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Threats without borders
Leave a Comment Claude Salhani
August 31, 2007
Addressing a gathering of some 200 French ambassadors gathered at the Elysee Palace last Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy stressed the urgency of what he called “The first challenge” facing the West: How to prevent a confrontation with Islam.
“The threats we face today — terrorism, proliferation, crime — know no borders, warned the French president.
“There’s no point in waffling: this confrontation is being called for by extremist groups such as al Qaeda that dream of establishing a caliphate from Indonesia to Nigeria, rejecting all openness, all modernity, every hint of diversity,” said Mr. Sarkozy. “If these forces were to achieve their sinister objective, it is certain that the 21st century would be even worse than the last one, itself marked by merciless confrontation between ideologies.”
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With our computers frozen, would the U.S. still be a superpower? China intends to find out.
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In this galaxy, in the not too distant future . . .
by Claude Salhani
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan demanded that the U.S. military focus its attention—and much of its research and development—on how best to respond to low-tech threats such as primitive improvised explosive devices. While the IEDs proved to be deadly for the troops of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq—the majority of casualties suffered were from exploding roadside bombs—the long-term effect they had on the American military was far more consequential. The real impact was felt only a few years later when the United States became involved in its next major conflict—with China.
Cheney wants attack on Iran
Leave a CommentBy CLAUDE SALHANI
WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) –
There has been much speculation regarding the probability of U.S. and/or Israeli military strikes against Islamic republic’s nuclear power sites before they become fully operational. But such a strike against Iran would unleash the tsunami-like force of millions in the Arab/Muslim world.
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Is Al-Qaida making a comeback??
By CLAUDE SALHANI
U.S. intelligence officials have produced a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) concluding that the al-Qaida terrorist network is still a very potent enemy despite an all-out war waged against it almost everywhere in the world by the United States.
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Analysis: Soft partition of Iraq
By CLAUDE SALHANI
The partition of Iraq is being offered as an alternative for an otherwise failed policy on Iraq.
Letter from the Editor
Claude Salhani
Middle East Times
December 5, 2006
WASHINGTON — The events that unfolded these past few days in the Lebanese capital leaves no doubt that Lebanon is sitting on the political equivalent of a rumbling volcano ready to erupt at a moment’s notice.
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Politics & Policies: Three Mideast fires
The Middle East is facing the danger of three civil wars erupting — Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories.
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Live from Lebanon
by Claude Salhani
11.17.2006
BEIRUT, Lebanon.
In wake of the devastating war with Israel this summer, this pleasant strip of land on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean projects normality, with its fine restaurants and popular watering holes packed to the hilt every night. But with the rhetorical clashing between factions escalating by the day, there are fears that Lebanon could precipitously fall back into the abyss of the nightmarish days of the fifteen-year civil war. Some groups have delivered ominous threats that could prompt a shift from political to street sparring.
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Olmert’s Secret Weapon: Prime Minister Deployed a Boomerang
In his bid to wipe out Hizballah in northern Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unsheathed his secret weapon: a precision-guided boomerang. This weapon certainly did cause massive destruction in Lebanon and then, with noted precision, wreaked damage upon its return to sender. Indeed, Olmert’s foray into Lebanon may well cost him his job.
And Israel itself, as conventional wisdom has correctly had it, has also been damaged, in that an illusion of invincibility has been shattered. Of course, the Islamist victory in Lebanon builds on a succession of such triumphs, from Algeria to Somalia, and potentially in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But the chorus on the Lebanon conflict has failed to recognize the decent prospects for a successful multilateral peacekeeping operation in Lebanon. This is because, despite the reversals for Israel, each side has a modicum of victories to highlight–and defeats.
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Politics & Policies: The world is one global village
What do illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Afriac have in common with Europeans living in Europe? AFar more than you think. (click on anove link for full story.)
