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

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

The Challenges Of Terrorism - Iraq, Part 25 - US-UK Challenges.
September 10, 2007... Animosity between British and US troops is re-surfacing, underlining trans-Atlantic unease over Iraq. In a case of unfortunate timing, British forces on Sept. 3 completed withdrawal from their last position in Basra city. The pullout left UK...

Can The Anbar Model Spread?
September 10, 2007... Unlike in other areas, the Marines had an opportunity to cut deals with the Anbar shaikhs in part because of the relative homogeneity of the Sunni-dominated province. In more mixed areas, the Anbar model may not work. Critics worry that...

Bush's Challenge To Democrats.
September 10, 2007... By having brought his war cabinet to Iraq Bush highlighted the stakes his presidency faced in its final 16 months. As the US military death toll climbs towards 4,000, Bush is desperately trying to convince Congress and the American people that...

UK Pull-Out.
September 10, 2007... British troops on Sept. 3 completed their withdrawal from brigade headquarters in Basra Palace in the latest move towards handing over security responsibilities to Iraqi forces. The 550 troops stationed there were later relocated to Britain's...

UK's Afghan Strategy Hit.
September 10, 2007... Britain's faltering counter-narcotics strategy in Afghanistan came under renewed pressure on Sept. 2 after a senior member of President Hamid Karzai's government called for the aerial spraying of poppy fields. US officials have been pushing to...

Australia's Position.(Iraq War)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... With President Bush in Sydney for the annual APEC summit, Australian PM John Howard on Sept. 5 vowed to keep his country's forces in Iraq as long as necessary. Bush's presence there intensified debate about Australia's presence in Iraq and its...

US Wants To Stop Ahmadi-Nejad Visit.
September 10, 2007... The expected visit of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad to Iraq, in what will be the first ever by an Iranian president to the country, has split the Baghdad government. Ahmadi-Nejad's remark that Iran is ready to fill the vacuum after US troops withdraw...

Maliki Meets Sistani.
September 10, 2007... Maliki on Sept. 5 met with Iraq's highest Shi'ite religious man, Grand Ayatullah Ali al-Sistani, in Najaf and discussed the government's crisis in which nearly half his cabinet has quit. Sistani is the sponsor of the ruling United Iraqi...

Ammar Al-Hakim.
September 10, 2007... When guards in Karbala' waved a Shi'ite religious leader's convoy through a security cordon and into the Imam Hussain shrine at night on Aug. 27, they angered a crowd of rival JaM militiamen and sparked the Aug. 28 fighting which left parts of...

Helsinki Talks.
September 10, 2007... Representatives from Iraq's Sunni and Shi'ite groups agreed on a road map to peace during secret talks in Helsinki which ended on Sept. 3. The four-day meeting brought together 16 delegates from the feuding groups to study lessons learned from...

Bin Laden Tells US To Convert To Islam.
September 10, 2007... Osama bin Laden on Sept. 7 appeared for the first time in three years in a videotape released before 9/11's sixth anniversary, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they wanted the war in Iraq to end. ABC News said the videotape was...

Bremer On Dismantling Saddam's Army.(Coalition Provisional Authority's L. Paul Bremer III opinions on Saddam Hussein and the Unites States)
September 10, 2007... The following is an article by L. Paul Bremer III, who was the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, published on Sept. 6: "It has become conventional wisdom that the decision to disband Saddam Hussein's...