Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Paul McGeough
Light the touch paper and stand back
Paul McGeough What the hell was that? In a perfect global storm: massive over-reach by crackpot Christian fundamentalists in California collided with what may have been a lucky break for the remnants of al-Qaeda's...
Paul McGeough
When charity bites the hand that feeds it
Paul McGeough In Afghanistan it's mop-up time. As foreign armies eye the exits, a meeting in San Francisco last week was a different kind of mopping-up for a non-combat force that is likely to remain on the ground...
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Authoritarian habits prove hard to break
Paul McGeough If the rise of the Egyptian Islamists gives us a few laughs, the refusal by the Cairo generals to relinquish power is the stuff of tears.
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Terrorists thrive as US turns blind eye
Paul McGeough Who would have thought in a post-September 11 world that you could find an organisation that kills hundreds of Americans in dozens of terrorist strikes - but which Washington refuses to punitively...
Paul McGeough
WikiLeaks reveals unreliable war cries and chequebook democracy
Paul McGeough THE danger in WikiLeaks' dump of reams of super-sensitive cables from Washington's worldwide listening posts is not merely that the game has been revealed but how it might play out in future.
