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

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

Iraq & Its Sunni Arabs - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 5C.
November 14, 2005... In one of the first signs that Sunni Arabs outside mainstream parties are moving into politics at the grass-roots level, tribal leaders and academics on Nov. 5 announced a movement to capture Sunni Arab votes in parliamentary elections on Dec....

IRAQ - Neo-Salafis Escalate Terror War.
November 14, 2005... A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded Baghdad restaurant frequented by the security forces during breakfast on Nov. 10, killing 35 people and wounding 25 in an attack claimed by the Neo-Salafi group, al-Qaeda Organisation for Jihad in...

IRAQ - Baghdad Lures Saddam Officers.
November 14, 2005... The Baghdad government on Nov. 2 called for the return of junior officers from Saddam's disbanded army, openly reversing a US directive issued in early May 2003. The move is aimed at draining the Sunni/Ba'thist/Neo-Salafi insurgency of recruits...

IRAQ - US Offensives On Terrorists.
November 14, 2005... About 2,500 US and 1,000 Iraqi troops backed by tanks and air strikes last week fought insurgents in the streets of the western border town of Husayba. US and Iraqi troops moved through the town on foot for a fifth day on Nov. 11, having...

IRAQ - US Reinforcements Urged.
November 14, 2005... Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, on Nov. 10 called for an immediate increase of 10,000 US troops in Iraq, and said the "stakes are higher than they were in Vietnam" for US foreign policy. Conceding that there was an "undeniable sense...

IRAQ - Italy Urged To Stay.(Jalal Talabani asks Silvio Berlusconi not to withdraw from Iraq)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... President Jalal Talabani, visiting Rome, on Nov. 8 asked Italian leaders to keep their troops in Iraq until end-2006. "I believe that at the end of 2006, our forces will be able to gradually replace the international forces", he told a press...

IRAQ - The Sunni Constitutional Option.
November 14, 2005... The Iraqi constitution has been approved by 78% of voters nationwide. As expected, the Sunni Arabs were unable to defeat it by getting at least two-thirds of voters in three provinces to vote against it. The Independent Electoral Commission of...

IRAQ - The Italian Dimension.
November 14, 2005... Another cornerstone of the pre-war intelligence used to legitimise the war against Iraq continued to further unravel. Italian intelligence officials recently named Rocco Martino, an "occasional spy", as the source of the forged documents which...

IRAQ - The New Iraqi Constitution Is Assessed.
November 14, 2005... The following is a commentary by Prof. Ersin Kalaycioglu, president of Isik University in Istanbul, published on Nov. 11: "On October 15, Iraqis voted on the fate of their new Constitution. This was not their first written constitution,...