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

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

IRAQ - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 15 - Towards Change Or Coup.
November 6, 2006... One of the "course correction" developments rumoured as being in the pipeline for Iraq is a coup d'etat, or a more civilised change of leadership in Baghdad, with a secular Shi'ite to replace Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister. This is likely to...

IRAQ - Maliki Orders US Siege Ended.
November 6, 2006... Maliki on Oct. 31 ordered the removal of US checkpoints around Sadr City, a huge Shi'ite slum of Baghdad, in what appeared to be his boldest gambit and a tense struggle for more independence from his American protectors. Maliki's public...

IRAQ - Iraq Policy Change Unlikely.
November 6, 2006... In poll after poll, prospective voters name Iraq as the No 1 issue in the Nov. 7 mid-term elections. So if voters tip one or both Houses of Congress out of Republican control, what impact would that have on the US war effort in Iraq and, more...

IRAQ - Reconciliation Meet Postponed.(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... An Iraqi government delegation involved in meetings with opposition politicians in Amman has declared the postponement of a national reconciliation conference originally scheduled for Nov. 4 in Baghdad pending further negotiations. ...

IRAQ - Untracked Guns.
November 6, 2006... About the last thing the US should be doing in Iraq is funnelling weapons into black-market bazaars, as sectarian militias arm themselves for civil war. Yet, that is just what Washington may have been doing for the past several years, thanks to...

IRAQ - The War Critics & Longer US Stay.
November 6, 2006... In a lengthy newspaper interview recently, Britain's new army chief, General Sir Richard Dannatt, echoed the arguments made over the past year by the Democratic Party's most prominent advocate of a swift withdrawal, John Murtha. Britain should...

IRAQ - Big US-Led Games Anger Iran.
November 6, 2006... More than two dozen powers, including three GCC states, practiced intercepting and searching vessels suspected of trafficking in unconventional weapons in major military exercises which emphasised their co-ordination and willingness to...