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...Saddam Hussein's half-brother had just been arrested, perhaps with Syrian cooperation, and Assad had to decide whether he wanted to take credit for helping...
...Even in Iraq, where democratic elections became possible only because the U.S. invasion had ousted Saddam Hussein, the clear winner at the polls was the Shiite Islamist-led coalition assembled by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. The overtly pro-U.S. list of interim prime minister Iyad Allawi polled only 14 percent of the vote. It is to the Bush administration?s credit that it has repeatedly insisted it will accept the choices of the Iraqi voters, even when those obviously conflict with U.S. preferences. Such flexibility will be indispensable if the Arab democracy project is to be much more than...
...Brotherhood managed to sneak in a handful of candidates as independents. And despite some egregious strongarm tactics designed to stop their supporters even getting to the polls, they still emerged as the single largest opposition bloc in parliament. Now, Mubarak is proposing to do away with the Saddam Hussein-style single candidate elections that have "returned" him to power four times since 1981. Instead, he'll allow opposition candidates to stand, but - and here's the catch - the must be nominated by officially recognized political parties (thereby excluding you-know-who), and their candidacy must be approved by the current...
...effective Cold War-era strategy designed to spy on a somewhat predictable, hierarchical center of power like the Soviet Union, this strategy is much less effective at fighting off a decentralized group of tech-savvy terrorists. While signals intelligence did help the U.S. find Qusay and Uday Hussein during the early days of the second Iraq war, the results have been less encouraging in the hunt for Al Qaeda leaders...
Jalal Talabani knows what it's like to be a marked man. In 1989, after Saddam Hussein's army had ravaged the Kurdish population of northern Iraq with chemical weapons, the dictator offered amnesty to all Kurdish soldiers who fought against him--except one. Saddam ordered his minions to hunt down Talabani, a chief of the Kurdish separatist guerrillas known as the peshmerga. If Talabani was caught, Saddam vowed, he would put him to death...