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...Bekaa Valley. The tap dance continued all week, culminating in Assad's speech to the Syrian Parliament on Saturday, in which he scuttled back to his pre-Moussa position: no mention of complete withdrawal but the promise of gradual redeployment to the Bekaa Valley. "It is an embarrassment," said Ayman Abdul Nour, founder of the All4Syria website and an Assad supporter who is hoping for reform of the ruling Baath Party. "We always hope for delay. If we can delay withdrawal, the Lebanese will start to fight among themselves, the Americans will turn their attention to Iran, the French will...
...Creating democratic options won't necessarily bring existing extremists back into the mainstream: It's hard to imagine al-Qaeda's Dr. Ayman Zawahiri settling for the job of Health Minister in his native Egypt. But it stands a good chance of isolating them and limiting their ability to recruit a new generation. That's why there?s remarkable agreement between liberals and neocons that democracy and the creation of institutions for peaceful political participation in the Middle East are among our best hedges against terrorism in the long run - even if they disagree fundamentally on how to pursue those...
...weapons and discussed setting up an al-Qaeda cell in the U.S. A week after Abu Ali's arrest, the FBI searched his parents' home in Virginia and found, among other things, Arabic audiotapes "promoting violent jihad"; a book by Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, condemning democracy as a "new religion that must be destroyed"; and an issue of Handguns magazine. "That was pretty damning stuff," says Victoria Toensing, a former terrorism prosecutor now in private practice. But, she adds, "a professor of terrorism could have that stuff...
...backdrop of growing pressure from the U.S. for political reform and democratization in Egypt. Indeed, the announcement followed hard on the heels of a decision by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to cancel a trip to Egypt, reportedly in response to the arrest last month of parliamentary opposition leader Ayman Nour - who had been pressing for the right of Egyptians to run for president when Mubarak seeks a fifth six-year term later this year. Recent elections in Iraq and the Palestinian territories have also encouraged Egyptians to demand the right to democratically choose their own leaders...
State Department ads began appearing this month in Jang, a widely circulated Pakistani newspaper, offering rewards for bin Laden, his lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and 11 other suspected terrorists. The ads have elicited an average of 12 responses a day, and will be followed by an advertising barrage on regional radio and TV stations in the borderlands and cities where al-Qaeda's chief might be hiding, according to the State Department. U.S. reward offers were posted soon after 9/11, but officials concede that little effort was made to circulate the offers widely...