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U.S. Agrees to Meeting with Iran and Syria writes David Ignatius – or sort of. This is how it has been explained: The Bush administration has agreed to sit around a negotiating table with official representatives of Iran and Syria next month — as part of a planned regional conference in Baghdad to discuss ways [...]
A Lebanon analyst sent this note on the Hersh and Saab articles copied in the previous two posts. He prefers not to use his name. The following is his:_____ Allow me to add a number of comments to the fine discussion initiated by Bilal Saab on Seymour Hersh's New Yorker piece. Lebanese Sunnis Deeply Divided over Relations with [...]
Bilal Saab, an analyst who specilaizes in Middle East security and terrorism at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, has recently published :Expanding the "Jihad": Hizb'allah's Sunni Islamist Network" with Bruce Riedel, a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center. Saab has provided the following comments of Hersh's New Yorker article copied in [...]
Seymour Hersh's new article is copied below. It is followed by an interview of his with Wolf Blitzer on CNN and a "Telegraph" article, claiming US support for terrorist operations in Iran. (Thanks T-Desco). I will post the remarks of Bilal Saab on Hersh's Lebanon allegations in a separate post to follow. The Redirection Is [...]
A number of articles on the Syrian Opposition are due to come out soon. One, written by Joe Pace and myself, appeared in this December's issue of the Washington Quarterly: 1. Joshua Landis & Joe Pace, “The Syrian Opposition,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 30, pp. 45-68. 2. Seth Wikas of WINEP is finishing up an article soon. [...]
Published by Alex The unprecedented complexity of the situation in the Middle East is perhaps best explained through this title from the Marsh 2007 edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit: “Three’s a crowd” “The development of the three-cornered relationship between Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria will have an important bearing on how the region’s various [...]
Will Saudi Arabia Be Able to Solve America's Problems? Will it split Iran from Syria? There has been considerable chest beating by supporters of the Bush administration over the prospect of splitting Syria from Iran and forcing it to relinquish, not only its Palestinian and Iraqi cards, but also its Lebanon card. As proof of Syria's impending [...]
Government forces in Lebanon turned up the rhetoric today, the anniversary of the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri. Downtown Beirut was filled with demonstrators, who were regaled by a sting of government figures. Jumblat described Syrian President Bashar Assad as "a snake, the missing link, the despot of Damascus, a beast, an Israeli product, a liar, [...]
Twin bus bombings in Lebanon today are a bid by anti-government elements to destabilize the country and part of a general campaign to intimidate Lebanon's Christian population, Samy Gemayel, brother of assassinated Lebanese politician Pierre Gemayel told WND in an interview. The bus bombings come on the eve of the second anniversary of the assassination [...]
Powell tells Newsweek in Blowup? America’s Hidden War With Iran: "We got plenty" from [Syria]. This is a reference to his trips to Syria in 2003 and 2004 as well as talks with Iranians. "I don't like the administration saying, 'Powell went, Armitage went … and [they] got nothing.' We got plenty," he says. "You [...]
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