In spite of much angry public protest in Damascus, last months killing of top al-Qaida operative Abu Ghadiya, was in fact a joint operation between U.S. Special Forces in Iraq and Syrian intelligence, according to former and serving U.S. intelligence officials.
AMMAN -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an unusual kind of peace campaign, by targeting the Israeli public with paid advertisements in major Hebrew-language newspapers to promote the Arab peace initiative.
EDITORIAL
The plight of the American automakers is dire. At their current depressed stock prices, Ford and General Motors could be bought for less than $10 billion. That means that Saudi Arabia could buy them both for the equivalent of 20 days of its oil production, even with oil down to $50 a barrel.
OPINION
Bahrain, the little Gulf nation where pluralism has been the exception to the regional hegemonic rule, is learning that the best way for democracy to survive is to replicate it.
BERLIN -- In looking at how the ascension of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States could affect the Middle East, I am firmly of the belief that to find the answer one need look no further than the way he ran his stunningly successful campaign. By far, it was the most professional, strategically mapped and brutally well-managed two years that any politician could design, with a potent mix of inspiration and perspiration tapping into the Zeitgeist [spirit of the time].
