APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map articles from November 2004

APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map archives from November 2004

IRAQ - Resurgence In The Shiite World - Part 8 - The Saudi & GCC Factors.(Saudi Arabia, Arab Gulf Co-operation Council)
November 8, 2004... Saudi Arabia and fellow members of the Arab Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), together with the Shiites of Iraq, will be among the first to suffer the effects of an American defeat in this country. But beside diplomacy, there is very little they...

IRAQ - The Sunni Violence.(Sunni Triangle)
November 8, 2004... Iraq's Sunni Triangle, meanwhile, has been infested by Wahhabi volunteers having infiltrated mainly through Syria to join a loose coalition of Iraqi Saddamists and Islamists. The non-Iraqi volunteers include very radical Saudi Wahhabis, Syrian...

IRAQ - Profile Of A Sunni Volunteer.
November 8, 2004... The following report by Neil MacFarquhar published on Nov. 3 by The New York Times (NYT) provides a rare profile of a Lebanese Sunni volunteer who returned from Iraq and who was interviewed in Lebanon's eastern plateau of the Bekaa by The NYT...

IRAQ - US Assault On Falluja/Ramadi.
November 8, 2004... Falluja and Ramadi were cordoned off on Nov. 5 to prevent insurgents from sending reinforcements between the two cities. US Marines awaited orders to start an all-out offensive. The first assault will be on Falluja. The Marines will be fighting...

IRAQ - Arab View On Insurgents Dims.(hostage and civilian killing in Iraq)
November 8, 2004... With images of civilian casualties from US air strikes set against insurgent beheading of unarmed Iraqi soldiers and civilians, Arabs and their media are increasingly struggling with the question of how far to back a rebellion which uses...

IRAQ - Shiite Control.(Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani's political activity)
November 8, 2004... Though he has no militia, holds no press meetings or interviews and communicates largely through hand-written notes, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani has somehow cornered the US into accepting his vision for Iraq's post-war destiny. Less than...

IRAQ - Zarqawi Threatens Election Staff.(Al-Qaeda Organisation for Jihad in Mesopotamia)
November 8, 2004... The Zarqawi gang, the most feared among Wahhabi groups, has sent letters to the authorities warning it will kill anyone involved in administering the January poll. In one of the typewritten letters, to the Mosul and Baghdad offices of the...

IRAQ - The Dutch & Hungary To Quit.(withdrawing troops from iraq)
November 8, 2004... The Netherlands and Hungary on Nov. 3 announced plans to pull their troops out of Iraq next March. The decisions come as other coalition states, often facing public criticism over the deployment of troops in Iraq, have indicated they will...

IRAQ - US-EU Reconciliation Sought.(European Union's relations with United States in the wake of Iraq war)
November 8, 2004... The UK, Poland and Denmark on Nov. 4 expressed belief that the US has to take a more consensual approach in its dealings with its traditional allies in Europe. But they want states like France and Germany, the main anti-war states within the...

IRAQ - Turkish Plan For Kurdistan.
November 8, 2004... The Turkish government has a contingency plan to place at least 20,000 troops inside northern Iraq to prevent the co-ruling Kurdish groups from changing the demographic structure of the contested city of Kirkuk, according to Turkish newspapers....