Word: mideast
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...hobnobbing with media moguls, or picking up makeup tips from drag queens at the Brattle, Irin works her It factor on all who cross her path—even in the dark depths of 14 Plympton St. Her editing marathons are legendary, and not just for the soundtrack of Mideast dance...
...course! This is a no-brainer. But the fools now running U.S. foreign policy will no doubt find a way to screw up this opportunity, too. The perception that U.S. policy in the Mideast is largely directed by Ariel Sharon and the Likud party of Israel is unfortunately gaining credibility. Richard Polese Santa...
...Mideast expert Mansoor Ijaz—who negotiated Sudan’s 1997 counterrorism offer to the Clinton administration—has noted, the Mukhabarat headquarters also yielded proof that the regime had funded Abu Sayyaf, al Qaeda’s regional affiliate in Southeast Asia, through its embassy in Manila. This matches up with reports by Philippine intelligence. Indeed, the Philippine government expelled Husham Hussain, deputy secretary of the Iraqi embassy, in February for terrorist connections. Phone records show that Hussain called two leading members of Abu Sayyaf directly before and directly after an Abu Sayyaf bombing in Zamboanga...
...given the disposition of the U.S. forces currently after him, to make it to court Saddam would likely have to surrender pretty soon. Given his track record for miscalculating, if the Pentagon futures market in Mideast events was up and trading, it would have been a relatively safe bet that Saddam won't be taken alive...
Although he greeted it with skepticism, President Bush's Mideast peace "roadmap" got its most important boost yet on Wednesday - in the form of a reported agreement by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade to halt attacks on Israelis for three months. In response, the President declared, "I'll believe it when I see it," and echoed the Israeli demand that progress depends on the dismantling of the groups that had reportedly embraced a cease-fire. But Palestinian Authority prime minister Mahmoud Abbas, on whom the Bush administration is relying to deliver Palestinian compliance with...