Middle East

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BusinessWeek August 15, 2005 Stanley Reed	Saudi Arabia: Reform May Start Flowing Can Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah remake the state?
Reason September 2005 Matt Welch	Saudi Censors Days after Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdullah's visit, Freedom House, a 60-year-old global watchdog group with close ties to official Washington, released its 26th annual Press Freedom Survey of the world. Out of 194 countries, Saudi Arabia placed a desultory 173rd.
Reason September 2005 Charles Paul Freund	Flood Insurance A Palestinian Koranic scholar has become convinced that passages in the Koran dealing with the divine punishment of terrible sin are actually about the U.S. and predicts massive tsunamis will wipe out the country in 2007.
BusinessWeek August 1, 2005 Stanley Reed	Iraq: The Deadly Cost Of Excluding The Sunnis US officials have been cajoling the Iraqi leadership, which is dominated by Shiites, to bring a significant number of Sunni Muslims back into the fold to sap some of the support from the insurgency. But Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and his colleagues are resisting.
National Defense August 2005 Harold Kennedy	22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit Prepares to Deploy An estimated 600 combat-armed Leathernecks and sailors from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are scheduled early this month to prowl through the streets and waterways of Savannah, Ga., as part of an intense training regimen that almost certainly will lead to deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan.
National Defense August 2005 Joe Pappalardo	A Single Day Changed Supply Strategy in Iraq A coordinated sabotage of supply roads in Iraq changed the way the U.S. Army's support command had to do business from that point on.
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Reed & Pirouz	Election Aftershock in Corporate Iran The President-elect of Iran is anti-capitalist and anti-West, so investment may suffer.
Smithsonian July 2005 Stephen Glain	Syria at a Crossroads Following a humbling retreat from Lebanon and increasingly at odds with the U.S., the proud Arab nation finds itself at a critical juncture.
National Defense July 2005 Michael Peck	Marines Share Hard-Earned Knowledge Marines fighting in Iraq have concluded that, in order to defeat insurgents, the urban tactics learned in the United States require a substantial makeover.
National Defense July 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Urban Fighting Highlights Need for Smaller Weapons The U.S. military services spend billions of dollars on precision-guided bombs, missiles and artillery shells, which, for the most part, have proved inadequate for urban fighting in Iraqi cities.
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