Word: pro-western
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...Moderate" Arab governments are unstable and therefore unreliable. Unfortunately, the way to prevent anti-Western revolutionaries from assuming control of Arab nations tomorrow is to bolster the pro-Western leaders who control them today...
...ongoing saga in the Persian Gulf has further widened the gap between American and Israeli strategic goals. U.S. leaders can no longer view pro-Western Arab leaders as dispensable allies. Not when they form a key component of the international coalition that will shape George Bush's New World Order. Not when the free flow of Arab oil has moved to the forefront of American concerns...
...same time, the U.S. began airlifting out of Chad several hundred Libyan dissidents who had served as soldiers in the pro-Western government of ousted President Hissene Habre. Tripoli accused the U.S. of training the dissidents to carry out commando raids in Libya, but Washington refused to comment...
...headquarters in Iraq. Its mission was to keep the Soviets out of the Middle East. Yet trouble came from within the region and even within the alliance. In 1956 Britain, a member of the pact, joined France and Israel in attacking Egypt. In 1958 a nationalist revolution overthrew the pro-Western monarchy of Iraq. The new regime immediately pulled out of the pact...
...Sayed Ahmad Gailani, 56, is the most pro-Western and secular of the mujahedin leaders, despite his claim of direct descent from the Prophet Muhammad. Gailani's National Islamic Front is nicknamed the "Gucci Muj" for its leader's taste in well-tailored camouflage uniforms. Though he favors the return of exiled King Zahir Shah, Gailani is also a fervent believer in Western-style elections...