Word: arabize
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...June 29, 2000, using the alias Isam Mansur, Aziz wired $5000 via Western Union from the United Arab Emirates to hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi in New York City. From July 18 to September 18, 2000, Aziz, using the Mansur alias or calling himself "Mr. Ali" or "Hani" of "Fawaz Trding" (SIC), wired another $109,500 from the UAE Exchange Centre in Dubai to an account at Sun Trust Bank held jointly by Al Shehhi and 9/11 hijack team leader Mohammed Atta, while both men were attending Huffman Aviation school in Venice, Florida. Atta, who conceived the hijacking-attack scheme while...
...neocons) in the Bush administration. Their chief spokesman is Pat Buchanan. Buchanan maintains that the neocons—whom he alternately describes as Israel’s “Amen Corner” in the U.S.—are intent on conquering some half a dozen Arab states by force. He has written that Bush is “subcontracting [our] Mideast policy out to Ariel Sharon”—and, in the process, expanding an American empire...
...respective dismay of Beijing and Pyongyang. In both cases, our goal is to protect the liberal achievements of those nations. Meanwhile, we remain staunchly close to Israel because it is the lone democratic outpost in a region of dictators and tyrannies. Although this closeness angers many in the Arab world—including those who sell us petroleum—we refuse to compromise the security of our ally. Whatever your feelings on the Palestinian question, you have to admit that if all we cared about was oil, we would’ve cut Israel loose a long time...
Bashar sought to placate the Bush Administration by helping nail some al-Qaeda suspects after 9/11. But the closer the U.S. came to war in Iraq, the more Bashar played to the Arab gallery. He denounced U.S. aggression and hailed Iraq's resistance. His performance enthralled the Arab street, where demonstrators chanted, "Bashar, Bashar, set the world on fire!" But it deep-sixed Syria's relations with...
Bashar, it turns out, is his father's son after all. He is as obsessed with the Arab struggle against Israel as Hafez ever was. On Bashar's watch, Syria's military grip on neighboring Lebanon has loosened only slightly. Syria's support for violent groups like Hizballah and Hamas is unwavering. Despite his Western education, he's in no hurry to promote reforms that might threaten his regime's control. Like his father, Bashar is ready for a peace deal with Israel that wins back the Golan Heights, lost in the 1967 war, but he is holding...