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...country for a decade were arrested late last year, suspected of planning attacks. Jemaah Islamia has been plotting strikes all over the region--members were caught in Singapore last year. "I think the Americans need a launching pad and a listening post in Asia," says a foreign diplomat in Manila. "What better place than the Philippines...
...message will not come as a surprise. "The feeling in the region is that a strike is definitely coming," says an Arab diplomat. Cheney isn't expected to provide details of the U.S. strategy against Saddam, though that may be because the Bush camp hasn't yet reached a consensus. "The dirty little secret of Iraq is that there is no plan," says a senior Administration official. "Where our thinking is on Iraq is all out in the public." The Administration is in no rush to act. A British diplomat says "all the vibes from Washington" suggest that any military...
Washington can count on even less assent from Arab leaders, who fear that with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raging and Washington widely seen as Israel's abettor, a U.S. campaign against Iraq would incite unrest in their streets. "Emotions are already boiling," says an Arab diplomat. "A second war will be more than the region can take." Turkey and Syria, which border Iraq, are worried that Saddam's fall could tempt the Kurds who live in Iraq's north to secede, thereby emboldening their Kurdish populations to agitate for autonomy...
...fierce resistance being mounted by Mansoor's men has elevated him to an unlikely hero status among the Taliban and other anti-American elements in Afghanistan. A former Taliban diplomat told TIME that Mansoor was a pious and emotional man of limited education and vision, na?ve and easily misled. He doubted Mansoor's ability to lead so many men in battle against the U.S.-led coalition forces...
...intergovernmental conference that acts on the Convention's proposals held during its presidency in the second half of 2003 - before the candidates are taken in as full members. "We like the symbolism of moving from the [1957 ] Treaty of Rome to another Treaty of Rome," says an Italian diplomat. The candidates will have none of that. "That symbolism isn't worth making almost half of Europe feel bitter," says Kavan. "The tensions that would generate would be hard to control." He is convinced the candidate countries have enough allies inside to prevent it but there could be a battle ahead...