State Department, 1897-1945 /By Donald Neff
• Historical references in Israeli-Arab conflict
• Archive. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Reference Documents : The Full Text of all theAgreements
• Palestinian National Charter, July 17, 1968
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 -- November 10, 1975 "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination."
• Palestinian Lawmakers Vote to End Threat to Israel (Associated Press Writer Monday, December 14, 1998; 11:05 a.m.)
• Some of the Old Language That Is Now Null and Void (NYT, December 15, 1998)
• Excerpts from President's Clinton speech before the Palestinian National Council
• Israeli-PLO-Peace-agreement ("GJ First" treaty (Part I), according to the Associated Press, reprinted in the NYT 1 September 1993)
• Framework for the Conclusion of a Final StatusAgreement Between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, 31 Oct., 1995, a.k.a. "Beilin-Abu Mazen Draft" (by Yossi Beilin, a top aide to the then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Yasir Arafat's closest adviser, Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen. The two sides thought they had reached the basis for a final peace deal.")
• Beilin-Abu Mazen (Arabic) (al-Hayat, 9/20/2000, p. 8) [PDF]
• Ultimatums Were a U.S. Tool in Middle East Talks (Washington Post Staff , Wednesday, November 4, 1998; Page A13)
• Wye River Memorandum, October 23, 1998 (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• The Wye Memorandum (Text of the Mideast land-for-peace agreement signed on October 23, 1998, NYT)
• "Middle East Signing Ceremony : Remarks President William Clinton Vice President Al Gore, His Majesty King Hussein Of Jordan, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Chairman Yasser Arafat, Secretary Of State Madeleine Albright" (THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press SecretaryOctober 23, 1998)
• Palestinians Open New Airport
• Palestine Will Be a State. But What Will the State Of Palestinians Be? (By Robert J. McCartney, (Washington Post, Sunday , April 30, 2000 ; B01)
• In Hebron, Peace Accord's Bitter Fruit (NYT, October 15, 1998)
• No May 4 Palestinian State (Maybe It's Already Here) (NYT, May 5, 1999)
• Wye II (Arabic text) : The Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum on Implementation Timeline of Outstanding Commitments of Agreements Signed and the Resumption of Permanent Status Negotiations (al-Hayat, London, Sept. 1999)
• Peace. Period. A Portrait of Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak (The New York Times Magazine, 19 Dec., 1999)
• Israel Ready to Accept Palestinian State (Washington Post Foreign Service Monday , April 17, 2000 ; A15)
• 'Unique Opportunity' Lost at Camp David [2] (Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday , July 30, 2000 ; A01)
• Against Backdrop of History, High Drama and Hard Talks at Camp David (The New York Times, July 29, 2000)
• Fictions About the Failure at Camp David (The New York Times, July 8, 2001)
• Camp David Collapse--Pt. I. / Robert Malley & Hussein Agha [orig. publ. in the New York Review of Books]
• Camp David Collapse--Pt. II.---------------
• Adviser: Clinton Exasperated With Barak During Peace Talks Account Disputes View that Arafat Caused Breakdown (Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 18, 2001; Page A20)
• An Assessment of US Involvement in the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process Over the Last Seven Years (PLO. Negotiations Affairs Department, January 20, 2001)
• U.S. Diplomat's Dream Deferred Ambassador Leaves Israel With Lament And Anger at Arafat (Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, July 15, 2001; Page A16)
• Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, April 30, 2001 [pdf---Very slow!!]
• Report of the international fact- finding committee of Senator George J. Mitchell on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--pt. 1 [Arabic--pdf]
• ------------------------------------------------pt. 2 [Arabic--pdf]
• Quest for Mideast Peace: How and Why It Failed (The New York Times, JUL 26, 2001)
• The Palestinian Vision of Peace / By YASIR ARAFAT (The New York Times, February 3, 2002)
• "Palestine - Home of history , Current history of Palestine from 1900 up today" / Esam Shashaa
• Middle East Delegation Report / The National Lawyers Guild Middle East Delegation

• ASSEMBLY VOTES PALESTINE PARTITION; MARGIN IS 33 TO 13; ARABS WALK OUT; ARANHA HAILS WORK AS SESSION ENDS (The New York Times, November 29, 1947)
• Zionists Proclaim New State Of Israel (The full text of The New York Times article, May 15, 1948)
• Zionists Proclaim New State of Israel; Truman Recognizes it and Hopes for Peac (The New York Times Front Page of May 15, 1948)
• The Two Worlds of Palestine (The New York Times, May 18, 1948)
• Balfour a Leader for Half a Century (OBITUARY: By THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 20, 1930)
• Jerusalem 1948: The Phantom City (by Salim Tamari. Jerusalem Quarterly File, Issue 3, 1999, Institute of Jerusalem Studies)
• Red Cross Eye-Witness Report On The Deir Yasin Massacre April 9, 1948
• List of Palestinian Localities destroyed after the creation of the State of Israel (1948) (by Christoph Uehlinger)
• School Official Wants to Mark Israeli Atrocity (The New York Times, October 7, 1999)
• Deir Yassin: Arab & Jewish Tragedy in Palestine. The Electronic Book (Ray Hanania, (C) 1998 USG Publishing)
• Israel Explores Dark Pages of Its Past (Washington Post, Sunday, October 31, 1999; Page A01)
• Voices of Jews: 'We Dreamed of a State With a Different Character'(The New York Times, April 30, 1998)
• Israel Celebrates [50] With Mixed Feelings Pride, Nostalgia; Mark Anniversary With Little of the Early Euphoria (The Washington Post, Thursday, April 30, 1998; Page A01)
• The legacy of Ariel Sharon (Independent, U.K., 6 February 2001)
• Living With the Palestinian 'Catastrophe' (The New York Times, April 23, 1998)
• Countering Israel's 50th on the Internet: Al-Nakba Websites Document Palestinian Dispossession (MERIP, Summer, 1998)
• Deconstructing the walls of Jericho / By Ze'ev Herzog (© copyright 1999 Ha'aretz. Friday, October 29, 1999)
• In Israel, Too Much To Leave To the Generals / By Aluf Benn ((The Washington Post, Sunday, August 18, 2002; Page B01)
• Poetry of Arab Pain: Are Israeli Students Ready? (The New York Times, March 7, 2000)
• The Pain Israel Must Accept / By DAVID GROSSMAN (The New York Times, November 8, 2000)
• Dependence Shapes Emerging Palestine (Washington Post Foreign Service Friday , September 8, 2000 ; A01)
• EU Nations Agree to Consider Recognition of Palestinian State (Washington Post, Saturday, March 27, 1999; Page A11)
• Israel's Next Palestinian Problem (The New York Times Magazine, September 10, 2000)
• Trophy Photos Betray Israeli Police Abuse (Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday , September 19, 2000 ; A16)
• Mystery Man of the Middle East (Washington Post, Wednesday, September 13, 2000 ; A28)
• The Second Uprising
• The Second Uprising II (Washington Post, Sunday, January 21, 2001)
• Janiya Journal: An Arab Village Strangled. Did Israel Just Forget? (The New York Times, March 15, 2001)
• Black September (1970). "The late King Hussein of Jordan called for an Israeli air strike on Syrian troops supporting a 1970 Palestinian uprising against his rule, according" to declassified British documents
• Essam Shashaa's on Arab-Israeli Wars
• Jews, Arabs Join To Decry Meeting Beirut Bans Holocaust Revision Session (Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, March 26, 2001; Page A20)
• Documents in Arabic released by the Israelis Asserting Arafat's ties to bombings (April 12, 2002)
• -----------------------------------------------------------------DOC. 2

Jerusalem [al-Quds - Yerushalayim - Urshalim - Ursalim]

• THE NOBLE SANCTUARY, The Online Guide to Al-Aqsa Mosque
• Group Uproots East Jerusalem Arabs to Settle Jews (The New York Times, Aug. 2, 1998)
• Jewish Drop In Jerusalem Worries Israel
• A City With Two Masters (NYT, May 10, 1999)
• Jerusalem, A City Crying Out For Justice (Palestine Authority (PA) Ministry of Information)
• Jerusalem / Hanthala
• Two Dreams of Jerusalem Converge in a Blur (NYT, May 21, 2000)
• Vatican and P.L.O. Sign Pact Guaranteeing the Church's Rights (NYT, February 16, 2000)
• "'Ahd al-Quds" [Jerusalem Covenant] (Al Hayat (London) 9 June, 2000: p. 3)
• Ownership of Jerusalem Site Challenged (Washington Post, Sunday , August 27, 2000 ; A26)
• Qissah al-Kamilah li-Qadiyyat Naql al-Sifarah al-Amrikiyah [Ownership of US Embassy Jerusalem Site : The Full Story] / Walid Khalidi. Pt. 1 (Al Hayat 8/26/2000, No. 13681: p. 8.)
• Qissah al-Kamilah li-Qadiyyat Naql al-Sifarah al-Amrikiyah [Ownership of US Embassy Jerusalem Site : The Full Story] / Walid Khalidi. Pt. 2 (Al Hayat 8/27/2000, No. 13682: p. 8)
• Qissah al-Kamilah li-Qadiyyat Naql al-Sifarah al-Amrikiyah [Ownership of US Embassy Jerusalem Site : The Full Story] / Walid Khalidi. Pt. 3 (Al Hayat 8/28/2000, No. 13683: p. 8)
• No One People Owns Jerusalem By KAREN ARMSTRONG (The New York Times, July 16, 2000)
• ADL ISSUES AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE CITES THEIR CALL FOR A "SHARED JERUSALEM" AS A PLOY
• "Temple Mount & Land of Israel Faithful Movement" [Gershon Salomon]
• Israel's Evangelical Approach U.S. Christian Zionists Nurtured as Political, Tourism Force (Washington Post, Saturday, January 26, 2002; Page B11)
• Unorthodox Alliance Israeli and Jewish interests are better served by keeping a polite distance from the Christian right. (By Gershom Gorenberg. Washington Post, Friday, October 11, 2002; Page A37)
• Ottoman Jerusalem: The Living City 1517-1917
• Wiesel Words/ CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS (MINORITY REPORT | The Nation, February 19, 2001)
• Israeli-based Jerusalem Archives
• A Palestinian Champion of Peace Is Dead (The New York Times, June 1, 2001)

• Draft of PNA - HAMAS Accord; Released by Al-Ahram (Aaron Lerner 1 October 1995)
• HAMAS Covenant, 1988 (Palestinian)
• HAMAS (PIC)
• Terrorism Research Center: HAMAS
• Intifada, 1987- : First Communiqués
• The Electronic Intifada
• "Military Communiqué no. 315" of March 6, 2001 / the Izz ad-Din al Qassam Brigade (the military wing of HAMAS)--Al-Hayat newspaper (7 March 2001)
• Khalil al-Wazir, 'Abu Jihad': PLO Communiqué
• The Palestinian Security Services: Between Police and Army
• Kata'ib al-Fida' al-'Arabi / Qarar Ittiham al-Qadi al-Askari al-Suri, 1950 [Arab Martyrdom Brigades, Text of Indictment by Syrian Military Prosecutor, 1950 / Arabic]
• For Palestinians in Syria, What Price Peace?(NYT, August 8, 1999)
• THE PALESTINE PROBLEM IN THE FRAMEWORK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. Sovereignty as the Crucial Issue of a Peaceful Settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. (Oktober 2000)
• Six Men Who Could Be Contenders to Lead Palestinians if Arafat Goes (NYT, June 14, 2002)
• Suicide Bombers Change Mideast's Military Balance (Washington Post, Sunday, August 18, 2002; Page A01)
• AL-AQSA INTIFADA 2000 / Bibliography -- Compiled by Glenda Armstrong Bibliographer, Air University Library Maxwell AFB, AL

• B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in The Occupied Territories
• Israel in CyberSpace
• Givat Haviva (Arab-Israel Peace Institute)
• Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East
• Settlements page (The Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ))
• Kach [Kahane Chai, Jewish Defense League, e.g. JDL]: "They (Palestinians) Must Go" ... (Flyers distributed by Kach Movement in Israel and New York)
• The Kahane Website (Kahane Chai/Rabbi Meir Kahane)
• "Kahane.Org : Games Section: BARAKULA 1.0: Send the message to the Israeli Government!" (From "Kahane.Org" ; as viewed on 14 July, 2000)
• www.HinduUnity.org, www.Kahane.org: Extrémistes hindous et juifs ont créé une sainte alliance anti-islamique (LE MONDE | 19.09.01)
• La dangereuse confusion des juifs de France (par Eyal Sivan, LE MONDE | 07.12.01, p. 1)
• Terror Label No Hindrance to Anti-Arab Jewish Group (The New York Times, December 19, 2000)
• Terrorism and Fundraising (Washington Post,Friday, December 22, 2000 ; Page A32)
• Not In My Name
• Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)
• Salam Review (copyrighted and maintained by the Boston Committee on the Middle East (BCOME)
• In the Islamic Mideast, Scant Place for Jews (The New York Times, July 25, 1999)
• Surging Population Crowds Gaza Schools
• A Link That Drives Palestinians Apart (The New York Times, October 31, 1999)
• There's No Bossing a Democracy, Arafat Learns (The New York Times, December 13, 1998)
• Democracy or Ethnocracy: Territory and Settler Politics in Israel/Palestine / Oren Yiftachel (MERIP, Summer, 1998)
• Israeli Paper Prints Reactor Photos (Washington Post, Friday , August 18, 2000)
• Israel's Y2K Problem (NYT, October 2, 1999)
• Disney Brokers a Mideast Peace of Sorts (Washington Post, Friday, October 1, 1999; Page A2)
• Book Says Israel Intended 1967 Attack on U.S. Ship (NYT, April 23, 2001)
• Battle of the Books in Palestine/ by FOUAD MOUGHRABI, (The Nation, October 1, 2001)
• Democracy, History, and the Contest Over the Palestinian Curriculum / by Professor Nathan Brown
• Keeping them down in the Strip (Ha'aretz, 1998)
• In Battling Gazans, Israelis Sow Hate (NYT, December 10, 2000)
• Gaza Gains a Martyr, Parents Lose a Son (Washington Post, Monday, December 11, 2000 ; Page A18)
• Conflict Deepens Despair for Palestinians in Gaza Israeli Controls Put Money, Hope In Short Supply (Washington Post, Monday, August 20, 2001; Page A07)
• Israeli Court Ends Land-Buying Discrimination (Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday , March 9, 2000 ; A01)
• The Arabs Next Door (NYT, March 10, 2000)
• Mixed Couple Suffers in West Bank (Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday , November 5, 2000 ; Page A01)
• Jewish Group Told To Open Files (AP, November 17, 1998)
• How do you spell apartheid? O-s-l-o / Edward Said
• "Closure and Apartheid: Seven Years of "Peace" through Separation," by Allegra Pacheco (The New York Times, Oct. 5, 2000)
• Israel should learn from the Boers: It was no coincidence that Israel was one of apartheid South Africa's few friends. In both societies, fear fed racial bigotry / (Liz McGregor, Guardian, Thursday May 17, 2001)
• Apartheid in the Holy Land / Desmond Tutu (The Guardian, Monday April 29, 2002)
• New Direction For Palestinian People by Francis A. Boyle
• Palestinians Eager to Claim Land, Plot a Future (Washington Post, Thursday, August 19, 1999; Page A15)
• Farmers Say They're Year-Round, but Israel Calls Them Seasonal(The New York Times, February 22, 2000)
• Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories
• Israel's Court Bars Abuse of Suspects Ruling Strikes at Anti-Terrorist Practice (Washington Post, Tuesday, September 7, 1999; Page A0)
• Israel's Torture Ban ALEXANDER COCKBURN, The Nation, September 27, 1999
• Reports of Torture by Israelis Emerge Rights Groups Document Frequent Police Abuses Against Palestinians (Washington Post, Saturday, August 18, 2001; Page A01)
• US report urges Arafat to use torture for peace: An influential think-tank advises Palestinian Authority to ruthlessly repress militant elements without regard for basic human rights (By Robert Fisk in Gaza, The Independent, 6 November 2000
• A Biblical Patriarch's Tomb Becomes a Battleground (The New York Times, Oct. 3, 2000)
• Israeli Bullet Ends a Life In Two Worlds (Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday , October 5, 2000 ; Page A01)
• Painful Glimpse of Home for Palestinians (The New York Times, May 30, 2000)
• Ramallah Journal: Bitter Souvenirs of Palestinian Uprising (The New York Times, February 21, 2001)
• A Magnet for Palestinian 'Martyrs' Al-Aqsa Brigades Lead New Wave of Attacks on Israeli Civilians (Washington Post, Thursday, March 7, 2002; Page A01)
• West Bank Checkpoint (By Wendy Pearlman, Saturday, June 30, 2001; Page A31)
• How the Settler Suburbs Grew (D. Newman, NYT, May 21, 2002)
• No Exceptions for Israel / By Edward S. Walker (Washington Post, Tuesday, August 21, 2001; Page A17)
• Assassination Is Wrong -- and Dumb By Vincent Cannistraro (Washington Post, Thursday, August 30, 2001; Page A29)
• Want Security? End the Occupation By Marwan Barghouti (Washington Post, January 16, 2002; Page A19)
• The Irrelevance of a Palestinian State : It's a political certainty and a psychological necessity, but Israel will still dominate everything that matters (By Anthony Lewis, The New York Times)
• Pro-Israeli zeal harms freedom of speech (By Anthony Lewis, The New York Times)
• No Less Than Equal Partners (By Sam Husseini, The Washington Post, July 27, 2000 ; A23)
• If ethnic cleansing is wrong in Balkans, it's wrong in Mideast (Charley Reese. Commentary Published in The Orlando Sentinel on May 4, 1999)
• Truth or myth about Israel? Read between quotation marks (Charley Reese. Published in The Orlando Sentinel on June 13, 1999)
• Repetition doesn't make a lie the truth -- this is how I know (Charley Reese. Published in The Orlando Sentinel on May 23, 1999)
• Israeli rabbi calls on God to annihilate Arabs (The Times, London, TUESDAY APRIL 10 2001)
• A Bumpy Ride on 'Sesame Street' Israeli-Palestinian Show Hits More Snags Than the Peace Talks (Washington Post Foreign, Tuesday, November 9, 1999; Page A01)
• Shrine to Hatred (Washington Post, Saturday , October 28, 2000 ; Page C01)
• Pings and E-Arrows Fly in Mideast Cyber-War (Washington Post, Friday , October 27, 2000 ; Page A01)
• Tel Aviv Journal: New Conflict Begets Culture War by Israeli Artists (NYT, January 18, 2001)
• Israel Shahak, 1933-2001 / Christopher Hitchens

• Patrick Seale's Report of Interviews with H. Asad and E. Barak (Al Hayat [London - ARABIC] 23 June, 1999)
• Hope Rises in Syria for Peace With Israel (NYT, August 5, 1999)
• Politics of Peace Quake the Golan (Washington Post, August 6, 1999; Page A15)
• Sadly, Golan Settlers Concede Peace Could Mean Eviction (The New York Times, June 14, 1999)
• In the Golan, So Close, And Yet So Far Apart (Washington Post, Friday December 17, 1999 ; A30)
• Golan No Longer Vital to Israel, Analysts Say (Washington Post, Thursday , January 6, 2000 ; A01)
• For Golan Settlers, an Uncertain Future (The New York Times, January 16, 2000)

• Hezbollah / Sayyid Hussain Fadlallah
• Appeal by S. Fadlallah to Boycott American Goods (Posted in November, 2000) [PDF]
• S. Hasan NasrAllah
• Said Hassan Nasrallah Q&A: What Hezbollah Will Do (The Washington Post Sunday , February 20, 2000 ; B05)
• National Association for Lebanese Detainees in Israeli Prisons
• Israel Surrenders A Bargaining Chip (Washington Post, Thursday April 6, 2000 ; A01)
• Beirut, Meet Tehran: A Time of Testing for Islamic Zeal (The NYT, February 20, 2000)
• United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
• Islamic Resistance Support Association
• Israeli-Backed Militia Faces Defeat: S. Lebanon Forces Begin Withdrawal (Washington Post, Tuesday, June 1, 1999; Page A10)
• Le Rassemblement Pour le Liban /France (RPL)
• Annashra al-Loubnania (Michel AOUN)
• "United States Committee for a Free Lebanon"
• Middle East Intelligence Bulletin
• Guerrillas Fight Israeli Army To Stalemate (Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday , February 13, 2000 ; A23)
• An Arab Militia, Glimpsing Victory, Could Lose Peace (NYT, February 28, 2000 )
• The Changing Face of a Militant Movement (Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, April 5, 2000 ; A12)
• Israel Begins Lebanon Pullout (Washington Post Foreign Service Monday , May 22, 2000 ; A01)
• Israel's Militia Hastens Withdrawal From Occupied Lebanon Border Zone (NYT, May 23, 2000)
• Israël se retire du Liban (Le Monde, May 23, 2000)
• A dangerous retreat (The Financial Times, Wednesday, May 24, 2000)
• Village Tugs Its Own Toward the Kisses of Home, Two on Each Cheek (NYT, May 24, 2000)
• Pullout Triggers Lebanon Chaos (Washington Post , Wednesday, May 24, 2000 ; A01)
• Hundreds of Lebanese Militiamen Enter Uncertain Exile (Washington Post , Wednesday, May 24, 2000 ; A32)
• L'armée israélienne a achevé son évacuation du Liban sud (Le Monde, le mercredi 24 mai 2000)
• In Lebanon, Rapid Spasm and Then Surprising Calm (NYT, May 24, 2000)
• A Once Defiant General Surveys His Ruined Army (Washington Post, Thursday, May 25, 2000 ; A28)
• The next step for Israel By James Ron (ran on page A25 of the Boston Globe, 5/25/2000)
• Know Now That Arab Lives Are as Worthy as Israelis' (Los Angeles Times, Friday, May 26, 2000)
• A Retreat Reshuffles the Building Blocks of Peace (NYT, May 28, 2000)
• At Home on the Front Lines (The Washington Post, Wednesday, May 31, 2000 ; A27)
• Helping Hand of Hezbollah Emerging in South Lebanon (NYT, May 30, 2000)
• Going Home to Lebanon (The Washington Post, Sunday , July 2, 2000 ; B01)
• In Long Fight With Israel, Hezbollah Tactics Evolved (NYT,July 19, 2000)

• The Suez Canal (Brent Phillips, Class of 2001)
• Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967
• The Six Day War (Israel Defense Force's site)
• An Ambushed Crew Salutes Its Captain Leader of USS Liberty Remembered (Washington Post, Saturday, April 10, 1999; Page B01)
• Mossad plot to assassinate Saddam (The Sunday Times, January 17 1999)
• Israel Bows To a Young Arab Queen (Washington Post, Thursday, March 11, 1999; Page A23)
• The Edward Said Archive (TESA)

• King Hussein of Jordan Said to Name New Heir to Throne (January 22, 1999, By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE)
• King Hussein Selects Eldest Son, Abdullah, as Successor (NYT, January 26, 1999)
• Letter from King Hussein to Prince Hassan, informing him of his removal as Crown Prince (January 25, 1999, Translation from the original Arabic, as printed in The Jordan Times)
• Royal Decree : Appointment of HRH Prince Abdullah as Crown Prince, January 25, 1999
• Letter of Hussein to Crown Prince Abdullah, January 26, 1999
• Hussein's Royal Mistake (By Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post, Sunday, January 31, 1999; Page B07)
• Hussein of Jordan, Voice for Peace, Dies (NYT, February 8, 1999)
• The Chameleon king (Financial Times, 2/8/99)
• Succession tranquille dans la Jordanie en deuil : Le roi Hussein est mort, son héritier désigné monte sur le trône (Libération, Le lundi 8 février 1999)
• Les "amis" du roi Hussein (Le Monde, Mardi 9 février 1999)
• Khalid Mishaal (Hamas) on the death of K. Hussein
• Queen Noor. Standing Alone Just Months After King Hussein's Death, His Widow Ponders The Formless Future Her Hands Will Shape (Washington Post, Saturday, June 19, 1999; Page C01)
• The King and the 'Cabby' Inspect Jordan Incognito (NYT, August 9, 1999)
• A History in Sand: Thanks to the Peace Accords, Jordan's City of Petra Is More Accessible Than Ever (By Alison Buckholtz, The Washington Post, Sunday, January 3, 1999; Page E01)

• Party Program of the PKK
• Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq
• Who is Adullah Ocalan? (by Michael Radu)
• Adullah Ocalan and the PKK
• Kurdish Rebel Leader Held in Turkey (February 17, 1999 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

• Pages of the Greek Cypriot passport, alledgedly used by Ocalan during his last trip to Nairobi, Kenya where he was captured by "Turkish agents" on Monday 15 March 1999

• In Plea for His Life, Kurdish Rebel Offers to Halt War (NYT, June 1, 1999)
• Kurdish Rebel Tells Turkish Court of Covert Government Peace Moves (The Washington Post, Wednesday, June 2, 1999; Page A22)
• Turkey Sentences Kurdish Rebel to Die (The Washington Post, Wednesday, June 30, 1999; Page A25)
• Turkey Has Tight Rein on Kurd Center (The New York Times, May 11, 1999)
• In Turkey, Speaking of Kurdish Problems, Don't (The New York Times, June 6, 1999 )
• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

Kuwait

• Kuwaiti Newsman's Sentence Canceled

• Green Book / by Mu`ammar al-Qadhafi.
• Libya's Gadhafi Wearies of the Cold Shoulder (NYT, April 11, 1999)
• Jetliner Carrying 258 to U.S. Crashes in Scottish Town (December 21, 1988)
• Powerful Bomb Destroyed Pan Am Jet Over Scotland, British Investigation Finds (NYT, December 29, 1988)
• Report on the accident to Boeing 747-121, N739PA at Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland on 21December 1988 (UK)
• Maltese Double Cross
• 2 Libyan Suspects Handed to Court in Pan Am Bombing (NYT, April 6, 1999)
• Pan Am 103 and the Lockerbie Trial
• Indictment against the 2 Libyan suspects in Pan Am Bombing: excerpts in Arabic
• The Guilt of Gadaffi. Gadaffi's Bomb Plot [Pan Am Bombing] (The Sunday Times, London, 23 May, 1999)
• Doubts Persist About Lockerbie Evidence (Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday , April 30, 2000 ; A01)
• Libyans Plead Not Guilty To Lockerbie Jet Bombing (Washington Post, Thursday , May 4, 2000 ; A01)
• "The Syrian Document" About Lockerbie [PDF/ARABIC] (Al-Hayat, 7 Dec., 2000, p. 6)
• Statement Sent to the London Al Hayat Newspaper Predicting Flight 800
• "The Lockerbie Document:" Excerpts / Mobdy Ghobn [Mubaddi Ghubn] & Ahmad Jibril Published in Al-Hayat [PDF/ARABIC] (Al-Hayat, 8 Dec., 2000, p. 6)
• The judgement of the Lockerbie trial (scotcourts.gov.)
• Trial transcript (Lockerbie trial)
• Report on and evaluation of the Lockerbie Trial conducted by the special Scottish Court in the Netherlands at Kamp van Zeist / by Dr. Hans Köchler, University Professor, international observer of the International Progress Organization nominated by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the basis of Security Council resolution 1192 (1998)
• "thelockerbietrial.com" Editors: Professor Robert Black QC and Ian Ferguson.
• German Cable on Qaddafi Sets Off Dispute (The New York Times, May 23, 2001)
• Aide says Nidal confessed to Lockerbie bombing Nicholas Pyke (The Guardian, Friday August 23, 2002)
• Aisha, Cocca di Colonnello [Aisha Gaddafi] (L'Espresso [Italy], 1 marzo 2001, p. 169)
• Libya Hopes Its Archaeological Treasures Will Lure Tourists
• Tripoli Journal: Behind Thick Walls, a Defiant Past (The New York Times, February 20, 2001)
• For Libyans Under Qaddafi, Disarray Is the Norm (The New York Times, February 14, 2001)

• Sudan / Return to Political Risk Services menu
• The Sudan Foundation
• Political Resources on the Net - Sudan
• Hasan Turabi: Interview to al-Shira Newspaper (Oct., 1994)
• South Sudan: A History of Political Domination - A Case of Self-Determination, (Riek Machar)
• Civil War in Sudan: The Impact of Ecological Degradation
• Decision to Strike Factory in Sudan Based Partly on Surmise (The New York Times, September 21, 1998)
• What Terrorist Link? (The Washington Post, Friday, May 7, 1999; Page A38)
• Sudan, Angry at U.S. Attack, Freed Bomb Suspects, Officials Say (The New York Times, July 30, 1999)
• To Bomb Sudan Plant, or Not: A Year Later, Debates Rankle (The New York Times, October 27, 1999)
• Review of Sudan Attack Sought (Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 27, 2000 ; A05)
• Sudan News & Views

• The International Significance of British Naval Missions to the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1914 (by Chris B. Rooney, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 34, no. 1 (January 1998))
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1881 - 1938
• In Turkey, Speaking of Kurdish Problems, Don't (The New York Times, June 6, 1999 )
• Turkish Region Recalls Massacre of Armenians (The New York Times,May 10, 2000)
• The Turkish Quake's Secret Accomplice: Corruption (The New York Times, August 29, 1999)
• The rise of the Islamists in Turkey By Nilufer Narli
• MÝLLÝ ÝSTÝHBARAT TEÞKÝLATI (MIT), Turkey's intelligence agency

• Western Sahara Update
• Western Sahara Homepage
• Sahara Impasse: Line in Sand or National Border? [POLISARIO/Morocco] (The New York Times, June 16, 1999)

• Two civilisations entwined in history / William Dalrymple (The Independent, UK, 12 October 2001)
• Arabs and Democracy A Record of Failure / Mohamed Talbi (Journal of Democracy 11.3 (2000) 58-68)
• An Evolving Arab Press / By Jon B. Alterman, The Washington Post, Wednesday, March 28, 2001; Page A23
• President Gamal Abdel Nasser's speeches, 1952-1970 in Windows media format (video and audio) / Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• The Mideast Threat That's Hard to Define / By Youssef M. Ibrahim (The Washington Post, Sunday, August 11, 2002; Page B01)
• Gertrude Bell
• TERRORISM, TECHNOLOGY, AND TYRANNY / by John A. Sterling
• "RETHINKING THE MIDDLE EAST" (A Conference at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Wednesday, October 14, 1998, Washington, D.C.)
• Strategic Intelligence Homepage / Loyola College
• Intelligence Watch Report
• Project on Intelligence Reform
• Intelligence Newsletter
• Country Reports On Economic Policy and Trade Practices (U.S. Dept. of State, Foreign Affairs Network (DOSFAN))
• Washington Institute for Policy Studies
• Selective Memri (The Guardian, Monday August 12, 2002)
• US thinktanks give lessons in foreign policy "Brian Whitaker reports on the network of research institutes whose views and TV appearances are supplanting all other experts on Middle Eastern issues" (The Guardian, Monday August 19, 2002)
• The Internet's 'Open Sesame' Is Answered Warily (The New York Times, March 18, 1999)
• BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TODAY / by- HASAN AL-BANNA
• PEACE IN ISLAM / by HASAN AL-BANNA
• Jarimat al-sharaf ... [Crime of Honor] (al-Hayat, 13 OCt. 2001, p. 17--in Arabic--PDF)
• Jarimat al-sharaf ... ahad aslihat al-damar al-shamil [Crime of Honor: a weappon of mass destruction] (al-Hayat, 13 OCt. 2001, p. 18--in Arabic--PDF)
• Jarimat al-sharaf fi Pakistan [Crime of Honor in Pakistan] (al-Hayat, 13 OCt. 2001, p. 19--in Arabic--PDF)
• The Bernard Lewis Trial
• Paris court condemned Bernard Lewis, professor of Middle Eastern History at Princeton University for having denied the Armenian Genocide

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