There's a long history of Iraqi Kurdish collaboration with outside forces in order to gain leverage against Baghdad. Israel made Iraqi Kurdistan one of the cornerstones of its "Periphery Strategy," or encircling the Arab world by creating alliances with non-Arab Muslim countries and communities. The Islamic Republic of Iran armed the Iraqi Kurdish parties during the Iran-Iraq war. We feel, your Excellency, that the United States has a moral and political responsibility toward our people, who have committed themselves to your country's policy." [Henry Kissinger] didn't reply, but famously responded to the Kurdish humanitarian question in the Pike report, "Covert action should not be confused with missionary work." The report concluded that President Nixon, Dr. Kissinger and the Shah "ho...
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been stripped by Iran of his control of the Lebanese organization's military wing, according to a report last week in Sharq al-Awsat, an Arabic-language newspaper published in London. A similar report in the Tel Aviv daily, Ma'ariv, attributed the move to Sheik Nasrallah's role in involving Hezbollah last year in a war against Israel. Hezbollah dismissed both reports as "utterly unfounded.
Something is beginning to stir in the Arab world; women are speaking up about the crushing burdens they bear in their male- dominated world. And this burden has little to with the religion of Islam itself. After all, the most populous Islamic country in the world is Indonesia, yet women there have such high status that one of them, Megawati Sukarnoputri, became the president of Indonesia in 2003. One of the most outspoken manifestoes against Arab male domination has just been published in the London Arabic language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat under the title "Imagine You're a Woman." The author is Badriyya Al-Bishr, a lecturer in social sciences at King Saud University. The translation is by MEMRI.
It's been said that a diplomat is a gentleman paid to go abroad and lie for his country. Sometimes, however, diplomats slip up and tell the truth. In response to a question at the hopefully named Aspen Ideas Festival this month, Yousef al-Otaiba, ambassador from the United Arab Emirates, said bluntly: "We cannot live with a nuclear Iran. If sanctions fail to stop Iran's drive for nuclear weapons, al- Otaiba added, military force will be the only option left and it should not be ruled out. "A military attack on Iran by whomever would be a disaster," he said. "But Iran with a nuclear weapon would be a bigger disaster."
The latest suicide bomber, a 16-year-old Palestinian boy wearing an explosive belt was caught last Wednesday by Israeli paratroopers at a roadblock south of Nablus. A week before, the Israelis found an explosive charge on a cart pushed by a 10-year-old Palestinian child at the same roadblock. Incidents like these raise a question, which has long interested me: How do the Palestinians recruit these young suicide bombers, how do they train them? Well, there's an answer - a rare glimpse into how it's done. The London-based Arabic daily, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat has just published an article about a member of the Islamic terrorist organization Ansar Al-Islam, who planned to blow himself up in the Iraqi Interior Ministry building in Al-Suleimaniya, but was arrested in time by Kurdish authorities.
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