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Intelligence inaction

A bipartisan panel of the U.S. Congress confirms that faults in the internal security system, as much as the persistence of anti-U.S. sentiment abroad

The Saudi connection

WHAT was the connection between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the terror attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001? Too many glaring

The BBC's television centre in London. The broadcasting agency is at the centre of a storm.-JIM WATSON/AFP

Media turnaround

The collaboration between the mainstream Western media and the Bush and Blair administrations over the Iraq war appears to be over - the former have,

The pipeline that was blown up on the first day oil was pumped through it to the Syrian port of Banias.-ALADIN ABDEL NABY/ REUTERS

Evolving resistance

The Iraqi response to the Anglo-American occupation is apparently developing into an organised resistance movement that increasingly resorts to gueril

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Syed Ali Khamenei addressing a gathering on June 12 in the southern city of Varamin. He accused the United States of stirring up trouble in the country.-ISNA/AP

Iranian discontent

The student protests against the move to privatise higher education could be the harbinger of a movement of opposition to Iran's conservative clerics

As India and Pakistan appear to be hitting the road to peace, preparations are on to resume the Delhi-Lahore bus service. Here, the 'Lahore bus' at the Delhi Transport Corporation workshop on May 28.-PRAKASH SINGH/AFP

Hesitant first steps

The dialogue process between India and Pakistan stumbles forward, with the United States urging them on and with support for talks growing on both sid

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon defending his endorsement of the `road map' at a Likud party meeting in Jerusalem on May 26.-AMIT SHABI/AP

A tricky road to peace

The Israeli Cabinet approves with reservations the new road map for the Palestinian peace process, but there are enough potholes along the way to the

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami at a rally in Beirut on May 13, which was attended by thousands of Hizbollah supporters from across Lebanon.-MAHMOUD TAWIL/AP

Turning to Iran

The United States seems to be focussing on Iran as its next target for a psychological-military offensive, but in the absence of clinching proof again

Vajpayee and his entourage with Nawaz Sharif at the Wagah border on February 20, 1999, on the Indian Prime Minister's arrival there by the 'bus to Lahore'.-SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY

Stakes in peace

The civilian component of the Paksitani regime is sensitive to the benefits of a normal relationship with India, but it would take a great deal of cou

`Embedded' truth

The Western media's coverage of the invasion has been neither credible nor objective. By far, they have simply toed the line of the political and mili

Built-in resistance

Theories that divide Iraqi society into separate compartments are too simplistic, and the calculation that Iraqis will trust the invaders and reject t

At a rally organised by the ruling Baath Party in Baghdad on March 18.-KARIM SAHIB/AFP

The ground realities

The U.S. may be in for a rude shock in Iraq, which has a long history of people resisting attempts to conquer and rule them.