APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map articles from November 2005

APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map archives from November 2005

IRAQ - Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 8 - The US Casualties.
November 7, 2005... Iraqi officials on Nov. 1 held a televised lottery to determine the order in which more than 200 parties will appear on the ballot at elections set for Dec. 15. That came a day after a car bomb killed 20 people and wounded dozens in the Shi'ite...

IRAQ - Senate Questioning.(faulty insurance led George W. Bush to led war against Iraq)
November 7, 2005... Questions over how and why the US went to war in Iraq are roiling Washington. Senate Democrats on Nov. 1 used an unusual procedural turn to force the Republican majority into concluding a long-promised Senate Intelligence Committee...

IRAQ - Sunnis To Play Bigger Role.
November 7, 2005... Dec. 15's will be the first vote in which Sunni Arabs are expected to play a larger role. But if increased Sunni mobilisation - and a new electoral system - virtually ensures Iraq's once dominant community will be better represented in the next...

IRAQ - A Race With Syria's Ba'thist Dictatorship.
November 7, 2005... Along with facing a rise in the US casualty rate in Iraq, the Bush administration is engaged in a race for control over Syria with the Ba'thist regime of Bashar al-Assad, an Alawite dictatorship in Damascus, which the young president inherited...

IRAQ - Grim Picture Of US Reconstruction Effort.
November 7, 2005... Stuart Bowen, the special inspector-general for Iraq's reconstruction, in his latest report says: "the ambitious US reconstruction effort in Iraq is likely to fall far short of its goals because soaring security costs and poor...

IRAQ - The Situation In Baghdad.
November 7, 2005... The following is a description of the current situation in Baghdad by columnist H.D.S. Greenway published on Nov. 1 by The Boston Globe. "'The first thing you should know is that the plane lands in a corkscrew landing - perhaps appropriately a...

IRAQ - Shi'ite Power Struggle.
November 7, 2005... There is a recurring power struggle in Najaf, the holiest city in Ja'fari Shi'ism, between two Shi'ite Arab religious parties: Jaysh al-Mahdi militia forces of the radical mullah Muqtada al-Sadr, who in 2004 engaged in fierce firefights with US...

IRAQ - Pachachi Effort.(Adnan Pachachi)
November 7, 2005... John F. Burns wrote in The New York Times of Oct. 30: "For those exhausted by Iraq's relentless violence and sectarianism, there are few tonics like a conversation with Adnan Pachachi. At 82, Pachachi is an Iraqi patrician who began his...

IRAQ - Will USA Accept Sunni Terms?(military operations)
November 7, 2005... The UN Security Council on Nov. 3 began a debate on extending the mandate of US-led MNF, which is set to expire at end-2005. Iraqi politicians say there may need to be new regulations on how US troops operate to satisfy the demands of Sunni...

IRAQ - Maysan Insurgency.
November 7, 2005... In an article published on Nov. 4, Michael Schwartz, a professor of sociology at Stony Brook University, focused on the "Marsh Arabs" - Shi'ites who live in the south-eastern province of Maysan bordering with Iran. Maysan is a small Shi'ite...