APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from August 2006

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from August 2006

The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 12 - The New Bush Option.
August 14, 2006... With the US military experience in Iraq growing ever more nightmarish, it is suggested that President George W. Bush's option now is to keep holding to the current course for the next 29 months and leave it to the next administration to clean...

The Shi'ites Face A Harder Test In Najaf.
August 14, 2006... An explosive worn on a belt by a suicide bomber who intended to blow himself up inside the holiest shrine of Shi'ite Islam went off on Aug. 10 during a police pat-down at a checkpoint in Najaf, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than...

U.S. Army Recruiting Improves.(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... The US Army says it will meet its 2006 recruiting goal, pulling itself up from a severe shortfall in 2005. The Pentagon's largest service - and the one bearing the brunt in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - enlisted 10,890 people last month....

Iraq's Slide Towards Partition.
August 14, 2006... Iraq's Shi'ites are demanding what could result in the partition of their country. This danger re-emerged in Lebanon in recent weeks after the Iranian-sponsored Shi'ite guerrilla group Hizbullah on July 12 captured two Israeli soldiers for an...

US Move On Militias Angers Shi'tes In Govt.
August 14, 2006... PM Maliki on Aug. 8 sharply criticised a pre-dawn US-Iraqi raid on Sadr's Shi'ite militia, Jaysh al-Mahdi, in Baghdad's Sadr City which took place on Aug. 7. Maliki was angered by the operation, warning that it could undermine his efforts...