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

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

IRAQ - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 6 - Iraq's Regional Environment.
February 13, 2006... Iraq is in the midst of an environment ranging from regimes hostile to the US to those who are afraid that if America succeeds in this country they will lose. The main losers of American success in Iraq are in this order of importance to...

IRAQ - Shi'ites Have Ja'fari As PM Candidate.
February 13, 2006... Iraq the US faced a setback as the ruling Shi'ite coalition, the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), on Feb. 12 chose incumbent Ibrahim al-Ja'fari as their candidate for prime minister, clearing the way for negotiations which should end with the...

IRAQ - Fearing A Shi'ite Mess.(chaos in Iraq.)
February 13, 2006... The Guardian on Feb. 9 reported Israel's Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin as having said the Jewish state may come to regret the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's Sunni/Ba'thist dictatorship. He said that was because a strong...

IRAQ - Iraqis Pursue Qaeda Fugitives.
February 13, 2006... Iraqi Army units are searching for al-Qaeda members in a remote hilly area in the north where the fugitives are believed to have fled after falling out of favour with tribal leaders in former strongholds. Since Feb. 8 Iraqi Army units, with US...

IRAQ - Transit From Syria Slows.
February 13, 2006... Alleged infiltration of foreign militants into Iraq through Syria appears to have dramatically slowed down, according to US military officers on the Iraqi-Syrian border. The Financial Times on Feb. 9 quoted Col. Greg Reilly, the US commander in...

IRAQ - Sunni Tribes Against Jihadis.
February 13, 2006... Shaikh Osama al-Jad'an, head of the influential Karabila tribe in Sunni-dominated western Iraq, has turned away from supporting Zarqawi and other foreign fighters. He was on Feb. 6 quoted as saying: "We realised that these foreign terrorists...