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...sources, Abdullah surprised Bush with three handouts--a photo album and two videocassettes--each containing powerful images of the destruction of Palestinian homes by Israeli troops. The two men looked through the book and watched the videos, the sources said. Abdullah wanted Bush to see what people in Arab countries were waking up to every day in local newspaper and television reports--and then contemplate the anger those images generated and the pressure that placed on Arab leaders. Watching Abdullah's 15-min. presentation, according to this account, Bush was moved. On Saturday, a White House aide denied this version...
...country celebrates with great ceremony, a cross between Christmas (suddenly all the blinking neon lights on the street are lighted as the government turns on regular electricity) and the Fourth of July (with the obligatory patriotic parades). Journalists who usually never get visas fill the press center. Handsomely dressed Arabs crowd the Al-Rashid lobby, all invited to witness how much the Iraqi people love their leader. For Saddam, it is time for another charm offensive: he is using all his old diplomatic wiles and faux hospitality to put off the threatened day of reckoning with...
...vast construction site nearby, where Saddam is building the grandiose multidomed Mosque No. 2, bigger than the Mother of All Battles Mosque finished last year but not as grand as No. 3, expected to be completed in 2010, which Saddam claims will be the biggest in the Arab world. The fiercely secular leader has lately switched his building mania from palaces to mosques to co-opt the country's growing religious mood...
...then, before we could tackle the next phase of the war on terrorism, the Arab-Israeli conflict flared...
There is no Arab or Muslim equivalent to Peace Now. Mohamed Mosaad, an Egyptian psychiatrist, sociologist and peace activist made this exact argument in his March 31 column entitled “Arab Peace Now” that appeared in the newsletter of Peace, an Internet dialogue group...