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

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

The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 13 - The Iraq Setback For USA.
September 18, 2006... The massive deployment of US troops in Baghdad has not stopped sectarian killings. The police on Sept. 15 found the bodies of 51 death-squad victims scattered around Baghdad, bringing a three-day total to more than 175, and a Sunni leader said...

Neo-Salafi Leaders Killed.
September 18, 2006... The Interior Ministry said its forces in Baghdad killed the No. 2 Qaeda figure in Iraq, naming him as Abu Ja'far al-Liby. The Defence Ministry said its troops arrested another man, Thamer Mohsen al-Jibouri, known as Abu Ayman, and said he was...

Saddam Judge Enrages Kurds.
September 18, 2006... The chief judge in Saddam's genocide trial on Sept. 14 told the ousted leader "you were not a dictator", sparking Kurdish demands that he be replaced. The judge already had rejected prosecution demands that he step down for allegedly favouring...

Cheney Calls Insurgency Difficult.
September 18, 2006... Vice President Dick Cheney on Sept. 10 admitted that the insurgency in Iraq had proved tougher than anticipated. When challenged on his depiction last year of the insurgency as in its last throes, Cheney on NBC-TV said: "The insurgency has gone...

The Baghdad Violence.
September 18, 2006... Police on Sept. 13 found 65 bodies in and around Baghdad, while nearly 30 people were killed by car bombs on that day. Police said 45 bodies had been discovered in predominantly Sunni districts and 15 in Shi'ite areas, with another five...

Annan On US' Iraq Policy.(Kofi Annan )
September 18, 2006... UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sept. 13 said most leaders in the Middle East believed the US-led invasion of Iraq and its aftermath had been "a real disaster" for the region. He said some of the leaders thought the US should stay until the...

The Troubled Anbar Province.
September 18, 2006... Feeling marginalised in the new Iraq, the Sunnis in Anbar have generally lost faith in the government. According to a report by Col. Peter Devlin, the top Marine intelligence officer in Iraq based at the Marine headquarters in Anbar, the...

Bush's Priority & Divided Home Front.(George W. Bush)
September 18, 2006... The US President Bush faced on Sept. 11 was very different from the shocked, angry but unified nation he addressed from the same chair 1,826 days before. Iraq and its aftermath had changed everything, dividing Americans who five years ago were...

Get Out Of Iraq Now.
September 18, 2006... The following are extracts from an article by Daniel Kurtzer, a professor of Middle East policy studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and a former US ambassador to Egypt and Israel, published on Sept. 7 by the International...

What If US & Iran Co-operate.
September 18, 2006... Germany and the five permanent UN Security Council (UNSC) members - Britain, China, France, Russia and the US - in June offered Iran a package of economic and political incentives if it suspended nuclear-fuel work. The package was negotiable,...