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In The Shadows

Emir Farid Chehab was independent Lebanon’s first Head of Intelligence. A new book collects his informant’s notes, papers and tip-offs.

Lines In The Sand

With Iraq and Palestine already divided by internecine civil conflict, the battle lines in Beirut are being drawn anew

The myth of the surge

Hoping to turn enemies into allies, US forces are arming all sides of the civil war insurgents . But it’s already starting to backfire.

Top 10 Lies of the Iraq War

Remembering the biggest collection of untruths in diplomatic history which has helped perpetuate a tragic war

Iraq’s last chance?

Ayad Allawi may have achieved little permanent success in his time as Iraq’s Prime Minister, but the momentum is building that he, and he alone, has the answers

Top 10 New myths of Zionism

Israel was built on a set of pretexts that the historical record has substantively swept aside: A land without a people for a people without a land, the fairness of the UN partition plan and the Arab governments ordering the Palestinians to leave in

The politics of torture

After rape, beatings, electrocution and illegal detention for nearly four years, Abu Omar knows the painful truth of CIA tactics in the War on Terror

Dogs of war

Gaza gang boss Ahmed Dogmosh finds himself in an unenviable position – at war with Hamas in their own backyard. But so far, he’s more than holding his own

The true cost of the US war on Iraq

Nobel-prize-winning economist has put chilling new figures to the US folly in the Middle East

The top 10 conspiracy theories about 9-11

With so much control of information, and so little public debate and inquiry into what happened, conspiracy theories continue to run wild