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...Asad air base in Anbar province; a year ago, a military-intelligence report said the province had been "lost" to the jihadis. Now AQI seems to have been kicked out of Anbar, pushed back from Baghdad, forced to carry out its most lethal attacks on the northern periphery of the country. It was feared that the weeks before Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker made their September reports to Congress would be dominated by the insurgency's State of Iraq report: spectacular bombings, perhaps even a Tet-style offensive. But-fingers crossed as I write this-Baghdad seems merely murderous...
...second scenario: Israel invades a broad swath of northern Gaza as far as the teeming Jabaliya refugee camp, pushing the rocketeers back out of range of Sderot and other Israeli communities. In this plan, Israel would also turn a corridor along the Philadelphi Road, between Gaza and Egypt, into a no-man's land to stop smugglers from bringing more weapons into Gaza through an underground maze of tunnels. Israel would also cut off Gaza's electricity, gas and water, in what deputy premier Haim Ramon described as "a price tag" that Israel should stick on every rocket fired...
...implications, the plan is also expected to reinstate Rome's Fiumicino airport as the airline's primary transatlantic hub, pulling flights from Milan's Malpensa airport. A decade ago, the construction of the airport 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Milan was seen as a great victory for powerful northern politicians. Now both the Milanese mayor Letizia Moratti and the governor of the Lombardy region Roberto Formigoni - both rising stars of the center-right, which is the opposition in the capital - have vowed to fight the plan. Alitalia officials will also be bracing for the reaction from the unions...
...delights of a film based around footy that the women characters are so beautifully drawn. "From what I observed as a kid, the women of that time were strong individuals - resilient, but also really warm," says Nable from his northern Sydney home. "The actresses who came on board added another element to what we had on paper." Toughness comes in many forms. It's the type shown by Emma and the wise barmaid Kate (Kate Mulvany) that eventually gives Grub a glimpse of a meaningful life beyond warriordom...
...next day, I attended a concert of Persian classical music at Niyavaran Palace, one of the former Shah's residences in northern Tehran. A decade ago, there were no such concerts to attend in Tehran because the mullahs frowned on music as un-Islamic. This summer there were concerts scheduled across the country, several of them including orchestras with female musicians. At least 3,000 people, among them many women in black chadors, mingled before the candlelit steps of the palace under a velvet sky. The country's preeminent poets and directors sat alongside government officials and their chador-clad...