News and Analysis Updates (9/23/06)

Ramadan Mubarak!

US and EU precondition seems to be the problem:

• Abbas Says National Unity Talks Back at “Point Zero” (Reuters)

Its too dangerous for girls to go to school? Wasn’t that the Taliban’s song?

• Afghan Girls, Back in the Shadows: Home Classes Proliferate as Anti-Government Insurgents Step Up Attacks on Schools (Washington Post)

In Iraq the Sunni and Shi`a violence rages…

• Baghdad Blast Marks Bloody Start to Ramadan (AFP)

… but Israeli policy reconciles Sunni and Shia militants in the Levant:

• Israel Troubled that War in Lebanon Drove Its Enemies Closer (Christian Science Monitor)

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