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Afghan Ex - King to Return Home Despite Coup Plot
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Reuters
KABUL -- Former Afghan king Mohammad Zahir Shah will return home from exile in Italy by mid-April despite a thwarted plot to destabilize the country's interim government, Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah said on Saturday.
``He has promised to come. For the time being it is mid-April,'' Abdullah told a news conference.
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Peacekeepers demand explanation on 'coup' report
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Associated Press
International peacekeeping commanders sought an explanation from Afghan authorities yesterday for a days-long roundup of hundreds of men who one Kabul official claimed were plotting a "coup d'etat" against the interim Afghan regime.
The peacekeepers, responsible for security in the Afghan capital, were not informed beforehand about the reasons for the massive operation by the Afghans, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, said.
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Daily slams country's management in dealing with economic
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IRNA
Hundreds Detained, Weapons Seized in Probe of Alleged Plot Against Government
Tehran, April 6, IRNA -- The English-language "Iran Daily" in its
economic outlook column on Saturday underlined the role of reliable
managers in reforming the country's business administration.
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Dialogue with Iran important for stability in Central Asia: Ivanov
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IRNA-Itar-Tass
Moscow -- The active political dialogue
between Russia and Iran is an important factor for stability in the
Central Asian region, said Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov,
describing the results of his talks with Iranian Foreign Minister
Kamal Kharrazi on Friday.
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Arab foreign ministers meet to discuss heightened response to Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt - Arab foreign ministers met Saturday to discuss ways of strengthening their response to Israel's military offensive on the West Bank, amid calls from Iraq and Iran to use oil as a weapon.
The Arab League ministerial meeting came after a week of daily protests against Israel and the United States, the like of which the Arab world has rarely seen.
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Former interior minister Abdullah Nouri injured in car accident:
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IRNA
Tehran -- Iran's former Interior Minister Abdullah Nouri has been injured in a car accident on a road between the central cities of Yazd and Ardakan, press said on Saturday.
Nouri, who is out from prison on a new year leave, was returning from Yazd to Tehran at the end of new Iranian year holidays, when the accident happened.
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Remember the Bush Doctrine
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Weekly Standard
U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL Kofi Annan is happy with President Bush's apparent Middle East policy switch. So is European Union president Romano Prodi, French president Jacques Chirac, and the British foreign ministry.
The New York Times editorial page is very happy. And, really, that's what American foreign policy is all about, isn't it?
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Iranian Urges Muslims to Use Oil as a Weapon
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NY Times
TEHRAN -- Iran's supreme leader today urged the Islamic oil-producing countries to suspend their oil exports for a month to countries supporting Israel as a means of exerting leverage with these countries over their position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme religious leader, made his statement as he led Friday Prayers in Tehran before a rally supporting the Palestinians.
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Iran supports monthlong oil embargo of Israel, allies
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New York Times
Saudis rejected the idea proposed by Iraq
Tehran -- Iran's supreme leader urged the Islamic oil-producing countries yesterday to suspend their oil exports for a month to countries supporting Israel as a means of exerting leverage with these countries over their position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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OPEC's Rodriguez dismisses Iran's oil embargo threat
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AFX Europe
VIENNA -- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) confirmed it dismisses a call by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for a one-month suspension of oil exports to the West and countries with relations with Israel.
"An oil embargo goes against the basic and primary objective of OPEC, i.e. stability of the market and security of oil supplies," OPEC Secretary General Ali Rodriguez said through his spokesman.
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An Open Letter to the President
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Weekly Standard
Dear Mr. President:
We write to thank you for your courageous leadership in the war on terrorism and to offer our full support as you continue to protect the security and well-being of Americans and all freedom-loving peoples around the world.
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The Vietnamization of the Bush Doctrine
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National Review
Where the war on terror stops short.
For the Left, every U.S. military action they've opposed in the last quarter century was said to be the next Vietnam. We were going to be bogged down in one endless war of attrition after another — including our latest action in Afghanistan. They were wrong. However, the analogy largely works when applied to the policy the U.S. is seeking to impose on Israel today.
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"Martyrdom Attacks that Strike Horror into the Hearts of the Enemies of Allah"
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MEMRI
Special Dispatch No. 363: Leading Egyptian Government Cleric Calls For: "Martyrdom Attacks that Strike Horror into the Hearts of the Enemies of Allah"
Within the past year, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the top Egyptian cleric of Al-Azhar University, has shifted his position regarding the targeting of civilians in suicide bombings. While he previously stated that Palestinians should refrain from targeting civilians,(1) he recently declared that martdyom (suicide) operations and the killing of civilians are permitted acts and that more such attacks should be carried out.
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Middle East Beat: Beyond
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Jordan Star
It is even more difficult to talk about the future in a time that future is not even on the agenda of the Israeli government.
Beyond Tenet Plan, beyond Michel Plan, and beyond the acceptance of the Saudi initiative, does the Israeli government want peace with the Palestinians, peace that has been negotiated and guaranteed by the world powers culminating in the creation of an independent Palestinian state?
It is of course difficult to talk about peace at the moment because of the ongoing tragic events. It is even more difficult to talk about the future in a time that future is not even on the agenda of the Israeli government. So, what would be the logical next step? The answer will be for Mr Sharon to loose in the next Israeli elections, or preferably for confidence to be withdrawn from his government and new elections to be declared.
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