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

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

The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 11 - An Anti-Ba'th/Salafi Drive.
July 10, 2006... The Iraqi government on July 2 published a 41 "most wanted" list topped by family and former associates of deposed Ba'thist dictator Saddam Hussein who reportedly were financing and directing the insurgency. The list - planned in parallel with...

Bin Laden Says War On USA Will Continue.
July 10, 2006... Al-Qaeda's overall leader Osama bin Laden endorsed the new head of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia Abu Hamza al-Muhajer in an audiotape posted on the Internet on July 1, and he warned Shi'ites against collaborating with the US in its fight against...

Zarqawi Widow Claims Allies Sold Him Out.(Umm Muhammad)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... The Italian newspaper La Reppublica on July 2 published an interview with Zarqawi's widow, identified as "Umm Muhammad", in which she said her husband was "sold to the Americans" because he had become too powerful. She claimed her husband was...

Al-Qaeda Using Iraq As Terrorist Training Ground.
July 10, 2006... The Daily Telegraph on July 3 reported a British parliamentary committee as saying that, rather than being subdued by the war in Iraq, al-Qaeda had "changed its modus operandi" and was using Iraq as a training ground for future terrorists and...

Permanent US Bases In Iraq?
July 10, 2006... In the autumn of 2004, John Pike, an American expert who heads GlobalSecurities.org, claimed the US maintained or were still building at least 12 military bases in Iraq. His military affairs website gave their names. They include, for example,...

Holding Ramadi.
July 10, 2006... The Government Centre in the middle of the devastated Anbar capital of Ramadi resembles a fortress on the wild edge of some frontier: It is sandbagged, barricaded, full of men ready to shoot, surrounded by rubble and enemies eager to get...

Islamic Penetration Of Kurdistan.
July 10, 2006... A new constitution for Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region was meant to be relatively straight-forward. But instead, Kurdish Islamic parties have courted controversy by calling a greater role for shari'a (Islamic law). "The Kurds are a Muslim...

The US-Iran Issue.
July 10, 2006... Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani on July 7 said the West's pressure for a quick response to an offer of incentives for Tehran to halt its nuclear work was not helpful, but he insisted that the standoff could still be resolved through...

Iran's Geo-Political Ambitions.(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Three years after EU-Iranian talks began, the current round is the most serious and raises two questions: (1) What is Tehran after, hegemony in a vital part of the Middle East - with Syria, Lebanon's Hizbollah and Palestinian rejectionists...

Rajavi Rallies Her Followers.(Maryam Rajavi)
July 10, 2006... Over 10,000 Iranians from across Europe on July 1 gathered at Le Bourget, just outside Paris, in support of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and its leader, Maryam Rajavi, who was recently freed from French judicial restrictions which...