APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from November 2006

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from November 2006

Pax Americana In Iraq Is Changing - Part 4 - Saddam Sentenced To Hang.(Saddam Hussein )
November 13, 2006... Saddam Hussein and two senior members of his defunct Ba'thist dictatorship were on Nov. 5 sentenced by an Iraqi special tribunal to death by hanging for carrying out a campaign of collective punishment against a Shi'ite village where the...

Baghdad Unmoved By Rumsfeld Exit.(Donald Rumsfeld)
November 13, 2006... The government on Nov. 9 dismissed the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as "an internal issue". In response to the change at the Pentagon, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said: "We are dealing with an administration, not persons. We are...

US Efforts Often welcomed.
November 13, 2006... In a bid to control sectarian violence, US and Iraqi forces moved months ago into one of the toughest Sunni insurgent area, Amiriyah. At first, change was palpable. The Americans paid a Sunni contractor to clear streets and pick up trash....

Negroponte Visits.(John Negroponte )
November 13, 2006... US National Intelligence Director John Negroponte on Nov. 3 was om Baghdad and met with the PM Maliki, in the second visit this week by a top US official. He also met with National Security Adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubai'e, US Ambassador Khalilzad...

What If Iraq Is Partitioned.
November 13, 2006... In the run up to the Iraq war in 2003, the Arab allies of the US united in warning that regime change must preserve the country's territorial integrity. The only fear that loomed larger than the threat of Saddam Hussein was the disintegration...