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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27207

"Bear Hug
By P. David Hornik"
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 5, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET:

"Russia’s role in the Middle East—including its growing penetration of Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab states—puts it beyond the pale of diplomatic persuasion and hopes of friendliness and reasonability. Its presence on the UN Security Council casts a long shadow over hopes of stopping Iran’s nuclearization via sanctions. Putin appears to be drawing on a deep wellspring of anti-Western hatred that enables him to ally with forces as seemingly alien as Shiite-fundamentalist Iran and Hezbollah with their vaguely-Shiite accomplice the Assad regime."

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27199

"Putin’s Middle East Visit"
By Ariel Cohen
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 2, 2007

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http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/wm1356.cfm

ISSUES > Russia and Eurasia

February 12, 2007
"Confronting Putin's Anti-U.S. Crusade"
by Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
WebMemo #1356