Al-Tajammu [Archives:2003/629/Press Review]

24 March 2003
Main headlines:
– Dangerous complications of the war in Iraq
– Consequent to Friday demonstrations, four opposition leaders arrested and others are being chased
– Government refuses an American request to expel Iraq diplomat
– American embassy in Sana'a closed
– Yemeni organization for defending human rights and democratic freedoms condemns aggression on Iraq

Columnist Abdulbari Tahir writes that the catastrophic thing is that America has chosen the heart of the Arab homeland as a field for its battle for leadership of the world and canceling roles of others in international decision-making, especially the permanent members of the security council; France, Russia and China. These countries rejection of the American arrogance stems from their deep realization of indications and dangers of America's hegemony on people's destinies and imposition of a military dictatorship exceeding beyond Iraq and the entire Arab world. Selecting Iraq, or rather the Arab homeland, is attributed to the huge petroleum interests and the existence of Israel, the strategic ally. And also most important is fragility of the Arab order and corrosion of its legitimacy and liability to colonialism.
Launching the war by America and Britain without an international decision represents a violation and aggression on the UN and the Security Council and also a disdain towards is charter.
Even if this power of aggression could have achieved quick gains, it would have put its feet on the road of its end. It would find itself facing its people and various world nations. This confrontation would disclose more than one Achilles Heel in the American ghoul of the age haunted with illusions of power and myth of superiority and possession of right to enslave the world to re-draft it in line with a cowboy mentality.
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