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Despite the backing of the U.S., Western Europe and Arab states like Saudi Arabia, Siniora barely clings to power from his official residence and office in the Grand Serail, a former Turkish fortress surrounded by rings of barbed wire and riot police. But it is Hizballah's fire-breathing leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who's calling the shots...
...will have to stick with its decision not to charge him at all. Guitierrez, who saw her client in Cuba a little more than a week ago and plans to return next week, suggests that the only solution may be to transfer Qahtani to his native Saudi Arabia, which has accepted the repatriation of other nationals who had been held at Guantanamo. She describes Qahtani today as a "broken man, broken by torture." Though he is now permitted to mingle occasionally with other prisoners, she says that his condition has steadily deteriorated due to the mistreatment and isolation...
...President's first stop is Israel for the country's 60th anniversary celebrations. While there, he will also do some tourism (including a visit to the Dead Sea Scrolls) and discussions on the peace process with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. He then flies to Saudi Arabia Friday for talks with King Abdullah at his ranch outside Riyadh. Bush will press the Saudi king on oil prices, though he's already played down the possibility of much change. He finishes the trip Saturday and Sunday in Egypt at a summit of Arab leaders, where Iran and the peace process will...
...Lebanese political landscape has now been transformed. For all its supposed superpower support, the ruling coalition turned out to be built on sand. The Saudi-funded street gangs were amateurs. The pro-government Internal Security Forces, equipped and trained by the United States, stayed out of the fight. And the the Lebanese army stayed neutral rather than risk splitting apart. Though prime minister Fouad Siniora made a defiant speech Saturday saying that the government would not fall into the hands of an Iranian coup, he has little choice other than to resign...
...before retaking Basra, the Iraqi government started talks with Iran about running an oil pipeline to Abadan, Iran's main export terminal. Iran also has said that it will have a say in Iraq's mega field Majnun, which may contain 30 billion barrels of oil - a rival to Saudi Arabia's larger field. I suspect, though, if he'd been asked about Iran, Crocker would have said it is simply one more reason we should stay in Iraq, to keep Iran...