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		<title>Review: Inheriting Syria: Bashar&#8217;s Trial by Fire by Flynt Leverett</title>
		<link>http://chasingterror.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/review-inheriting-syria-bashars-trial-by-fire-by-flynt-leverett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noel0</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inheriting Syria: Bashar&#8217;s Trial by Fire is an analysis of Syria&#8217;s current geo-political situation with suggestions for how to engage the country diplomatically and successfully.  Leverett argues Syria&#8217;s current political behavior follows a &#8220;script&#8221; Hafez al-Asad wrote for his son and successor, Bashar.  Leverett uses his book to describe this script and the major players in its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chasingterror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7944765&amp;post=316&amp;subd=chasingterror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Truth about Syria by Barry Rubin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noel0</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Truth about Syria is an extended opinion piece, backed up with many sources.  The manuscript is highly colored by the author&#8217;s opinion&#8211;noticeably in the characterization of the Assad family as the mafia, and Bashar Assad as a &#8220;nerd.&#8221;  Rubin&#8217;s analysis of Syrian politics is consistent and deeply disturbing.  Unfortunately, the loaded descriptions and one-note arguments place a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chasingterror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7944765&amp;post=305&amp;subd=chasingterror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<link>http://chasingterror.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/update-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next set of reviews will focus on Syria.  Questions and comments are appreciated.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chasingterror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7944765&amp;post=300&amp;subd=chasingterror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Shi&#8217;is of Iraq by Yitzhak Nakash</title>
		<link>http://chasingterror.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/review-the-shiis-of-iraq-by-yitzhak-nakash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noel0</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shi&#8217;is of Iraq is a comprehensive recent history of Shi&#8217;is in the country, focusing primarily on the past 200 years. Nakash painstakingly details their rising and falling fortunes in the economic and political realms. The Shi&#8217;is of Iraq logically tackles certain issues concerning the Shi&#8217;is, including their political rise and fall, the individuals and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chasingterror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7944765&amp;post=290&amp;subd=chasingterror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Kurds by Kevin McKiernan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noel0</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kurds is a journalist&#8217;s account of the ethnic group&#8217;s obstacles and triumphs, focusing on the latter part of the 20th century and the first few years of the 21st.  McKiernan&#8217;s extensive experience in the Kurdish-dominated regions of Iraq, and&#8211;to a lesser extent&#8211;their enclaves in Turkey, Syria, and Iran, provides a unique perspective on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chasingterror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7944765&amp;post=281&amp;subd=chasingterror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Churchill&#8217;s Folly by Christopher Catherwood</title>
		<link>http://chasingterror.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/review-churchills-folly-by-christopher-catherwood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Churchill&#8217;s Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq recounts the three years after World War I that saw the creation of the modern Iraqi state out of parts of the Ottoman Empire.  Catherwood&#8217;s analysis of those tumultuous years consists of frequent correspondence between the major actors involved in the carving up of the Middle East.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chasingterror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7944765&amp;post=260&amp;subd=chasingterror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The History of Nations: Iraq by David Schaffer</title>
		<link>http://chasingterror.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/the-history-of-nations-iraq-by-david-schaffer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noel0</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The History of Nations: Iraq compiles book excerpts and political speeches on the history and evolution of the country.  The excerpts provide an academically-geared foundation, with appropriate sources for further research concerning Iraq.    From pre-history through the early years of the American invasion of Iraq, the chapters are linked together with concise editorial introductions that provide the necessary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chasingterror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7944765&amp;post=246&amp;subd=chasingterror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Understanding Iraq by William R. Polk</title>
		<link>http://chasingterror.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/review-understanding-iraq-by-william-r-polk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noel0</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding Iraq quickly describes Iraq&#8217;s early history and the cultural patterns that define its people today.  Polk illustrates many historical instances that have come to define and inform Iraqi perceptions&#8211;including a justified paranoia about colonial ambitions from Western powers inherited from the British Mandate in the first part of the 20th century.  This is perhaps the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chasingterror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7944765&amp;post=231&amp;subd=chasingterror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<link>http://chasingterror.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/update-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My next set of reviews will focus on Iraq.  As always, feedback is appreciated<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chasingterror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7944765&amp;post=214&amp;subd=chasingterror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Hatred&#8217;s Kingdom by Dore Gold</title>
		<link>http://chasingterror.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/review-hatreds-kingdom-by-dore-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the sensationalist title and jacket text, Hatred&#8217;s Kingdom builds a compelling argument that links Saudi Arabia to the financing and promulgation of Wahhabism and the militant terrorism associated with that Islamic creed. Gold&#8217;s analysis of the growth and spread of Wahhabism starts with the formation of the first Saudi state and continues through the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chasingterror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7944765&amp;post=208&amp;subd=chasingterror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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