Security experts gathered for a two-day meeting in Sicily organized by the Italian Atlantic Committee and the Atlantic Treaty Association, umbrella organizations working on security issues in NATO countries. The discussions are focusing on the need to increase stability in the Mediterranean region. These include terrorism in Iraq, the Middle East and N. Africa. 

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will put Jerusalem on the negotiating table as he hurtles toward a “joint declaration” with the Palestinian Authority ahead of next month’s U.S.-sponsored Mideast summit. The prime minister says that a joint declaration with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas prior to the summit will lead to direct negotiations.

Iran: Millions hold nationwide rallies to mark 'Jerusalem Day' 
Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 5, 2007

Millions of Iranians attended nationwide rallies Friday in support of the Palestinians, while the country's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel's continued existence was an "insult to human dignity." "The creation, continued existence and unlimited (Western) support for this regime is an insult to human dignity," Ahmadinejad said.

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Three groups of experts - Russian, Iranian and Syrian – still at sea over why Syria’s two early warning stations failed to protect its skies or identify Israeli air force raiders on Sept. 6. October 5, 2007, 8:59 AM (GMT+02:00)

From The Editors at FamilySecurityMatters.org
While American children study math, geography and science, children throughout Pakistan and elsewhere in the Middle East are attending madrassahs, where the curriculum is one of extremist Islam.

RAMADI, IRAQ – Now that major combat operations are finished almost everywhere in Iraq’s Anbar Province, the United States Army and Marine Corps are more like a United Nations peacekeeping force with rules of engagement that allow them to kill if they have to. “We’re like the Peace Corps with muscles,” is how one soldier put it when I left with his unit at 4:00 in the morning to deliver food stuffs and toys to needy families in the countryside on the edge of the desert.

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Current Conditions in the Iraq War

Brown discusses with deputy premier means of fostering economic cooperation Baghdad, 02 October2007 (Voices of Iraq) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday discussed with Iraqi Deputy Premier Burham Saleh means of bolstering the economic cooperation between the two countries as well as the latest developments in Iraq.

DEBKAfile reports: Russians employed at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor suddenly depart in a body, according to local Arab sources October 1, 2007, 11:01 AM (GMT+02:00)

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told Conservative Party delegates in Britain on Sunday that UN efforts to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the country. Influential conservative thinker Norman Podhoretz told a British paper that he has advised U.S. President George W. Bush to do just that.

By Dr. Jack Wheeler, To The Point News Sep 25, 2007 - 12:09:27 PM "Everyone in the government and military can only talk of one thing,' he reports. 'No matter who I talked to, all they could do was ask me, over and over again, 'Do you think the Americans will attack us?'