(Washington Post) Jim Hoagland - The wolf is no longer at the door of the wealthy Arab emirates of the Persian Gulf. It is now in their midst, threatening to devour these plump, slow-moving gazelles of states from inside their fragile defense lines. That was the consensus I heard expressed by Gulf Arab leaders, intellectuals, senior military officers, and national security officials in Bahrain at a conference organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. Government representatives described Islamic-inspired terrorist networks as an urgent threat to citizens and to stability, and put forward fresh ideas on what Muslims themselves must do to defeat the terrorists.
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