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

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

IRAQ - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 9 - The US Strategy.(embassies)
May 8, 2006... Three years after a US-led invasion ousted Saddam's Ba'thist dictatorship, only one major US building project in Iraq is on schedule and within budget: The massive new American Embassy compound. The fortress-like compound rising beside the...

IRAQ - Powell Joins The Critics.(Colin Powell )
May 8, 2006... Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has told the UK's ITV that he had advised President George W. Bush and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld before the onset of war that the administration was not deploying enough troops to Iraq. Powell...

IRAQ - ISG's Big Mountain To Climb.(Iraq Study Group )
May 8, 2006... Amid slumping poll numbers for President Bush and defections of retired military brass and conservative heavyweights over the handling of the Iraq war, some of Washington's most effective insiders are reaching out to help the White House. In...

IRAQ - US Rift On Sunni Insurgency.
May 8, 2006... A military assessment of Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgency in late 2004 concluded that it had the active support of millions of Sunnis who rejected the legitimacy of a US installed government, according to Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who led all...

IRAQ - Role Of Iraqi Interpreters.
May 8, 2006... The US has isolated its Iraqi interpreters, worried they could be working with insurgents. The Christian Science Monitor on April 17 pointed to one of them, known in a Mosul US military base as Roger. Like the other Iraqi interpreters working...

IRAQ - Zarqawi Vs Maliki.(Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jawad al-Maliki)
May 8, 2006... Asia Times Online (ATO) on April 29 noted that in the 1950s, the two competing giants of Arabic music, Abdul-Halim Hafez and Farid al-Atrash, would schedule their concerts on the same day and same hour, to see which radio stations would...