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...Glickman acknowledged the element of the unknown in his newest career...
...ites an influence commensurate with their numbers over Iraq's destiny. They're likely to resist any effort to postpone a poll, particularly because Sistani and the parties close to him are under pressure among ordinary Shi'ites as a result of the challenge of the more radical element led by Moqtada Sadr. If elections are held on schedule, he'll feel his caution was vindicated. If there's a delay, Sistani will be caught between pressure to act and a fear that the path of confrontation could bring protracted chaos and result in the breakup of Iraq...
...Script: The statements and actions of the foreign jihadist element linked to Zarqawi have always made clear that they plan to wreak maximum havoc in the hope of disrupting any transition plan in Iraq, and forcing out the Americans and their allies (both foreign and Iraqi). Clearly many Sunni Iraqi nationalists and Baathists currently share that goal, and are ramping up attacks not only on the Coalition, but particularly on the Iraqi security forces to which the U.S. is hoping to transfer increasing responsibility. At the same time, the recent deal to end the fighting in Fallujah, which handed security...
...Saudi society is under the tremendous strain of a social crisis decades in the making. The most visible element of that crisis right now may be the apparent inability of the authorities to eliminate the threat of al-Qaeda attacks within their own borders. But its causes may be rooted in a variety of factors ranging from an increasingly unpopular alliance between the ruling family and the United States - widely perceived in the Arab world today as a power hostile to Muslim interests - to a monocultural economy whose oil earnings are unable to meet the aspirations of a rapidly growing...
...when the day-to-day ruler of the Kingdom blames the Khobar attack on foreign elements - "Zionists" being his rather bizarre choice - the coded message to the Saudi public is that the confrontation has no connection with the dynamics of Saudi society, and that the security forces are confining their crackdown to known criminals rather than the far wider element that may sympathize with the ideological outlook of the gunmen. Such mixed message inevitably impacts on the thinking of the Saudi security forces, and Western diplomats suggest there may even be a measure of sympathy for or collusion with...