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Summers, Harvard’s first Jewish president, visited Jordan and Israel during his trip, meeting with top government officials in both countries, including King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein of Jordan and Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister...
...talk of finding formulae to accommodate the Sunnis if they stay away. Indeed, the calls for postponement of the elections by moderate Sunni elements such as acting President Yawer, and former U.S. favorite Adnan Pachachi - as well as wild allegations by such neighborhood leaders as Jordan's King Abdullah that one million Iranians have entered Iraq in order to vote - appear to be setting up Sunni Iraqis, and their regional allies, to question or reject the results...
...requisite competence and commitment to fight them. While U.S. officials originally envisaged the insurgents as numbering no more than 5,000 and saw them as comprising former regime loyalists and foreign terrorists - that estimate was later doubled, then trebled - the intelligence chief of the Allawi government, General Muhammad Abdullah Shahwani, on Monday claimed that the number of insurgents was more like 200,000 - in other words, greater than the number of troops the U.S. has in Iraq. And U.S. military officials and analysts have long-since conceded that most of the insurgents are Sunni Iraqis rather than foreigners. Shahwani...
...reported death toll would be understated. Whole families are missing. Who would report them?" SYAIFUDDIN ABDULLAH, oil-company project manager, who lost his sister and brother-in-law in Indonesia's Aceh province during the Sumatran earthquake...
...embassy, now operates out of bedrooms on an upper floor of the Corinthia. Two sparsely furnished suites serve as the temporary digs for Marathon Oil and ConocoPhillips, both of which suspended their large Libyan oil operations when U.S. sanctions were imposed in 1986. "Nobody really hates Americans here," says Abdullah Salim el-Badri, chairman of the country's National Oil Corp., which runs the huge oil fields abandoned by the Americans in 1986. "Oil started here with the Americans. They trained us." Libyans' friendliness to Americans is even clearer hundreds of miles down the coast at the Essider Marine Terminal...