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...includes all kinds of diverse people, Christians as well as Jews and Muslims, Arabic speakers, Turks, Greeks and Armenians, Circassians, Georgians, Kurds and many others besides who may have very different ideas about all these events. And in terms of states, what do Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, let alone NATO member Turkey have in common? Much the same can be said of the category Arab which includes all those from quite diverse origins who happen to speak Arabic, many of whom are Christians of diverse denominations. Many in the great cities of the region would have used...
There are times when Gornick appears to be doing just that. Early in the book she describes a book she wrote about Egypt early in her career which her lack of understanding of herself and her situation hurt the story. “Who was I? Who were they? Where was I, and what was it all about? The problem was I didn’t really want the answers to these questions.” There is promise in her recollections, but they seem to stop there. Gornick never provides any quotes or passages from her book, and without...
...premise that terror strikes can force the U.S. to withdraw its military presence from the Middle East and Gulf, particularly his native Saudi Arabia. And that, as he sees it, would critically weaken the powers in the region he most detests - Israel and pro-Western Arab regimes such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Last week's terror strikes are part of a long-term campaign begun by Bin Laden as early as 1993, rather than simply a response to U.S. policy towards Iraq or Israel. Both issues have generated intense anti-American anger across the Arab world...
...Laden's network were laid during the Afghan war, during which the wealthy Saudi heir had been the prime organizer of volunteers for the 'jihad' against the Soviet invasion. That made him a key player in an effort backed by the CIA and the intelligence agencies of Egypt and Saudi Arabia to funnel aid, equipment, training and volunteers to the Afghan mujahedeen. Many of the "Arab Afghans," as the volunteers became known, had been radical Islamist dissidents in their home countries, and their pro-Western governments were only too happy to ship them off to fight the Russians...
...Afghan 'jihad' also established links between volunteers from Islamist opposition groups in countries ranging from Algeria to South Africa and the Philippines, and Bin Laden has moved - together with key leaders of Egypt's influential Islamist movement - to establish himself at the center of a kind of Islamist International. Their goal has been to link organizations spawned by local grievances all around the world into a global 'jihad' against the U.S. and to foster cooperation among these groups...