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...three nights on grounds that they were a "threat to the internal security of the country." The evidence: a June 11 report produced by Azimy in which a Taliban commander in Kunduz province boasted that he has hundreds of fighters and a dozen suicide bombers ready to strike. The Qatar-based TV network insists the story was balanced by an interview with a German coalition officer. Questioned by one of its staff at a press conference, President Hamid Karzai countered that the story was "not a case of press [freedom] - it was a case of making a story in favor...
...Senor is adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Mr. Whiton is policy advisor to the Foreign Policy Initiative. They served as officials in the administration of George W. Bush, at the State Department, Central Command in Qatar, and with the Coalition in Iraq...
...region on the global economic map. In some ways, the boom became captive to a "mine is bigger than yours" syndrome. Competing states embarked on advertising campaigns and hired in public-relations firms to tout their wares. Developers and rulers alike pushed artificial islands (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait), and in many places real estate became the main economic activity. Officials promoted their cities as financial hubs as a way to diversify away from oil. Hundreds of millions of dollars were poured into national air carriers and airports, which were seen both as a source of national pride...
...There's no guarantee the current uneasy comity will continue. "We can't use history as our guide for water planning anymore," says Saleem Ali, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar and a co-author of the report. Demographic growth - the continent's population is expected to grow by nearly 500 million people over the next 10 years - combined with climate change will likely mean that far more Asians will be tapping shrinking sources of water. Water wouldn't be a sole trigger for war but rather a "threat multiplier" - a factor that worsens the social...
...President Obama sees the large and painful rift that developed between the U.S. and the Muslim world during the Bush presidency as damaging to the world and as a threat to American security," says Hady Amr, director of the Brookings Center in Doha, Qatar. "Obama seeks to be a transformative figure in healing the rift between the U.S. and the Muslim world and is harnessing his personal history - as an America born to an immigrant Muslim father from one part of the world, who spent part of his childhood growing up in another part of the Muslim world...