APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from September 2007

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from September 2007

Pax Americana In Iraq Is Changing - Part 15 - US Debate On Surge Results.
September 17, 2007... In a national television speech, President George W. Bush on Sept. 13 said 5,700 US troops would be pulled from Iraq by end-2007, starting with a Marine unit later this month. The 30,000 additional US troops sent to Iraq this year could be...

A Hearing For US Presidential Hopefuls.
September 17, 2007... At times, the Sept. 10-12 hearings were as much a campaign event for presidential candidates as a signal moment in Bush's long struggle to turn Iraq into a "beacon of liberty in the Middle East", as he has put it. John McCain of Arizona, the...

Gates Has No Script.
September 17, 2007... Defence Secretary Gates on Sept. 14 said: "one of the sad aspects of war [in Iraq] is there is no script". He said he hoped another 30,000 US troops could be withdrawn in the second half of 2008, adding: "My hope is that when he does his...

US-Allied Sunni Shaikh Killed.
September 17, 2007... Shaikh Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, 37, leader of a US-allied Sunni tribal coalition in the province of Anbar, was on Sept. 13 killed in a suicide bombing hours before President Bush was to deliver his speech. Abu Risha, whose Anbar Salvation...

Al-Qaeda's Global Threat.
September 17, 2007... A new report just released by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), one of the world's top think-tanks which is close to British intelligence, sees al-Qaeda as a global threat on a roll. It says this now is well...