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...Reid was finally in Paris, hanging out in the Goutte d'Or neighborhood, a center of the city's Arab and African population. On Dec. 21, he made his first attempt to fly to Miami. French authorities have discovered an e-mail exchange made afterward with an interlocutor in Pakistan who urged Reid to try again the next day. "They obviously didn't want him spending a lot of time sitting around, where he might have changed his mind--or been caught," says a French investigator...
...waiting in the wings to take power in Baghdad. One candidate is Ahmad Chalabi, Shi'a leader of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition group in exile. But Chalabi has little personal following inside Iraq, is distrusted by many U.S. officials and is opposed by key Arab states like Saudi Arabia. Washington is increasingly looking for an exiled Sunni from Saddam's professional army to rally the country against him. An emerging candidate is Nazar Khazraji, a former Iraqi chief of staff who defected in 1996 and is living in Copenhagen. Khazraji can rally the professional military against Saddam, experts...
...Most importantly, Arroyo is in peace talks with the MILF, hoping to avoid a much larger conflict in Mindanao. That requires Manila?and now Washington?to deliberately ignore the MILF's very dark side. It has trained Pakistani, Arab and Indonesian jihadis. Rohan Gunaratna of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrew's University in Scotland estimates that 400 to 600 foreigners have passed through its camps since 1996. Its links to Jemaah Islamiah are evidenced by the tale of Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, an Indonesian arrested in January in Manila for taking part...
Abdullah's straight talk doesn't go down well with everyone. His relations with Washington soured last year as he vented his personal anger with the Bush Administration. Because of Abdullah's belief that Bush was ignoring the Palestinian issue, about which he feels passionate as an ardent Arab nationalist, he had turned down invitations to visit Washington, including one handwritten by Bush himself. Then, while watching a live press conference on TV one day in August, Abdullah became furious at the way the President, he felt, was putting all the blame for the spiraling violence on Yasser Arafat...
Abdullah is worried about U.S. unilateralism. "America cannot be the sole policeman of the world," he says. The Palestinian problem still rankles, too. In an oblique warning to Washington, he says that Arafat's removal "will shake the Arab and Muslim world and destroy the credibility of anybody who was involved in this move." But Abdullah's peace initiative, which Arab diplomats say could be considered at next month's Arab Summit in Beirut, is a sign that he's ready to play a constructive role. In a "statement of vision" being pushed by Saudi diplomats as a "signal...