**September 30-October 1, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher
Education Project Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?:

El-Amir, Ayman. \"How To Buy Image.\" Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt), Sep.
28-Oct 4, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/814/op31.htm]{.underline}](http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/814/op31.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"To pretend that Islam and the Western world are not on a
collision course is only self-denial by apologists for the dialogue
between cultures. As Islam has its Osama bin Ladens, the West has its
equivalents in the neo-cons. Both are leading the world to a
confrontation of catastrophic proportions. The dialogue among
civilisations has so far produced little more than bilateral endeavours
to stem the tide of illegal immigrants from Africa and the Middle East
to Europe, as well as the exchange of intelligence information about the
agents and plots of terrorism. So far the two value systems have proved
incompatible.\"\]

Mattar, Gamil. \"Moments of Change.\" Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt), Sep.
28-Oct 4, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/814/op3.htm]{.underline}](http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/814/op3.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"five years is not really enough time to be able to assess
the extent to which 11 September \"changed the world\". At the same
time, it is an inescapable fact that we \-- the Arabs \-- are the
primary focus of the changes that did take place, even if we are divided
over whether we are victims or beneficiaries of that change\.... It was
with 9/ 11, though, that this conviction attained the degree of an
imperative. Democracy would, if necessary, be spread at gunpoint, and
the mission would take priority over everything else. The \"spread of
democracy abroad\" was pursued with such evangelic zeal that democracy
at home was not only ignored but steadily eroded\.... Bush\'s
evangelical drive to spread democracy abroad and its recoil effects at
home have so harmed the image of democracy that it is hard to imagine
how it can be resuscitated with any speed or at minimum human cost.\"
Note: The writer is director of the Arab Centre for Development and
Futuristic Research.\]

\(2\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS - IRAN?:

Barpid. Ramzy/ \"It\'s Geopolitics, Stupid.\" Khaleej Times (Dubai),
October 1, 2005.

At:
[[http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2006/October/opinion_October1.xml&section=opinion&col=]{.underline}](http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2006/October/opinion_October1.xml&section=opinion&col=)

\[Excerpt: \"It is vital that the Iran-US row, regardless of its future
direction or level of escalation, be understood for what it really is: a
clash of interests between a superpower no longer so fearsome, and an
aspiring regional power with clear objectives and aims. It\'s neither
about America\'s burning desire to safeguard democracy and the human
race from mad Iranian mullahs, nor is it exactly about Iran\'s quest for
a just world.\"\]

\(3\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS - FRANCE?:

Reuters. \"French Teacher Fleeing Islamists Feels Abandoned.\" September
30, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55489]{.underline}](http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55489)

\[Excerpt: \"A French teacher {philosophy} hiding from Islamist death
threats said on Friday he had been abandoned by the Education Ministry
and had to arrange his own safe houses when police bodyguards moved him
every two days. Robert Redeker, who went underground after publishing a
virulent attack on Islam on Sept. 19, criticized Education Minister
Gilles de Robien for saying he should have been prudent in the way he
expressed himself\.... In his article, Redeker called the Koran \'a book
of incredible violence\" and Islam\'s Prophet Mohammed \'a merciless
warlord, a looter, a butcher of Jews and a polygamist.\' Islam, he said,
\"exalts violence and hate.\' He also defended Pope Benedict from Muslim
critics outraged by a speech he gave on Sept. 12 which they said implied
that Islam was violent and irrational and had been spread by the sword.
The pope said his speech had been misunderstood\.... \'The Islamists
have succeeded in punishing me on French territory, as if I were guilty
of a crime of opinion\'.\"\]

\(4\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS \-- GERMANY?:

Chicago Tribune. \"Mozart and Islam.\" September 30, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0609300159sep30,0,3937689.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed]{.underline}](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0609300159sep30,0,3937689.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed)

\[Excerpt: \"Earlier this week, a leading German opera house stirred a
fuss by pulling the plug on its planned production of Mozart\'s
\"Idomeneo.\" Officials decided that a scene in which the severed head
of the Prophet Muhammad is placed on a stool, along with those of Jesus
and Buddha, was too risky. They\'d received an anonymous threat last
month and, fearing the wrath of insulted Muslims, yanked the opera from
their schedule\.... Self-censorship to mollify those who would practice
violence in the name of Islam is self-defeating. Canceling an opera\--or
any other public event\--bolsters the radicals\' belief that the West
can be intimidated and eventually defeated.\"\]

\(5\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS - POPE\'S REMARKS:

Lifson, Thomas.\"The Dark View of Islam and the American Street.\"
American Thinker, September 29, 2006.
[[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/09/the_dark_view_of_islam_and_the.html]{.underline}](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/09/the_dark_view_of_islam_and_the.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The furious, sometimes violent, and often abusive response
of much of the Muslim world to the Pope\'s mere quotation of a Byzantine
emperor\'s question has sparked another round of doubt that the fine
words we hear about Islam being a religion of peace do not correspond to
the reality of today\.... Every drama needs a villain. The Muslim street
has stepped forward and walked right into the conventions of dramatic
villainy. There is a word in the English Language for someone who goes
around hurling at others both insults and physical attacks, but who,
when subjected to some of his own medicine, cries out in pain, and says
that it just isn\'t fair. The proper word for such a character is a
\'bully\'\.... The ongoing drama provides two forms of fatal pride. The
first is that of the Islamists. Their own absolute sense of superiority,
however much it may be called into question by the realities of the
modern technological power of the non-Islamic West, blinds them to any
consideration of the reactions of heathens. That fits right in with the
bullying role. But the other more complex tragedy lies closer to home,
with the enforcers of PC orthodoxy. Their own hubris blinds them to the
dangers of Islamism affecting them. For them, there can be no life and
death struggle to the end, despite explicit Islamist rhetoric to the
contrary. That is simply unthinkable. They take for granted their own
power to manage the struggle. There is no war with a victory or a
defeat. There is only a conflict resolution process
\<[[http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6228]{.underline}](http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6228)\>
to be managed\.... Political correctness has cut off a vital source of
feedback to both the Islamists and the so-called progressives of the
West. They are blind to the realities of the American Street. Gradually,
more and more Americans are beginning to entertain the concept that
drastic measures may well be necessary to ensure our survival. \...
Those of us who do not want to see a convulsive death struggle play out
on the world stage, who want to see the drama go from a tragedy to a
farce, have our work cut out.\"\]

Turkish Daily News. \"Iranian Cleric Says Pontiff\'s Comments \'Act of
Madness\'.\" September 30, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55490]{.underline}](http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55490)

\[Excerpt: \"A senior Iranian cleric {Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, head of
constitutional watchdog Guardian Council} said on Friday that Pope
Benedict\'s recent remarks that angered Muslims were an \'act of
madness\' and said the leader of the Catholic Church had \'disgraced
himself\'.\"\]

\(6\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS - TURKEY?:

Turkish Daily News. \"Commanders Line Up to Rain Down Criticism,\"
September 30, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55481]{.underline}](http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55481)

\[Subtitle: \"Naval Forces Commander Adm. Karahanoğlu takes the floor
after Gen. Başbuğ and Gen. Cömert. He says the military will never bow
to EU demands and will resist efforts to undermine Turkey\'s national
interests or its secularism.\"\]

\(7\) NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION - EGYPT:

Howeidy, Amira. \"Time For the N Word.\" Al-Ahram Weekly, Sep 28-Oct 4,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/814/eg1.htm]{.underline}](http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/814/eg1.htm)

\[Abstract: Summarizes revival in Egypt, after two decades, of interest
in a nuclear development program. Excerpt: \"Yediot Aharonot, the
Israeli daily, has already voiced displeasure with developments in
Cairo. In an article published on 24 September the paper argued that the
\"real threat\" of the Iranian nuclear programme is not that Tehran
would launch a missile against Israel but that the project would drag
the entire Middle East into a race for nuclear technology.\"\]

\(8\) NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION - IRAN:

Afrasiabi, Kaveh L. \"Iran: The Perils of Nuclear Populism.\" Asian
Times, September 30, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI30Ak01.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI30Ak01.html)

\[Note: Kaveh L Afrasiabi, PhD, is the author of After Khomeini: New
Directions in Iran\'s Foreign Policy (Westview Press) and co-author of
\"Negotiating Iran\'s Nuclear Populism\", Brown Journal of World
Affairs, Volume XII, Issue 2, Summer 2005, with Mustafa Kibaroglu. He
also wrote \"Keeping Iran\'s nuclear potential latent\", Harvard
International Review, and is author of Iran\'s Nuclear Program: Debating
Facts Versus Fiction.\]

\(9\) NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION - NORTH KOREA:

Kirk, Donald. \"Korea: Redesigning A Historic Alliance.\" Asian Times,
September 30, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HI30Dg01.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HI30Dg01.html)
\--

\[Note: Journalist Donald Kirk has been covering Korea - and the
confrontation of forces in Northeast Asia - for more than 30 years.\]

\(10\) WAR ON TERROR:

Buckley, William F. \"Making Way For Jihad.\" National Review, October
1, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/making_way_for_jihad.html]{.underline}](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/making_way_for_jihad.html)

\[Excerpt: \"I t is clearly wrong to assume that every Muslim is a
jihadist. But it is also wrong to assume that every jihadist is
heretical to his faith; and we end with real questions about how to deal
with real people whom we catch with gunpowder stains on their robes. We
have gone through a conventional constitutional modification, in the
evolution of our commitment to prevail over the jihadists, and we need
not apologize for it.\" Note: For an opposing view, see Ferguson,
below.\]

Burleigh, Michael. \"Islamofascists: A Dangerous Label\" The Sunday
Times, October 1, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2382599,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2382599,00.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Before we, and Bush, get too carried away with
\"Islamofascism\", clearly there are huge contextual differences.
Militant Islamists are utterly murderous and viciously anti-semitic, but
the heterogeneous ethnic composition of Al-Qaeda hardly suggests that
visions of racial purity matter to it. In fact, Al-Qaeda is doing its
best to recruit white and black people in order to outwit authorities
looking for Arabs and Pakistanis\.... More insurmountably, the rise of
radical Islam since the late 1970s reflects the bankruptcy of the two
dominant political creeds in the Arab world, nationalism and socialism,
the two western movements that comprised fascism\.... Calling Islamist
terrorists \"Islamofascists\" gets things only about half right, even
when one reincorporates into \"fascism\" what it adapted from the
Christian (and pagan) world view, rather than regarding it as a doctrine
to defend the interests of the powerful. Since Islamist terrorism is the
product of a pathological strain within a particular religious
tradition, it is best to stick with terms derived from it, notably
\"jihadism\". Although apologists aver that jihad is akin to yoga, in
fact it means fighting in the alleged interests of the Muslim community
or umma. The equivalent of Jesuit casuistry enables jihadist clerics to
rationalise killing innocents by labeling them infidel\.... In so far as
western Muslim leaders can contribute anything, it is to help to
deglamorise and demythologise terrorists while squarely owning up to the
fact that most of the problems of the Muslim world are its own fault.
The West is not responsible for the corruption and moral squalor of
Somalia, Sudan, Pakistan or a dozen other places. Muslim clerics should
be encouraged to issue \"opinions\" or fatwas calling terrorists - and
their sympathisers - heretics bent on causing destruction to fellow
believers, while unequivocally condemning the sin of suicide-homicide.\"
{Note: Michael Burleigh is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover
Institution, Stanford, and author of Sacred Causes: Religion and
Politics from the European Dictators to Al-Qaeda, to be published by
Harper Press on October 16}\]

Chicago Sun Times. \"Bill Setting Rules For Trying Terror Suspects is
Flawed.\" October 1, 2006. At:
[[http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/78667,CST-EDT-edits01a.article]{.underline}](http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/78667,CST-EDT-edits01a.article)

Clarke, Richard A. \"Blinded by Hindsight.\" New York Times, October 1,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/opinion/01clarke.html?\_r=2&oref=slogin]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/opinion/01clarke.html?_r=2&oref=slogin)

\[Excerpt: \"For most Americans the history is clear and well told in
the 9/11 commission report: Almost 3,000 people were killed. In the
years before that terrible day, the Clinton administration Prevented
some attacks and tried to destroy Al Qaeda and its leadership, but was
unable to do so, in part because the institutional bureaucracy did not
believe the magnitude of the threat. As for the Bush administration, it
deferred action on Al Qaeda until after 9/11, and then took a number of
steps in response, including Iraq, bus was also unable to destroy Al
Qaeda or its leaders. In short, both administrations failed\....To
recreate {the early post 9/11} national purpose, we need to understand
why\...erosion occurred. First and most obviously, the invasion and
occupation of Iraq shattered the post-9/11 American consensus. The
ham-handed attempts to erroneously link Iraq with the Qaeda attacks
destroyed the government\'s credibility with much of the country. That
needed trust was undermined further last week in a National Intelligence
Estimate that showed that our soldiers\' sacrifices have not weakened
the terrorist movement\.... A second erosive factor was what appeared to
many as the administration\'s willingness to use 9/11 as an excuse to
strengthen presidential power and erode fundamental American civil
liberties\.... Third, and perhaps most disruptive to national unity on
terrorism, is a widespread sense that some in government have been
waving the bloody shirt - scaring voters with the hobgoblin of Al Qaeda
to reap political advantage\.... If we are to going to defeat the enemy,
we must learn again to discuss our differences about Iraq and terrorism
in civil and analytical terms. We must reject the use of fear and
terrorism to divide America for political advantage.\"\]

Ferguson, Niall. \"Don\'t Flout Geneva - Or the Tables Could Easily Be
Turned.\" The Telegraph (UK), October 1, 2006. At:
[[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=DXJZYTM1ZORZTQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/opinion/2006/10/01/do0101.xml]{.underline}](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=DXJZYTM1ZORZTQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/opinion/2006/10/01/do0101.xml)

Ibrahim, Ezzat. \"America Goes Too Far - Historian Paul Kennedy Tells
Ezzat Ibrahim that the Great Wheel of History is Turning Against the
United States.\" Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt), Sep. 28-October 4, 2006, Issue
814. Accessed at:
[[http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/814/intrvw.htm]{.underline}](http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/814/intrvw.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"Regarding terrorism, do you agree that the West has only
two choices: to appease or fight? Is there a third way? I\'m convinced
there must be a third way. If you appease completely you expose your
population. But the idea that you can have unflinching war on terrorists
\-- a war that expands over borders into city backstreets and is purely
military \-- seems to me impractical. The third way consists of
maintaining continuous dialogue with moderate political groups in any
given country or society. It consists of recognising that some of the
grievances that drive young men to terrorism could be socio-economic or
racial, and that you need a set of instruments to deal with them\....
Resentments do not automatically turn somebody into a terrorist; that
needs another additional input, which sometimes is twisted religious
fervour.\"\]

Open Democracy. \"Iraq, Pre-emption, and the Laws of War: Scholars Reply
to Dick Cheney.\" September 29, 2006.
[[http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-americanpower/cheney_letter_290906.jsp#]{.underline}](http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-americanpower/cheney_letter_290906.jsp)

\[Subtitle: \"The United States vice-president offers a new, blanket
justification of the invasion of Iraq. In responses, scores of leading
legal scholars have sent this open letter to all members of the United
States Congress.\"\]

Pollock, Robert L. \"The Musharraf Exception - We Can\'t Afford Not to
Push Pakistan Back Toward Democracy.\" Wall Street Journal, September
29, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009012]{.underline}](http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009012)

\[Excerpt: \"Gen. Musharraf used his Council on Foreign Relations
remarks to criticize the Bush administration\'s broader war on terror.
\"I feel that we are only using the instrument of the military to combat
terrorism,\" he said, ignoring the democracy agenda. And what does he
think the root cause of terrorism is? \"Palestine is the core issue,\"
he said, repeatedly. The audience could have been forgiven for thinking
it was listening to the tired rhetoric of someone like Hosni Mubarak.
But then, Gen. Musharraf seems increasingly like Mr. Mubarak, and less
like the modernizer preparing Pakistan for a return to democracy that he
claims to be.\"\]

Reeves, Richard. \"Oh, The Mistakes We Made.\" Universal Press
Syndicate, October 1, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/oh_the_mistakes_we_made.html]{.underline}](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/oh_the_mistakes_we_made.html)

\[Excerpt: \"\...the history of the past five years has persuaded me
that we should have concentrated our power and money, whatever it took,
to find the people who did it and treat them as common criminals of the
worst kind. Instead, we fell into a well-laid trap: We declared war on
Islam. We did exactly what the terrorists wanted. Osama bin Laden and
his ilk were dedicated to re-starting the Crusades, hoping to provoke a
running war between the evangelical modernity of the West and the more
zealous faith of many, millions, of Muslims. And they did it, helped by
our righteous anger.\"\]

Soylemez, Yuksel. \"What Is In bin Laden\'s Mind?\" Turkish Daily News,
October 1, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55482]{.underline}](http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55482)

\[Excerpt: \"Now the burning issue is how to stop bin Laden, who may be
intending, in his heart of hearts, to declare himself the caliph of an
estimated 1.5 billion mostly Sunni Muslims. Who knows? His shock tactics
of international terror have by now cost the United States no less than
\$1 trillion in Iraq and completely wasted. Terror against terror has
cost the United States not only dollars but also a much greater loss of
confidence and prestige even in the allies in the western world, not to
mention enemies of the United States worldwide. Afghanistan, Iraq,
Palestine and Lebanon are proof that America\'s terrorist is the freedom
fighter or resistance forces across the board. Brute force breeds force
and leads to a dead-end which is where the world is today. \"If we had
to do it again, we would do it again\" was the statement made by Vice
President Dick Cheney about Iraq, meaning that the White House has not
learned one iota from the 3,000 American dead in body bags and 100,000
or more Iraqis, all of whom died for nothing, not a thing. The end
result was an irony of history, the rise of the Shiite crescent led by a
nuclear Iran. Many people now even question whether it was a mistake to
topple Saddam.

Where there is a problem there is a solution. There must be other ways
to wisdom, to fight against terrorism, such as with more intelligence
and intelligence-sharing, like tracing culprits and discovering sleeping
cells, like using more soft power coupled with a justifiable and
measured use of force, like finding ways of making friends rather than
creating overnight enemies, like the use of diplomacy, local assistance,
regional help, meaningful cooperation, rather than discarding and
uprooting international law and replacing them with the law of the
jungle, like \"preemptive strikes.\" There must be, and there always
are, ways and means of winning hearts and making friends, rather than
boasting and bullying with the mighty American invincible image of the
sole superpower.

The al-Qaeda of bin Laden was a product of a historic process started at
least 10 years before 9/11. It was born out of a political reaction to
Western capitalism and exploitation, against Western militarism and
hegemony. It was not born from the Arab body politic of public opinion.
Bin Laden was born in a period of change and transformation, national
and international. He was born into an era of extremism and violence in
the Middle East. He was the end product of nationalism based on religion
as an opposition to globalization.\"\]

Talwalkar, Govind. \"A Licence to Torture.\" Asian Times, October 1,
2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.asianage.com/main.asp?layout=2&cat1=6&cat2=42&newsid=249997&RF=DefaultMain]{.underline}](http://www.asianage.com/main.asp?layout=2&cat1=6&cat2=42&newsid=249997&RF=DefaultMain)

Washington Post. \"Profiles in Cowardice - On Prisoner Abuse and
Detention, President Bush Finds Enablers in Both Parties.\" October 1,
2006. At:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093001027.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093001027.html)

\(11\) WAR ON TERROR - AFGHANISTAN:

Suri, Sanjay. \"Military Policy in Afghanistan \'Barking Mad\'.\" Asian
Times, September 30, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HI30Df02.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HI30Df02.html)

\[Excerpt: \"\...an officer who was an aide to the British forces in
Helmand, the southern district of Afghanistan that has witnessed the
strongest fighting between the Taliban and international forces, has
come out with strong criticism of the British army in Afghanistan - and
quit the army\...{writing that} the British campaign in Helmand province
was \'a textbook case of how to screw up a counterinsurgency\'\....
\'The military is just one side of the triangle,\' he said. \'Where were
the Department for International Development and the Foreign
Office?\'\.... such action is only provoking greater support for the
Taliban, he warned. \'All those people whose homes have been destroyed
and sons killed are going to turn against the British\.... Development
and rights groups have for long been critical of an exclusively military
intervention. They have warned also that military action of this kind
appears to local Afghans as part of a larger Western assault on the
Muslim world.\"\]

\(12\) WAR ON TERROR - AL QAEDA:

Sedarat, Firouz. \"Zawahiri Calls Bush a Failure Over War on
Terrorism.\" Reuters, 29 Sep 2006.
[[http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/09/29/zawahri_calls_bush_a_failure_over_war_on_terrorism/]{.underline}](http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/09/29/zawahri_calls_bush_a_failure_over_war_on_terrorism/)

\[Excerpt: \"DUBAI - Al Qaeda\'s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri
called President Bush a lying failure for talking of progress in the war
on terrorism, according to a video posted on the Internet on Friday.\"\]

Washington Post. \"Two Months Before 9/11, An Urgent Warning to Rice.\"
October 1, 2006. At:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html?sub=AR]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html?sub=AR)

\(13\) WAR ON TERROR - IRAN?:

Rogers, Paul. \"Iran: The Politics of the Next Crisis.\" Open Democracy,
September 29, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict/iran_politics_3946.jsp]{.underline}](http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict/iran_politics_3946.jsp)

\(14\) WAR ON TERROR - IRAQ:

Benjamin, Daniel and Steven Simon. \"Of Course Iraq Made It Worse.\"
Wash. Post, 30 Sep 2006.
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801455.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801455.html)

\[Excerpt: \"\...there is the claim that Iraq has not had a catalytic
effect because the terrorists were already after us, an argument the
president repeated Tuesday. \'We weren\'t in Iraq when we got attacked
on September the 11th. . . . We weren\'t in Iraq when they first
attacked the World Trade Center in 1993.\' No doubt the United States
would have had a serious struggle against radical Islam after Sept. 11
under any circumstances. But the occupation of Iraq, by appearing to
confirm bin Laden\'s arguments about America\'s antipathy toward the
Muslim world, has had an incendiary effect and made matters dramatically
worse.\"\]

DeYoung, Karen. \"Falling on His Sword - Colin Powell\'s Most
Significant Moment Turned Out To Be His Lowest.\" Washington Post,
October 1. 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092700106.html?nav=hcmoduletmv]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092700106.html?nav=hcmoduletmv)

\[Note: Article is 13-pages of excerpts from DeYoung\'s forthcoming book
\"Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, to be released on October 10.\]

Moubayed, Sami. \"Iraq: Republic of Fear.\" Asian Times, September 30,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI30Ak02.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI30Ak02.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Although it is difficult for Iraqis and Americans to admit,
Iraq needs a strongman to bring order and stability\.... In July and
August, a total of 6,599 Iraqis were killed. It is now clear, more than
ever, that what is happening in Iraq is not a democracy. It is pure
sectarian madness\.... In every sense of the word, Iraq today - very
unfortunately - is once again \'a republic of fear\'\.... \'The
situation is so bad many people say it is worse than it had been in the
times of Saddam Hussein.\"\.... If Iraq is no better off than it was
under Saddam, neither is the US with its \'war on terror\....\" Note:
Sami Moubayed is a Syrian political analyst.\]

Porter, Gareth. \"US Troops in Iraq are Tehran\'s \'Hostages\'.\" Asian
Times, September 22, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI22Ak01.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI22Ak01.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The underlying reality in Iraq, which the Bush
administration does not appear to grasp fully, is that the United States
is now dependent on the sufferance of Iran and its Iraqi Shi\'ite
political-military allies to continue the occupation\.... the main
threat to the occupation comes not from the Sunni insurgents but from
the militant Iraqi Shi\'ite forces aligned with Iran, led by Muqtada
al-Sadr\'s Mehdi Army. The armed Shi\'ite militias are now powerful
enough to make it impossible for the US occupation to continue\.... the
only factor that appears to be restraining the Mehdi Army now is Iran.
After all, Tehran\'s interest lies not in forcing an immediate
withdrawal of US forces, but in keeping them in Iraq as virtual
hostages. The potential threat to US forces in Iraq in retaliation for
an attack on Iran is probably Tehran\'s most effective deterrent to such
an attack.\" Note: Gareth Porter is an historian and national security
policy analyst. His latest book, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power
and the Road to War in Vietnam, was published in June 2005.\]

Posner, Eric A. \" The Humanitarian War Myth.\" Washington Post, October
1, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901435.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901435.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Saddam Hussein was an especially bad tyrant, and Iraqi
civilian casualties attributable to the U.S. intervention do not yet
equal what he was able to accomplish, albeit over a longer period. The
Kurds and many Shiites are better off. And many Iraqis continue to think
that the war was worth it, according to polls. But polls do not reveal
the opinions of dead Iraqis. The humanitarian effect of the war has been
at best ambiguous against the baseline of the containment period that
preceded it, and if current trends continue, the overall effect will be
that of a humanitarian disaster.\"\]

Woodward, Bob. \"Secret Reports Dispute White House Optimism.\"
Washington Post, 1Oct2006.
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000293_pf.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000293_pf.html)

\[Note: At six pages, guessing this is shorthand version on Woodward\'s
new book.\]

\(15\) WAR ON TERROR - PAKISTAN:

Reuters. \"Musharraf Says Pakistan is West\'s \'Main Ally\'.\" September
30, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2006/09/30/musharraf_says_pakistan_is_wests_main_ally/]{.underline}](http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2006/09/30/musharraf_says_pakistan_is_wests_main_ally/)

\[Excerpt: In a interview with BBC radio, he defended his country
against claims it was a poor ally in the U.S.-led war against terrorism.
\'Pakistan is the main ally. If we were not with you, you won\'t manage
anything,\' he said\.... \'You will be brought down to your knees if
Pakistan does not cooperate with you,\' Musharraf told the BBC.
\'Remember my words, if ISI is not with you and Pakistan is not with
you, you will lose in Afghanistan\'.\"\]

Sennott, Charles M. \"Radical Teachings in Pakistan Schools - Madrassas
Back Taliban, bin Laden.\" Boston Globe, September 29, 2006. Accessed
at:
[[http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/09/29/radical_teachings_in_pakistan_schools/]{.underline}](http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/09/29/radical_teachings_in_pakistan_schools/)

\[Excerpt: \"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan \-- In a bustling, prosperous corner of
this capital city stands the gated campus of a religious school, or
madrassa, where some 10,000 students study the teachings of the Koran
every day. Abdul Rashid Ghazi, assistant headmaster at the school, sat
cross-legged on the floor flanked by a Koran and a Kalashnikov\....
Ghazi proceeded to praise Osama bin Laden\'s call to \`jihad,\' or holy
war, against the West. He expressed \`great pride\' that \`at least
hundreds\' of graduates from his school have answered the call to take
up arms against US forces in Afghanistan. And he openly described
himself and his students as \`pro-Taliban\'\.... The school starkly
illustrates just how radicalized Pakistan has become and how widespread
is the support for both bin Laden and the Taliban, diplomats and
political observers here say\.... The Afghan ambassador to the United
States, Said T. Jawad, said in an interview that the Taliban \-- both
the Afghan leadership that fled across the border and a more indigenous
Pakistani movement sharing the same name and ideology \-- were \`left to
operate openly in Pakistan\'\... Speaking in perfect English with a hint
of a British accent, Ghazi, who describes himself as the school\'s head
teacher of Islamic theology, continued, \`Osama bin Laden\'s philosophy
is quite logical and consistent with the Koran. If there are any forces
attacking your people and your faith, you are justified in attacking in
response. In fact, you are obligated to do so\'\.... In a small mosque
in the remote village of Batkhela , Khan, wearing the black turban of
the Taliban, told a visitor last month, \`It is America\'s actions that
have made so many despise it. Before five years ago, you did not hear
this hatred for America, not until it began attacking Muslims. And now
it is required that we resist\'.\"\]

\(16\) WAR ON TERROR - SOMALIA?;

Donnelly, John. \"Africa Analysts Worry Over Lack of Attention to
Somalia.\" Garowe Online, September 29, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_5243.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_5243.shtml)

\[Excerpt: \"In Somalia, Islamist militias have taken one town after
another in the south-central part of the fractured nation since
capturing the de facto capital Mogadishu in June. Now, they appear
poised to attack the small town of Baidoa near the country\'s western
border with Ethiopia\.... Somalia\'s interim Prime Minister Ali Mohammad
Ghedi earlier this week appealed for outside help, saying it was needed
to \"protect the region from the expansion of this Al Qaida network,
these terrorists.\" \]

\(17\) WAR ON TERROR: SOUTHEAST ASIA:

Symons, Emma-Kate. \"Muslim Converts Answer Jihad Call.\" The
Australian, October 2, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20509202-601,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20509202-601,00.html)

\[Excerpt: \"A NETWORK of homegrown converts to radical Islam has
emerged as a major terrorist threat in Southeast Asia, teaming up with
higher-profile al-Qa\'ida offshoots Jemaah Islamiah and Abu Sayyaf to
plot attacks on Western and local targets.\"\]

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