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...attacks can only complicate the mission of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's new Middle East envoy, retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, who was on his first trip to the region last week. He has already had tough talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is meeting with President George Bush on Monday. Already Zinni is getting little support from his American compatriots. Some Bush Administration hard-liners have told TIME's Massimo Calabresi that they are worried Zinni and the State Department will pressure Israel to make concessions to P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. For his part, Arafat...
...Saddam a decade after his ejection from Kuwait would alienate Washington's Arab allies. And on a practical level, many in the U.S. military have been scornful about the potential of the diverse and fractious Iraqi opposition to mount a military challenge to the regime. Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni was even more upfront in his parting testimony on Capitol Hill, warning that overthrowing Saddam would create a dangerous power vacuum. Remember, before 1991, the U.S. had seen Saddam as a strategic counterweight to Iran, and the fact that the majority of Iraq's population is either Shiite Muslim...
...Some reports have quoted former U.S. commander for the Gulf, General Anthony Zinni, as saying soon after the September 11 attacks that he hoped the military was not given the task of solving this problem...
...General Zinni had been very pessimistic during his final appearance in uniform on Capitol Hill when the question of Osama bin Laden came up - and this was long before September 11. He said he didn't think the military would be the best way to get bin Laden, and I don't think anyone in uniform disagrees with him. It's difficult to send an army to do a job more commonly reserved for cops...
What is stunningly obvious in reviewing the State Departments assessment of global terrorist threats, cited by Zinni, is that Yemen is a uniquely dangerous area, with multiple threats--including Palestinian, North African, and domestic terrorist groups--existing outside government-controlled areas...