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...Kazakh definition of national interest." The government's move doesn't necessarily amount to a Yukos-style power grab, but it still worries many Western oil executives whose companies have already invested billions in the country. How did it come to this? When Kazakhstan broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991, this sparsely populated region of mostly barren steppe about the size of Western Europe was crippled with debt. Though desperately poor, Kazakhstan did have a wealth of oil and gas deposits that local firms had neither the technology nor the money to develop. Kazakhstan turned to Western companies...
According to Allison, the first step in confronting nuclear terrorism’s “finite challenge” is securing existent nuclear stockpiles in the former Soviet Union, which pose an imminent threat insufficiently addressed by the Bush administration...
...addition to the threat of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union falling into the wrong hands, the United States must also contend with the distinct possibility of nuclear neophyte Pakistan falling to Islamic fundamentalists. In Pakistan, according to Allison, four in five prefer the foreign policy strategy employed by Osama bin Laden to that of President Bush...
...Iraq [July 5], provided another example of the folly of U.S. foreign policy regarding Islamic nations during the past 50 years. The U.S. helped arrange the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected President, Mossadegh, supported the autocratic Shah and wound up with a fundamentalist Islamic state. Our opposition to Soviet influence in Afghanistan led to the creation of the Taliban. In the process we aided and empowered Osama bin Laden. We have given uncritical support to Israel and as a result made a viable Palestinian state a virtual impossibility. We launched a unilateral and pre-emptive war on Iraq...
...Germany, rather than Israel, is the preferred destination of Jews leaving the former Soviet territories today - a fact that has Zionist officials so steamed that they're calling on the Israeli government to pressure Germany to stop "enticing" Jews to settle there. The very fact that Jews leaving the former Soviet territories are being given a choice to go anywhere other than Israel appears to be unacceptable, since in the words of Jewish Agency chairman Sallai Merridor "this drastically effects immigration to Israel." Merridor appears oblivious to the irony in attacking Germany for making it easier for Jews to live...