APS Diplomat News Service articles from June 2004

APS Diplomat News Service archives from June 2004

Iraqi Partition & Saudi Civil War Begin To Show New Trends In The Middle East.
June 7, 2004... *** As Violence Continues After May 30 Battle In Al-Khobar, Saudi Govt. Is Disbanding A Key Overseas Wahhabi Charity: Al-Haramein Islamic Foundn *** Would Wahhabi Petro-Dollars Be Dried Up To Drain Al-Qaeda Out Of The Killing Field? What...

The Kurdish-Arab Split In Iraq.
June 7, 2004... The continuing US occupation of Iraq has already deepened the split between the country's Kurds and Arabs. More than 30 Kurdish families have fled to the north from Falluja, the heart of the Sunni triangle which symbolises Arab resistance to US...

Satellite TV coverage of Iraq is compounding the divergence between Arabs and Kurds.
June 7, 2004... Arabs watch Arabic language channels such as the Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera and the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya, which are regarded by Kurds as hostile to them. Kurds watch Kurdish language stations more sympathetic to the US-led occupation. The Kurds...

The Saudi Situation.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Abdel Aziz Al-Muqrin, head of the Qaeda Organisation in the Arabian Peninsula and leading Wahhabi militants trying to overthrow the Saudi royal family, engineered the May 29-30 attack on an expatriate enclave at Al-Khobar, on the Saudi Gulf...

Iraq Stands Between A Prosperous Democracy & Disaster With Serious Regional Implications.
June 14, 2004... *** Marwan Bishara's Message To Bush On Even Of G-8 Summit At Sea Island, Georgia: 'Start With Freedom For The Palestinians; It's Barghouti Or Bin Laden - Both Men Have Mesmerised The Arab Youth, Who Account For 70% Of The People ***...

The Course To Nov In Iraq.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... In the battles for the Sunni town of Falluja and the Shiite cities south of Baghdad, the US has essentially capitulated - hoping to reduce, until the American election is over, images of fighting, mayhem and US blood streaming to the American...

World War II.(George W. Bush's remarks to the graduates at the Air Force Academy)
June 14, 2004... In some ways, Bush on June 2 told graduates at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, the struggles in the Middle East now resemble "the great clashes of the last century between those who put their trust in tyrants and those who put their...

The Shammar Re-emerge.(Shaikh Ghazi Al Yawer )
June 14, 2004... The Shammar - the largest confederation of tribes in the Middle East stretching from Saudi Arabia to northern-western Iraq, a small part of south-western Turkey, Syria and Jordan - are re-emerging in Iraq and Saudi Arabia in the persons of...

Ahmad Chalabi & The Neocons.
June 14, 2004... Falling from grace are Ahmad Chalabi in Baghdad and his neocon friends in Washington. This is a messy tale of deceit and cronyism. One Chalabi's closest neocon allies in Washington, Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Planning (the No. 3 man...

The Costs Of Iraq War.
June 14, 2004... An Associated Press commentary on June 1 said that, even by Washington standards, the $119.4 bn that President Bush and Congress had provided for the first two years of the war in Iraq was real money. "Though a tiny fraction of overall federal...

USA Under Bush Loses Trust Of Arabs; But New American Trade & Aid Ideas Are Interesting.
June 21, 2004... *** Schroder And Chirac Don't See Why NATO Should Play A Greater Role in Iraq, Unless This Is To Allow The US To Get Out Of That Trap So Bush Can Win A 2nd Term And Let The Alliance Fall Into It *** Chirac Says He'll Never Put French Troops...

Aiding Weak States For Global Security.
June 21, 2004... The other idea that appeals to Arab advocates of real democracy also comes from the US. the Washington-based Centre for Global Development (CGD) says in a report that weak states lacking the capacity to confront terrorists or criminal gangs...

Iraq To Remain Under US Occupation Till It Becomes A Good Model, Or Will Have Civil War.
June 28, 2004... *** Fatah, Hamas And Others, Who Last Week Met In Damascus, Reject Security Plans For Egypt In Gaza & For Jordan In The West Bank - This New Arab Split Puts Syria On A Collision Course With An Israeli PM Determined To Make The Most Of An...

IRAQ - Only US Can Impose Martial Law.
June 28, 2004... Jacinta Caroll, director of defence policy for the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) last week warned Iraq's interim government not to carry out its threat of declaring martial law, insisting that only the American-led coalition had...