Eurasia Security Watch: No. 164
Lebanon finds a president;
Campaigning in Krgystan;
Turkmenistan reverts to type;
Moscow flexes its Mediterranean muscle...
Lebanon finds a president;
Campaigning in Krgystan;
Turkmenistan reverts to type;
Moscow flexes its Mediterranean muscle...
Stoking nationalist sentiment... in Israel;
Putin's pick for president  
Inching toward peace in the Philippines;
New Australian premier wants out of Iraq
Moscow turns up the heat on Britain;
More trouble in U.S.-Russia ties
In recent weeks, the White House appeared to be gaining serious ground in its efforts to cobble together an international consensus to confront Iran. Today, however, Administration officials are desperately trying to put the pieces of their Iran policy back together. The culprit is the intelligence community's new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which asserts that the Iranian regime currently is not in the business of making nuclear weapons.