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...power in Baghdad, prompting panic in the region--and the White House--about Iranian domination of the Middle East. As a result, the Bush Administration is frantically trying to assemble a bloc of friendly regimes to contain Tehran--with Saudi Arabia, Iran's longtime rival in the Persian Gulf, as the linchpin. The Saudis have been working hard to make sure Iran's ally Hizballah doesn't overthrow Fouad Siniora's government in Beirut. They've been trying to reconcile the Palestinians, partly to wean the militant Hamas from its funders in Tehran. Some even speculate that Riyadh is making...
...process, it funded the network that became al-Qaeda. Today it is serving as our proxy against Iran, but in the process it may pour kerosene on the Sunni-Shi'ite war that has consumed Iraq, threatens to erupt in Lebanon and could spread to Pakistan and the gulf. The U.S. can't completely distance itself from the Saudis--in our weakened position, we need their help. But neither should we let them enmesh us in a Middle Eastern cold war, fought along religious lines. That's why Washington needs to make its own overtures toward Iran, so that...
...Muqtada. Shi'ites made up a majority of those killed in Iraq's war with Iran, which lasted from 1980 to 1988, but after it ended they were once again shut out of most senior government and military positions. With the defeat of Saddam's army in the 1991 Gulf War, Shi'ites saw a chance to rise against the dictator. But they received no protection from the allied forces, and Saddam was able to smash the revolt. By some estimates, more than 300,000 Shi'ites were killed; many were buried in mass graves. For the rest...
...Tony Blair submitted to his weekly inquisition by MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, his opponents sought to highlight splits opening within Labour ranks as its pols jockey for position in anticipation of the Prime Minister's looming departure. But it was a deeper gulf that yawned as Blair used the occasion to shift Britain's Iraq strategy, announcing a planned reduction in troop levels by 1,500 over the coming months from some 7,100 at present, with the aim of pushing overall numbers below 5,000 by the end of the year. Answering unspoken accusations that...
...economists, psychologists and other experts, the gulf between the public belief in Europe that the euro has sent prices up and official statistics that show it hasn't is providing a rich new area of research, inspring dozens of learned papers with titles such as "Expectancy Confirmation in Spite of Disconfirming Evidence...