APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map articles from February 2007

APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map archives from February 2007

IRAQ - Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 14 - Iraq; The US Is Pressing Iran.
February 5, 2007... President George W. Bush on Jan. 26 sought to deny widespread rumours that his administration was preparing some kind of military action against Iran. He confirmed a report in The Washington Post of Jan. 26 that he had authorised US troops to...

IRAQ - Iraq Sliding Into Civil War.
February 5, 2007... Iraq is rapidly sliding into an all-out civil war which is likely to spill over into neighbouring countries, resulting in mass deaths and refugee flows, serious disruption of Gulf oil supplies and a drastic decline in US influence in the...

IRAQ - Iran To Act On Enrichment.
February 5, 2007... The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Muhammad ElBaradei, on Jan. 26 disclosed Iranian officials had said they planned to begin installing equipment in February in an industrial-scale plant to enrich uranium,...

IRAQ - Iran Looks To Expand Its Iraq Role.
February 5, 2007... The New York Times on Jan. 29 quoted the Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, as outlining an ambitious plan to greatly expand his country's economic and military ties with Iraq - including an Iranian national bank branch in the...

IRAQ - Syria Is Crossing Point For Neo-Salafis.
February 5, 2007... The FT on Jan. 31 quoted a "senior US official as saying dozens of al-Qaeda suicide bombers from countries such as Saudi Arabia and Sudan were crossing into Iraq from Syria every month. He said, while sectarian conflict now represented the...

IRAQ - Attacks Kill Dozens As Shi'ites Mark Ashura.
February 5, 2007... As more than 2m Shi'ite pilgrims converged on Iraq's shrines to celebrate Ashura on Jan. 30, three Neo-Salafi attacks in different cities left dozens of worshipers dead in bombings, mortar attacks and ambushes. But there were no reports of...