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...that the even now his book is incomplete. “I think of [it] as a work in progress,” he says. He plans to have a website for the book, and to add various articles whenever there’s a new development in the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...February, President Jacques Chirac laid out his policy with admirable clarity. France, he said, had no difference with the U.S. "over the goal of eliminating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction." The point of distinction was simply that Chirac thought that war - which he believed would outrage Arab and Islamic public opinion and "create a large number of little bin Ladens"--should be a last resort...
...Central to both questions is the issue of legitimacy: The reason the French and other European and Arab allies are so apparently obsessed with issues of sovereignty and UN control is precisely that they see the current occupation as lacking legitimacy in the eyes of ordinary Iraqis, and therefore inherently unstable. While President Bush may cast the U.S. as liberators promoting freedom in the face of resistance by terrorists and "holdouts of the former regime," those on the other side of the debate fear that hostility to the U.S.-led occupation is drawing even ordinary Iraqis with no ties either...
...U.S.vehicles nor attackers can be seen. The voice of someone counting down can be heard. One, two, three, and moments later a huge blast rips up from behind the ridge. Then explosions are heard and the fireworks begin. After some time someone off-camera makes a short speech in Arabic. Translated, it says: "The people who made this operation are from the few honored Iraqi mujahideen and we ask any honored Iraqis to defend this country and we can't accept any forces, Arab or foreigners, whoever it is, whether it is to reconstruct or occupy it. Depend on Allah...
...whom it believed it could do business. In response, the Administration hopes to punish Yasser Arafat for undermining Abbas' efforts to assert authority over the Palestinian security apparatus and crack down on militant groups like Hamas. A senior State Department official says the U.S. plans to push European and Arab leaders to cut ties with Arafat and demand that the Palestinians elect a new leader. "We don't work with Arafat," says the official. "We're not going to work with Arafat...