UPI International Intelligence articles from February 2006

UPI International Intelligence archives from February 2006

Analysis: Bush -- Never surrender to evil.
February 1, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI DOHA, Qatar, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush reinforced his resolve in fighting the war on terrorism, promoting democracy in the greater Middle East and making the United...

Sharon's Kadima presents Knesset list.
February 1, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Kadima party Tuesday presented an impressive gallery of Knesset candidates, including senior ministers, retired generals and professors. The list seemed...

Review of the Arab press.
February 1, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 1: Arab newspapers continued to comment and analyze Wednesday Hamas' victory in the Jan. 25 Palestinian legislative elections. Lebanon's an-Nahar said the size of Hamas' victory...

Bush's restraint on N.Korea raises hope.
February 1, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- South Korean officials were relieved Wednesday when U.S. President George W. Bush toned down his criticism of North Korea in his State of the Union address. In the annual policy address...

Outside View: Islamists reap reward.
February 1, 2006... Byline: BARRY RUBIN HERZILYA, Israel, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The landslide victory of the Islamist group Hamas in the Jan. 25 Palestinian elections marks the collapse of the Palestinian national movement. Before talking about what Hamas will do...

Analysis: Putin and energy.
February 1, 2006... Byline: PETER LAVELLE MOSCOW, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Reactions to Russian President Vladimir Putin's three-hour long news conference Tuesday have largely focused on the referral of Iran's nuclear dossier to the United Nations, the turbulent...

French paper reprints Mohammed cartoons.
February 1, 2006... Byline: ELIZABETH BRYANT PARIS, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A French newspaper waded into an international storm over freedom of expression vs. respecting religious beliefs by printing Wednesday all 12 controversial Danish cartoons spoofing the...

Germany fears for hostages' lives.
February 1, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA KEHL AM RHEIN, Germany, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The kidnappers of two German engineers in Iraq have given the German government a 72-hour deadline, which could run out Wednesday, to cut all ties with Iraq's government. ...

Hundreds injured in police-settler clash.
February 1, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- More than 200 policemen and Jewish nationalists were injured Wednesday in a clash over nine illegal houses settlers built on privately owned Arab land in the West Bank. It was...

U.K.'s Straw: Iran threats 'a mistake'.
February 1, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw warned Iran Wednesday it would be making "a mistake" if it continued to threaten to break off negotiations over its nuclear programs if the case was...

Analysis: U.N. cannot ignore Iran.
February 1, 2006... Byline: LAUREN MACK UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- With the impending nuclear crisis in Iran set to go before the International Atomic Energy Agency, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling for a long-term approach to tackling...

Outside View: No more concessions.
February 1, 2006... Byline: GIORA EILAND JERUSALEM, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was not interested in and did not think that a further unilateral withdrawal in the West Bank was a smart thing to do. This was not his intention and there were no...

UPI Energy Watch.
February 1, 2006... Byline: ANDREA R. MIHAILESCU WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Bush to reduce America's oil addiction President George W. Bush said America needs to cure its oil addiction in his address to Congress announcing an "Advanced Energy...

EU, India meet to resolve Doha differences.
February 1, 2006... Byline: DONNA BORAK WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Seeking to build on momentum established at the annual economic summit in Switzerland, top trade chiefs from the European Union and India met Wednesday for bilateral trade talks hoping to...

Policy options for Iran circling.
February 2, 2006... WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A foreign policy think tank says engagement with Iran may result in an end to the impasse over its nuclear program. Michael Kraig, director of Policy and Dialogue at the Stanley Foundation, a foreign policy...

Analysis: U.N.'s Annan 'must' have regrets.
February 2, 2006... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says anyone in a job like his in today's world, for as long as he has been in it -- he is one month into the last year of his second and last five...

Analysis: Can Hamas be good for peace?
February 2, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The senior British Intelligence official who negotiated the end to the intifada, now retired, claims in a private policy paper that the victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections...

Politics & Policies: Why Hamas can fail.
February 2, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI DOHA, Qatar, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Hamas' victory in the Palestinian elections has surprised the leadership of the Islamist movement more than anyone else. Hamas never expected to win the majority and inherit the very...

Analysis: India not to deter modernization.
February 2, 2006... Byline: KUSHAL JEENA NEW DELHI, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The Indian government needs to stand firm and not go back on economic reforms and modernization programs despite opposition from leftist allies and employees protesting against private...

Analysis: Tsunami victims' rights abused?
February 2, 2006... Byline: LAUREN MACK UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A new report examining post-tsunami reconstruction chides the international community for not doing enough and accuses several Southeast Asian governments of contributing to human rights...

Iran looks for Chinese help.
February 2, 2006... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Iran's foreign ministry issued a statement Thursday indicating it is looking for Chinese involvement ahead of a key vote taking the nuclear crisis to the United Nations. China's policy...

Review of the Arab press.
February 2, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 2: Qatar's al-Rayah daily commented Thursday the Palestinian territories were at risk of political chaos if reports that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in fact asked Hamas to...

Analysis: S.Korea's Kim eyes North visit.
February 2, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung is seeking to visit North Korea and meet its reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il, to break a deadlock in the inter-Korean reconciliation and peace process....

U.N. watchdog debates Iran row.
February 2, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA KEHL AM RHEIN, Germany, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Thursday said Iran would not pose an imminent threat and added he was against immediately sanctioning the Islamic Republic on its...

Analysis: Ulster peace process in jeopardy.
February 2, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Efforts to restore Northern Ireland's political institutions have been thrown into disarray by two crucial reports into the activities of the Irish Republican Army. The IRA has denied...

Commentary: Later than we think.
February 2, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The man in charge of hoodwinking the Western powers about Iran's now 18-year-old secret nuclear program believes the apocalypse will happen in his own lifetime. He'll be 50 in...

NATO chief says alliance's solidarity key.
February 2, 2006... Byline: ELIZABETH BRYANT PARIS, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Just hours before the Dutch parliament was expected to vote in favor of sending troops to southern Afghanistan, NATO's Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer made an impassioned appeal in...

UPI Energy Watch.
February 2, 2006... Byline: ANDREA R. MIHAILESCU WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Offshore U.S. gas potential The Interior Department estimates the United States has enormous gas resources off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, Alaska and eastern Gulf of Mexico...

U.S., Korea launch free-trade deal.
February 2, 2006... Byline: DONNA BORAK WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Top U.S. and South Korean trade officials announced Thursday plans to formally launch into free-trade negotiations forging one of the biggest trade compacts since the North American Free...

Violence down as Haiti election nears.
February 3, 2006... Byline: JASON MOTLAGH PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A recent surge in shootings and kidnappings has threatened to spoil Haiti's long-awaited presidential vote, but violence has come to a near standstill of late and elections...

Analysis: Seoul hopeful on FTA with U.S.
February 3, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- South Korea hopes negotiations with the United States to jump on the free-trade bandwagon could ensure great benefits to its export-driven economy. But there seems to be a long way to go...

Ire continues to spread over cartoons.
February 3, 2006... Byline: ELIZABETH BRYANT PARIS, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- France's leftist Liberation newspaper joined others in Belgium and Italy to reprint Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed Friday, as anger over the caricatures continued to inflame the...

Egyptian boat sinks with 1,300 on board.
February 3, 2006... CAIRO, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- An Egyptian ship with 1,300 passengers on board sank in the Red Sea off the southern Egyptian port of Ghardaga Friday amid reports most passengers perished. Egyptian maritime sources said rescue teams saved 100 people...

Analysis: German spy row heats up.
February 3, 2006... Byline: ROLAND FLAMINI WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Just prior to the Iraq war, Germany's then foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, traveled to Ankara, Turkey, and met with two agents of Germany's Foreign Intelligence Service, BND, to discuss...

Public sector in Germany to be shut down.
February 3, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA KEHL AM RHEIN, Germany, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Germany's civil servants are gearing up for the largest strike the country has seen in 14 years to fight longer working hours and job cuts. Overflowing trash cans, crying...

UPI Energy Watch.
February 3, 2006... Byline: ANDREA R. MIHAILESCU WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Yuganskneftegaz appeal rejected in Yukos case An Amsterdam court rejected Yugaskneftegaz's appeal Thursday to prohibit the sale of Yukos' non-core foreign assets, Russian media...

Walker's World: What's funny about Islam?
February 3, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Allah or Jehovah or God or Providence evidently has a playful and penetrating sense of coincidence. We might have called it a sense of humor, but for the seriousness of the extraordinary...

Politics & Policies: Cartoon clash.
February 4, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI DOHA, Qatar, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The philosophical, cultural and ethical schisms dividing the Western and Muslim medias are a microcosm of the societies they represent -- fractured and thinking along unparalleled lines....

Analysis:Cartoon row partly Danes' fault.
February 4, 2006... Byline: ROLAND FLAMINI WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- In September, when the conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed depicted as a terrorist, angry Arab ambassadors in Copenhagen...

Policy Watch: Winning the 'Long War'.
February 4, 2006... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other high level Bush administration officials are increasingly referring to the current conflict with Islamic radicalism as the "Long War." They...

Politics & Policies: The cartoon war.
February 6, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The cartoon war is escalating and the Middle East is going loony tunes, as President Reagan used to say. Throngs of angry Muslims upset over a newspaper cartoon depicting the Prophet...

Walker's World: How women won and lost.
February 6, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The deaths in the same week of Betty Friedan at 85 and Wendy Wasserstein, 30 years younger, is a remarkable coincidence. These two emblematic New Yorkers represent two bookends of the...

Review of the Arab press.
February 6, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 6: Arab newspapers commented Monday on the escalating row in the Arab world over cartoons published in a Danish newspaper deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad. Lebanon's...

Mystery shrouds al-Qaida escape in Yemen.
February 6, 2006... Byline: MOHAMMED AL-DAILAMY SANAA, Yemen, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The mysterious escape of 23 dangerous al-Qaida operatives from a high-security prison in Yemen is bound to further strain U.S.-Yemeni relations. Observers expressed fears that...

PA arrests 25 $700m government thiefs.
February 6, 2006... JERUSALEM, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The Palestinian Authority has arrested 25 state officials who are alleged to have stolen at least $700 million in public funds. The Palestinian attorney-general's office said the total sum could potentially reach...

Outside View: Seizing the opportunity.
February 6, 2006... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Although Israeli politics is traditionally affected by what the Palestinians do, coming just before Israel's national elections in March, Hamas' rise to power will complicate the political...

Slum-dwellers on edge as Haiti vote nears.
February 6, 2006... Byline: JASON MOTLAGH CITE SOLEIL, Haiti, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Residents of one of the most dangerous slums in the Americas fear violence beyond its reaches and bemoan the long distances they must walk to vote in Haiti's crucial presidential...

Berlin worried by Iran, cartoon row.
February 6, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a strong stand against a nuclear Iran over the weekend, while Germany's Foreign Minister tried to play a conciliatory role in the row over the Prophet...

Mass anti-Thaksin rally raises heat.
February 6, 2006... Byline: JOHN HAIL BANGKOK, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra faces the toughest challenge of his five-year-old premiership following the surprise resignation of two cabinet ministers and a mass rally in central Bangkok...

Analysis: India's IAEA vote.
February 6, 2006... Byline: KUSHAL JEENA NEW DELHI, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- India's vote against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency will pave the way for better Indo-U.S. relations and a smoother passage for the civilian nuclear energy deal, Indian...

Outside View: Egypt: taking the lead.
February 6, 2006... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Alon Ben-Meir has just returned from a second extensive trip in as many months to Israel, Egypt, and Palestine where he met with scores of government officials, political party leaders,...

Outside View: Holocaust in the making.
February 6, 2006... Byline: BOUTHAINA SHAABAN DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- As German leaders traditionally do on visits to Israel, Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the Holocaust. There she termed the Holocaust "a source of...

After the cartoons: Longer-term impact?
February 6, 2006... Byline: ELIZABETH BRYANT PARIS, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Move over Great Satan. When it comes to being Western country non grata in the Middle East -- and the Muslim world in general -- the United States now has competition. Today, it is...

U.K. hails prospect of Ulster devolution.
February 7, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- There is a "real possibility" that Northern Ireland's devolved power-sharing government could be restored in the near future, Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain...

Corridors of Power: An accord in Iraq.
February 7, 2006... Byline: ROLAND FLAMINI WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- An all-inclusive Iraq Reconciliation Conference that is expected to call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops is scheduled to be held in Baghdad this summer, a United Nations source said...

Analysis: Beirut riots aimed for chaos.
February 7, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Lebanon came dangerously close to the precipice Sunday, and risked being pushed back into the chaos and madness of civil war when a demonstration protesting the publication of a caricature...

Opposition a stick against Tehran?
February 7, 2006... Byline: ELIZABETH BRYANT PARIS, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- It has been variously described as a cult and the only significant Iranian resistance movement. The People's Mujahedeen is listed as a terrorist organization in Europe and the United States,...

Walker's World; Why not to panic on Islam.
February 7, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was found guilty Tuesday by a British jury of using his sermons, describing Jews as the "enemy of Islam" and telling his followers to "bleed"...

Review of the Arab press.
February 7, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 7: Jordan's al-Rai said in a commentary Tuesday that Arabs and Muslims have lost the first round against the West with their violent reactions to cartoons published in a Danish...

Israel 'must keep Jordan Valley' claim.
February 7, 2006... Byline: United Press International JERUSALEM, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Israel is likely to retain large tracts on the West Bank and in the Jordan valley for security reasons, argues former ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold, an influential...

Outside View: The end of soft power.
February 7, 2006... Byline: AMITAI ETZIONI WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Iran's unilaterally breaking of the seals on its uranium enrichment facilities casts grave doubts on the European attempt to show the world that major conflicts can be ended through...

Eye on Eurasia: Toons rile Russian Muslims.
February 7, 2006... Byline: PAUL GOBLE TALLINN, Estonia, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Like the world of Islam as a whole, Muslims in the Russian Federation have been outraged by the appearance of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in Danish and other West European...

Outside View: Ahmadinejad angers Russia.
February 7, 2006... Byline: PYOTR GONCHAROV MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has dismissed as immaterial the objections of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Russian proposal to enrich Iranian uranium on Russian...

Analysis: Samsung moves to improve image.
February 7, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Samsung Group, South Korea's biggest business empire, offered a public apology Tuesday for a series of scandals which have tarnished its glittering global image as the world's leading technology...

Washington anticipates Hamas.
February 7, 2006... Byline: AMBIKA BEHAL WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Two weeks after Palestinian voters stunned the world by voting Hamas into power, analysts in Washington are moving beyond their initial surprise into a fiery debate as to what will happen...

Analysis: Georgia and Russia face-off.
February 7, 2006... Byline: PETER LAVELLE MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Russia-Georgia relations have a lot in common with the weather these days: the coldest in recent memory. If the Georgian parliament has its way, Russian peacekeepers in the self-styled and...

Israeli-Palestinian fighting flares up.
February 7, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Ten Palestinians were killed this week as Israel resumed its policy of 'zero tolerance to terror' and responded to Qassam rocket attacks and attempted suicide bombings with air...

Analysis: Dutch to give back stolen art.
February 8, 2006... Byline: ROLAND FLAMINI WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Decades after World War II disputes over art ownership continue to surface causing sometimes familiar major art works to disappear off museum and gallery walls to be returned to the...

Royal baby dominates Japan succession talk.
February 8, 2006... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A baby yet unborn is proving to be the source of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's biggest domestic headache over the past two days. The Imperial Household Agency announced Tuesday...

U.K. to leave Iraq before insurgency ends.
February 8, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Britain will not wait until the insurgency is defeated before pulling its troops out of Iraq, Defense Secretary John Reid said Tuesday night. Speaking at the Foreign Press Association...

Review of the Arab press.
February 8, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 8: Lebanon's as-Safir Wednesday quoted Hamas' political bureau chief Khaled Mishaal as saying the new Palestinian government will include Christians and women. Mishaal told the...

Outside View: Hamas' problems with Fatah.
February 8, 2006... Byline: BARRY RUBIN JERUSALEM, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Following its election victory, Hamas faces a problem that has no easy solution: How is it going to displace Fatah and control the Palestinians without setting off a civil war? After all,...

U.S. focus on NATO for global security.
February 8, 2006... Byline: MEREDITH MACKENZIE WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Sen. Joseph Biden, ranking minority member for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, echoed a call made by fellow Democrat Joseph Lieberman over the weekend for NATO to act to...

Outside View: Put Tehran on Probation.
February 8, 2006... Byline: BENNETT RAMBERG LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Intentional Atomic Energy Agency's reporting of Iran to the Security Council is a striking indictment of Tehran's "failure and breaches of its obligations to comply with the NPT...

WTO rules against EU on GMOs.
February 8, 2006... Byline: DONNA BORAK WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A confidential report by the World Trade Organization has found the European Union in violation of world trade laws for use of a moratorium on genetically modified food products from the...

Walker's World: Can Taiwan rely on the US?
February 8, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A senior Taiwanese military commander has thrown complicated new factor into the latest skirmish in the recurrent war of words between politicians across the Taiwan Straits. General Hu...

Analysis: German economy at a crossroads.
February 8, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA KEHL AM RHEIN, Germany, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel might be Europe's darling for her latest foreign policy efforts, but things are less friendly at home where unemployment has hit the painful 5...

Analysis: Israel's woes and the Likud.
February 8, 2006... Byline: MARTIN SIEFF WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Everything Benjamin Netanyahu warned about has come to pass -- yet he has gained no benefit from it in the Israeli election campaign: Why not? It is the dog that did not bark in the...

TIPH observers leave Hebron after riot.
February 8, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The international observer force based in the West Bank city of Hebron left Wednesday under Israeli military protection after Palestinian rioters attacked its headquarters. The...

White House criticized over IP enforcement.
February 8, 2006... Byline: DONNA BORAK WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Bush administration has been strongly criticized over its lack of enforcement and protection of intellectual property rights, an issue the White House claims is a top priority it hopes to...

Politics & Policies: New Mideast threats.
February 9, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Not since the 1956 Suez War, when French and British troops sided with Israel in an attempt to capture the Suez Canal from Egypt -- which had been recently nationalized by Gamal Abdul...

French Muslims low-key on drawings.
February 9, 2006... Byline: ELIZABETH BRYANT PARIS, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Sipping beer at a bar in northern Paris, 30-year-old Lassad Zitoune said he wasn't irate that a Danish newspaper had published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed -- even though he admitted he...

Commentary: Cartoon war-global intifada?
February 9, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The combustible cartoon war quickly became shorthand for what radical Muslim clerics had been planning for months - a clash of civilizations. The offending Danish cartoons, first...

Analysis: U.N. could be in Haiti for decades.
February 9, 2006... Byline: JINA MOORE UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Of the many challenges that will face Haiti's new president, a high-ranking United Nations official says, the most difficult may be a place where no ballots were cast in the country's...