05/11/2006 Article

The Axis of Not Quite As Evil

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, War in Iraq, War on terrorism

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Bitterlemons, November 2, 2006 We might now take George Bush at his word: in the wake of the September 11 attacks, he named three nations

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08/06/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
V. The Politics of Indignation

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Al Qaeda, Bush Administration, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism, War on terrorism

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Asia Times, June 8, 2006 The foundational belief of the “war on terrorism” is that militant Islam is hollow. We are not fighting a credible

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03/06/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
III. An Exchange of Narratives

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Dialogue, Hezbollah, Political Islam, War on terrorism

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Asia Times, June 3, 2006 There was a time in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, when Western intellectuals debated the meaning of the

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01/04/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
II. Handing Victory to the Extremists

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Political Islam, War on terrorism

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Asia Times, April 1, 2006 After the writers of this article and our colleagues visited the Middle East for talks with some of the leaders

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31/03/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
I. Talking With the ‘Terrorists’

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Middle East, Political Islam, War in Iraq, War on terrorism

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Part one: Asia Times, March 31, 2006 Seventy-two hours before the Iraqi people voted on a new parliament, on December 12, 2005, we were told

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08/08/2005 Interview

Fostering Muslim-West Dialogue

Tags: Al Qaeda, Dialogue, Middle East, War in Iraq, War on terrorism

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Alastair Crooke interviewed by Humayun Chaudhry, Al Jazeera, August 8, 2005 Alastair Crooke is a former official with Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency who has worked

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10/12/2004 Article

It is Essential to Talk to the ‘Terrorists’

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Dialogue, War on terrorism

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The Guardian, December 10, 2004 The rhetoric that we in the west are engaged in “a war on terrorism” is so embedded in our thinking

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