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...That's hardly the problem. The problem is that U.S. allies in Europe and the Arab world will underhype this election. When millions of Iraqis risk their lives and then dance with joy at having been initiated into the rituals of democracy, a fact has been created. And the old clich?s that America went to Iraq for oil or hegemony begin to look hollow...
...Well, the sovereignty, safety and dignity of the Iraqi people are now at stake. So where are the allies? The inaction of the other Arab states-following their obstructionism in calling for a postponement of the elections-has exposed that concern about the welfare of Iraqis as fraudulent. Their concern turns out to be their own narrow, often dynastic interests. Those Arab states are ruled by monarchs and dictators who are practically all Sunni. Iraq is about 60% Shi'ite. A democratic Iraq would inevitably become the Arab world's first Shi'ite-dominated state-a prospect from which...
...worst. Roland Schatz, head of Medien Tenor, a Bonn-based institute for international media analysis, studied a broad sample of outlets and found that only about 5% of reports took a positive stance on the election's legitimacy; around 36% treated it negatively. Schatz found that leading Arab TV stations were overwhelmingly positive about the election's legitimacy. "Europe has been quite patronizing," says Rouzbeh Pirouz, an Iranian-born researcher at London's Foreign Policy Centre. "There were suggestions that democracy is idealistic rubbish, promoted by people with no idea of what the region needs. I hope now that Europeans...
...nuclear-research laboratory, Khan traveled the world for more than a decade, visiting countries in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. According to a source in Pakistan's Defense Ministry, U.S. officials are investigating whether Khan's network might have sold nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. The U.S. has submitted questions to Khan asking whether North Korea and Iran sold such equipment to third parties. The ultimate fear: that one of Khan's clients may pass along nuclear technology and expertise to terrorist groups. Although the U.S. does not have concrete evidence that Khan...
...Asked to respond to Allawi's overtures this week, the top candidate of the Shiite list, Abdelaziz al-Hakim told an Arab newspaper "there is no room for power sharing ... because (our) expectations indicated a sweeping victory with a large majority (voting) for the United Iraqi Alliance list." Instead, Hakim spoke of reaching out to the Kurds and drawing in minorities, including the Sunnis who for the most part appear to have stayed away from the polls. And his coalition has already begun negotiating a coalition arrangement with the Kurdish alliance, which is expected to win around 20 percent...