Attariq [Archives:2003/624/Press Review]

18 FEB. 2003.

Main Headlines:
– Parliament Speaker: Weapons law not yet referred to parliament
– YSP& Islah statements indicate differences on woman candidacy to elections
– RAY party calls for conducting charges before enforcing them

A front-page article by the editor in chief says there are indicators on probable war in the Arab region. Grouping of world peace is joining force nowadays in the face of the Anglo-Saxon war.
There are serious indicators that the real goal of the war against Iraq does not lie in disarming it and changing its regime. It is rather aimed at dominating its oil wealth and forces a control on quarter of world oil reserve as well as an inlet to political re-division of the area.
The U.S., as a colonialistic mentality has its justifications, which are wrapped with other issues. Many of the neo-colonialism thinkers consider the present division is an outcome of Sykes-Picot agreement between Britain and France, during the world war1. The U.S. was then still a state having limited global capabilities and preoccupied with its own affairs. The U.S. was always in lake of a strong motivating factor to make it embark on causing a new political division of the region, compatible with its international status as a sole superpower. The events of 11 September came to meet what Washington was looking for.
They have given Washington a strong reason to redeploy its forces and worldwide movements after the cold war epoch.
They have also provided Washington with an internal impetus, namely, “patriotic identity” to mobilizes the people towards a war whose dimensions and consequences are unknown.

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