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...ability to directly pressure Sudan is so limited, the al-Bashir regime has been able to ignore criticism and all but laugh at measures taken against it so far. With most diplomatic avenues exhausted, the only type of action that might change minds in Khartoum would be the threat of direct military intervention, but in light of the Iraq debacle, that option is simply not on the table. Despite the sanctions announced Tuesday by President Bush, the coming months will see more horrifying news of massacres from Darfur, more wrenching refugee tales, more urgent calls for action. And the reason...
...mutual suspicion, in which confrontational invective is growing. Just days after the U.S.-Iran meeting, a group of powerful neo-conservatives -including some of those who were most active in promoting the invasion of Iraq - plan to gather for an all-expenses-paid conference entitled "Confronting The Iranian Threat: The Way Forward" at a luxurious resort in the Bahamas. Many of the 30 or so invited guests have been strident critics of Iran and hard-liners on maintaining the U.S. presence in Iraq. They include six current Bush Administration officials - among them U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad...
...Qaeda's global jihad, the group's activities now risk destabilizing Lebanon. The nation is still reeling from last summer's war between Israel and Hizballah and Hizballah's attempts to topple the pro-American Lebanese government headed by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. Now it faces a new threat; the Lebanese army launched its attacks in Tripoli following indications that Fatah al-Islam was setting up an al-Qaeda base in Lebanon similar to the one founded by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia...
...Bush explained the declassified threat in some detail at the Coast Guard Academy, saying that bin Laden had tapped Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to organize attacks on the U.S. from his base in Iraq. Bush has long maintained that the U.S. would be creating a massive staging area for al-Qaeda if it pulled out of Iraq prematurely. In his speech, Bush reported that bin Laden directed a senior aide, Hamza Rabia, to huddle with Zarqawi on al-Qaeda's other attack plans around the world that year...
...declassification came just as the White House was in final negotiations with Congressional Democrats about a 2007 supplemental spending bill for ongoing military operations in Iraq. Late Tuesday afternoon, Hill Democrats, under pressure from the threat of continuing Bush vetoes, backed down on demands that new money for the war be coupled with a timetable for withdrawal. It is unlikely that Democratic leaders will stand down for very long, though; each time the Democrats forced Republicans to a vote on war funding, they could tally up a few more defections from the G.O.P...