APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from August 2008

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from August 2008

Pax Americana In Iraq Is Changing - Part 26 - Arab-US Relations.
August 11, 2008... The US is helping Baghdad improve its relations with the Sunni Arab states in an offensive countering the diplomacy of the Iran-led axis of forces in the Greater Middle East (GME). With Iran ruled by a Shi'ite theocracy accused to trying to...

Neo-Salafi Female Bombers On The Rise.
August 11, 2008... In a video sold in Baghdad's bazaars, a group of women draped in cartridge belts and clutching pistols and rifles explain why they have taken up arms against the US in Iraq. A woman, her face covered, says: "We are defending Islam and its...

Kuwait Invasion Changed The Arab Arab.
August 11, 2008... The following are extracts from an article by Dr 'Abdullah al-Shayji, professor of international relations and head of the American Studies Unit at Kuwait University, published on Aug. 3 by Gulf News (with bracketted explanations and...

Outsourcing Arab Security.
August 11, 2008... "After the liberation of Kuwait, all the [six] GCC states rely on what I call...the "imported outsourcing of security". Traumatised by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the GCC states signed bilateral security arrangements with the US. Some also...

The Kurdish & Turkoman-Arab Positions.
August 11, 2008... The adjournment was a blow to the Kurdish Alliance - consisting mostly of a coalition between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Ma'soud Barzani who now is President of Kurdistan and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Jalal Talabani...