Word: shying
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...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world
...Iraq, which would welcome a boost in money and weapons, if just to strengthen their hand against rivals. Analysts generally believe that Iran could in a short time orchestrate a dramatic increase in the number and severity of attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. As Syed Ayad, a secular Shi'ite cleric and Iraqi Member of Parliament says, "America owns the sky of Iraq with their Apaches, but Iran owns the ground...
...regional primacy to become the dominant foreign power in Iraq, threaten Israel and make it harder for Washington to exert its will in the region. And it could provoke Sunni countries in the region, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to start nuclear programs of their own to contain rising Shi'ite power...
...nagging reality for the fugitive Qaeda leaders is that even in the battle for the hearts, minds and attention of Muslims angry at the West, they may be being eclipsed by events. "As we saw during the Lebanon crisis with its support of Hezbollah - Shi'ites [that] the al-Qaeda has traditionally loathed as heathen - the traditional al-Qaeda leadership looks as though it's chasing after conflicts, and struggling to assert its role as an influence and reference in the war to advance Islam in the world," Jacquard says. "Before that it looked both late and calculating in supporting...
...present time. The prospects for U.S. success in Iraq have deteriorated steadily over the past three years, as the insurgency has raged and sectarian conflict has threatened to turn into full-blown civil war. Without cooperation from Iran, which is far closer than Washington is to the Shi'ite parties that dominate the new Iraqi government, the U.S. is unlikely to reverse the slide in Iraq...