APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from May 2007

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from May 2007

The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 21 - Iraq & The US-Iran Regional Issue.
May 7, 2007... In the Middle East, regional and US domestic issues have become inter-dependent. This is because the US, which controls Iraq, is entering a presidential race where the Democrats are telling Republican President George W. Bush he should get his...

Tehran's Defiance.(nuclear policy)
May 7, 2007... Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, a former IRGC officer who has become the chief spokesman for the supremacists, on May 2 reiterated that "Iran is a nuclear country and will not retreat one iota from its nuclear rights". His message was...

US Targets Iran, Syria, Hizbullah In Global Terror Survey.
May 7, 2007... The US State Department has identified Iran as the "most active state sponsor" of terror and accused Syria of providing "material support" to Hizbullah. The Department on April 30 said: "Its [IRGC]... and Ministry of Intelligence and Security...

The Neo-Salafi State.
May 7, 2007... The Neo-Salafis claim they have set up in Iraq a state which they regard as a nucleus of a "Caliphate" and which they call "Imarat al-Iraq al-Islamiya" (the Islamic Emirate of Iraq - i.e. the Islamic State of Iraq, ISI). They believe the...

US-GCC Exercises.(United States and Arab Gulf Co-operation Council )(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... A new series of military exercises between the US and Arab Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) armed forces began on April 24, when hundreds of Bahrainis and Americans were involved in the largest and most comprehensive combined land exercise ever...

Bush Vetoes Iraq Funding Bill.
May 7, 2007... President Bush on May 1 vetoed a $124 bn war spending bill, setting up a second round in his long battle with congressional Democrats who are determined to use the financing measure to force the White House to shift course in Iraq. The veto was...

The Sharm El-Shaikh Meet.
May 7, 2007... On the second and final day of an international conference on Iraq's future at Egypt's Sinai resort of Sharm el-Shaikh, US and Iranian ambassadors on May 4 spoke briefly on the Iraqi situation, in a rare direct conversation between...

Iran's Regional Ambitions.
May 7, 2007... The big question for the Bush administration now is the link between Iran's nuclear programme and Tehran's geo-political ambitions, i.e, its regional policies. If the theory that Iran's Islamic revolution cannot survive unless it expanded...

The Contracted Security Services In Iraq.
May 7, 2007... There are about 126,000 private military "contractors" of various nationalities in Iraq who will stay put in the country as long as the US Congress continues funding the war. The 145,000 active-duty US forces are thus nearly matched by...