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	<title>Small talk &#187; Arab World</title>
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		<title>Capital punishment in China &amp; Iran</title>
		<link>http://jurnan.eu/2010/08/capital-punishment-in-china-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reckless Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The death penalty is back in the headlines. China is set to change ‘its ways’ by excluding the death penalty as a possible punishment for those who try to smuggle cultural relics, precious metals and rare animals out of the country, as well for those that are found guilty of a number of fraudulent activities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan leaks</title>
		<link>http://jurnan.eu/2010/07/afghan-leaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reckless Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks presented us with a great number of things we shouldn’t know about the Afghan war, and not for the first time. Of course, what we shouldn’t know is strictly tied to your perspective. Wikileaks thinks we should know, as I’m sure many journalists do too. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons why issues should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates: mind your own business</title>
		<link>http://jurnan.eu/2010/06/gates-mind-your-own-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reckless Rose</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jurnan.eu/?p=680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to EuropeanPlanet I came across an article by ‘the Middle  East’ online. In it Robert Gates is quoted to have said that the ‘European Union is an important reason why Turkey’s foreign policy and its stance towards the Western world have changed.
That is not something we should applaud. Turkey – being a secular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing a nuclear Iran</title>
		<link>http://jurnan.eu/2010/04/facing-a-nuclear-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reckless Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, China seems to have taken ‘safety first’ to heart by agreeing to walk the road towards imposing sanctions on Iran. For a long time both Peking and Moscow have been stubbornly resisting the much more unanimous western nation’s wishes to stop, or at least slow down, Iran’s nuclear ambitions. 
Already burdened by unequal -and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not quite gone yet</title>
		<link>http://jurnan.eu/2010/03/not-quite-gone-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reckless Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch troops will stay in Uruzgan until at least early 2011, according to interim-minister of defense Eimert van Middelkoop (christian union). Quite a different prospect than the current deal that a withdrawal should start in August this year, so that by December all troops would be gone from the Afghan region.
Staying is not all either. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elections in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://jurnan.eu/2010/03/elections-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://jurnan.eu/2010/03/elections-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reckless Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another crucial phase for Iraq’s future has passed. How does one sum up the March 7th parliamentary elections? Not with a one-liner.
Starting with voter turn-out estimates, said to lay around 62%. To some that figure is a disappointment, especially in comparison with Iraq’s previous election. Nevertheless, the share of people eligible to vote that actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dutch likely to leave Uruzgan</title>
		<link>http://jurnan.eu/2010/02/the-dutch-likely-to-leave-uruzgan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reckless Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the United Nations officially made a request to the Dutch government to lengthen their stay in Afghan province Uruzgan. However much the Christian Democrats (CDA) would like to fulfil that demand, each day that passes makes this less likely to happen.
Especially Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) refuses to let go of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lead: Get Iran into line</title>
		<link>http://jurnan.eu/2010/02/466/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reckless Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran is a trouble(d) country, a place where women are oppressed and do not enjoy the equality as many grew so accustomed to. Its reign is one of terror, its fist made of iron and patience is running low. Ahmadinejad is considered a recalcitrant and extremely provocative leader who can only do well in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yemen</title>
		<link>http://jurnan.eu/2010/01/yemen/</link>
		<comments>http://jurnan.eu/2010/01/yemen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reckless Rose</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jurnan.eu/?p=434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’ll be easy to help out Yemen in fighting their fertile soil for terrorism: Give 50 billion dollars over the next ten years, and forget just about half of the country’s debt to other nations. That is, if we may believe Hisham Sharaf, Yemen’s deputy minister of planning and international cooperation.
The plagued countries foreign minister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: Create a signal, not a problem</title>
		<link>http://jurnan.eu/2010/01/the-refrain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reckless Rose</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jurnan.eu/?p=419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The next Iraqi elections are crucial. There are the more obvious things no one wants to see, such as fraud, violence and deaths, but there are also aspects of the democratic process that are a lot less clear. Remarkably, the old Saddam-Baath party is an example.
They should be kept at bay when it comes to [...]]]></description>
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