With Isam Rashid BAGHDAD - Iraqis are beginning to see striking similarities between Lebanese civilians and themselves three years ago. Talk on the streets of Baghdad is taking a tone of oneness with the Lebanese. Anger over the bombing of Lebanon that Iraqis say they...
"What we're seeing here, in a sense," said Condoleezza Rice at a July 21 press conference announcing her trip to the Middle East, "is the growing – the birth pangs of a new Middle East and whatever we do we have to be certain that we're pushing forward to the new...
When Israel answered the Hezbollah raid that captured two soldiers with air strikes on Lebanon's airport, runways, gas stations, lighthouses, bridges, buses, apartment houses, and power plants, we who questioned the wisdom and morality of what Israel was doing were...
The Iraqi Health Ministry is threatening to sever all ties with the U.S. military after American forces attacked the Ministry, arresting its security guards. According to the Health Ministry, the U.S. military also took money meant for employees' salaries. The raid...
British authorities claim to have thwarted a "homegrown" plot wherein suicide bombers were to simultaneously destroy 10 American airliners en route to the United States. Although British residents, those arrested appeared to be "of Pakistani...
NEW DELHI - As tens of thousands of policemen in India fan out to guard "sensitive" sites and installations in preparation for Tuesday's Independence Day celebrations, a climate of anxiety and fear has descended over the country. Central to this climate is...
In the frenzy surrounding the exposed plot to simultaneously blow up 10 airliners flying from Britain to the United States, one line of inquiry being pursued by investigators should make the Bush administration very nervous. British and Pakistani law enforcement...
One of the strangest terms that is used in modern conversation and writing is the term "service." There are some straightforward uses. For example, you go to a restaurant and a waitress comes up and asks if she can serve you. In that context, the term means...
The foiled terrorist plot in Britain last week has me concluding that the terrorists have won, and that President Bush has handed them their victory. "This week, America received a stark reminder that terrorists are still plotting attacks to kill our...
We hear much about "the cycle of violence" in the Middle East, with liberals and conservatives wailing that it needs to be "broken," but never do they say who started this "cycle," or whose brazen coercion and outright viciousness keeps it going. Yet even as the...
