APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from April 2004

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from April 2004

AFGHANISTAN - The American Role - The Coming Challenges - Part 4.(Brief Article)
April 19, 2004... US President George W. Bush is looking for a foreign policy success to crown his re-election campaign and, at the moment, Afghanistan looks more plausible than Iraq. He should get strong allied support if the outcome of the planned September...

AFGHANISTAN - The Iraq Angle.
April 19, 2004... Policy makers at the Pentagon and US Central Command (CentCom) commanding officers in Iraq are worried that, without a successful political process leading to a stable government with popular support, the American-led operations to restore...

AFGHANISTAN - The Confidence Gap & Conspiracy Theory.
April 19, 2004... As in Afghanistan and other countries in the Islamic world, there is the combination of a confidence gap and the conspiracy theory which is quite popular in Iraq. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the Pentagon only recently...

AFGHANISTAN - The Role Of The Mosque & Radical Wahhabis.
April 19, 2004... A Beirut-based expert in Muslim religious affairs told APS on April 15 "the biggest challenge" now confronting the US-led powers involved in Iraq was a "secretly-brokered alliance" in the Sunni Triangle between leaders of the mainstream Sunni...

AFGHANISTAN - The Pakistani Angle.
April 19, 2004... The so far "tolerated" Pakistani dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf whose leadership is yet to come clean on the nuclear proliferation issue in the US, would be greatly relieved if his troops did capture Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Washington has signalled...

AFGHANISTAN - The Afghan Elections.(Brief Article)
April 19, 2004... Soon after Powell visited Kabul last month, Afghan President Karzai said national elections planned for June will be held in September. Voter registration had been hampered by Afghanistan's remote geography, bureaucracy and poor security. About...