APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map articles from September 2005

APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map archives from September 2005

IRAQ - Resurgence In The Shiite World - Part 8 - A Sectarian War.
September 26, 2005... The Shiite Arabs of Iraq keep trying all means to avoid falling into the trap of sectarian strife with the Sunni Arabs. Whether or not they will succeed depends more on the Sunni Arabs than on any other factor, with the US trying to avert the...

IRAQ - The Difference With Afghanistan.
September 26, 2005... Afghanistan and Iraq were both invaded by US-led forces, which overthrew outlaw regimes. Both have new constitutions, guided by the same US diplomat - an Afghan-born neo-con, Zalmay Khalilzad. Both have foreign armies of significant size on...

IRAQ - Bush Won't Abandon Iraqis.
September 26, 2005... Despite increasing American demands that the US military leave Iraq and devastating hurricanes hitting the petroleum-rich Gulf of Mexico (see the global oil perspective in APS Review's omt13SaudiProspSep26-05), President Bush on Sept. 22 warned...

IRAQ - Sistani Approves Constitution.(Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani)
September 26, 2005... Iraq's top Shiite religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called on his followers to vote "Yes" to the country's draft constitution in a referendum scheduled for Oct. 15. His office in Najaf told Reuters he had urged his aides to...

IRAQ - Iran Accused.
September 26, 2005... Iraqi and British officials said Iran's growing influence was being felt from Basra to Baghdad. Iranians are blamed for stoking the sectarian tension, undermining the coalition and trying to create a breakaway Islamic state in southern Iraq....

IRAQ - Zarqawi's War.(Abu Musab al-Zarqawi)
September 26, 2005... The threat of further massacres was sharpened recently when the architect of much of the killing, Zarqawi, declared a "full-scale war on Shiites all over Iraq, wherever and whenever they are found". Iraq's most prominent hardline Sunni...

IRAQ - The Shiite Arab Nationalists.
September 26, 2005... Iran, facing pressure over its nuclear development programme from Britain, France and Germany (the EU3) as well as the US, is now seen to be playing a key role behind Shiite militants in southern Iraq. One of the local forces said to be backed...

IRAQ - The British Presence.
September 26, 2005... The UK Ministry of Defence admitted that British troops had adopted a lower profile in Basra since the Sept. 19 incident but insisted deployment in the city was "returning progressively to a level of normality", adding: "Outside the city centre...