APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map articles from January 2006

APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map archives from January 2006

IRAQ - Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 8 - Hakim Sets His Terms.(Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim)
January 23, 2006... The main winners of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections are the Ja'fari Shi'ite parties, particularly the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) which was established in Iran in the early 1980s. SCIRI's leader, Abdel-Aziz...

IRAQ - Hakim Vs Sadr.
January 23, 2006... It was with all this in mind that Hakim on Jan. 11 said Shi'ites will not allow substantive amendments to the country's constitution, while Saudi King Abdullah ibn Abdel Aziz met Muqtada al-Sadr in the radical Iraqi mullah's first major...

IRAQ - Iran's Developments.(Mahmoud AhmadiNejad)
January 23, 2006... The first six months of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad's term as president of Iran deserve to be observed carefully. Sami Moubayed, a Syrian analyst who lives in Damascus, wrote in Asia Times Online of Jan. 19: "The Americans must accept the reality that...

IRAQ - Iraqi Army Tested At Tal A'far.(Operation Restoring Rights)
January 23, 2006... The Tal A'far district of the north-western province of Ninevah is a mixed Turkoman, Kurdish and Sunni Arab town some 150 miles north-west of Baghdad. It is held up by the American military as one of the success stories of the multinational...

IRAQ - Joint Arab Peace Force.(Brief Article)
January 23, 2006... Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the Arab world's two leading powers, are co-sponsoring a plan to have Arab peace keepers in Iraq to replace the US-led MNF in 2007. Both powers on Jan. 17 urged visiting US Vice President Dick Cheney to give negotiations...

IRAQ - US Seeking Sunni Help.
January 23, 2006... According to The New York Times, the US is sending messages to Sunni Arab insurgent groups seeking their help in the fight against al-Qaeda. Abu Amin, a former Iraqi army officer who commands Sunni guerrillas in Yusefiya, told the NYT US...