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...military action in Britain." - By Andrew Purvis. With reporting by Helen Gibson/London and Senad Slatina/Sarajevo ISLAMIC OPINION New Best Friends With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, the U.S. and its allies mounted a charm offensive on Muslims ahead of a possible war in Iraq. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz traveled to Turkey to secure support for an attack on Saddam Hussein's regime, offering to write off at least $6 billion of military debt and an undisclosed amount of other aid in return. Then, even as British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrived for talks on Ankara's application...
...Administration is continuing its military buildup, scheduling massive exercises from a new Gulf command center in Qatar and pressing allies for support. But when Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz met with Turkey's foreign minister on Tuesday, he was told that country would allow the U.S. to use all-important bases to attack Iraq's northern flank only if a military intervention had been authorized by the UN Security Council. Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis went to great length to emphasize that Turkey believes a war would require a new UN resolution. And the Security Council is unlikely to even consider...
Within the Administration, the person most closely associated with seeking a democratic transformation of the Middle East is Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense. But it's not clear that his position is shared by all his colleagues, and he is easy to dismiss by those who are pessimistic about the ability of the U.S. to remake the world. In the New York Review of Books, Anthony Lewis recently allowed that he was "moved by [Wolfowitz's] optimism, but I kept thinking of one thing: Vietnam...
...placed Ba'asyir under arrest. But the Bali attacks suggest it may be too late to prevent al-Qaeda from making the vast Indonesian archipelago a new sanctuary. "We've been talking with them for a long time about the seriousness of the problem," Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, a former ambassador to Indonesia, told TIME. "There's obviously a lot more to do, and maybe this will serve as a wake-up call for them...
...dictator Suharto. A Western diplomat in Jakarta says if Megawati were to hand law-enforcement authorities too much power, "moderates of all stripes would make common cause against her out of fear that it marked the beginning of a return to the draconian methods of the Suharto days." Says Wolfowitz: "Americans need to understand we're dealing with a country that only recently became free after 50 years of dictatorship. Indonesians are leery about giving too much authority to the police." Whatever the causes, says Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on al-Qaeda at St. Andrews University in Scotland, Indonesia...