UPI International Intelligence articles from July 2006

UPI International Intelligence archives from July 2006

Policy Watch: Where is the Arab lobby?
July 1, 2006... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- Months after its publication in March 2006, the paper by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt entitled, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," that was posted on the website of Harvard's...

Analysis: Kuwait's elections and reforms.
July 1, 2006... Byline: SANA ABDALLAH AMMAN, Jordan, July 1 (UPI) -- The democratic exercise in Kuwait's early parliamentary elections may have given the oil-rich emirate something to boast about, but the polls seem to have backfired against the regime...

Outside View: Talking democracy.
July 1, 2006... Byline: BOUTHAINA SHABAN DAMASCUS, Syria, July 1 (UPI) -- I was getting ready to give a talk at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's conference (ADC), when a young Arab came up to me and said: "I hope you are not here to talk...

Analysis: Israel's moves and motives.
July 2, 2006... Byline: SANA ABDALLAH AMMAN, Jordan, July 2 (UPI) -- The bombing of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's office in Gaza City early Sunday was just one episode in a series of military attacks Israel has unleashed since Palestinian...

Analysis: North Korea's missile threat.
July 3, 2006... Byline: MICHAEL MARSHALL WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- When it comes to diplomacy North Korea, under its "dear leader" Kim Jong-Il, has written its own book. With a per capita GDP one-fortieth of that in neighboring South Korea, the North is...

Walker's World: Britain's Afghan mess.
July 3, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER LONDON, July 3 (UPI) -- The mission that was meant to redefine the new NATO alliance has run into trouble. The deaths of two British paratroops in Afghanistan over the weekend, after three other deaths in June, have...

Politics & Policies: New Mideast troubles.
July 3, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- Whenever Middle East antagonists make a move towards conciliation, raising faint hopes in the region that war may become a thing of the past, the gods of war reemerge lest peace...

Analysis: S.Korea's Roh shakes up Cabinet.
July 3, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, July 3 (UPI) -- South Korea's unpopular leader Roh Moo-hyun on Monday installed his closest aides to key Cabinet posts, in an effort to stop being a political lame duck for the last 17 months of his term. ...

Review of the Arab press.
July 3, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, July 3 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for July 3: Kuwait's al-Rai al-Aam Monday praised the June 29 parliamentary elections as a victory for democracy in Kuwait, regardless of the results. The pro-establishment daily commented...

U.K. report: Al-Qaida threat 'increased'.
July 3, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, July 3 (UPI) -- The al-Qaida threat to Britain is likely to have increased, with the Iraq war continuing to further the cause of extremists, according to an influential parliamentary committee. The...

Analysis: Dutch government crisis erupts.
July 3, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, July 3 (UPI) -- The Netherlands has been plunged into a serious political and social crisis after the collapse last week of the center-right coalition government in the row over the citizenship of Islam critic...

Review of the Arab press.
July 4, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, July 4 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for July 4: Syria's al-Thawra commented Tuesday on what it said was the lame position adopted by the U.N. and its secretary-general, Kofi Annan, over Israel's military campaign to free one...

Atlantic Eye: Of Mice and Men.
July 4, 2006... Byline: MARC S. ELLENBOGEN BONN, Germany, July 4 (UPI) -- President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic is an embarrassment to his people and country. He is not the only one who caught my eye last week. A glance across the boarder to...

Commentary: The impossible dream.
July 5, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- Particularly galling to the Israeli government is the belated discovery that "security fences," no matter how robust, can be flown over by hundreds of homemade Qassam rockets and...

Commentary: The impossible dream.
July 5, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- Particularly galling to the Israeli government is the belated discovery that "security fences," no matter how robust, can be flown over by hundreds of homemade Qassam rockets and...

Review of the Arab press.
July 5, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, July 5 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for July 5: Iraq's al-Sabah daily said in a commentary Wednesday that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government has achieved much just 45 days after its formation, adding it is setting...

Analysis: U.S. policy and Islamic renewal.
July 5, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- Ever since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States has found itself in a war against an enemy it had very little intelligence on...

Analysis: N.Korea's missile tactics.
July 5, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, July 5 (UPI) -- North Korea's missile launches are considered as part of its long-standing brinkmanship aimed at boosting its negotiation leverage with the United States by ratcheting up its security threats,...

Analysis: S.Korea's daunting economic tasks.
July 5, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, July 5 (UPI) -- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has appointed his right-hand man to handle the country's economy, possibly for the remaining 17 months of his single five-year term. But prospects do not...

Analysis: Seoul in dilemma over North.
July 5, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, July 5 (UPI) -- North Korea's missile launches have posed a huge dilemma to South Korea as it pursues reconciliation and cooperation with its communist neighbor. The Seoul government has threatened to cut...

Analysis: Who will pay for Bush visit?
July 5, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, July 5 (UPI) -- Ahead of President George W. Bush's trip to Germany next week, a quarrel has erupted in the country over who will pay for the visit's ballooning security costs. "The one who orders the...

U.N. official proposes fiscal coordination.
July 5, 2006... UNITED NATIONS, July 5 (UPI) -- The top U.N. trade and development official has recommended increased macroeconomic policy coordination to correct global trade imbalances and strengthen growth prospects in developing countries. "The...

Review of the Arab press.
July 6, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, July 6 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for July 6: The Palestinian al-Quds said in its editorial Thursday the Israeli government's decision to establish a security zone in the northern Gaza Strip means the destruction of more...

Analysis: Calling North Korea's bluff.
July 6, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- North Korea may have gambled -- and lost -- while playing a game of nuclear/missile chicken with the United States. The reclusive communist state, the only remaining Stalinist regime...

Walker's World: Soccer, God and Rumsfeld.
July 6, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER PERIGORD, France, July 6 (UPI) -- As a young man, the competitive sport of the U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was wrestling, so he may have been paying much attention to the World Cup of soccer, now...

Analysis: Seoul seeks dialogue with North.
July 6, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, July 6 (UPI) -- South Korea has decided to press ahead reconciliation efforts with North Korea despite its threats of further missile tests and mounting international security concerns, Seoul officials said...

Analysis: German coalition creaks.
July 6, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, July 6 (UPI) -- Germany's grand coalition government is rowing so hard that for the first time, politicians from all parties suspect an end to the unlikely partnership. Chancellor Angela Merkel's...

Analysis: N.Korea missiles test U.S. stance.
July 6, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, July 6 (UPI) -- The United States is poised to take a tougher policy -- likely focused on regime change -- on the road to disarming North Korea, which has ignored international calls for scrapping its nuclear...

Outside View: The other Libyan model.
July 6, 2006... Byline: HAFED AL-GHWELL WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- On May 15 the U.S. State Department announced its intention to remove Libya from the U.S. list of states sponsors of terrorism and upgrade the diplomatic relationship between the two...

Outside View: Supreme Court Vs Hamdan Case.
July 6, 2006... Byline: THOMAS HOULAHAN WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- During the collapse of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, forces of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance captured Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni national. Hamdan, who had allegedly served as...

Analysis: Britain, one year on.
July 6, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, July 6 (UPI) -- One year since suicide bombers struck at the heart of London, claiming 52 innocent lives, Britain is remembering its dead, and once again asking what drove four young British men to wreak...

Analysis: U.N. takes up management reform.
July 6, 2006... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, July 6 (UPI) -- The United Nations weathered through another budget crisis almost without notice late last week, and Wednesday entered the thick of negotiations between the developing and developed...

Analysis: Health care crisis in Palestine.
July 7, 2006... Byline: SARA GORECKI WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- Mired in political and economic turmoil, the Palestinian healthcare system is in a grave state of crisis ill-equipped to absorb the latest spasms of violence in the territories. Even the...

Analysis: Will N.Korea's gamble pay off?
July 7, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, July 7 (UPI) -- Can North Korea's renewed missile brinkmanship pay off again by winning concessions from the United States? This is the question of the moment as the North's missiles launches this week...

Outside View: Facing the abyss.
July 7, 2006... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, July 7 (UPI) -- In the search for a solution to the present impasse between Israel and Hamas, one has to establish what actually precipitated the crisis. The killing of two Israeli soldiers and the capture...

Outside View: Beyond Gilad Shalit.
July 7, 2006... Byline: FRANK KAUFMANN WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- The abduction of Gilad Shalit has as much to do with Palestinian rivalries as with the Palestinian struggle against Israel. The Hamas-Fatah clash is linked in ways to the thankless...

Common Ground: Muslims in Britain.
July 7, 2006... Byline: LORD TRIESMAN LONDON, July 7 (UPI) -- I am often surprised when I hear people talking as if Britain's encounter with Islam and the Muslim world is something new, stretching back a mere few years, like two people in the early stages...

Analysts warn of Shiite/Sunni divide.
July 7, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, July 7 (UPI) -- The conflict in Iraq has underlined the divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, pitting the two sects against each other in a power struggle that, for the moment, the Shiite are winning....

Analysis: Iraq's reconciliation plan.
July 8, 2006... Byline: SANA ABDALLAH AMMAN, Jordan, July 8 (UPI) -- The number of attacks, bombings and corpses continues to rise in war-torn Iraq, almost two weeks after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced a reconciliation plan intended to...

Analysis: Al-Qaida's eligible recruits.
July 9, 2006... Byline: SANA ABDALLAH AMMAN, Jordan, July 9 (UPI) -- Assem Hammoud is a 31-year-old, well-mannered Lebanese man educated in the West, multi-lingual and seems no different than other affluent, secular young Lebanese men who enjoy partying,...

Outside View: Jihadist threat in Africa.
July 10, 2006... Byline: GREGORY ALONSO PIRIO AND HRACH GREGORIAN WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- The growing power of the Islamic Courts in southern Somalia is a serious setback in the war on terror and a threat to the stability of the strategically situated...

Commentary: It's broke so fix it.
July 10, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- What can Colin Powell, John Kerry, Frank Carlucci and Zbigniew Brzezinski all agree on? The U.S. government is no longer dysfunctional; it's broken. In his latest book --...

Analysis: And it's still not civil war.
July 10, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- The war in Baghdad took a turn for the worse Sunday as masked gunmen pulled at least 40 Sunni Arabs from their houses, cafes, and cars and executed them in cold blood. Iraq's President...

Walker's World: France's 100 Dreyfus years.
July 10, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER PERIGUEUX, France, July 10 (UPI) -- A hundred years ago this week, France's Supreme Court overruled two flawed court-martials based on forged and perjured evidence and finally reversed the verdicts that the Jewish...

Review of the Arab press.
July 10, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, July 10 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for July 10: Jordan's al-Rai Monday condemned as "shocking and sad" a massacre carried out by masked Shiite gunmen against Sunni civilians in Baghdad's al-Jihad district on Sunday, in which...

Analysis: S.Korea-U.S. FTA stirs opposition.
July 10, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, July 10 (UPI) -- Officials from South Korea and the United States sat down this week for lengthy negotiations on a free trade deal aimed at slashing tariffs and other trade barriers between the two countries....

Policy Watch: Is Russia strong or weak?
July 10, 2006... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- "Russia is never as strong as she looks; Russia is never as weak as she looks." This quotation, or ones similar to it, have been attributed to Talleyrand, Metternich, and Churchill. In May...

Analysis: Olmert's goals for Gaza fighting.
July 10, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, July 10 (UPI) -- Israel continued air strikes, artillery barrages and occupied two sites across the Gaza Strip's border Monday in a campaign that went beyond an attempt to secure the release of its Cpl....

Analysis: Obrador throws down gauntlet.
July 10, 2006... Byline: MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- The weekend demonstration by 150,000 supporters of losing presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City's main plaza, minted by the formal initiation Monday of a...

Analysis: Morocco, the last frontier.
July 11, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI RABAT, Morocco, July 11 (UPI) -- For millions of would-be African immigrants, Morocco represents the last frontier, or the first serious hurdle between Africa and Europe, between prosperity and despair, life and...

Outside View: Time is up.
July 11, 2006... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, July 11 (UPI) -- It has been said time and again that there is no logic or reason or rationale to the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This observation certainly seems to describe the lunacy of...

Analysis: 'Not welcome, Mr. President'.
July 11, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, July 11 (UPI) -- "A Time to Make Friends," the FIFA Soccer World Cup motto, will only limitedly apply to U.S. President George W. Bush during his visit to Germany this week, where he is not entirely welcome....

Analysis: Inter-Korean project in doubt.
July 11, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, July 11 (UPI) -- The future of an ambitious plan by the two Koreas to transform their border area into a joint industrial park has been thrown into deep uncertainty in the wake of missile launches by the North...

EU-Iran nuclear talks end in stalemate.
July 11, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, July 11 (UPI) -- Talks between the European Union and Iran aimed at persuading the Islamic Republic to accept a deal on its nuclear programs ended with no sign of a breakthrough Tuesday. Iran's top...

Outside View: The death of Shamil Basayev.
July 11, 2006... Byline: PYOTR ROMANOV MOSCOW, July 11 (UPI) -- Russia's latest Caucasian war appears to be over, and the killing of warlord Shamil Basayev is yet another serious argument in favor of this opinion. Individuals have always played a...

Analysis: Georgia's bid for NATO.
July 12, 2006... Byline: MEGHAN O'CONNELL AND LISA CHUN WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili came to the United States last week touting Georgia as a revitalized nation ready for NATO membership, a goal that U.S. President W....

Hezbollah kidnaps two Israeli soldiers.
July 12, 2006... Byline: SAMAR KADI BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 12 (UPI) -- Israeli forces made an incursion into south Lebanon Wednesday following a Hezbollah cross-border attack in which militants kidnapped two soldiers. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah said...

Analysis: Illicit migrant unites Africa-EU.
July 12, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI RABAT, Morocco, July 12 (UPI) -- How do you stop millions of jobless, hungry, frightened war-wary Africans from trekking north across the Sahara Desert into Morocco and from there hopefully to Europe; braving along...

Review of the Arab press.
July 12, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, July 12 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for July 12: The London-based al-Hayat reported Wednesday the Palestinian captors of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit are taking stiff security measures not to leave any trails to the soldier's...

Analysis: Israel mulls West Bank pullback.
July 12, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, July 12 (UPI) -- Parents of children named Shahar, the Hebrew word for dawn, have asked the Israeli Army to change the way it alerts people of an impending rocket attack. Loudspeakers in towns and...

Analysis: Moscow to dodge criticism at G8.
July 12, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, July 12 (UPI) -- The state of Russian democracy has come under fire recently, but the West's concerns will likely be put on hold to discuss a range of international crises at this weekend's Group of Eight...

Iran to be referred to Security Council.
July 12, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, July 12 (UPI) -- Iran is to be referred back to the United Nations Security Council following its failure to respond quickly enough to an incentive package aimed at defusing the current nuclear dispute,...

Analysis: Iran, Syria use Lebanese militia.
July 12, 2006... Byline: DALAL SAOUD AND CLAUDE SALHANI BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 12 (UPI) -- Israel's dual front war with the Lebanese Shiite military wing of Hezbollah along its northern border, and with the Palestinian Hamas movement along its southern...

Report: Iraq's Sadr critical to stability.
July 12, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, July 12 (UPI) -- Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his forces are vital to Iraq's stability and must be engaged to avoid an all out civil war in the country, a new report says. Dismissed as a radical firebrand behind some of...

Commentary: Mideast peace process R.I.P.
July 13, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is the first Israeli leader to get the nomenclature right. It is no longer Palestinian terrorism. It is "an act of war." The capture of an Israeli...

Walker's World: India's real terror danger.
July 13, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER PARIS, July 13 (UPI) -- The danger of this moment after the bombings of Bombay was best signaled at a meeting in the U.S. State Department in Jan. 2002, when Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was running the...

Review of the Arab press.
July 13, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, July 13 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for July 13: Lebanon's an-Nahar commented Thursday the Shiite Hezbollah organization's cross-border operation, in which it captured two Israeli soldiers and killed others, was undoubtedly...

Politics & Policies: A real global village.
July 13, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI RABAT, Morocco, July 13 (UPI) -- What does an illegal migrant from Cameroon, Burkina Faso, or anywhere else in sub-Saharan Africa have in common with a European living in Helsinki, Lisbon, Madrid, Warsaw, Paris or...

Analysis: Israel reacts to kidnapping.
July 13, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, July 13 (UPI) -- Israel's Cabinet Wednesday night decided on "a firm and severe" reaction to Wednesday's attack by Lebanon-based Hezbollah in which eight soldiers were killed and two were...

Analysis: Israel ups ante in border wars.
July 13, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI RABAT, Morocco, July 13 (UPI) -- The scope and scale of the latest Middle East hostilities sparked by the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah gunmen Wednesday has ignited a spate of renewed violence that...

Analysis: A U.S.-German romance.
July 13, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, July 13 (UPI) -- U.S. President Bush has come to Germany for what looks like a political love fest, with the president taking every chance to demonstrate how well he gets along with German Chancellor Angela...

Analysis: Probe inches closer to Blair.
July 13, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, July 13 (UPI) -- Once dubbed "Teflon Tony," the British prime minister is known for his ability to slip out of sticky situations. Controversial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a major terrorist attack on...

Analysis: Changing game rules in Lebanon?
July 14, 2006... Byline: DALAL SAOUD BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 13 (UPI) -- Would Israel be able to change the rules of game in Lebanon that have been in place since it withdrew its forces from the country in May 2000, ending 22 years of occupation? Israel...

Analysis: New turmoil empowers Islamists.
July 14, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI RABAT, Morocco, July 14 (UPI) -- Earlier this week when Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, the chambermaids in a major hotel in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, rejoiced. They praised Lebanon and the Shiite...

Walker's World: Putin the weak.
July 14, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER PARIS, July 14 (UPI) -- Russia's President Vladimir Putin appears to be the most commanding and influential Kremlin leader since the stronger days of the old Soviet Union as he prepares to host this weekend's G8...

Analysis: Hezbollah rockets Haifa.
July 14, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT HAIFA, Israel, July 14 (UPI) -- As evening set over the city of Haifa police cars dashed through town, their sirens wailing in what turned out to be the latest and perhaps most dramatic escalation in the fighting...

Security Council offers Iran incentives.
July 14, 2006... Byline: EDITH HONAN UNITED NATIONS, July 14 (UPI) -- On the eve of all but abandoning talks with Iran, the U.N. Security Council's permanent five members released the incentives package it offered Iran in the hope of finding a diplomatic...

Analysis: Israel and Hezbollah dig in.
July 14, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT HANITA, Israel, July 14 (UPI) -- Grey smoke from a Hezbollah strike billowed for the second day at an army position on a nearby mountain ridge and most of an interview in kibbutz Hanita, close to the border, was...

Outside View: Extraditing fugitives SAT.
July 14, 2006... Byline: DMITRY KOSYREV WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- The newly-appointed Russian prosecutor general, Yury Chaika, has said the issue of Russia's accession to the International Association of Prosecutors would be decided at the Paris...

Analysis: Mideast crisis crowds G8 agenda.
July 14, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, July 14 (UPI) -- Recent developments in the Middle East are set to dominate the weekend's summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, as the current crisis in Israel and Lebanon and the ongoing...

Analysis: U.N. fails on Mideast resolution.
July 14, 2006... Byline: EDITH HONAN UNITED NATIONS, July 14 (UPI) -- An emergency session of the U.N. Security Council concluded without producing a resolution on the escalating conflict between Israel and Lebanon. A statement generated by the...

Analysis: G8 showing signs of age.
July 14, 2006... Byline: LAUREN MCDERMOTT WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- Almost thirty years after it was formed to counter the spread of Soviet power during the Cold War, many experts question the effectiveness of the Group of Eight summit in solving modern...

Policy Watch: Friendship built on waste?
July 15, 2006... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- Since the mid-1990's, Moscow has sought to make money through storing spent nuclear fuel from other countries in sparsely populated regions of the Russian Federation. Up until recently,...

Analysis: Tunisia's plurality challenge.
July 15, 2006... Byline: DALAL SAOUD TUNIS, Tunisia, July 15 (UPI) -- Tunisia has scored important economic and social achievements under the rule of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, but now faces the challenge of adopting long-overdue reforms on the...