Word: arabize
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...carried out the embassy attack? The Arab members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network have long since cleared out of Kabul, but many members of their Afghan cohort are at large, according to intelligence sources in the government of Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. The attack might also have been the work of Taliban fighters who still roam the city--in beardless disguise--acting on their own instead of with al-Qaeda. A third possibility is that the bomber was an Afghan who wanted payback for a bomb the U.S. mistakenly dropped on his home...
...Yousuf Sadiq, then eight years old, and his brother Suleman, 7, were sold by their father for the sporting fun of a wealthy Gulf sheik. An agent who scours the poor villages and nomad camps of southern Pakistan bought the diminutive brothers to race camels in the United Arab Emirates. They fit the agents' ideal: aged between five and eight and weighing less than 17 kilos apiece...
...pose potential threats to his neighbors; many of them actually benefit from the current impasse through the smuggling economy spawned by sanctions and Iraq's limited oil production. And the regional political climate is quite different from 1991, with anti-American feeling running at a fever pitch throughout the Arab world because of the deteriorating Israeli-Palestinian situation. The plight of the Iraqis and Palestinians are Osama bin Laden's favorite propaganda themes precisely because they are founts of hostility towards the U.S. throughout the Arab world. The last time Washington sought Arab support for taking on Saddam, it also...
...from any of its neighbors. Also, there is no battle-hardened proxy force equivalent to the Northern Alliance to fight the ground war - the Pentagon remains skeptical of the strategic and tactical significance of the various opposition groups arrayed against Saddam's regime, and none of the European and Arab allies who fought alongside the U.S. during the Gulf War have shown any enthusiasm for a new military effort to oust the strongman. That would leave the U.S forced to commit a half million of its own troops to a decisive assault. It's not that the Arabs and Europeans...
...among the Europeans, there's no appetite for any action against Iraq unless it is proved that Baghdad has been involved with al Qaeda. That has left Washington to talk up Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as a threat both to the West and its Arab neighbors, although President Bush will have a hard time convincing Europeans that Baghdad poses any imminent threat. And Saddam's current diplomatic offensive suggests that if he came to believe his regime's survival depended on it, he might even consider allowing the reconstituted U.N. inspection team back in. After all, that...