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...Jordan in 1970, he cheated one political "death" after the disastrous "Black September" insurrection against King Hussein saw his organization driven out of the Hashemite kingdom and into Lebanon. There, too, he once again escaped the noose, fleeing into a new exile in far-off Tunis in 1982 after Ariel Sharon's army had vanquished his fighters. Arafat seemed irretrievably doomed in 1991 when his disastrous miscalculation of supporting Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait saw the PLO reduced to pariah status in almost every Arab capital. But within two years, he popped up on the White House lawn shaking...
...thirds of Sunnis intend to vote. But the elections present Sunnis with new dilemmas--and could create new nightmares for U.S. forces and their Iraqi allies. Sunni extremists are calling for a boycott of the elections and threatening reprisals against those who vote. And in the absence of Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime, there are few credible Sunni political parties to choose from. Community leaders are worried that the absence of a strong Sunni party would leave them without adequate clout in the next government and, crucially, in the drafting of the new Iraqi constitution. But the biggest danger...
...Fallujah. The battle's long-term impact will be measured in light of the contest between the Coalition and the insurgents for Sunni hearts and minds in Iraq. The insurgency has been sustained by a strong nationalist sentiment among Sunnis, who had been the dominant social group in Saddam Hussein's Iraq - indeed, ever since the country was first created by Britain. A widely held sense of uncertainty over their future as a minority in a democratic Iraq had been compounded by decisions by the Coalition to dissolve the old army and bar former members of the Baath party from...
...Strategic Miscalculations Your article "What Saddam Was Really Thinking" described disclosures made in Charles Duelfer's CIA report on Iraq's alleged weapons arsenal [Oct. 18]. The greatest mystery is not why Saddam Hussein let the world assume he had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) but why, with the best intelligence our hard-earned tax money could buy, the U.S. was totally fooled?and as a result has lost more than 1,100 precious American lives. I shudder to think what other surprises await us. J. Connor Boggs Kaneohe...
...former government, America must finish the work it set out to complete—establishing a more prosperous democratic state in the heart of the Middle East. At the very least, this country owes the people of Iraq a freer, more stable nation than they had under Saddam Hussein. Anything less would reduce U.S. credibility throughout the Arab world to a dangerous...