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Znet Article Ali: Favored Nation

Znet Article, October, 10 2007 Mahir Ali
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"The most powerful weapon in the struggle against extremism is not bullets or bombs - it is the universal appeal of freedom. Freedom is the design of our maker, and the longing of every soul." After all the crimes against humanity that his adminis...

Znet Article Ali: The face of rebellion everywhere

Znet Article, October, 09 2007 Mahir Ali
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IN a small Bolivian town called Vallegrande, somewhat to the discomfiture of the resident priest...

Znet Article Ali: Requiem for a freedom fighter

Znet Article, September, 25 2007 Mahir Ali
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ON a midwinter...

Znet Article Ali: Secularism and Islam: the Turkish experience

Znet Article, September, 05 2007 Mahir Ali
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RECENT political developments in Turkey have prompted an outpouring of comment to the effect that the re-election of the Justice and...

Znet Article Ali: The deadly battery-powered deputy

Znet Article, August, 07 2007 Mahir Ali
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WAY back in the days of the Cold War, it was common for derision to be heaped on the Soviet Union and its satellites whenever the concerned authorities sought to explain away a leader's prolonged absence from public view by tersely blaming it on a...

Znet Article Ali: Knight at the end of the day

Znet Article, June, 26 2007 Mahir Ali
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SIR Salman Rushdie - it has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? A faintly ridiculous ring, much like Sir Mick Jagger or Sir Ian Botham, and not a million miles removed from Lord Ahmed or Baroness Uddin. The British honours system is an absurd and un...

Znet Article Ali: Another one bites the dust

Znet Article, May, 16 2007 Mahir Ali
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AS the war in Iraq totters on in no particular direction and therefore with no end in sight, it continues to exact a heavy toll. The...

Znet Article Ali: Right way ahead for France

Znet Article, May, 09 2007 Mahir Ali
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THE French electorate this week forwent an opportunity to pick a woman as the head of the state ...

Znet Article Ali: Sinister side of the clown

Znet Article, May, 05 2007 Mahir Ali
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SOME of Boris Yeltsin's worst transgressions barely rated a mention in much of the media coverag...

Znet Article Ali: Implement your exit strategy, Tony

Znet Article, February, 14 2007 Mahir Ali
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ON December 14 last year, Tony Blair added another soiled feather to his cap when he became the ...

Znet Article Ali: No end to Bush war blues

Znet Article, January, 17 2007 Mahir Ali
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LAST month, the executioners of Saddam Hussein pulled off a small miracle when they succeeded in inducing a brief twinge of sympathy for the doomed dictator. Last week, some people found it hard not to feel at least a tiny bit sorry for another ma...

Znet Article Ali: Somalia: hold the applause

Znet Article, January, 09 2007 Mahir Ali
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THERE are a number of reasons why it would be imprudent for Ethiopia’s prime minister Meles Zenawi to bask too contentedly in the glow of his army’s rapid succes...

Znet Article Ali: The silencing of Anna Politkovskaya

Znet Article, October, 12 2006 Mahir Ali
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WHEN Anna Politkovskaya fell, there was a kind of hush even in the camp of her enemies - and there was no shortage of those. Chechnya’s pro-Moscow president Alu Alkhanov professed to be shocked, saying: “We had totally different vi...

Znet Article Ali: Three men and a conflict

Znet Article, October, 05 2006 Mahir Ali
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IF George W. Bush has his troubles, so does Pervez Musharraf. The US president has lately been seeking to control the damage from a leaked intelligence report that states the obvious: namely that the war in Iraq has exacerbated tendencies towards ...

Znet Article Ali: Regime change in Mogadishu

Znet Article, June, 27 2006 Mahir Ali
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APOLOGISTS for the pre-eminent global superpower frequently complain that the object of their allegiance all too often attracts unfavourable publicity even when it does a good deed. Ask them for an example and they'll invariably conjure up images ...

Znet Article Ali: Nothing to Kill or Die For

Znet Article, February, 06 2006 Mahir Ali
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AT the start of this week, the death toll stood at three and the situation seemed likely to deteriorate, even as commentators throughout Europe tried to hose down suggestions that what we have been witnessing is a clash of civilizations. It is har...

Znet Article Ali: Fight them on the beaches?

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Mahir Ali
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LAST week, the day after Sydney witnessed some of its worst racial violence in living memory, a woman in the affected suburb answered her doorbell only to find a pair of men, of “Middle Eastern appearance”, wishing to be let in. Sh...

Znet Article Ali: The Limits Of Beetle Mania

Znet Article, April, 18 2005 Mahir Ali
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WHEN Quentin Wheeler and Kelly Miller, a pair of Americans who describe themselves as “two of the only politically conservative scientists around”, were naming some of the 65 newly discovered species of mould-eating beetles, they d...

Znet Article Ali: Ripples in the Middle East?

Znet Article, March, 07 2005 Mahir Ali
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IT IS not hard to discern the equivalent of a spring in the step in the recent output of the commentators and analysts who either supported the American aggression against Iraq, or criticized it desultorily only after they saw it developing into a...

Znet Article Ali: On The Road To Rapproachment

Znet Article, January, 17 2004 Mahir Ali
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THE day will probably come when encounters between the leaders of India and Pakistan will no longer be deemed historic because they will no longer be uncommon. The day will come when citizens of both countries will need no more than a valid passpo...

Znet Article Ali: Terrorism Spreads To Turkey

Znet Article, November, 24 2003 Mahir Ali
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THERE are, naturally enough, efforts afoot to nail down a cause for the suicide bombings that have lately claimed at least 50 lives in Istanbul. Turkey, after all, did not join the “coalition of the willing”. Although influential m...

Znet Article Ali: So, Who's Winning This 'War'?

Znet Article, September, 08 2003 Mahir Ali
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IN the immediate aftermath of the extraordinary terrorist attacks on New York and Washington two years ago, some commentators outside the United States were sceptical of the claim that the world had changed forever.Forever, after all, is a long ti...

Znet Article Ali: Uncle Sam Needs A Helping Hand

Znet Article, September, 01 2003 Mahir Ali
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FOUR months after President George W. Bush announced the end of major combat in Iraq, the level of American as well as British military casualties in post-conquest Iraq has passed the numbers killed during the first phase of the conflict. At the s...

Znet Article Ali: More Bang For Their Buck

Znet Article, May, 18 2003 Mahir Ali
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"Al Qaeda is on the run," the president of the United States announced earlier this month. "That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but surely being decimated ... They're not a problem anymore." Last week, after the blasts in R...

Znet Article Ali: Roadmap To A Concentration Camp

Znet Article, May, 11 2003 Mahir Ali
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The toll continues to rise. A couple of weeks ago, gunfire from an Israeli tank cut short the life of award-winning British journalist James Miller. He and reporter Saira Shah - the two of them had collaborated on Beneath the Veil, a ground-breaki...

Znet Article Ali: Shock And Awe On The Road To Damascus

Znet Article, April, 15 2003 Mahir Ali
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SO, what's going to be the next venue for the Shock and Awe circus, the greatest show on earth? The North Koreans have been clamouring for a piece of the action. They are mightily miffed by the fact that Saddam Hussein has been favoured with two s...

Znet Article Ali: Blessed Are The Peacemakers

Znet Article, February, 12 2003 Mahir Ali
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BY the end of this week the world will have a better idea of how soon hostilities are likely to erupt on the Iraqi front. Hans Blix's statement to the UN Security Council on Saturday is widely construed as crucial. Even the mildest hint of Iraqi p...

Znet Article Ali: America's Next War May Be Deadlier

Znet Article, March, 14 2002 Mahir Ali
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Six months from now, by the time the first anniversary of the demise of the World Trade Centre towers rolls around, the United States is likely to be embroiled in another war. That war will have nothing whatsoever to do with the outrage perpetrate...

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