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In-Depth Issue:
U.S. Special Forces Hunt Taliban in Afghanistan - Rowan Scarborough (Washington Times)
According to intelligence collected by U.S. Special Forces, there are likely only 50 to 100 devoted Taliban leaders left in Afghanistan. Some are trying to form new guerrilla groups by merging with Pakistani and Arab militants.
Saddam's Doctor Supports His Downfall - Shyam Bhatia
(London Times)
Once a prominent Baghdad doctor, Tahsin Mualla treated Saddam Hussein more than 40 years ago after he was wounded during an attempted coup d'etat. Dr Mualla, 73, now living outside of London, would enthusiastically support American military action to remove Saddam, and believes millions of ordinary Iraqis would as well.
Israel Posters Vandalized at Harvard - Lauren A.E. Schuker (Harvard Crimson)
Four posters in a display by Harvard Students for Israel at the Science Center were vandalized by unknown offenders over the weekend.
Anti-Israel slogans were scrawled across the posters in thick blue marker with misspelled words.
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News Resources - North America and Europe:
Weapons inspectors in Baghdad visiting the al-Sajoud palace last Tuesday were surprised to be greeted within 10 minutes of their arrival by Saddam's personal secretary, Abed Hamid Mohmood, who, according to Iraqi officials, sticks close to his boss. These officials say that only Saddam could have granted the order to open up al-Sajoud. (Time) About 100 supporters of the far-right German neo-Nazi NPD party marched through Berlin on Monday in protest at the visit of Israel's president. About 400 counter demonstrators gathered to show support for Israel. (CNN/Reuters) Hundreds of Iranian student activists forced their way past the gates of Tehran University, defying attempts by authorities to limit access to a pro-reform rally. About 1,500 students gathered in a university lecture hall, but the atmosphere was tense due to the presence of about 150 members of the hardline Islamist Basij militia, who have attacked pro-reform student gatherings in the past several weeks. (Albawaba.com) See also Ground Shifting Under Mullahs - Ian Urbina The struggle for reform in Iran is increasingly a fight between fathers and sons. Roughly a majority of Iran's 65 million people is under the age of 30. Ayatollah Khomeini's grandson joined the student protesters on the streets. But if a second Iranian revolution is brewing, it has a way to go before boiling over. (Los Angeles Times)
News Resources - Israel, the Mideast, and Asia:
The Shin Bet Security service has arrested Mohammed Amaro , a member of the Fatah-linked Tanzim in Hebron, who has confessed that he was the sniper who shot baby Shalhevet Pass in Hebron in March 2001, according to a statement from the Prime Minister's office Monday. Amaro said he took a rifle and took up a position in the Abu Sneineh neighborhood of Hebron that overlooks the Jewish quarter. He spotted Pass's father walking in the Jewish Quarter and opened fire, killing the little girl and wounding her father. Amaro had been apprehended by the Palestinian Authority for a number of hours after the shooting, but was then released. (Jerusalem Post) Hasan al Kashef, director-general of the Palestinian Ministry of Information, condemned the use of firearms in recent street clashes in Gaza City. "The use of firearms in personal disputes and factional clashes has become widespread and can no longer be ignored," said Kashef. "How many times do we have to warn against the danger of firing the first shot and the killing of the first Palestinian in the civil war," Kashef added. (Jerusalem Post) On Jan. 29, 1994, Naeb Imran Maaytah, first secretary at the Jordanian Embassy in Lebanon, was shot dead while sitting in his car in front of the embassy in Beirut. At the time of the assassination, Jordanian and Israeli officials were negotiating the agreement that became the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty of October 1994. A Palestinian, Yasser Mohammed Abu Shinar, 37, connected with the Abu Nidal group, who was arrested in Jordan in March 2000, was hanged for the crime on Wednesday at Swaqa Penitentiary, Jordanian security officials said Thursday. (Ha'aretz/AP)
Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis
(Best of U.S., UK, and Israel):
The British government has released a detailed dossier showing the horrors Saddam Hussein has inflicted on Iraqis, but Amnesty International is now fretting about a war that would end these abuses. Amnesty has raised a fuss about al Qaeda and Taliban operatives being held in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It has also practically put the entire blame for the Middle Eastern conflict on the Israelis, absolving the Palestinians of almost all responsibility. This is human rights work? (Wall Street Journal) Even as the urbane Saudi spin doctor, Adel al-Jubeir, was broadcasting his "we are in this together" message to every American microphone and camera he could find, his government's interior minister was arguing that U.S. media are controlled by "Zionists" and that Israel, not Osama bin Laden, was behind the 9/11 attacks. "It's impossible" that al Qaeda carried out the assault on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, or that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, said Prince Nayef. (Washington Post) See also Sultan of Spin - David Tell Saudi Adel al-Jubeir is actually a lying sonofabitch. He was asked about a series of kidnappings in which little boys and girls, U.S. nationals abducted from their American mothers by abusive Saudi fathers, have been spirited across the globe and held captive for years - in unspeakable conditions (beatings, rapes, forced conversions to Islam, arranged marriages for 12-year-old girls) and all under color of Saudi law. He said there were only 4 international child custody disputes involving the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Yet State Department case files name at least 92 U.S. citizens apparently being held against their will. (Weekly Standard) See also The Saudi Spin Doctor - Tony Karon (Time) American researchers and experts in nuclear affairs who have been monitoring Iraq's nuclear efforts have concluded that 15 companies from various countries, including Germany, Switzerland, and the U.S., were involved in the transfer of know-how and equipment to Baghdad's nuclear program before the Persian Gulf War. The UN's previous team of inspectors, UNSCOM, came across a number of classified documents attesting to Baghdad's nuclear program. Among the papers found was a sketch drawn by the Iraqis which pictures the structure of a nuclear bomb which they aspired to build. The drawing illustrates locations and amounts of enriched uranium, lead, and other materials, and also sketches detonators and an electrical system. (Ha'aretz) Bush and Sharon Reeducate the World - Saul Singer (National Review)
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