11. januar 1999 hadde Newsweek et oppslag om Saddam Husseins terrorkapabilitet og mulige forbindelse med Osama bin Ladens nettverk. Saken har tittelen «Saddam + Bin Laden?». (I samme nummer var det intervju med Osama bin Laden, som på den tiden lot seg intervjue også av Reuters og andre viktige medier. Enkelte vil huske NTBs sitatsak […]
Les mer»Fouad Ajami skriver om «Iraq and the Arabs’ Future» i Foreign Affairs januar/februarutgave. «There should be no illusions about the sort of Arab landscape that America is destined to find if, or when, it embarks on a war against the Iraqi regime. There would be no «hearts and minds» to be won in the Arab […]
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Les mer»“We simply do not know how many young, impressionable people may have gone abroad and never returned. This case was nothing to do with freedom of speech but everything to do with racial hatred and religious bigotry — and encouraging people to commit acts of terrorism. When you look at the words that he was […]
Les mer»«We simply do not know how many young, impressionable people may have gone abroad and never returned. This case was nothing to do with freedom of speech but everything to do with racial hatred and religious bigotry — and encouraging people to commit acts of terrorism. When you look at the words that he was […]
Les mer»Lederen for menneskeskjoldene i Irak, Ken O’Keefe skriver dagbok i The Independent, for spesielt interesserte: «There are lots of cars on the streets – many American cars, strangely enough – and they honk their horns all the time. But I can’t be sure whether they’re doing that for us or not. As for the Iraqi […]
Les mer»Irakerne er skuffet over manglende støtte fra araberlandene, skriver libanesiske The Daily Star: «Iraq expressed deep disappointment Monday with fellow Arab nations for not giving more unequivocal support in its efforts to avoid a US-led invasion to disarm Baghdad.» «Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri also expressed Iraqi displeasure with the level of Arab support when […]
Les mer»Dagbladets nettavis har i dag et intervju fra The Times med en iraker som tilbrakte 14 år i Saddams fengsler for å ha solgt en filmrull til en britisk fotograf. Han sier: «I am surprised to hear of all the anti-war demonstrations in the West,» he said. «I wish that the demonstrators could spend just […]
Les mer»Forfatteren Henrik Hovlands kronikk i mandagens Aftenposten er en kritikk av krigsmotstanderne. Det handler ikke om krig eller fred, men ulike former for krig, skriver han. I samme utgave har Åsne Seierstad en relatert reportasje, om «skjoldene» som reiser rundt i London-busser i Bagdad, og som lar seg bruke av Saddam Hussein. Flere av aktivistene […]
Les mer»«Every country has the right to express its opinion, and we do not regret having expressed ours. It’s also worth nothing that the opinion expressed by France is not the dominant one in the EU.» Daniel Vaarik, spokesman for Estonian Prime Minister Siim Kallas, in response to the French President Jacques Chirac’s dressing-down of EU […]
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