A young Chinese boy boxes with his mom using hand puppets of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein as holiday crowds enjoy the first day of the Chinese New Year at one of Beijing's main cultural parks, full of both toy and food vendors, on February 07, 2008. China welcomed in the Year of the Rat Thursday with a bonanza of fireworks and festivals, but the celebrations for many were subdued due to ferocious cold weather that kept them from their families. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)
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First Unofficial Obama Positions on New War Strategies
As the transition in the United States between the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama is moving forward feverishly while world crises escalate, observers of conflicts are focusing on the messages emanating from the next foreign policy team in Washington.
Headlines From the Arab Press
What the Arab papers said on Nov. 10:
Headlines From the Arab Press
What the Arab papers said on Nov. 6:
AIPAC and the First Amendment
In the United States on Oct. 28 the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA is scheduled to hear arguments on an important First Amendment issue, the essence of which is: "Do policy analysts, lobbyists, journalists, members of the press, newspapers or private American citizens who leak national defense information now become criminals?"
View From Dubai: Attacking Pakistan? Don't Do It
Back home in the sub-continent, they say you should always stay away from the cops; their friendship as well as adversity is bad for ones health. I am reminded of the advice as the worlds chief cop, the United States, bombs its allies and friends in Pakistan. With friends like these, do you really need enemies?
Bush Takes a Page From Obama's Foreign Policy Handbook
The Democratic Partys candidate for the presidency, Senator Barack Obama, made his reputation and based his campaign on his early opposition to the war in Iraq. But as if to demonstrate that he is neither pacifist nor shy of wars in Islamic lands, he has been a keen advocate of what he calls the war that we have to win in Afghanistan.
Follow the Kuwaiti Example
In 2005 Kuwait faced with its own war on terror at home against Islamists, decided to go after the root of the problem. Indeed, former Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali al-Baghli wrote in Al Qabas on February 2, 2005: "What is needed is to cut off the snakes head, namely the masters of terror and all those who propagate for terror in mosques and the media."
Headlines From the Arab Press
What the Arab papers said on Aug. 8:
Headlines From the Arab Press
What the Arab papers said on Aug. 7:
View From Dubai: Osama's War and Indian Muslims
When U.S. President George W. Bush visited India in 2006, a proud Prime Minister Manmohan Singh informed the "leader of the free world" that unlike in Pakistan and the rest of the world, there were no Indian Muslims in al-Qaida ranks.
