APS Diplomat News Service articles from April 2009

APS Diplomat News Service archives from April 2009

Israel Now Has Its Own Holy Warriors; Impact of Neo-Salafi & Iran Jihadis Spreads.
April 6, 2009... *** Netanyahu Has Brought To His Govt. Labour Leader Barak To Act As Barrier Of 'Sand Bags' In The Coming Confrontation With The Obama Administration *** At The Doha Summit, Assad Consecrated The Option Of Armed Arab Resistance But Not A...

The Doha Arab Summit.(Conference notes)
April 6, 2009... The Doha summit's communique, read out by Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa, on March 30 said the Arab rulers pledged their support for the reconstruction of Gaza and attempts to reconcile Palestinian factions, and to hold Israel to a...

Iran's Shi'itisation.(Brief article)
April 6, 2009... With Bahrain a flashpoint in the escalating conflict for regional dominance between Iran and a Saudi-led front aligned with the US, Iran's Shi'itisation process is an equally explosive issue. On March 29, Yemeni President 'Ali 'Abdullah Saleh...

GCC Money To Afghan Insurgents Exceeds Drugs Money Flowing To The Neo-Salafi Groups.(Gulf Cooperation Council)
April 13, 2009... *** Most GCC States Are Suspicious That A Special US-Iran Deal Will Be At The Expense Of The Sunni Arab Status Quo - Yet The Leading Diplomats In Saudi Arabia Are Confident That The Shi'ite Theocracy Is Not In A Position To Have What It Wants...

Iran Accepts US-Backed Nuclear Fuel Bank Idea.
April 13, 2009... Visiting Astana, on April 6 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad welcomed a proposal to set up a global nuclear fuel bank in Kazakhstan as part of a US-backed plan to put all uranium enrichment under strict international control. He said: "We...

GCC Single Currency Plan & Diversification Delayed.(Gulf Cooperation Council)
April 13, 2009... A Carnegie Middle East Centre report says soaring oil prices between 2002 and mid-2008 strengthened the dominance of oil revenues in the six GCC economies and this caused plans to diversify they economies to be reversed (see below). The GCC...

Arab Investors Lost $2.5 Tr In Global Crisis.(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... At the April 1-2 Arab Economic Forum in Beirut, Adnan al-Qassar, a leading Lebanese banker and former economy minister, said: "Estimated losses of Arab investments abroad are about $2.5 trillion". Qassar, who heads the General Union of Arab...

Saudis Arrest 11 Al-Qaeda Suspects.
April 13, 2009... Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman Maj-Gen Mansour al-Turki on April 7 said security forces had arrested 11 al-Qaeda suspects near the Yemeni border. They were planning to carry out terrorist attacks inside the kingdom and kidnap security...

Egypt-Iran Conflict As Hizbullah Admits Role.
April 13, 2009... Lebanon's Hizbullah, an offshoot of Iran's Shi'ite theocracy, now openly says it is active in Egypt for the smuggling of arms and funds to Hamas through tunnels linking the Sinai town of Rafah to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. A Hizbullah cell of...

Syria, Iran, Israel & Sunni Arab Front Race For Obama Deal For Opposite Ends - A War?(Barack Obama)
April 20, 2009... *** The Iran-Led Axis Says The 'Resistance' Against Israeli Occupation Of Arab Lands - Meaning The The Actions Of The Theocracy's Lebanon Offshoot Hizbullah And The Banned Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Gaza Offshoot Hamas - Are More Sacred...

Lebanon's June 7 Test & The Egypt-Iran/Hizbullah Conflict.
April 20, 2009... The June 7 test in Lebanon will be between the March 14 Coalition which is backed by the Saudi-led Sunni front and the March 8 proxies of the Iran-led axis. The US and EU are on the side of March 14, while Russia is promoting a Moscow...

The Shi'ite-MB Alliance & Iranian Backlash.(Muslim Brotherhood)
April 20, 2009... The man who forged a lasting alliance between the banned Egyptian MB and the Ja'fari Shi'ites was the late Grand Ayatullah Muhammad Baqer al-Sadr of Iraq, who was executed by Saddam's Sunni/Ba'thist dictatorship in 1980. It was Sadr who...

Syria Determined To Win June 7 Polls & Derail Hariri Trial Process.(Rafiq Hariri)
April 20, 2009... A highly-placed APS source in Damascus on April 18 said President Assad was confident that the March 8 forces will win the June 7 elections. Such victory would enable Syria to control Lebanese politics at least during the new parliament's four...

Pakistani & Afghan Leaders Summoned To White House Summit; Iran Gets Tough Warning.
April 27, 2009... *** The Assad Regime In Syria, Part Of The Iran-Led Axis, Is Getting More Confused About Obama's Administration, In Which The Clintons Are Showing More Teeth Than In The 1990s - Mrs Clinton Seems To Be Rehearsing For The Post Of US...