APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from February 2005

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from February 2005

BAHRAIN - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 2.(Brief Article)
February 28, 2005... The government in Bahrain is worried about two potential sources of terrorism in the island kingdom: Salafi militants from within the Sunni Arab minority which rules the state, and Sadrist militants from the Shiite majority inspired by the...

BAHRAIN - The Salafi Militancy.
February 28, 2005... The Salafis are extremely fanatic militants motivated by neo-Islamic belief propagated by Sayyid Qutub, a radical Muslim Brotherhood militant in Egypt executed in 1966 by the then president, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Qutub remains enomously...

BAHRAIN - Sunni-Shiite War Dangers.
February 28, 2005... Salafi provocations against Shiites in modern history date back to the second half of the 1990s, when the Taliban after taking power in Afghanistan discriminated against, as well as killed many, Shiite Afghans. But after the US-led war toppled...

BAHRAIN - Inter-Shiite Split.
February 28, 2005... Also potentially serious, where Bahrain is concerned, is a split among the Shiite militants themselves. This would reflect a split already occurring among the Shiite Arabs of Iraq, with the mainstream including the middle and higher classes...

BAHRAIN - Unemployment - A Time Bomb.
February 28, 2005... In parallel, the Salafi movement of today in Bahrain has emerged from among the largely unemployed youths of Sunni community's lower middle class. From the 1950s and through the 1990s, this segment of Sunni society used to be split into two...