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...initiative would achieve that by keeping the war option in the hands of the U.N. and encouraging the Sunni-dominated government to protect their own interests by cooperating with the U.N., sweeping Saddam aside if he refuses to go along. As the Saudis sees it, the shift in emphasis from threatening the stick of war to offering the carrot of protection stands a better chance of achieving a relatively bloodless transition of power in Baghdad that would win wider acceptance in the Arab world...
BAHRAIN The government is sensitive to strong public opinion against a war at a time when the new king is trying to heal civil strife between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Yet Bahrain fears Iraq. As host to headquarters of the U.S. naval Fifth Fleet, Bahrain is not expected to actively oppose U.S. action...
...television the night before. After the boy replied, "No. When he comes on TV, my father always turns it off," the father went missing. Or so the tale goes. Still, some Iraqis seem genuinely worried that without a strongman like Saddam, Iraq could descend into violent strife among Sunni Muslims, Shi'ite Muslims and Kurds. "I've told my wife to stop listening to these scenarios," says a government official. "It's causing too much anxiety." But then he too took on that air of resignation, as if this were a worry Iraqis must also bear...
...texts determines the way all believers should act. For Oubrou, free interpretation of the Koran could lead to nothing less than the disappearance of recognizably Islamic values. Another crucial exchange focuses on who is qualified to interpret the Koran and the hadiths. Babès dismisses the assertion that Sunni Islam has no clergy; although it has no centralized authority, she argues it does have a professional category of scholars who control access to the sacred texts. As a believer, Babès claims the right to interpret the texts for herself. Oubrou rejects this, but does so using...
Critics are right when they warn that Iraq will be a tangled mess at the end of a war. Iraq is even now divided, Sunni against Shiite and everyone against the Kurds. Though a coalition government representing all the major groups sounds attractive on paper, it would only set the stage for anarchy as each region, religion and ethnicity tried to grab as much as it could. The strongest and most brutal faction will prevail absent constant outside intervention. Only the total occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces can wrest democracy from these conditions, an expensive solution that seems guaranteed...