APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from April 2008

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from April 2008

IRAQ - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Iraq, Part 32 - Iran's Influences Are Growing.
April 7, 2008... The Shi'ite theocracy of Iran claims it is more in control of Iraq than the US. While Iraqi Prime Minister (PM) Nuri al-Maliki has recently described rogue Shi'ite militias as "terrorists worse than al-Qaeda", a Neo-Salafi network which is the...

IRAQ - The Wars With Iran.
April 7, 2008... The theocracy, meanwhile, is having a cold war with the US and its allies, on the one hand, and a proxy war with Maliki's government forces on the other. The latter war now is going through a low intensity phase, pending the political fall-out...

IRAQ - A Khomeini-Time Plan.
April 7, 2008... Taheri added (with underlining by APS): "The way this [JaM] operation is designed recalls an Iranian plan, drafted in 1983-84, to seize control of Basra and parts of the Shi'ite-majority areas of southern Iraq". According to Ebrahim Yazdi, once...

IRAQ - The Story Of The Kharbit Family & The Tribal Element.
April 7, 2008... The New York Times on April 2 published a report on a Sunni Arab family of Iraq which had underlined the importance of the tribal element in Iraqi society and started with this (the underlining and bracketed information by APS): "More than...

Israel Says Iran Intercepting Military Talks From Syria.
April 7, 2008... Israeli security officials were on April 2 reported as saying Iran had set up sophisticated listening stations in Syria in recent months to intercept Israeli military communications. The officials said they had ordered senior officers to take a...

Iran On Israel's Northern & Southern Borders.(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... The Iran-led axis is having Israel squeezed between hostile fronts: To the north of the Jewish state lie the Shi'ite theocracy's Lebanon offshoot Hizbullah, which now has missiles capable of hitting its nuclear centre of Dimona, and the...

The Arab Split.
April 7, 2008... When delegations arrived in Damascus for the Arab League's 20th summit meeting of March 29-30, half of the league's 22 heads of state expressed their displeasure with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by staying home. By the end of that summit,...

The US-Iran Cold War & Financial Implications.
April 7, 2008... Below are extract from an article by John McGlynn, an independent Tokyo-based economic and financial analyst, published on April 1 (with underlining and bracketed explanations by APS): "March 20 is destined to be another day of infamy. On...