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Khaled Al Haroub
According to the freedom-loving democrat Paul Wolfowitz, “our friends in the Gulf” can do a lot to make Arab media more USA-friendly. He wants, with insolent and blunt clarity, for Qatar to officially intervene and hand Al Jazeera administration to a “ruling council” it would appoint and be stratified with.
Patrick Seale
What can USA President Bush possibly mean by saying that “the United States has adopted a new policy, a forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East”? Is the USA preparing to administer a dose of its Iraqi medicine to other states in the area? Has the neo-con agenda of softening up the area to make it comply with USA and Israeli demands been given a new lease of life? Should Damascus and Tehran, the butt of Bush’s particular insults, now fear attack?
Rupert Cornwell
Monarchs and their Prime Ministers enjoy many privileges not granted to their subjects. Clairvoyance, however, is not among them. For how were the Queen and Tony Blair to know in 2001, when they extended the invitation for President Bush to make his state visit next week, that two years later it would be shaping up as the most fraught and ill-timed exercise of its kind in living memory?
Chris Floyd
There is a horrible scandal eating away the heart of the American body politic. Among the many corrupted currents loosed upon the nation by the Bush Regime, this scandal is perhaps the worst, for it abets all the others and breeds new pestilence, new perversions at every turn.
Chris McGreal
Abdula Yusuf is too afraid to climb the rocky terraces beyond his village and see the damage for himself. “They’ll kill me,” he said, waving a hand at the container homes on the top of a neighbouring hill. “If they can do that thing to trees as old as the Roman times, they will not hesitate to do it to me.”
Hadi Yahmid
The world should form a world solidarity movement against capitalist-dominated globalisation - this was the message of more than 60,000 delegates from 1,750 non-governmental European organizations meeting in Paris, amid much fanfare between Tuesday and Friday this week.
Mother Jones
Paul Bremer’s hasty summons to Washington for an emergency meeting this week was a clear sign that the White House is operating in crisis mode. The impression of barely concealed panic was reinforced by the outcome of that lightning conference: a plan, as yet hazy, for quickly transferring more power to Iraqis—a concept, remember, that the United States lately derided as … French.
Omar Karmi
"It?s a kind of collective punishment,” sighs Abed, resigned to the mess. “The Israelis go slow so as to make our lives hell.” He estimates that of an average 1,500 would-be travellers a day, only 150 are let through. The rest are forced to return to their houses, or, if the Rafah-Gaza City road is closed, to find some relatives or acquaintances who can put them up locally.
Jim Lobe
Asked about the CIA report that found growing popular disillusionment with the USA occupation, Bremer was unusually uncertain. “I think the situation with the Iraqi public is, frankly, not easy to quantify.” Meanwhile, a leaked CIA report, whose existence was disclosed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, concluded that growing numbers of Iraqis believe that the occupation can be defeated and are supporting the insurgents.
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