APS Diplomat News Service articles from March 2004

APS Diplomat News Service archives from March 2004

Pakistan As The Hub Of Nuclear Proliferation Is Poised To Lose Strategic Sovereignty.
March 1, 2004... *** Specific Report In The British Tabloid Sunday Mirror Says Osama Bin Ladin Has Been 'Boxed' Into A Narrow Strip Of Land On The Pakistani Side Of The Border With Afghanistan By Elite SAS Troops & US Special Forces; It Notes That The Only...

Iran's Right-Wing Pragmatists Will Regain Power; Hardliners Will Be Tested In Iraq.
March 8, 2004... *** There Are Two Theories On Who Was Behind The March 2 Ashura Carnage In Iraq: Wahhabis Led By Al-Qaeda Via Zarqawi's Gang, Co-ordinating For A Similar Massacre Of Shiites In Pakistan Which Took Place Within 2 Hours Of The Karbala- Baghdad...

Arab Troika Will Resist US Democratisation Bid; But If Bush Wins Things Will Change.
March 15, 2004... *** For Mr. Bush, There Are Two 'Tried' But 'Improvable' Models For Muslim Regimes To Choose: The Saddam Model Or The Qadhafi Model *** For Mr. Kerry, There Could Be A Third Model Which Will Not Amuse Any Of The Regimes Now Standing In The...

Suicide Bombers' Message To The Western Time Zone.
March 15, 2004... Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement still receiving money from clandestine Wahhabi channels, chose March 8 to release a videotape of two British Muslims describing a bomb attack they carried out in Israel last year as "revenge against Jews...

Syria Will Only Bow If Bush Wins.
March 15, 2004... The threat of imminent US sanctions against Syria and delays in the signing of an association accord with the EU is radicalising the Baathist regime and postponing long-promised reforms still further. On March 6, a US official said Washington...

Sharon Gets American Green Light To Ignite A Palestinian Civil War, Thanks To Arafat:.
March 22, 2004... *** Damascus Is Accusing The US Of Being Behind The Kurdish Disturbances *** Washington Stalls On An Iranian Offer Of A Reform Deal, With Bush 'Realists' Represented By Scowcroft Having Seen An Opportunity Worth Looking Into; But The...

Hamas Plan For Gaza.
March 22, 2004... Hamas said on March 9 it would unveil a plan to administer the Gaza Strip in the wake of an Israeli army pullout. According to Shaikh Ahmad Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the movement, the plan would focus on organising and...

Israel Has Gone Back To The Ghetto, With Bush 'Under House Arrest', Thanks To Sharon.(Ariel Sharon, Bush, George W.)
March 29, 2004... *** Only The US Can Have The Influence With Israel; But It Has Forfeited Its Credibility In The Arab World As A Result Of Its Willingness To Endorse Almost Anything Sharon Does; How Long Can The Tail Keep Wagging The Dog? - What Freedom Can...

How Else Is Israel Meant To Deal With Terror? (article published by the International Herald Tribune, March 24, 2004).
March 29, 2004... - The following are excerpts from an article by Uri Dromi, head of international outreach at the Israel Democracy Institute, published by the International Herald Tribune (IHT) on March 24: "...I wouldn't take any lectures from hypocritical...

Sharon Throws More Oil On The Flames.(Ariel Sharon)
March 29, 2004... The following are excerpts from a NYT article by By Baroness Shirley Williams, the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the British House of Lords, published in IHT on March 24: "...Sharon has been trying to convince his fragmented and divided...