Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Syria Makes Overture Over Negotiations
Worried about being diplomatically isolated by Middle East peace talks, Syria has signaled its willingness to enter into negotiations with Israel for the second time in recent months. Syrian President Bashar Assad and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak issued a joint communiqué Monday urging the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia — the so-called…
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News E.U. Shuns Ban on Hamas
Rebuffing Washington, the European Union decided last week that it will not reclassify the political wing of Hamas as a terrorist group, insisting that its activities qualify it as a legitimate organization. Meeting last week in Brussels, the 15 European foreign ministers reached a unanimous decision not to change the political wing’s designation, a move…
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News Israel Welcomes Overtures Made By Pakistani Leader
In response to recent overtures by Pakistani ruler Pervez Musharraf, Israel said this week that it is willing to establish relations with Pakistan, one of the world’s largest Muslim countries. “Israel is very encouraged with this new announcement of the president of Pakistan,” Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee…
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News Oil for Food Sales Seen As Iraq Tie To Al Qaeda
The hunt for Saddam Hussein’s money could provide some clues to one of the claims made by the Bush administration to justify its war in Iraq — the possible link between the former Iraqi regime and the Al Qaeda terrorist group. Two entities, a shadowy banking network linked by the administration to Al Qaeda and…
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News Putin Pledging More Scrutiny On Iran Nukes
Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting with a group of senior American Jewish communal leaders in a hastily arranged Kremlin session Tuesday evening, promised to tighten Russian monitoring of Iran’s nuclear program, but he rejected a request to cut off ties with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The two and a half hour meeting, which was initiated…
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News Muslim Charities Sue CBS, Investigator
Two American Muslim charities and a Georgia-based poultry company are suing CBS and a terrorism investigator for designating them, in a book and on the prime-time CBS program “60 Minutes,” as sponsors of Al Qaeda. The Heritage Education Trust and the Safa Foundation, two Virginia-based charities under investigation for possible terrorism links, are demanding that…
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News U.S. Taking Heat for An Afghan Drug Boom
The Bush administration, already under fire for under-funding the rebuilding of Afghanistan and permitting that country’s warlords to retain their power, is now facing charges that it is allowing Afghan drug production to boom. The charges, initially raised by a handful of independent experts, were aired at a Senate hearing in May. Critics say the…
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News Pentagon Team on Iran Comes Under Fire
A small Pentagon planning office under fire for its alleged manipulation of intelligence on Iraq is also dealing with other countries in the Persian Gulf, including Iran, raising concerns among critics about the shaping of Bush administration policy in this sensitive region. Defense Department spokesmen acknowledge that a small, four-member team is working on Iran…
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