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...invasion of Iraq depends on the support of Washington’s traditional Arab allies—Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait. First, it makes things easier logistically because the U.S. would need to use Saudi and Kuwaiti airspace. More importantly, Washington needs to assure the Arab people that an attack against Iraq is not a war against them all. If America goes it alone, then Saddam will suddenly transform from pariah of the Persian Gulf into messiah of the Middle East...
...documents on explosives and bombmaking.) Three hours later in Manila, two apartments were raided, yielding firearms, explosives, time fuses, manuals on explosives, sketches of targets and two other non-Filipinos: Masrie, a 32-year-old Palestinian born in Lebanon, and Hussam al-Deen Hassan Ali, a 36-year-old Kuwaiti-born Jordanian...
...came home, and told everyone no, I didn't go off to war. I told them what a great adventure I'd had, rumbling through the desert in a Humvee, soldiering alongside French and German, Greek and Italian, Kuwaiti and Egyptian, practicing for the next international war effort even as it brewed in actuality not too far away. I told everyone I wouldn't have minded going all the way, for six months and for real, and they all looked me with you're-crazy smiles. Some of them even said I was brave, just for wanting...
...them were ignorant of the precise target of their mission until the morning it took place. Alani says, "The degree of secrecy they established was unbelievable. Only five or six people had a full picture of the whole operation." (They did not include bin Laden's "spokesman," the Kuwaiti Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who- in a glimpse into the everyday life of a terrorist- turns out to be a soccer fan.) St. Andrews' Ranstorp thinks the tape suggests that the Sept. 11 attacks fit into a classic al-Qaeda pattern: an operation is conceived in the field (in this case...
Some Arab commentators have also recently questioned the unofficial involvement of thousands of Arabs in the Afghan wars. "The time has come to let Afghanistan be," wrote Shafik Nazim al-Ghabra in the Kuwaiti daily al-Ra'i al-Aam on Nov. 23. "The time has come to stop exporting the Arab world's problems to neighboring societies." That paper has been critical of the Taliban from the start, but al-Ghabra's article was particularly bitter. Other Muslim journalists have written articles in the past few weeks about the misinterpretations of the Koran that led some of those Arabs...