Word: arabism
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EGYPT The government frets that a U.S. strike on an Arab country could incite unrest among a public already angry about U.S. support for Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians. But as in other Arab countries, the leaders loathe Saddam. Because the U.S. supplies Egypt with $2 billion in aid a year, it can probably count on overflight rights and the use of the Suez Canal for warships and supply boats...
U.A.E. The United Arab Emirates is concerned that instability in the gulf could slow its rapid economic development. But if war comes, the U.A.E., which already extends military-basing privileges to the U.S. and Britain, is not likely to make a fuss...
OMAN Oman has the usual concerns about public opinion and does not want to appear more pro-American than the rest of the Arab world. But like the U.A.E., it plays host to U.S. and British military facilities and is likely to allow their use in a war with Iraq...
...Associated Press news agency was contacted by an unknown militant group and promised?much in the way that Pearl had been?some "exclusive material." A.P.'s Pakistani reporter met with a go-between who blindfolded and drove him to Karachi's outskirts. There the car was met by an Arab who drew off the reporter's blindfold and swore at the go-between: "What is this? You promised me a foreign journalist!" Eventually, the Pakistani journalist was allowed to leave, and the Arab gave him his exclusive material?a blank CD. Pearl's death is a lesson to all journalists...
...unconvinced by U.S. allegations that Iraq represents an imminent danger, and oppose military action right now, insisting instead that the inspection process be given more time. Britain backs the U.S. position but the skepticism of the British electorate requires that Washington seek UN authorization for an attack. Iraq's Arab and Turkish neighbors oppose a war, but have resigned themselves to its inevitability and have put the onus on Baghdad to do what is necessary to avoid one. Allies have sought to restrain Washington by insisting that the inspection process be allowed to take its course. But Blix may have...