APS Diplomat News Service articles from November 2004

APS Diplomat News Service archives from November 2004

Iraqi Violence Will Continue As Americans Go To The Polls To Elect Bush Or Kerry.
November 1, 2004... **** Iraq's Insurgency Begins Spilling Over To Those Nearby States From Which Terrorist Heads Had Sprung Up, Like Zarqawi's Followers In Jordan Planning Attacks Against Americans There *** Lahoud's More Pro-Syria Lebanon Has A New Govt....

The Falluja/Ramadi Offensive.
November 1, 2004... For the US military, Falluja and Ramadi form the "crucial" battle, an overwhelming assault that will destroy the epicentre of a rebellion sweeping through Iraq. For the insurgents, Falluja and Ramadi are a rallying cry for a combination of...

The Regional Climate.
November 1, 2004... Even if Bush loses the Nov. 2 polls, a Democratic administration under John Kerry will pursue the efforts to stabilise Iraq, make sure elections are held on time by Jan. 31, and apply pressure on all those neighbouring regimes which are backing...

The Land Of The Most Oppressed People In The Arab World.
November 1, 2004... The following are extracts from an article published on Oct. 15 by the Chronicle Foreign Service: "Behnam Farho (belonging to one of the small Christian minorities of Iraq) pinpoints the moment when the fear got to be too much, when he decided...

The Middle East Winners & Losers In Bush's Re-election Victory.
November 8, 2004... *** Kuwait & The Other 5 GCC States Made It Known On Nov. 3 That They Were Relieved By Bush's Victory, Because Kerry Was Particularly Hard On The Saudis & GME Oil *** Shaikh Zayed Died On Nov. 2; Shaikh Khalifa, Now The UAE President, Is...

US Strategy On The Israeli-Palestinian Issue.
November 8, 2004... Likud Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had long been as convinced as Bush's electoral campaign troika, or "the iron triangle" (Carl Rove, Karen Hughes and Joe Allbaugh), that the Republican president was going to be re-elected. Sharon also knew...

Arab Reaction To Bush Win.(George W. Bush)
November 8, 2004... For a variety of reasons which the APS subscribers can easily guess, those Arabs who preferred Kerry over Bush were the regimes and the public of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan and Syria. Those who preferred Bush...

New Qaeda Threat To US.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... The Qaeda-linked Abu Hafs Al-Masri Brigades on Nov. 5 threatened the US with reprisals after Bush's re-election. Its statement on a Website said: "The coming days will show you [Americans] that the one you preferred will lead you to an...

Bush's Plans For Terror, Iraq & Other Issues.
November 8, 2004... In his first press conference since winning a second four-year term, President Bush on Nov. 4 vowed to battle terrorism, win back allies divided over Iraq, and push ahead at home with controversial tax cuts and pension reforms. He said: "Let me...

The Bush Team Changes.
November 8, 2004... Never known as a man who says "I goofed", Bush made headlines in the second presidential debate when he reluctantly admitted: "I made some mistakes in appointing people, but I'm not going to name them". Bush rarely sacrifices a besieged ally -...

Iran Says Not Worried.
November 8, 2004... A highly-placed APS source in Tehran says Iran has secured firm and official assurances from the governments of China and Russia that they will veto any UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions against the country if it did not suspend...

Al-Qaeda Is Getting Larger & Spreading; Bin Laden Is Becoming The Muslims' Hero.
November 15, 2004... *** US Forces Said By Nov. 13 They Had Killed 1,200 Falluja Insurgents *** Wahhabi Scholars In Saudi Arabia Issue A Fatwa In Support Of Holy War Against The US-Led Alliance In Iraq; They Call The American Occupation A Big Crime & Accuse...

Scheuer On Al-Qaeda.
November 15, 2004... Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA's Osama Bin Laden unit, is the author of a best-selling book critical of the Bush administration's handling of the war on terrorism. In an interview published on Nov. 9 by The New York Times (NYT), he...

Saudi Religious Scholars Back 'Holy War'.
November 15, 2004... Prominent Wahhabi religious scholars in Saudi Arabia urged Iraqis to support militants waging holy war against the US-led coalition forces as American troops prepared on Nov. 6 for a major assault on the insurgent hotbed of Falluja. In a...

Iran Enters A Critical Phase In Its Nuclear Development Plan; The Theocracy Is Split.
November 22, 2004... *** The Pentagon Is Preparing A Global Information Grid - A $200 Bn Project For The Wars Of The Future - It's A WarNet To Give US Commanders& Soldiers A Moving Picture Of All The Foreign Enemies & Threats Including Stateless Groups Of Terror...

Tehran Power Struggle.(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... Two leading members of the theocracy's hardline traditionalist camp, who are possible candidates to Iran's presidential elections in 2005, attacked the Nov. 14 deal as a sell-out. Ahmad Tavakoli, the senior MP of the Alliance for the...

Condoleezza Rice To Succeed Power.
November 22, 2004... President Bush on Nov. 16 nominated Condoleezza Rice as the next secretary of state, choosing his closest policy adviser to take the helm of the department that has often criticised - sometimes even opposed - his foreign policy. Stephen Hadley,...

Sudan - North-South Peace & Federal System, Or Continuing War & UN Sanctions.
November 29, 2004... NICOSIA - The chances of peace or a continuing war between the Muslim north and the Christian/animist south of Sudan now are 60:40. In the weeks to the Dec. 31 deadline, set by the UN Security Council at its rare meeting in Nairobi on Nov. 19,...