Middle Eastern reform to beat terrorism
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The American Secretary of State, Colin Powell, says, Middle Eastern economic and political reform will help defeat terrorism. With continued violence in US-occupied Iraq and the Palestinian question unresolved
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Recent events in the Middle East have the potential to positively impact the region. Lost amongst all of the coverage of Yasser Arafat&#39;s passing was a historic 67-45 vote by Israel&#39;s parliament
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Run for the hills Western nations have less than 20 years to prepare for the next generation of terror threats, according to Dr Yair Sharan, director of Tel Aviv University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Technology Analysis and Forecasting.â¦
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The Arab world is enormous and complex. In today&#39;s world of terrorism and radical groups, it&#39;s important not to lump all Arabs or all Muslims into one mound of extremism.
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Homeland Security and the FBI are reaching out to Muslim-Americans to heal wounds caused by post-9/11 security.
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Over the past year, the George W. Bush administration has prepared a comprehensive political and economic reform initiative aimed at promoting democracy in the Middle East.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell told a gathering of Islamic leaders yesterday that they must join hands with industrialized countries on political and economic reforms to ease the &quot;despair and frustration&quot; that afflicts much of the region.
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The devil dancing in the Middle East is dead. After Arafat used his life to deny Palestinians a national state, Palestinians will now have the chance to use Arafat&#39;s death to usher in a new era of compromise.
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The political tectonic plates under the Middle East may have at last begun to shift. Some Arab leaders, facing four more years of George W. Bush, seem to have understood the policy message he sent from Canada
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Senior Arab officials attending a U.S.-sponsored conference to promote democracy in the Middle East emphatically rejected on Saturday the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy in the region would help end terrorism. They argued that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reform or to stop extremists driven by hatred of U.S. policies.
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The British Council announced this week that it will refocus its efforts towards the Middle East to the detriment of Europe, in an effort to improve Britain's standing in the Muslim world.
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The government is considering radical reforms to smash through a legal log jam of terror trials.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed Sunday for Europe and the United States to back a major overhaul of global security measures to combat terrorism, keep weapons of mass destruction from spreading and ...
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Secretary of State Colin Powell on  Saturday said Middle Eastern economic and political reform  would help defeat terrorism but many Arabs dismissed his call  and demanded an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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RABAT, Morocco _ A high-profile effort by the Bush administration to spark reform across the Middle East was greeted with skepticism here Saturday as Arab leaders, including close US allies, questioned
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Two unlikely factors - the maneuverings of Hamas, a group the United States considers a chief sponsor of terrorism, and a widespread fear of chaos among Palestinians - are combining to create some hope in the run-up to next month&#39;s
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The United Arab Emirates urged fellow  Arabs Monday to implement radical political and economic  reform, saying history and their people would not forgive them  if they failed to do so.