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Archives for August 2002

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Combatting Extremism In Yemen Asharq Al

Juan Cole

Combatting extremism in Yemen Asharq al-Awsat reports that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salih has formed a council of senior Muslim clergymen to preach to Yemen’s youth, especially returnees from Afghanistan, about the dangers of religious extremism. They will conduct open discussion and dialogue sessions, both voluntary and with extremists in prison. Non-government sources estimate that […]

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Al Qaida Funding Two Contradictory

Juan Cole

al-Qaida Funding Two contradictory reports are out. Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal says that his government has blocked $90 mn. from going to al-Qaida in the past few months. (That it was blocked is the good news. That Saudis still want to send that kind of money to al-Qaida is the bad news). The […]

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Al Qaida In Iran Iran Has Denied

Juan Cole

al-Qaida in Iran Iran has denied a Washington Post report that two senior al-Qaida figures are hiding out in far eastern Iran near the Afghan border, saying it has a policy of not giving asylum to al-Qaida members. One thing no one has pointed out is that the southeast of Iran is very rugged and […]

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Bin Ladin Back In Control Al Quds Al

Juan Cole

Bin Ladin Back in Control? Al-Quds al-`Arabi, a London newspaper, is reporting that Bin Ladin is firmly back in control of al-Qa’ida and that the organization is digging in for a guerilla war against the US presence in Afghanistan.

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No Security Council Resolution Los

Juan Cole

No Security Council Resolution? The Los Angeles Times reported today that the Bush administration will likely not seek a UN Security Council Resolution authorizing war against Iraq. The report said that Bush fears a veto by Russia or China. Most US European allies, and even some in the Middle East, such as Kuwait, have said […]

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Iraq And Al Qaida Again Attempts To Tie

Juan Cole

Iraq and al-Qaida (Again) The attempts to tie Baathist Iraq to al-Qaida continue among the hawks in Washington, and they continue to be without logical or evidentiary foundation. Al-Qaida wanted to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It hates him. Bin Ladin was angry at the Saudi government in 1990 for not doing in Kuwait what was done […]

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Whatever Happened To Iraqi Airforce

Juan Cole

Whatever Happened to the Iraqi Airforce (Iran-Iraq relations) Someone asked of the 1990 pilot defections: >1) Were these defections spontaneously carried out by Iraqi pilots, >or were they part of an some kind of official Iraqi policy (perhaps t>o maintain a force-in-being in a neutral country)? Since Iraq had just fought a long and bloody […]

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Iraqi Terrorism And War With Iraq There

Juan Cole

Iraqi Terrorism and War with Iraq? There is a double standard in Western approaches to Middle Eastern movements. On the whole and by and large, few sane observers suspected the United States government of supporting Communist movements for Machiavellian purposes during the Cold War. I am not speaking of WW II, when the US saw […]

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Guardian Blows Whistle On Ersatz Middle

Juan Cole

The Guardian Blows the Whistle on the Ersatz Middle East Experts http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html: US thinktanks give lessons in foreign policy Brian Whitaker reports on the network of research institutes whose views and TV appearances are supplanting all other experts on Middle Eastern issues See also: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=vest The Nation, September 2 The Men From JINSA and CSP […]

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