APS Diplomat News Service articles from July 2005

APS Diplomat News Service archives from July 2005

The Salafi Killing Culture In Iraq Is Getting More Dangerous To Middle East Regimes.
July 4, 2005... *** In Pakistan, Where A Woman Is Raped Every 2 Hours And 2 Women/Day Die In Honour Killings, There Are Islamic Hudood Laws, Which Have Been Used To Imprison Thousands Of Women Who Report Rapes - If Rape Victims Cannot Provide 4 Male Witnesses...

US-Insurgent Talks.
July 4, 2005... In answer to a question on Fox News about a Sunday Times report that US officials contacted insurgents in a bid to split off the Iraqi resistance from foreign fighters, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on June 26 said: "Sure, my goodness,...

Ja'fari In US.
July 4, 2005... Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Al-Ja'fari met with President Bush at the White House on June 24. At a joint press conference, he and Bush reaffirmed their confidence in their ability to win the war and stick to a timetable for elections....

Salafi Arms From Stolen Artifacts.
July 4, 2005... The Director of Iraq's National Museum Donny George on June 23 told experts at UNESCO money from the sale of stolen artifacts in Iraq was being used to finance jihadis. He said: "Rich people are buying stolen material. Money is going to Iraq...

African Link.
July 4, 2005... A growing number of Salafis from northern and sub-Saharan Africa are fuelling the insurgency with foot soldiers and financing. The NYT on June 11 quoted the US military as saying about 25% of foreign fighters captured in Iraq came from Africa....

Zarqawi & Saudi Wahhabis On Tattarrus.
July 4, 2005... The dispute among Islamists over tattarrus relates to procedural matters. Can jihadis decide whom to kill and when or should they obtain a fatwa in every case? The starkest defence of tattarrus in this new sense has come from Zarqawi. He says...

The Shiite View.
July 4, 2005... Shaikh Mohammad Hussein Fadhlallah, the spiritual guide of the Shiite Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah, however, says no Islamic combatant has such authority and all should refer each case to an authorised mujtahid (guide). He is...

Iran's New President Is Said To Be Former Member Of A Theocracy Hit-Squad.
July 11, 2005... *** Iran's Nuclear Kingpin Hassan Rowhani Quits; Ahmadi-Nejad Has To Appoint His Own Negotiators *** Sunni Insurgents Kill Baghdad Barbers Giving 'Un-Islamic' Hairstyles; It's A Taliban-Like Rule Emerging After The US-Led Invasion of Iraq...

New Iran Nuclear Crisis Looms.
July 11, 2005... The indications from Tehran are that there will soon be a crisis over Iran's nuclear programme. This time things are more serious. Relations between Tehran and the West look distinctly overcast in the wake of Ahmadi-Nejad's election victory....

Was Ahmadi-Najad Among The Takers Of US Hostages?
July 11, 2005... Amir Taheri's article in Gulf News also focused on allegations that Ahmadi-Nejad was among the Iranian students who seized the US Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, and held 60 Americans hostage. Taheri was referring to an Associated Press...

Iraq May Keep US Forces Pinned Down As The Place Has Turned Into A Quagmire.
July 18, 2005... *** The EU3 Are To Offer Tehran Co- operation In Its Civilian Nuclear Power Plan And Help In Cutting Dependency On Fuel Imports From Russia, If It Agrees To End Its Attempts To Produce Its Own Atomic Fuel; The Offer Will Be Put To Iran In This...

More Suicide Hits.
July 18, 2005... Salafi suicide bombers now lead the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, with attacks averaging more than one per day since the announcement of a new government in late April. Brig. Gen. Donald Alston, the US military's top spokesman in Iraq, was on July...

Turkey Faces Renewed Salafi-Kurdish Terrorism; Ankara's European Obstacles Increase.
July 25, 2005... *** Salafi Suicide Bombers Are Desperatly Trying To Cause A Sunni-Shiite War In Iraq Before A New Constitution Is Approved Via A Referendum; Sunni Arabs Have Decided To Shun Constitutional Talks After Two Of Their Mates Were Murdered In Front...

Over Half Europeans Oppose Turkish Entry.
July 25, 2005... A European Commission poll of almost 30,000 people on July 18 showed that only 35% of respondents backed Turkey's EU membership, while 52% opposed it. As the EU and Turkey struggled to begin membership talks on schedule on Oct. 3, this followed...

EU Talks Vs Homegrown Terrorists.
July 25, 2005... The Kurds in Turkey want autonomy in a federal system as the one being developed in Iraq. This is opposed by the Kemalist order as a whole and by the military in particular, while Erdogan's government of moderate Islamists is determined to...

Ankara To Better Tackle PKK.
July 25, 2005... The government is to amend the anti-terror law in a bid to strengthen its hand against the Kurdish rebels who have stepped up the violence, Justice Minister Cemil Cicek said in a newspaper interview published on July 22 by the daily Vatan....