Al-Shumoo [Archives:2003/624/Press Review]

22 FEB. 2003.

Main headlines:
– Washington heads for assassination of military commanders, its embassy in Sanaa demands preventing religious preachers from assailing it
– Yemeni citizen disappears in Bangkok
– Saudi ambassador to Washington: We are committed to offer facilities for launching war on Iraq
– America behind incidents in Iran, Pakistan
– Ministers and officials practice corruption
– Head of Antiquities Authority defies cabinet decision

The newspaper's political editor says the incidents of two military planes crash, one Iranian carrying senior military commanders from Revolutionary Guard and the second a Pakistani carrying airforce commander and a number of army officers have aroused strong skepticism on causes of their crash in this particular time and circumstances in the region.
The strongest of probabilities is that the two incidents are not ruled out to be machined and that the U.S. intelligence is behind them with the aim of destroying the strongest opponents to the American policy and its terroristic approach against the Arab and Muslim nations.
This U.S. strategy angers the high-ranking military commanders who are against the American arrogance and see in it a dangerous indicator aimed at life, safety and security of senior military commanders who are closely watched by the American intelligence and works for ending them in a terrorist manner.
This means that the United States is working in coordination with the Zionist entity in aiming at military commands of the Arab and Muslim armies. It is certain that the increase of these terrorist acts at this time and under these difficult circumstances in the region means that both American and Zionist intelligence organizations, that are supplied with information, have a list of names of the highest ranking military commanders who are against their policies.

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