Al-Ahram Weekly Online   18 - 24 September 2008
Issue No. 915
International
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

The ghost of Stalingrad
Russia is determined to bring NATO's expansion eastward to a halt. Can it prevail, asks Eric Walberg
Boeing 737
16-year-old Boeing 737 that Aeroflot Nord had operated for just seven weeks crashed minutes before landing in Perm on Sunday, killing all 88 people on board...
Facing terror
India is reeling with yet another terrorist attack that seems designed to halt the Indian economic miracle and derail its democratic, open society, writes Gamal Nkrumah
McPalin
Watch out for the loose cannon, the gun-toting hockey mom from Alaska, warns Anayat Durrani
Crossing the line
Washington's pre-emptive policy in Pakistan's borderlands is fraught with risk, writes Graham Usher in Islamabad

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